The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-30

Furniture SmAshed There IN . HOT ONer
Beer Kegs After an Interlude OF
Dancing soubrettes-One Man Rup.
tured In Earlier Sophomore scrap.
The freshmen and sophomores OF Co
lumbia began their annual scrap yesterday
with more serious results than usual In
an afternoon fight A. j. johnson, school
Of mines freshman, received a blow IN the
pit Of the stomach while in a mix-up and
was removed from the fray suffering from
rupture.
Last night the police reserves OF the
East Fifty-first and East Si1ty-seventh
street stations had to be called out to keep
order at the sophomore smoker on the
second floor Of Terrace Garden, This was
after 200 sophomores had consumed two
keps of beer and had watched three or four
soubrettes do private turn for them ana
6fty freshmen had broken in on the festivl-
ties.
Before the reserves arrived the furniture
was badly wrecked, Before that pieces OF
bric-A-brac and some crockery had peen
broken in efforts to make nine OF the hrst
year men, who had been carried, gagged and
tied. into the room in the afternoon, drink
milk out OF bottles Just like ordinary babies
and do similar stunts.
A committee from the sophomore class
called at Terrace Garden early in the after
noon and engaged the room. The repre-
sentatives Of the class told Adolph Suess-
kind. the manager that they wanted to
have quiet little smoker" a mere informal
blowout. Two kegs Of beer and sand
witches. they told him, would do for the
festivities.
Before this they had tri ed to have the
party up at Trocadero Music Hall, at lslst
street and Amsterdam avenue. but the
manager of that place had entertained
them last year and sidestepped the in
yitation this time, pleading other business
enga gements.
Suesskind rented his dining room to the
boys. About S o'clock in the afternoon
furniture van drove up to the Fifty-eighth
street entrance. In the van were several
sophomores and ten other men whom
the manager knows now to have been
freshmen, bound hand and foot.
Questions were asked, but no informa-
ton was given when the Terrace Garden
people wanted to know why the sophomores
were carrying the young men into the
dining hall in that way. One freshman
escaped, fleeing west.
The "ouet little smoker began about
O'Clock. The first course consisted OF
beer. Then the soubrettes were brought
out. They began dancing on tho stage,
but presently came down into the body OF
the hall as the boys began to throw money,
and their aim was poor
While the girls danced the nine fresh
men drank milk from bottles. They drank
all at the same time. Two had TO try 1t
standing on their heads. They also had to
submit to beer shampoos mixed with milk,
and the application OF other "hair tonics'
OF less definite ingredients.
The sophomores had all the entrances
of the room guarded except that leading
through the Garden to Fifty-ninth street.
Through this entrance the fifty fresh
men rushed about $40 o'clock. The man.
agement had then already appealed mildly
once or twice for more decorous conduct
on the part Of the young men, but when the
freshmen entered there was real trouble
The two factions olashed, the nine fresh
men who had been doing stunts discarding
their bottles and joining with their class
mates in the assault. Hard blows were
struck and blood flowed freely. As for
DueSSklt1u hiu lHCy 6ot
badly mixed with each other and with the
combatants, much to their own detriment.
The soubrettes fed to the street and
were seen no more. Some Of the fresh
men retired to the gallery. Sophomores
followed and the brass railing on the gal
lery was broken as the fighters fell over 1t
to the floor below.
Somebody in the restaurant below tele-
phoned to Police Headquarters for help.
The East Fifty-frst street reserves, with
Acting Captain Bingham. hurried there.
Bingham, taking a hasty peep into the
room, telephoned for more cops. They
came. making about thirty-fve in all.
Capt. Bingham announced who he was
as best he could In the melee and ordered
the cops TO drive the Columbia men out Of
the hall. This they did without much
difficulty. Most OF them as soon as they
got into the street and fresh air had sense