The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-06
CREWS R0USING SEND0FF
YALE STUDEN1,S ON
IN HONOR or THE CREW.

A Thousand Students Parade, Headed by
Second Regiment Band-SYale Yells and
Cheers Filled the Air-Bonfire on the
Campus-Marsh Not Allowed to Go With
| the Crew-Etfigy Burned at the Bonfire.
Yale doesn't send crew to England
every year, and that this fact is appre-
ciated by the great Yale undergraduate
rousing send-off given to the crew when
it left on the 7:10 train for New York
preparatory to sailing from that city
this morning at 10 o'clock for England
on the steamer City of Berlin.
AT 6:15 last evening the Yale clans
| began gathering in front of Osborn hall
and by $50 fully eighteen hundred stu
dents were in line ready to march. The
sidewalks We're packed with townspeo-
pie out to see the demonstration, and
altogether a stranger would have
thought that there was a Fourth of
July celebration in progress. At $50
the members of the crew left the New
Haven house entrance on College street
and took carriages for the station. The
parade was then ready to start and it
moved down Chapel street with the Sec
ond regiment band at the head. Be-
| hind the band in a carriage rode Bob
Cook, the veteran coach; Dater and
| several other members of last years
crew. Next came Captain Treadway
and his crew who are to meet the Eng
lishmen, and then came the student
throng, every student having his arm
over the shoulder of the one who
marched next to him. In this order
they marched down Chapel street to
Church, down Church to Meadow, and
down Meadow street to the depot.
| Deafening Yale cheers of all sorts were
given during every step of the march
and these, together with the attempts
at singing the college songs, made a
veritable pandemonium.
Arrived at the depot, a large part of
the crowd took possession of a row of
freight cars across the tracks in front
of the depot The train was on time,
and a special car for the accommoda-
ton of the crew was coupled on After
the crew had gone aboard the members
were kept busy shaking hands with
their hosts of friends before the train
pulled out Cheer after cheer made the
depot ring and the entire front platform
between the building and the tracks
was filled with pushing, surging, yell
ing, perspiring crowd.
Finally line formed through the car
to shake hands with the crew and con-
tinued passing through the car until the
train pulled out Then the crowd surg
ed out over the track and Pop Cross, of
football fame, one of Yale's famous ice
wagon rush line, led the cheering,
which was given with a will from more
than a thousand throats.
The line then reformed, with the band
at its head, and marched back to the
campus, where the band gave con-
cert, On the way up several blue flags
were displayed along the line of march
and each one was greeted with loud
cheers and yells Finally as they
reached the corner of Church and Mead
ow streets, every man took off his coat
and the march became a shirt sleeve
parade. Then to further make some
fun every man took off his hat or cap
and tossed it into the air. and strange
sight was presented like storm of
hats. After arriving at the campus,
the band played two or three pieces and
then departed. The students then pro-
posed fire and scouts were sent in all
directions after anything which would
burn. A. raid was made on the new
dormitory being erected on York street
and barrels, planks, hods and scaffolds
were secured. Soon the foraging par
ties returned and the fuel was heaped
in pile ten or twelve feet high on the
vacant lot at the corner of Library and
High streets and in a few minutes a
rousing blaze was kindled. Just at
this time garbage wagon was driven
up to the commons close by. On the
wagon was a dozen barrels in which to
carry away the garbage, but they were
never used for that purpose. In an
instant the wagon was surrounded by
a yelling mob and quicker than it takes
to tell there was not barrel or yes
tige of rigging left on the wagon, all
having been "swiped' to feed the bon
| fire. The fire was kept up with fuel of
every description. Mattresses, beds,
chairs, coats, furniture of all sorts, and
in fact by everything that would burn.
Finally an effigy, purporting to be that
of Professor Goodell, who the students
think was the cause of Marsh not be-
ing allowed to go with the crew, was
brought upon the scene and thrown
upon the flames. All this while a large
mob of students, formed in rings, were
dancing and bowling about the blaz-
ing pile The nearby streets were lined
with people out to see what all the
disturbance was about. The fire was
kept W. by fuel furnished by foragins
parties until half past nine.
Large numbers of students went to
New York last evening and will be on
hand this morning at the pier of the
City of Berlin to give the crew a last
chance to hear the Yale cheer for
awhile and to give them Godspeed.
CREW IN NEW YORK.
They Went to Murray Hill Hotel and Re
| tired Early.