The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-29
TWO EXUBERANT MA|DENS,
They Greatly Disturb Police
Judge Low at the
Columbia.
INDIGNATION OF THE COURT.
He Proceeds to the Foot of the Stair.
way and Calls a Bailiff up to
Make Arrests.

Even tie game OF footDall Will produce
exuberance.
1t is well to state right here, however,
that exuberance is not unfrequently fol-
lowed by some ones Indignation.
There are various kinds of exuberance
and various kinds of indignation, but two
distinct brands were introduced at the
Columbia Theater last night.
| After the Stanfords and the Berkeleys
had massacred each other for a few hours
at Central Park yesterday before several
| thousand spectators some of the assembled
multitude concluded to accumulate at the
| Columbia Theater to witness 1.-The Lottery
| of Love-"
| Miss Blanche Beemer and Miss Ethel
Bradbury attended they were exuberaht.
| Police Judge Low was also there. He
was indignant.
| 1t seems, in fact it was, that somewhere
in the first act, when Mr.. Dixey was get
ting in his Introductory ticks on the audi
ence. that Miss Beemer and Miss Brad
bury, duly decked out in Stanford colors,
began the happy and entertaining pastlme
of eating pinenuts in the front balcony
seats. The little side pleasure OF project
ing the shells into the audience beneath
was introduced at regular intervals and
the girls were having nice time at very
moderate cost.
Very few people who engage in the game
of shell-throwing are aware that it is
against the rules to hit Police Judge III
the first act, or even in the neck, and
it was this little misunderstanding
of the game that caused Charles A. Low to
become indignant, so much so that he
called foul and with all the dignity con.
tiguous to the practice of law stated to the
usher, who had no particular interest in
the game, that he wanted something done
that would bring about better results. 1t
is said that the Judge appealed to the
umpire three different times, only securing
satisfactory decision on the last appeal
which was duly delivered to the offending
parties, whose exuberance had risen with
the courts indignation.
| The usher in the best language at his
command informed the young folks us
summers eachJ that if they did not play
| fair they would have to retire and give
some one else chance. The usher then
made low well handled and retired him.
| self The girls, foaming with good STAN
| ford wrath, LETT their seats at the conclu-
sion OF the act with the firm intention to
| abjure theatrical performances for the
| night, but the court, sitting with his wife,
who had been struck with one of the shells
| or some other object, had worked up a
verbal decision which he delivered to the
! girls as they came down from the balcony
| for the purpose of going elsewhere. He
then followed them out into the street and
| instructed a strolling bailiff to conduct
them to the City Prison and charge them
with battery.
Then there was another case of indigna-
ton and one of deep remorse. Score: Two
indigs and one remorse.
The bailiff, who was one OF the finest,
and a gentleman, sir, called a carriage,
and the girls were hied away to the home
of stone and iron, where they were charged
as the court desired. Both of them did
! considerable hard thinking, but Miss
Blanche was very concise in her state
ments regarding what would be the result
| of such indignity. She even intimated
that somebody wouldn't do a thing to
the court" who strangely enough APP
peared at the prison later in the evening
and took the floor himself for a few mo-
| ments.
He said that the girls were acting in a
manner not in keeping with the accepted
behavior in vogue among ladies, and that
they not only tossed pine nutshells into
! the spell-bound multitude beneath, but
that they occasionally slid out a button
and other hard substances, one OF which
! struck Mrs. Low and laid open her cheek.
! The court further stated in detail, and to
the best of his knowledge and belief that
he thought the girls by their actions were
not quite the kind of people to parley with,
SO he ordered an officer to make the
arrest.
He then removed all legal forms so
common in discussing fragrant acts of in
discretion and with kindly and fatherly
air gently admonished them to go forth
and be good, dutiful little girls. One OF
them was filled with contrition and the
other with disgust, but it is safe to say
that there will be no disturbance of a
similar character tomorrow night-at
least not by the same exuberant rnaidens.