Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10

Some time after noon Lord Kelvin was
officially declared elected. and the Kelvin
ties were so jubilant that they, determined
not to let the city forget the event in a
hurry. After dark they started torch
light procession. Several hundreds of col
lege boys paraded. dressed in all sorts OF
fantastic costumes. but the medical stu
dents far outdid the rest.
One man. with mind for the grue
some. purloined the bleached skull of some
terrible prehistoric animal from the college
museum, and. fastening it over his head
and face, marched along in the procession
uttering horrible yells that would have
done credit to a monster of the neolfthic
age.
Others wore their clothes inside out, and
had their faces blackened by burned cork,
relieved by dashes of red paint. which
looked like big, gaping wounds in their
faces. Yet others walked on 'crutcheS and
kept their arms in sings, now and then
some particularly dignified OR gergeousIy-
dressed person in the crowd-at an old gem
tlemanS plug hat or at some elderly ma
irons satin dress
versity through the principal streets of the
town, with crowd of onlookers and adj
mirers following them. The din was awful
Among the hundred or SO college songs. that
We're being shouted at the same time, the
mournful ballad of the medical students
could be distinctly heard:
This leg was cut Off months ago.
But when twill he finished we do not know,
Although for weeks past we have had
Hash for dinner,
Hash for SUPPER,
Hash! Hush. HASH
The medieos sang other songs. but every
now and then they simply had to return
to this old favorite.
AT last they reached the Panorama. The
Panorama was ice skating rink of the
most fashionable. sort. The entrance fee
was high and the price of the refreshments
within was still higher. But the college
money paying for things ON a night when
the whole town was supposed, by ancient
custom, to be vide open to them.
Stormed the Building.
They marched up to the entrance and
despite the protests of the doorkeepers and
attendants, just walked in. Once inside
they helped themselves to anything in the
way of refreshments that they could lay
their hands on. They sat in the reserved
seats and watched the circus performance
that in progress on a small stage in
the center of the rink and the skaters on
the Ice beneath as if they owned the whole
show.
The manager, however, was new to Glas-
gov, and did not know it was the custom
to tolerate any pranks of the college boys
on election day He got mad clean
through. AS he saw no other way of get
ting ria OF the uproarlous crowd, he ordered
the fire hose to be played on them
This insult the students could not endure
They made rush for the nearest grocery
store and seized whatever they could lay
their hands on-potatOes. hams. bars of
soap, bags of sugar. tins of milk. and eggs
This ammunition was taken to the field of
battle and used to vanqtlish the manager
and his staff, drive the circus into the
street, and then to smash the glass doors
and windows of the gorgeous Panorama.
When the fierce fight was over the stu
dents looked like d. owned rats. and the
building was an utter wreck. as far as glass
and satin and plush We're concerned. The
audience had fled in terror at the start of
the fight
An old man who watched the scene said
afterwards:
'Eh, mon, the laddies would have skeert
the dell hisself!"