The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-16
FIERCE FIGHT IN PRINCETON
STUDENTS MAKE UNW4RRd NIED
ATTACK ON CIRCUS Parade,

pTNctuTeu ana MnhK
Students sInjured-Pres. Patton Calls u
Mass Meeting and Forbids Students to
Attend the Show.
Princeton, N. j., May 15--Princeton
students and PaWnee Bills wild
West" employees ndulged in a pitched
battle to-day and continuous and seri-
GUS rioting was prevented only by the
presence of men with cool heads and
Princeton university later in the day in
calling mass meeting of all of the stu
dents. For fifty years it has been an
unwritten law of Princeton that no cir
Gus parade must be passed through the
streets. Every show proprietor in MAX
ing his dates has always left Princeton
from the list, for it had been a matter
of common knowledge that the students
would enforce the unwritten law. This
morning Pawnee Bills Wild West vo-
lated traditions and paraded. The re-
suit was the fiercest battle Princeton
has seen in many years.
When posters were hung up announc-
ing the event of Pawnee Bills show q
few days ago it was first considered
joke Finally, when it became known
that the management of the show was
really in earnest, the town authorities,
fearing trouble, advised the circus men
not to attempt parade. This advice
was unheeded and as a result one man
is unconscious and may die and a num-
Der Of students and employees of the
show are nursing wounds received in the
fray. That the show would be set upon
at night seemed certainty until late
this afternoon, when President Patton
called mass meeting of all of the un-
dergraduates and the faculty, and the
result of the meeting indicates that the
show will leave town unmolested, but it
will have lost money, for word has been
passed through the town that no one is
to enter the tent, and the townspeople,
who are in sympathy with the students,
are unit in refusing to attend.
Things were proceeding in the usual
course in the university whom the par
ade started. The procession reached
the college campus without trouble, but
passed down Nassau street at a bad
moment, for just as the bands music
was heard the students We're in the act
Of passing from the first morning lee
lures to the second. The townspeople
were out in force and waiting for the
parade, and the great majority of them
were massed near the campus. Word
passed all along the line, and within a
few minutes six or seven hundred STU
dents had assembled on Nassau street
Cannon crackers left over from previ-
GUS celebrations, eggs purchased at
nearby stores and vegetables bought
or confiscated from the stores were as
sembled quickly. The men unable to
obtain these missiles armed themselves
with clods of turf hastily torn from the
lawns. The fun started with the band
wagon Cannon crackers were thrown,
and these exploding under the horses
made them frantic. There were six of
these animals. The musicians were on
TOP of the wagon. A serious runaway
might have resulted had not one of the
leaders stumbled and fell, dragging !
down the other horses with him. The |
students meanwhile kept up merci-
less bombardment with eggs and vege-
tables.
On the return the parade wheeled into
John Lane and the students made a
grand rush to head off the procession.
Again the employees of the circus were
The cowboys and Indians |
finally charged the students and used /
their whips freely. That was the turn
ing point of the affair. Stung by the
whips and bruised by the riders rum
ming into them the students became
1gly and in moment the missiles that
were annoying but not dangerous were
replaced by stones and the fight be-
came serious RevolverS were drawn,
but fortunately the owners were wise
enough to fire over the heads of the
enemy. Some of the Mexican or South
American cowboys unslung their bolas
and used these with great effect, the
leaden-covered ends being exceedingly
affective The cowboys charged tile
crowd several times and rode down
those who could not get out of the way.
In this manner Edward Dillon, COL
pred man. was knocked down, kicked in
the head by a pony and had his skull
fracIureQ. "A Sluueul Was lllJuleu ny
pony trampling upon him, and being in
iured by a bola, and another struck by
an Indian with one of the snake whips.
Many were less severely hurt. The
cowboys and Indians were also badly
bruised and hurt.
At o'clock in the afternoon posters
were put up all over the town calling
1 mass meeting of the students" in AL
sxander hall at 5 o'clock. The whole
body attended. Presi-
dent Patton said that although he did 1
not want to go into the details of the
affair unless he was grossly misin-
'ormed the undergraduates were for the
most part responsible for the trouble. ;
1T was absolutely unnecessary and .
wholly wrong and I must say l am
greatly displeased," he said. 81 am ;
sure that a circus can go on without
he inspiring presence of the undergrad
late body of Princeton university, he
ldded. "and I am going to make high
handed order in the matter and with
he power vested in me as president Of
he university | do hereby forbid any
student going to the circus tonight
Major Lilli, the owner of the show,
of tha mpatinp' and made, |