The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-20
CADETS AGREE TO QUIT HAZING
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cadets Bettison. Manaffey. Gray and
Atkins. the presidents and representa-
tives of the four classes. were called
BEFORE the committee and addressed
By General Dick, who thanked them
for their action in abolishing hazing at
the academy, and said that congress
would recognize and adopt what they
had done.
He also thanked Colonel Mills for the
kindness and courtesy shown the com
mission since they came here. He also
said the committee would go back To
congress with the kindest feelings and
best wishes for the academy and all
connected with it.
meet again in Washington at 10 O'Clock
Monday morning
Cadet Bunker Makes DeniaIs.
The first witness examined this morn
ing was Cadet Paul d. Bunker of Mas
sachusetts. who is a member Of the
present third class Last night some
of the ''plebes" told the committee that
Bunker had braced them and given
them tObascO sauce during the en-
campment last summer. One of them
Cadet Dillon. said that he was COM
PEELED by Bunker TO swallow from a
half to a teaspoonful of the sauce given
him in a camp spoon, which is about
the size of a dessert spoon.
Bunker acknowledged having braced
some of the plebes, but denied ever
having given more than fifteen drops
Of sauce to any one, and when Judge
Smith confronted him with Dillon s.
testimony the witness said he did not
recollect ever having given such q
| large quantity to Dillon or any other
plebe. Bunker. who said he weighed
about 200 pounds and measured feet
III inches, remembered having hazed
only two men who We're his equal In
! physique. The other plebes whom he
| hazed were small men, He had never
engaged in fights, either as principal or
/ assistant. His hazing repertoire was
I rather limited as he confined himself
/ TO bracfng. making men sing out their
wash lists to popular airs, ride broom
sticks, stand on their heads. and
charge sparrOws with fixed bayOuets.
Cadet Charles BUrnet. appointed
4 from Illinois. president of the cadet
/ branch of the Y. NJ. G. A, at Chairman
! Dicks request read the correspondents
/ heretofore published Between himself
/ and DR.. Allison Of Bristol. Pa. When
/ he concluded, General Dick handed 10
him and asked him TO read several let
/ terS written by BOOz to members of
I his family during the time he was ut
/ the academy. In them Booz said that
the other cadets were tyrantS-
| ''bTutes' and "bullies." and said they
l were doing their best TO Kill him. He
/ told of his fight. in a letter written the
| day after 1t occurred and said that
/ he had to give up after being winded.
/ He asked permission to resign, saying
there was no honor in his staying at
I West Point any longer. and that the
military academy was no place for par
/ ents to send a boy.
| Then the chairman requested the
| witness to read from the military reg
7 Mo B.
/ fighting. hazinE. etc. and the oath
| which a cadet takes on entering the
| academy. When this reading was fin
/ ished Chairman Dick. saying to the
( witness that he had been mentioned u
! the committee as one of the priuCipa
/ hazers in the academy. handed him q
] list of the corps of cadets. with the re-
quest that he point out the names %.
/ those who are noted for their haZing
! pTOCliVities. The witness replied tina
he had in mind the time when hazing
/ was in vogue. he might have 20 name
! every one in the upper classes Dur
/ ing the past year. however, all vigorous
forms of hazing have become obsolete
Booz Not Called Bibles"
( Referring to Rev. DR. AIlisou's let
! ter. Chairman Dick asked the wit
I ness if he knew of the word Bibles
/ having been used sarcasticaIIy in ref
| eTenCe To FOIfneT cadet FSbbE-
! No, sir" replied the witness. II
/ never heard him called Bibles and if
/ he were. it would have been done
/ thOUghtIessly by some cadet
! If any cadet were subjected to ridi-
cule or any inconvenience on account
/ of his religion, could he escape or
avoid it,
1t would come to the ears of the
heads of the Y NJ Z. y sooner or
/ later and the president of his class
would be notified. This would result
/ in the president taking measures to
stop any further mOIestat tons"
The witness was then taken to TASK
| for statements in his letter to DIT. Ali
son. He said Dr.. Allison had scored
/ the cadets without being in pOsseSsio1
of the full facts of BOOZ's life at the
/ academy. The witness stated that Booz
| had told official ana private falsehoOds
/ One falsehOOd was the fling of an in
/ correct statement in answer TO a re-
/ port charging him with not observing
] the rules at a change of sentry posts
/ The witness considered BO0zS actions
/ in his fight with Keller as disCredita-
! BILE to him He held that BOOz should
have stayed in the fight until he was