The times., 1899-08-20

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again. until success attends. Once having
qualified" on anything he thereafter may
eat OF it in whatever quantity he may
wish The result of such a meal is sick
ness. Usually il is two or three days be-
fore he gets over such an unusual diet
These are, in detail. according to the
Suns" informant the more important
exercises which make up a "soiree." What
/ is the result of one of them? In what con-
dition does it leave the plebe? In brief, it
puts him in state of total collapse. Tears
entirely due to fatigue pour down the
face and cannot be controlled. When
: thirty TO thirty-ive- minutes Of "eag-
ling, Ginning" hanging resting,
I wooden willying" and locker sitting
have been endured, the mind loses control
Of the muscles. Commissions follow and
continue for considerable time. Medical
treatment is seldom afforded the patient in
such distress. The sole thought of the
yearling is to hush the moaning and
thrashing of the semi-conscious plebe.
Each sound strikes terror to his heart.
| Occasionally surgical aid becomes abso-
lutely necessary and the practiced eye of
the surgeon at once detects the cause of
the sickness. He asks questions. AS a
rule the investigation avails nothing The
plebe is loyal to his honor or his fear
and refuses to tell
1t may be asked why men submit to all
these tortures. The answer is simple.
They put up with them to avoid trouble .
Trouble" in the West Point vernacular
means fight Refusal to obey one of
these orders makes a plebe subject to
calling OUT by the yearIing class, which
means that he is challenged to fight. He
/ has TO accept. If he does not he will be
/ deemed coward by the rest of the corps
Against the green plebe the yearling
/ class puts up the best man it has of the
same weight, a man who has proved him
( self a finished boxer and a hard hitter
I Against such a man the plebe has no
chance. He knows il before going out. The
| inevitable soon happens, the length of the
I fight depending upon the desire of the
yeaTling. II he is brutal he takes care to
prolong it so as TO cut up his opponents
face all he can before giving the final
blow. When he does not follow this course
he is subject to severe criticism from the
more brutal minds in his class, sometimes
the class president himself. In case the
plebe proves a tartar and wins it means
simply that he will have to fight man after
man until finally whipped. The outcome
OF these fights is always more or less Sc
rious. Sometimes broken jawbones are
the result, and frequently the bones of the
hands are fractured The fights, be it re-
! membered, are without gloves. The
whipped party almost always reports at
the hospital
In view of this the fact that the author
tiles fail to stop these abuses causes much
surprise That they know OF their exist
ence, that they are trying 10 put them down
and yet are unable to locate and pin to
anyone the perpetration of a particular of
fence are undisputed facts All new cadets
a-1 cFrhfD fn Gt,nl
more than others. Once in a while there
is one who gets none at all. But this is
/ never the case with an army boy whose
father is of high standing. He is braced.
/ builied and bothered quite as much as any
other.
Hazing Cases Cited.
In printing the communication of which
the above is an extract, the Sun states
from enquiries Il has made ii has obtained
the following information, the names in
each case being withheld: 'On the day
that the communication printed above was
( written there was a youth in the cadets
hospital suffering from broken jaw. His
offence was that he laughed at something
that a yearling said. He was called out
The class selected its best bruiser TO fight
him, and the bruiser, after marking his
I face as much as he could broke his Jaw
| with punch. AT the hospital the youth
was asked how the injury had happened.
He said he had fallen, or something of that
kind.
There are forty cadets undergoing pun
/ ishment at the Academy at the present time
for firing guns in their tents at night.
These cadets, the Sun is informed, were
forced TO fire their guns by the upper class
| men. II anyone of them had refused, he
would have been called out in the morning
| and would have had TO stand licking from
the best bruiser in the class
"One of the cadets who had been treated
in the most brutal fashion, and who, the
/ Sun is informed has been hazed into
! commissions no less than three times, Is
the son of one OF Americas brayest gen.
erals a man who is today fighting for his
country. The son of another great gem
| eral, q man whose memory the whole Da-
tion honors, was forced, according to the
Suns information, TO take part in the
haaing OF this youth.
The Suns" information includes the
following specific instances of hazing: a
cadet. bright young man from Illinois,
was forced TO qualify on pie. and imme-
diately afterward on returning 10 camp
was .eagled' $50 times. After this he went
on parade He fell in the ranks and con-
yulsions followed. He was sent TO the
hospital for treatment
some Serious Results.
A cadet from Pennsylvania was hazed al
the same time that the generals son men
toned above was hazed. Sickness ensuea
with vomiting. cadet from New Hamp-
shire. hazed at the same "soiree,' had con-
vulsioas. The cadet whose jaw wa:
broken, as told above, was, previous to
that happening the victim of a sweat
BATH" which lasted twenty minutes. In
that time he lost six pounds. A cadet
from Michigan had a similar experience
A cadet from Alabama was "eagled, and
hung on a stretcher until he was driven
Z into mysteries. cadet from New Jersey
was "eagled' $50 times. The record fol
'eagling'' had been 400. 1t was held b!
the son of one of the most famous general.
in the Civil War. This New Jersey cade
was compelled to add fifty 10 the record
/ A cadet from Louisville was hazed unit
sickness laid him up in the hospital. o
the other instances where names have beer
furnished TO the Sun" with the informa
ton that the boys had been "eagled,
stretched, Wooden Willyied," ant
: chinned," one victim is from Mississippi
2 TWO from Iowa, two from Missouri, two ar
! appointments at large, three are from
Pennsylvania, one from Minnesota, on
from Indiana, one from Ohio, one from
Maine. one from New York. one from Hi
nois. and one from Connecticut.
Even the wards of the nation, according
10 the information furnished to the Sun,
have been similarly treated. These are ca
dets who are sent here from South Amer