New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
THE PASSING THRONG.

A '. Dalton. Of Boston, was talking 70 party
OF friends at the Hotel Imperial last evening
the relative curiosity Of country
SKY GAZING and city people. ITO my mind"
TRICK WORN said Mr.. Dalton. 'the inhabtant
OUT. OF a CITY Is far more curious than
Is his country cousin. Let a man
stop on city street and look hxedly at a certain
point. and in a second some one will join him to
try to ascertain what he is looking at Soon another
pedestrian win stop, and In minute or two a good
sized CROWD will have accumulated, no one of them
having the faintest idea of why he stopped. The
other afternoon was going up Broadway when
some workmen removed the cover from manhole
ana and IN an instant there was crowd ten deep
eIylng M 9 20 peer down into it. Now, you never see
ny sucn curiosity as that betrayed by the inhab-
play in this city that hoary old trick Of looking
crowd. and then quietly walk away and leave them
EESszhg ES heavenwaTd without any notion Of what
Hold on. Bert" broke In a friend. I'm with
Of the jt,t tne oroia ana unquencna6le curiosity
1hat SKY gag doesn't go in New-York any longer
see Croker's Bryan kites. and they are the last
tnIngs @ they want to look upon So if you tried to
WORK that chestnut here you'd fall down hard"
'Hazing is gradually and surely disappearing
from college life" said A V Stark of Richmond,
Va, at the Hotel Victoria yester-
PASSING OF day, and. taking it all IN all. it
COLLEGE is perhaps as well that II IS. Car
HAZ1NG ried on mildly it wasn't bad a
thing. for IT proved a mans calIbre
and gave his classmates a quick insight into his
character THAI was often Of value to them. On the
other hand. however, men were badly injured
sometimes for Hfe-and there have been cases
where men have been severely hazed that death
resulted 1t has been generally from injury
to hazee that the practice has come TO in
glorious end in each college. In they chased
a man into a canal; the poor devil, four weeks
later, when every one thought him dead. was found
miles away working a farmland. So thorough
ly frightened had he been that he had swurn the
canal and escaped in the darkness under the i'm
preston that his life was in danger. In another
college town there was drain pipe about the size
OF mans body, which from a street on a
higher level to a street lower one Through
this the hazers tried to make the haZee climb. He
got about half way and stuck They couldn't get
MN up or down, and finally fed the approach
OF a policeman. The pipe had to be broken to get
the man out, and so exhausted was he that he
came within an ace of dying The ban in that col
lege was at once put hazing- 1t ended in a
Soutnern college in a curious way. The hazing
had been successfully accomplished, and the entire
party We're returning home when they got into
fearful row with countryman driving a wagon.
II II l l am not mistaken he fired revolver at the
boys, and wounded one Of them Anyway, he did
something that incensed them to such an extent
that they utterly lost their heads for they killed
the horse. and disembowelling him. sewed the man
up IN the body. This sounds incredible but is lit
eralIy true. and II made a tremendous sensation
at the college at the time although think the In
uence Of the college authorities succeeded in keep
ing II out of the papers, and It became pub
hcly known