The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-23
GREAT CHEERS FOR CUBA
A FEATURE OF THE STUDENTS PA
TRIOTIC OBSERVANCE YESTERDAY.
The Lone Star Flag i'm the Parade-A.
G. Harris's Address at Tosn-
liDson Hall.

ingtons natal day yesterday. With ban
ners of purple from the medical, law, dental
and Butler college they paraded the prin-
cipal streets at o'clock, afterward march
ing to Tomlinson Hail. where speeches were
heardNand a lovefeast and dance followed.
In the evening several hundred of the stu
dents attended the theater. Everywhere
they went the young fellows carried walk
ing sticks with great bows ard streamers
OF royal purple ribbon, the colors OF the
university, lying. The usual custom of
combining the colors of the college with
those of the university was ignored each
one seeming anxious to vaunt the honor of
the university only OF the day of the year
when students have the freedom of the
town.
Cuba Libre' was much in evidence.
Ahead of the marching columns of students
two flags of equal size were carried, one
the stars and stripes and the other the lone
white star of Cuba on red triangle with
blue and white stripes. When the two flags
appeared on the street there was much
cheering from the crowds that gathered to
witness the students out for holiday and
to celebrate Washington's birthday. The
medical students wore black pennants with
white skulls and cross bones. The appear
ance of the Cuban flag in Tomlinson Hall
was the signal for demonstration there
of sympathy for the fighting patriots and
it continued until the flag was hoisted on
one side of the stage with the stars and
stripes on the other, A reference in the
speech of James Irwin Sweeney, the stu
dent chairman of the meeting, to Cuba
Libre" was the occasion for a great out
burst of enthusiastic applause.
Tominson Hall was well filled when the
students marched in behind band to the
seats reserved for them, after marching
behind a squad of patrolmen under the
command of Captain Kruger through the
downtown streets. The line Of march was
gaily decorated with flags and bunting, in
which the purple predominated. About the
basis of the statutes on Monument Place
flags were draped, as well as over the en-
trance to the soldiers monument Many
merchants remembered that it was Wash
ington's birthday and that the students
would pass their stores and placed gay
decorations on the front of their stores. The
welcome the college boys received every
where was most hearty and it eliminated
when they marched into Tomlinson Hall
and were received with much applause by
the large numbers there. There were in
back of the space reserved for the students
on the main floor many ladies' some the
mothers and others the sisters of the bright,
pleasant-looking horde that filled the hall
with class yels as they filed to their seats.
Once seated, great roar went up:
''Who was George, Washington? First in
war; first in peace first in the hearts of
his countrymen! followed by a rapid
breakdown" Then came the yell Of the
varsity:
"Razzle dazzlel Never FRAGILE!
Not a thread but wool,
All together! All together!
That's the way we pull
Butler. medical, dental, law,
u of L.! U. of l.! Rah! Rah! Rah.'
Then there was a pandemonium of mixed
yells and class cries from the various
schools embraced in the university. This
was kept up until the band played Sousa's
Stars and Stripes, Forever" Meantime
the speakers and members of the faculty,
among them Drs. P. H. Jameson, f. G..
Hunt, DR.. Brayton, Messrs. Fishback. Lie
ber A. c. Harris Rev. j. A. Milburn and
others, found seats on the stage
SWEENEY'S HAPPY HITS.
whats the matter with Harris?" was
the shout that went up when the speaker
of the day was esped He's all right
came back u laundering roar "Hurrah for
the stars and stripes" was the shout that
went up when the band finished playing.
Rev. ]. A. Milburn made the invocation.
Then Chairman Sweeney made a few open
ing remarks. His efforts made a very de-
cided hit, not only with the students but
with older men and speakers on the stage.
THAT young man has wit" said Rev. DIR.
Milburn at the outset of a talk he made
following the young student Sweeney is
but nineteen years of age He is a fresh
man at Butler and Sigma Chi. He is
a son of Rev. Zach. Sweeney. of Columbus.
There was some good-natured bantering
from his friends in the audience as he spoke
at first, but they soon grew interested in
what he had to say and the cries of loud
err louder subsidized and when he con-
Guided there was an outburst of hearty APP
plause.
''Fellow-students of the University of In
dianapolis, Ladies and Gentlemen Mr.;
Ta5 nterFHpfb by h1Gts OF
he depressed to tell a story. "A traveller
who was journeying over the Tennessee
cabin by the roadside to inquire his way.
The only occupant proved to be a very deaf
old woman, and the man yelled until he
was out of breath in a vain endeavor to
way. Just as he had gathered his strength
and opened his mouth for fresh effort
ratified the stones down the chimney and
fairly shook the earth. The man was al
most stunned, but the woman simply said:
I'm hard o hearin, Meester; you'll have
people like that right here in Indiana. You
know Mr.. Riley has told us that
so remarkably deaf was our Grandfather
SqueerS
That he had to put lightning rods over his
ears
TO hear even thunder; and oftentimes then
He would have TO request it to thunder
again.
Great events have always had their cele-
brations, and it is in accordance with that
spirit that We have assembled this afternoon
70 celebrate two great eyentS-the birthday
of the first American citizen, the man who
was first in war, first in peace and first in
the hearts of his countrymen and the cee-
bration Of the birthday of the coming uni
yersity Of the West, the University of In
dianapols. (Cheers)
GREAT CHEERS FOR CUBA.
And l take it that the coincidence of the
two birthdays is a propitious omen, for is
it not fortunate that to-day when the fires
of patriotism are flaming high; to-day,
when the guns are booming and flags are
flying from one end OF this broad land to
the other; to-day. when the 'medics' lay
aside their bloody packs and turn their
backs for one day only on the grand old
Empire Theater; to-day, when the 'dentals'
pile up their Instruments and yell instead
of listening to yells; to-day when the laws
desert the police and justice of the peace
courts and, to-day, when the Butler girls
turn out for their annual free ride and the
Butler boys lay aside their well-thumbed
books and pull down the blinds in the
Y. NJ. {. A. halis--I say, is II not fortunate
that on such day we can come together
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