The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-13
SETH LOWS YOUNG MEN.
How Columbia sophomores Captured
Freshmen.

New York, December 1.-THE Herald
says today.
There were many fragrant cases of kid
mapping yesterday III this city, and al
though they happened right unuer the
eyes of the police, the guardians OF the
law made little or no effort to stop them.
1t was the annual ''foraging expedition
of the sophomores of Columbia Univ ersi-
ty against the freshmen, for the purpose of
thwarting The plans OF the latter for their
annual reception last evening.
The 'sophs' succeeded to Il limited ex
tent. The freshmen thought they had
kept the date and place of the dinner
secret, but the sophomores had caught
their younger fellows borrowing funds
and carrying dress suit cases down to
the college, and they knew the dinner
must be near at hand. The Eophomores
hired lot OF cabs ana began their opera.
tions soon after daybr yesterday morn
ing, their intention being to waylay the
freshmen on their way to college.
Charles Mapes they got atGer long
wait, just as he WAS emerging from his
room. The chairman of the freshmen en-
tertainment committee they expected to
catch us soon as he got of. a train at 10th
street, but he went on to the Grand Cen
trial station. They got him later, as he
was entering the University, and drove
away with hlln in a cab to livery stable
III West 1880 street, where strong guard
was put over him. Louis Livingston,
Cornelius Fellows and half q dozen other
students, were caught in the same way
and imprisoned in the stable.
The sophomores, about noon, decided to
remove their prisoners to the stable OF
former Mayor William K. Grace, in 25th
street, near Lexington avenue.
MI. Grace has two sons In the unlver-
sity. One of them, Walter, is a freshman
and the oJher, Vim. h. Grace, Jr., is
sophomore, so the two youths were nat
uraily antagonistic. Walter, however.
was too clever to allow himself to be
caught.
TIE victims were imprisoned in the
basement OF the stable and reports went
forth that they were chained down in
the stalls and made to drink milk from
bottles. This torture had not long con-
tinued whom a small army of freshmen
bore down upon the stable and storned
the holders of the modern Bastile with
shells--as they had large supply OF eggs
in their pockets.
Ii MIR. Grace had seen his stable after
the first sortie probably he would not
have recognized it; but he purposely kept
away. Word Was received at the nearest
police station that a riot was going on in
18th street, and q squad of about 20 re-
serves was sent around post haste.
H0J CAll6u upon ll6 1I6SH1SS Win
unsheathed clubs and drove them away.
One or two of the freshmen were caught
in the act of throwing missiles but the
majority OF them got away. The prison
ers were let go after they had been led out
of range of Jne stable.
The police, when they learned what was
going OH, contented themselves with
standing guard and keeping order in the
street, for by that time q large crowd mad
COItprCHH and II US almost imnQES1 HE FOR
pedestrians TO pass by.
The freshmen tried their best to escape.
One of them, j. FL. Esser, clilnbe up a
big pipe and nearly succeeded. For this
act the sophomores punished him by plac-
ing him on q table and requiring him to
make q speech. After he had said pleas
ant things about pleasant company
and reviled his own class, they let him
go.
Meanwhile more cabs drove up and
new prisoners were thrust into the barn.
Occasionally one was parolled.on condition
that he would agree not to attend the
freshmen dinner last night. While the
prisoners were suffering, their jailers
tapped a key of beer, but as nightfall
came and Question of collecting dol
lar or two to feed the inmates presented
itself, rather than rob themselves OF car
fare to reach home they decided to parole
the whole lot.
Some of the freshmen asserted that
they did not intend to hold their recep-
tion last night, but the sophemores ju-
bilantly declared they had broken up the
programme and made their opponents
postpone the banquet.
All of the sophomores who took part in
hazing the treshmenstwo years ago were
expelled, and since that time they have
carefully concealed their IDENTIFY. 1t is
against the rules of the university to pre-
vent any student from attending reci-
tation orSlecture, but yesterday several Of
the professors talked to empty seats.
LOVE AND MURDER.