The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-24
MANY NOISY STUDENTS
"RAISE CAIN" ON THE STEAMER
 RICHARD PEOH.

Four of Them Arraigned In the Tombs Police Court Yosterday--Are Discharged With Rcprimand.
 New York, June 24.-The New York Evening Sun of tonight says;
 Four Yale students, one of them the son of Comptroller Fitch, were ar- raisned in the Tombs police court this morning on a charge of disorderly con duct and malicious michief, The com plainant against them was Captain Ed gar Hardy of the New Haven steam boat Richard Peck.
 The prisoners gave their names as Ashbel P. Fitch, jr., twenty years old, of 16 East Eightieth street; Bertram Cadwalader, twenty-two years old, of .San Francisco; Harry Boardman, ,twen- ty-one years old, of 351 Prospect ave- nue. East Orange, N. J., and Robert 1Iumes, twenty-one years old, of Wash ington.
 Captain Hardy told Magistrate Meade that he had not wished to cause the ar rest of the four men, but had finally been compelled to do so by the manner in which young Fitch acted.
 ''All of the students acted in an outrageous manner" said he, but it would have been all right if they had shown that they were gentlemen In the end The four boys boarded the boat at New Haven. They were not in the least obstreperous until we had been under way half an hour. They bought large amount of beer while on board the boat and finally began to smash the bottles on the deck. remonstrated with them and they laughed at me. Then they began to place chai1A to- gether and jump over them. This was followed by songs.
 Finally some of the party went to bed That was about o'clock this morning. Cadwalader didn't go to bed, but don't blame him for that, as the others poured his bed all full of beer and water Then the students began to knock on everybody's doors, and not soul was able to sleep. Finally they smashed the blind in stateroom 12, and then thought that they were going too far demanded payment, and three of them were willing to pay, but young Fitch blocked it. He refused to allow them to pay, and would not settle him self Then I threatened to have them arrested.
 Oh, no you won't young Fitch said : to me; my father is comptroller of New York city, and he will have you dis charged and will also break any police- man who dares to arrest us.' He talk ed in this strain for some time and clustered so that when the pier was reached I called in Policeman Snydeck- CT and two other policemen, and all were arrested"
 Each of the boys denied the story of the captain. They declared that they had not acted as Captain Hardy as- serted. We were only skylarking," was the plea of all.
 Lawyer Price, who appeared for them, forced Captain Hardy to admit that the four prisoners were in body of fully fifty students who were on their way to the races at Poughkeep- sic, and that the entire crowd had been skylarking.
 Fitch" said Magistrate Meade, T am sorry to see son of your father in court. You four young men should all be ashamed of yourselves. You are all respectable, and it is a shame that you have disgraced yourselves, your parents and your college It has got so that when ordinary persons see some college boys coming they run around the cor ner They fear college boys worse than a cable car on Dead Mans curve. have seen actions such as your at a theater. Why boys who are receiving a first class education should become Indians and wild men, I can't under stand"
 Captain Hardy admitted to the law yer for the students that he had no specific charge against Fitch and Humes, and Magistrate Meade dis charged them with a reprimand.
 Charles Rice a negro porter on the boat said that Boardman was the oc- cupant of stateroom 12,and that Board man had told him that Cadwalader was the one who broke the window.
 That .s true in measure" said BoaTdnan. T was very angry at the time, and Cadwalader was one of about twenty-five men who were banging on my door when the blind was broken Whether he was the ore who broke the window ] cannot honestly say"
 Magistrate Meade discharged Board man, and then questioned Cadwalader. Cadwalader emphatically denied that he was the one who had broken the window, or that he had done anything else than merely skylark about the boat
 T consider that you have been pun ished sufficiently by being disgraced and I will discharge you also. I hope this will be lesson to you" said Mag istrate Meade.
 Young Fitch sent Court Messenger Shea to his fathers office as soon as arrested, and Lawyer Fiske of Comp tro1ler Fftch's office arrived In court just as the four young men were dis charged.
 Our arrest was an outrage" the boys declared.
 MILDRED BREWSTER DYING.