New-York tribune., 1902-04-27

policy of the circus managers and the police to
stop wholesale scalping on the spot
Perhaps the most remarkable disturbance thal
the New Haven police have had 10 stop III d
dozen years happened In 1899 at the afternoon
Nearly the entire undergraduate body went out
to the show, looking for trouble, and found II.
undergraduates generally do when they are
looking for It. The students Jeered the COWBOYS
and hooted at the Indians in the dress parade,
and fired revolvers during the skirmishes- w men
the Deadwood stage act came on the under
graduates got excited When the stage coach,
filled with cowboys, had rushed twice around
the ring, crowd of a hundred freshmen, cheer
ing and yelling, left their seats vaulted into the
inclosure. and made for the stage with wild
yells The cowboys took to their heels. and the
freshmen occupied the coach, swarmlng all over
1t, riding the eight horses and hanging on 10
the baggage. This too much for the Sopho-
mores and upper class men, and as the fresh
men swept around to where the other stu
dents were sitting yelling and jeering, the whole
body of students ran out into the ring ana
chased them The Indians, who were supposed
to get into the chase at this time, suddenly
swept into the field. firing guns and pistols and
for ten minutes there was the best fight par
ticipated in by Yale men in decade 1t took
the united efforts of the small body of police On
hand and the circus attendants to avoid serious
consequences the Indians did not appreciate
the joke, and the students, many or Whom were
excellent horsemen, nearly routed the aborigfnes
to the dressing tents The audience was con-
yulsed with merriment but the faculty wasn't.
and it took a good deal of diplomacy on the
part OF the ringeaders to smooth the affair over
OF late years the police have abandoned the
dents natural prey for the bars. Nowadays
it is only occasional student. returning from
a late supper in a cafe and bubbling over with
noise. that falls into the clutches of the law for
serious mfsdemeanor- Arrests are made once
in while when a crowd of uproarious fresh
men disturb 4 theatre full, or for similar or
fences, like the stealing of street signs, etc.
Even then very few undergraduates spend
! nights In the lookup. The cafe proprietors near
, the station always ready to go bail for
unfortunate student, a note will be sent hur-
| riedy to the campus. and friends Of the incar-
cerated undergraduate appear with "an sorts
of money for mis- release Lately member
of the faculty has been appointed by the police
| as the corrective agent, and this method of
dealing with unruly students mas materially
diminished the excitement Of getting arrested
| The police as rule have learned to be eau
| tious in dealing too vigorously with the Yale
,,rdargraduata bodx, some "conners hv nat
ure officious, make themselves disagreeable, and
arrest man who is a little too anxious to at
tract attention in a crowd at a fire or at some
public function. But sad experience has robbed
this sort of thing Of any glory for the police.
copper finds himself pretty severely handled
before he lands his man in the lookup. On a
half dozen such occasions too offfctous police
man has found himself candidate Tor the nos
pital instead Of appearing against his man the
next day in court. Nowadays it is a rare thing
for policeman to trouble himself very much
over the antics OF a crowd Of students. He likes
to secure the popularity of the men. and II he
is popular he often comes IN for perquistes that
any policeman would enjoy.
1t Is the stand taken by two NewHaven po-
licemen, Donnelly and Wiser known throughout
the land to the present Yale generation. that has
had the greatest effect on the change OF heart
of the New-Haven Police Department toward
college disturbances. For six years these cop
pers' have been on the Yale campus. and have
Just been hired special men by the Yale cor
poration, having resigned from the city force
because they were transferred to other stations
Donnelly and Wiser have taken the undergradu-
atas EASILY and have filed their difficult posi-
tfons with marked ability and common sense
At first they were the targets for all sorts OF
"jolIying" but the undergraduates soon began
TO see that they intended to ''go easy on them
Now they are an institution. They keep OBJ
1ectionable persons away from the campus, ana