The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-09
II WAS BOTTLE NIGHT
CELEBRATION ON THE
CAMPUS LAST EVENING.

CAMPUS LAST EVENING.
storms of Glass and Crookery of All Sorts
Deluged the Campus Walks-Gr' attest
Celebration in Years-Some ofthe Franks
Played-A Jolly Good Time and No
Damage Done.
Last evening was in every sense
large" evening on the campus, the oc-
casion being the so-called bottle
night" which has been observed on the
night of June every year for the last
four years. On this occasion all the
bottles and crockery of every descrip-
ton is fired from the various rooms of
the dormitories and broken on the con-
crete walks.
At 10 O'Clock last evening the annual
smashery of crockery and bottles be-
gan, the ball being opened by q volley
| of bottles and jugs from a room in
South Middle, where a party of juniors
and seniors had gathered to study up
| for the examination in constitutional
| history to be held this morning. From
this time on until IL o'clock these stu
dious young men studied but little, and
all the knowledge they absorbed from
their digests and text books would
hardly suffice for Professor Smith.
AT the time when the .fusilade began
from the windows of Old South Middle
the campus was deserted, but as soon
as the first volley was shattered on the
| Iyollyc nypry win6OW was
cupied by students to see what was go
ing on, and yells of every variety rent
the air Students from all the dormito-
ries and from the near by lodging
houses began to gather and to yell until
soon several hundreds We're collected on
the main campus street in front of Far
nam and Welch halls
The walks were soon covered with
broken glass and crockery, everything
of glass and crockery Of every imagi-
nable description going to increase the
smashing and piles of debris on the
walks. Finally after the crockery gave
out barrels all that could be secured,
were filled with paper, saturated with
kerosene and set afire in the rooms of
the dormitories. After these had be-
come wrapped in flame, so that the
campus policemen could not extinguish
1t, they were thrown from the windows
and from the windows of Welch, Ly-
ceum and Farnam these blazing masses
fell in storms. AS each one was launch
ed forth mighty shout of "Fire!' and
"Police!" broke from the assembled
crowd of students. Early in the begin
ming of the celebration the chief interest
centered in the streams of burning ma
terials which were thrown from the
windows of North College hall and
Lawrence hall but later a blazing bar
rel was launched from the front win
dow of Lyceum saturated in kerosene
and blazing furiously Following close
after It from the front hall window
came ash cans full of paper enveloped
In flames The crowd had by this time
gathered in front of Lyceum and as
each burning missile was launched
forth it was greeted with hilarious
cheers.
Despite all the fun and hilarity there
was no damage done and Messrs. DON
nelly ana Wiser, the campus policemen,
found no occasion to put a stop to the
fun, as the students were careful to do
no injury to the buildings or to other
college property. The campus during
the celebration was a verltable pande-
monium of yells and noises such as
only students know how to utter Cries
of Fire" Police Murder"
"Theves" rent the air and were good
naturedly listened to by Messrs. Dom
nelly and Wiser, who seemed to thor
oughly enjoy the time when they saw
that the intention was to have good
time and although a rather hilarious
one to do no damage to college prop
erty, The demonstration was pro-
nounced by old New Haveners who
were attracted to the scene by the tu-
multi the most uproarious time wit
messed at Yale in many years. In the
windows of many of the dormitories
students realizing the fact that water
would auench fire waited with buckets
of water and as other students passed
beneath their windows they allowed to
descend upon them Cooling libations,"
which We're not however, received with
exactly the same spirit with which the
Greek gods received the libations pour
ed to them. These shower baths de-
scended in especial profusion from
North college and.Lawrence hall. The
campus walks are this morning covered
with a mass of debris, consisting OF
broken glass, crockery, pieces OF furnl-
t,1re. garbage cans, ashes of burned
barrels and all sorts of rubbish. The
anitors and campus employees are busy
clearing it away and are wishing that
"bottle night had never been insti-
tuted.