The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-04-02
BROWN
STUDENTS
ARRESTED
They Assaulted Man Who Re-
fused 10 Be Initiated
as a Buffalo,
Are you a Buffalo?

Are you Buffalo?
This is a question one hears propound-
ed many times in the course OF day.
To be Buffalo one must. to certain
extent, be ambldextrous.
That is TO say, one may use -the right
hand for every purpose save one. and i'm
observing that single exception one must.
when partaking OF liquid refreshments.
hold the glass in the left hand
Forgetfulness imposes penalty which
may be light, or heavy. according 60 cir
cumstsncos. and the friends one finds
clustered about him when the temporary
alteration seizes the victim. the more
painful are the consequences-the fatal
mistake means that everybody drinks at
the expense of the needless Buffalo
IL Is not necessary that there shall be
lodge room. with softly glimmering
lights and all those adjuncts which de-
light a man who Is seeking for knowledge
In the places where his wife can't share
In his experiences ana the secrets i'm
parted 10 him under peril Of things awful
10 contemplate.
There are no grinning skeletons no
electric hedges, no spiked boards. no red
hot irons or heated sands to tread upon.
IT costs II cents TO become initiated
end there's no change back. even IL a
500 bill should perchance be rendered
that all goes toward modifying the other
Bisons and preventing them from tossing
the new member of the herd upon steel
tipped horns
Any old street corner, and barroom,
serves as a lodge room
This morning as the bell in the First
Baptist church spire was banging out
the hour OF 8. TO the discontinue OF those
who fain would sleep another hour-the
bell so often cussed at and which ~ rung
to keep up an old custom that thousands
wish could be forgotten, two young men
opened up a lodge of BuffaIos on Canal
near Westminster street.
They were collegisns from up on the
hill, and they gave every man they met
the first degree
Approaching the candidate they would
reach out 10 shake hands with him. The
victim, recognizing that the two Biffs.
or Buffs, were full of spirit which had
been imbibed at frequent periods during
the darker hours preceding the herding.
grasped tho extended hands az the easiest
way to get rid OF the overtures and
speedily found themselves taking the
first degree. part OF which was a merry
spin-about and fop-over.
The first three or four victims stood il
Hh iiHHAs bhN Nnth W lthdin lc4NdDb WIS
approached he declined 10 receive either
the grip or password.
Whereupon the Biffs from BiffaIo insist
ed and amplitied the team work They fell
upon William, shifting him hip and thigh |
and used him up so badly that he will not
be able to get into court this week
Patrolmen Monahan and Doe closed the
lodge without ceremony and calling the |
hurry-up wagon, escorted the Biffs 10 the |
Central station TO await n session Of the |
Senior Council.
This met at O'Clock and Judge Lyman |
was In the chair. Dues were fixed at s. 1
with the usual extras and the lodge was /
adjourned until 800. when the grand /
council of Short-Horned Buffalos was |
allied TO order and there Grand Exalted |
derder Sweetland questioned the stray |
ng members OF the Junior Herd, and |
'harged them with having left the /
straight trail and engaged i'm an assault
lpon McNabb.
Grand Ranger Brennan moved that the
wandering ones be corralled until the 18th
md put up surety that the lariats would
iold them.
Holder OF the Herd Lyman. of the Ju-
ior Herd, freed the Bins on appeals. |
With Grand Ranger Brennan as surety. l
nd the lodge was closed I'm due form.
The wandering Buffalos from up on the
Ill gave their names as Kirby, Porter
nd Louis Delmore
And it's dollars to doughnuts that
either can be found on the Brown Uni
crsfry catalogue.