Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-08
PAINTED THE TOWN RED.
Colby Students Blow of Surplus Steam in a
Merry Frolic.

A grinning, fiery-eyed, loose ointed
skeleton, dangling from a cross arm
supported on either side by uprights,
carried by students formed the van of
the shirt tall parade by the Colby
students, Tuesday evening half-clad
students singing songs and footing
horns brought up in the rear waking
sleepers from their midnight maps and
to the older people recalling the old
time commencement exercises.
The parade started at the C'ihy
campus shortly after midnight but it
was not until after the clock had finished
striking two that the college buildings
had been decorated in q Reardsiey
style and the ashes of the bunires had
in anyway commenced to lose their
color.
No sooner was the reception at Pres
dent Buffers home over than the stu
dents started for the bricks" and com
mencad their preparations for the
nights frolir. Tucked away in some Sc
cluded spot vas skeleton, Dor
rowed 60 sometime ago for the occa-
sion.
With that skill known only to a crf-
lege boy on such occasions, two candles
preparations We're completed there
might be seen from tie CHASTITY l4hr OF
the skeletons eye holes : hundred stu
dents costumed as though they had
just jumped out of bed. making the fin
al perpetrators for the march down
town.
With the skeleton at the head. around
which We're gathered horns and other
peace disturbing instruments, the pro
cession marched down College avenue
to Main street 10 silver, to Elm and
then back to the Eimwood stable
where an express cart was borrowed.
With this in tow the procession again
moved back to College avenue. halt
was made there and when all was over
the students marched back he cam
pus where bonfires We're aAted.
Daylight revealed to the people on
College avenue tin ash cans perChed
high on the chimneys q Ladies hall.
the express cart peacefully resting on
the top of the roof of one of the ladies'
dormitOries and blindless houses. Not
having printed posters Of their own
show the students took hand in
assisting the advertising of the circus
by standing a bill board 20 feet above
the ground against one Of the Chimneys
on Ladies' hall.
Although the young ladies of the col
lege did not take pant in the midnight
festivities some of them had no appe-
tte for breakfast when they went 10
the morning meal. Several students in
their enthusiasm picked mp what they
thought to be a barrel If asiIes but
when it was upset in one of the build
ings proved to be simply a barrel of
kitchen waste.
The front Of the Coburn hall was
decorated in a most elaborate manner.
At the right of the entrance door was
the Inscription in gaudy red paint. We
are through with Elder" on the or
posite side was a skull and cross bones
while on one of the lower steps was the
years of the four classes.
The Shannon Observatory received its
share of the decoration while Phi
Chi decorated the door of the gymna-
sum. n crew of painters was at once
set TO work on the granite work trying TO
eltace the lettering, but it was not until
after the noon hour had passed that the
efforts of the painters were rewarded.
Those who have been connected with
the college for long time say that
has come any where near euualIing the
work done Tuesday night
The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of Marion Clark did not for
an instant compare with that sur-
rounding that of the skeleton that
acted as the marshal of the procession
IN honor OF the services in leading the
procession It was planned. il is said 70
e'eNale the skeleton to the head of t1e
nag staff on the CAMPUS When j.,
students We're ready to carry ont III,
part of the programme the sl.oletnr
was not 10 be found
what VIII be done about the FRANKS
u ne evening is not yet stated. There
Ieeine among some of the students
.n"l should the ringleaders in tbs
~" emen' be found the seniors viii moi
oe me only ones to graduate this year