Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-05-02
PHANTOM PARADE.
ST. JOHNS COLLEGE STU
DENTS MAKE MERRY.
Parade Campus In Ghostly Gar
ments-Burn Police Officer
In Effigy--Fight With
charlottesville
Denouement.

The annual phantom parade which
takes place on the first of May at ST.
Johns College campus. was held last
night. The portion OF the campus to the
left OF Mcdowell Hall was lighted with
strings of Japanese lanterns and torches,
and roped off to keep back the crowds
of citizens who had gathered TO witness
the unique drill.
AT oIs o'clock the students. robed in
sheets, pajamas, duck trousers and night
shirts, with blackened faces or wearing
masks, marched out of Humphrey Hall
to the music of the colored fife and drum
corps. After parading the grounds sew
eral times, the battalion OF two compan-
les, A and b, were lined up for drill,
some OF the manoeuvers of which were
"present Stats, shoulder Stats" "port
wine, T" "order beer" &c.
The students carried Stats instead OF
guns. except the sentinels, who stood
guard. The transparencies carried by the
companies contained some unique letter
ing. One had the following Pretty
Girls Wanted, "Glad Tidings for Mad
rydings. "Beware of The Cops"
"Join The AntiSweating League and
others not intended for publication. The
reports of the companies were read, and
contained ludicTous references TO the
faculty and students. The "orders'
were of a similar nature.
At the conclusion OF these ceremonies
a detail of the companies proceeded to
Pinkney Hall and to the strains of
dead march, carried on mock bier
the figure OF police officer. Following
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robes and not far away his Satanic Maj
esty in lurid garments was carrying a
pitch-fork. After marching around the
parade ground the dummy officer was
placed on the funeral pyre and burned
In eflgy. He was consigned to his fate
by mock burial service, after which
the cremation took place. At first the
hgure seemed to be TOO green" to burn,
but later, when assisted by torches, APP
piled by the devil, and turned about a
few times with his pitch-iork, the figure
ignited and made bright blaze.
The entire ceremonies were over in
less than an hour, and there was nothing
Objectionable or riotous about them un-
til the close. During the entire cere-
mony fifty or more candidates for the
Naval Academy, who had gathered with
spectators to the scene, guyed the collie
gians, and when the order was given
parade dismissed" the ST. Johns stu
dents made a rush to where the object
ionable element had gathered to call the
candidates TO account for their unseemiy
interference. A fight was imminent, but
Policeman Jackson, Professor Soho, OF
the College, and Mr.. Hugh X. Riley, an
alumnus of ST. Johns. interfered and
acted as peacemakers between the col
lege boys and candidates, preventing
any serious trouble.
During the melee brick was thrown,
supposedly by candidate, but it was
said this morning to have been thrown
by colored boy. The brick struck Mr..
b. A. Bryan, who was merely a specta-
tor, wounding him in the head. He was
knocked unconscious, and removed 10
his apartments at the College, where,
after some effort and calling upon five
physicians to attend the injured young
man, he was treated by DIR. William S.
WEIGH, who dressed the wound, taking
two stitches. The young man was re-
lieved of pain and rested well after two
o'clock this morning and is said to be
doing nicely. Candidates Bagley, Folly
and Carrigan are said to have been hurt
in the row.