Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-24
OWN. IOWA. TUESDAY. OCTOBER "a. 1899

and cigarettes in proportionate supply.
Many of the girls We're thoroughly in
toxicated. The officers and the board
Of control are thoroughly determined
| to locate the offenders and are conf
dent they will soon be able to make ar
rests. 1t is proposed to make horrible
example of every one caught. The
girls, almost without exception were
Iclamoring for liquor from the beginning
to the end of the riot Young men
came with buggies to the outskirts of
the grounds, and taking the girls in
their rigs, drove away. They were we'll
supplied with liquor and cigarettes and
the girls, on their return. would inyari-
ably boast of their exploits
While the girls We're in possession of
the main dormitory building and hold
| ing out against all assaults, they
raised a fearful uproar There were
two pianos in the building and these
We're pounded vigorously while can
cans and hoochie-coochies were done by
score of girls at a time In the big
school assembly room the girls smashed
chairs. piled up the remains of broken
crockery and then brought in a lot of
/ bibles, hymn books, International les
son leaves and small edition of the
'Moody's Anecdotes. 1t seems that,
in addition to the usual religious train
ing. the girls have been provided with
several hundred paper bound copies of
| the Anecdotes the board of control
considering them ideal reading for this
class of offenders. The girls evidently
didn't agree with the boards view, for
they took especial satisfaction in tear
ling up the bibles and books of anec-
dotes. A great heap of these books
We're piled in the middle of the room,
nearly all of them torn to shreds.
| Another of the delicate attentions of
the management which the girls didn't
seem to appreciate was a big motto
painted on the wall of the main cor
ridor under the stairway from which
| the rioters hurled soap dishes. tureens
and Kitchen knives at INVADERS The
motto reads, in big red and blue letters.
Be What You Seem TO Be- The girls
had daubed it with ink, thrown pieces
of crockery at it and torn good share.
! of the plaster off that particular wall.
We thought we'd take the advice for
Just once explained one of them after
ward.
The girls spent the night in the base
/ ment Of the chapel. The doors and win
| ldoWs of this room We're guarded by
men with stout clubs but the girls did
not try to escape. 1t was after 3 o'clock
before the last one had been singled
out and placed in the basement room.
| 1t was believed that the ringleaders of
the rioters and the worst of the par
ticipants We're confined. and while some
| of the sheriffs beat the bushes, so to
| speak, about the towns suburbs the
rest maintained guard at the windows
| of the basement
| During the entire night the girls kept
up a constant shouting. singing and
lyelling. This was interspersed by the
foulest of conversation and indecen-
| Icies. The british and bestial evidences
that arose from the darkness of the
basement Indicated that the room was
| filled with harpies rather than human
beings.
During the night Superintendent
Miller and the officers had arranged to
| serve breakfast so far as it could be.
served on the few dishes remaining in
the institution. The breakfast was
served to the thirty-tive or forty girls
!confined in the basement of the chapel
just as if they were We'll behaved and
deserved it, Much criticism was ex-
pressed for this way of doing business
aho ehe common Judgment was that
the pest way 10 subject them was to
starye them. During the breakfast the
girls constantly manifested a desire TO
break the remainder OF the dishes and
| 20 compete the obstruction of every
thing that was loose. Sheriff Stout
constantly cautioned them against any
outbreak anu WAS Kept ousy dodging
POTATOES Whlch tne VlAens hurried at his
heaa.
After the breakfast the girls We're re-
| moved TO the thlrd moor OF dormltory
NO. :. rms had been ruined by the
| girls the nlght before, but the beds had
been rearranged IN such shape that
they couid sleep u they desired. They
| We're locked onto the third floor and
guards stationed at the doors. The
WINDOWS Were too nigh to permit them
to jump Ine girls had stolen the pen
CHS IN the Offices OF the building and
they began TO elaporately decorate the
Walls. Iheir own names We're varied
With the vilest obscenities, both in
words and pictures, and this was the
prevailing tone Of their entire conver-
satlon with eaeh 9ther ana the remarks
they addressed 70 the guards.
superlntendsnt Miller was quoted as
saying that some OF them had had lia-
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