New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-29

THEY HAVE A BONFIRE AND THEN TAKE
POSSESSION OF THE TENDERLOIN.

The students Of Columbia College were
iubilant over the victory OF their football team
over Yale yesterday. and Immediately after the
result Of the game was announced. started out
to celebrate. The returning students from the
game. accompanied by the members Of the team.
arrived at the One-hundred- and -siXteenth-st
station of the elevated road soon after q o'clock
As soon as the roadway was reached the college
boys picked UP the members of the football
team. and carrying them on their shoulders
started for the college grounds. Arriving there
the crowd dispersed with instructions TO meet
one hour later.
At the appointed time the students 10 the
nun,her ~ one thousand gathered. Scouts We're
sent out TO pick up all the available inhamma5le
material in the neighborhood, and as result
wooden fences and signs were carried back 10
the meeting place at one hundred and nine
feminist and the Boulevard, and soon every
thing was IN readiness for a bonfire SeNeiai
gallons of kerosene were poured over the pile
of wood and a lighted match was applied Inc
flames shot high into the air frigntehnh the
residents in the neighborhood.
A messenger was sent to the West One-huh-
acknowledgements police station ana
soon the reserves we're turned out TO eXtlnEulsh
the blaze and arrest every student they could
lay their hands on BY this time the police ar
rived the flames had begun to shoulder ana
the students had started for the One-huhoreu-
and-sixteenth-st. elevated station
The students started for the elevated ROAD
station, marching twenty abreast. Wheh 'hey
reached the station they walked past the ticket
box and refused to pay their fare. They board
cd the first train and started for the Tender
loin.'
About two hundred Of the students arrived az
the FOrty-secOnd-st. station Of the SiXth-aVe'
elevated little before 10 o'clock. Before leaV-
ing the station platform the students turned out
all the lights. Then they marched to the Vie
toria Music Hall, at Forty secondst and Sew
enth-ave
When the students arrived al the theatre they
were addressed 10y Manager Mitchell, and the
coach Sanford Of the football team, and made
to promise that they would not cause a dis
turbance If they secured admission 10 the play
house. Notwithstanding the promise the man
agement Informed the men that all seats had
been sold. and refused to sell any more tickets.
A policeman Of the West Forty seyenth-st
station who tried to get the students TO disperse
was swept across the street. and then on
slaught was made upon the ticket seller and
ticket taker In the mean time all the doors
leading into the theatre had been locked so as
10 prevent the students from gaining an en-
trance. When they learned that the doors were
locked the boys ransacked the cigar
The members Of the baseball, football and
rowing clubs had earlier in the day engaged
eight boxes in the house. and occupied these al
The performance. At the end Of the first act
some one called for a speech. and LOngacre, of
the football team, stood up in his box. Instant
~ there uprOar, and several college
yells given.
When the students found that they could not
get into the theatre they started for Broadway
and marched down that thoroughfare to Thirty
fOurth-st Then they went 10 Roster Il Balls
but tickets We're refused by the management,
the assertion being made that all tickets were
sold The Yale students occupied seats in the
theatre and the management feared trouble II
the Columbia students got inside.
When they left the theatre the students
marched 10 ThiTty-secOnd- and SlXth-ave
carrying an effgy OF old Eli on a stretcher.
BY this time he crowd had been augmented by
about two hundred more students.
on the way down SXth-aVe the students sang
a new song composed yesterday after the game.
one stanza
Five 20 naughtl
Five naught'
Five O. naughfi
Rup' Rup Rupi
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