The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-29

BROKE HIS JAW.
DO you remember any of your class
men having gone to the hospital with a
broken jaw?" asked Gen Clous.
Not from hazing, sir.'
cause?"
''Yes. sir''
''Who was it?'
Cadet Carruthers, sir''
How was he hurt?"
I'm q fight, sir
with Whom?'
81 don't know, SIR
Elcid Hunt, a third class cadet from
New York, said that Cadet Haskell had
been exercised until he apparently fell
in a faint, but witness thought Haskell
was conscious. Haskell had been found
deficient, he added
Cadet John c. Pegram, Of Virginia
was recalled and after some question
ing admitted he had known cadets to
faint from hazing. He said:
Il exercised Cadet Kenzet I gave him
$50 eagles, 1 think. 4 was in my, room
Cadet Williams called me out into the
hall land told me a man had tainted
Kenzet was lying down. I gave him
some water, lifted him up and he said he
was all right aAE.
ANY other cases?'
Il heard that cadet named McGjnnis
had tainted and that a plebe had also
tainted. TO the latter carried smelling
salts. He was a fourth class man. He
revived 80 = .i'ia- s '8&f5s
Did you ever hear of cotton being
put in cadets mouths to keep them from
crying or being hysterical?'
Yes, heard of such a case" replied
the witness. sfsg
What case was tbis?"
I was told that Cadet, Macarthur had
requested some upper class men to stuff
his mouth with cotton so that he could
not cry out Historically as he said he
could not control himself after some
severe exercising"
why should he do this?"
There was an officer near by at the
time and l was told. Macarthur was
afraid he would hear him.
Young Phil Sheridan was recalled. He
added the name of Cadet Brenton to the
list of those who had tainted after ex-
ercising. He also said that Cadet
Haskell was only shamlning the night
he was supposed to have tainted.
FIGHTS WERE FREQUENT.
Cadet C. R. Alley, of Massachusetts,
said he was called out by Cadet G. A.
Lynch, of the third class, for refusal to
reply when called upon in camp to say
who was the meanest man in the third
was chosen to fight witness Alley said
that his opponent won the fight in two
rounds when the light was stopped be-
cause witness had a bad nOsebleed.
Another fight he knew of was between
Armstrong, Of his class, and Graham, of
the third
Lieut. George Blakely, an instructor in
the department cf mathematics, said
Mr.. BOoZ called on him in the summer Of
1898, and said that his son Oscar was in
the academy and had been in a -ight, but
did not talk Of it as a serious injury.
Lieut.. Col. George r. Davis, deputy
juGge advocate general, U. S. A., was
sworn and gave a--rcsume Of the efforts
made by the authorities at the military
academy to eradicate the practice of haZ-
ing during the last thirty-five years.
Col. Davis was graduated in 1871.
''Yanking' was the commonly talked CT
form of hazing then. This is similar to
what is now spoken as of dragging men
from their beds with mattresses or
blankets underneath them. Witness said
various means Of stopping hazing had
heen tried until now, in 1900, these efforts
were crowned with very substantial sue
cess through the cooperation of the
corps of cadets.
Lieut. Col. Otto L. Hein conmandant
Of cadets produced several extracts
from his record for the last three years,
showing the penalties inflicted for hazing
in 1898 had been much greater than in
previous years. Cadet Booz, he said,
never made any complaint Of his treat
:lient.