Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-14
FOOL. BOYS.
They Stripped Gar and Cavorted in
 South Birmingham


 Upper and lower class Worcester
 up the juniors annual halfway
 through banquet at the Kendall house in South Birmingham WednesdaT
 night, which resulted in riot call be-
 ing sent out by the police, the arrest
 of two seniors, the shooting of a re
 volver by one of the officers and T
 roughhouse fight at the hotel.
 The juniors were successful in car
 rying their banquet almost to- close
 before the other students arrived. The food had been eaten and all but the last toast responded to when the
 students arrived and attempted to force their way into the dining room, Proprietor F. N. Blake stood in the
 doorway and forbid anyone to pass 1 in There was considerable of q scrimmage then in which several of
 the girls waiting on the table mixed. One athletic young women put big sophomore out with chair, the po- lice were called in and the men driven i out of the house.
 The upper and lower classmen start. ed for union station in Worcester at
 8 o'clock Wednesday night. thinking they were in time to head off the jun
 iors. There they learned that the half way through class had left for South Birmingham on the 6:14 train,
 so the students boarded Boston and Worcester trolley and started for
 South Framingham.
 1 On their way down they could not curb their exuberance and started in to put the car out of business. There were only few passengers outside from the students on the car, but they were subjected to great inconvenience and some danger. The men stripped i the car almost completely. They cut away all the straps. removed all the
 ineandescent bulbs. tore down all the : advertising signs and practically sacked the car of everything movea-
 ble and detachable.
 l Tn the crowd someone took the chemical fire extinguisher and at ! Birmingham Center they left the car { to walk in. According to Chief T. O D. Urquhart, who told his story to q i Telegram reporter. the students were 1 like a band of Indians on the way to South Birmingham A pack of hood 1 lums Chief Urquhart called them They unhitched every team along the streets" he said "and drove them
 away. we don't know yet how much
 damage they have done there; some of the teams may have run away. Not satisfied with that they ripped off signs and did a great deal of damage all the way down"
 1 Many of the juniors who returned on the midnight train this morning,
 said a riot call was sent in by the i South Birmingham officers. and that ] twenty or more special officers re- sponded. all but a ftw in citizens clothes. It was claimed that one plain ], clothes officer attempted to hold one of the seniors. who broke away from , him, and that the officer discharged i his revolver in the direction the sen for was travelling.
 Chief Urquhart said he had only
 four men with him and that he had
 not sent out riot call: he admitted 1 that some citizens might have taken
 a hand. although he knew nothing about that. He said one of his off 1 cers might have discharged his revol ! yer. He also said the students resisted l his officers and many of them broke
 away after being in the hands of his men,
 None of the attacking party got more than six feet inside of the din-
 ing room door, as it was up stairs and l they had to fight policemen, the ho- tel proprietors and his employees all | the way up. to be resisted by the jun l iors at the door and the young women
 acting as walters. The women put up
 the bravest kind of a fight, and the | assailants were fairly dazed when l they found they were up against a bunch of Amazons armed with chairs,
 pitchers and other homely weapons. The broken glass in the doorway was the only damage to the hotel, a l few small dishes were broken, but
 Proprietor Black stood by the juniors
 and they voted him brick. Black
 did not make. any fuss over the at- tack, taking 1t all in good part.-Wor-
 cester Telegram.