Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30
Agents Getting Busy.


Meanwhile our agents had been busy
getting together a suitable wardrobe for
our little company. There was fitting on
process for the next hour. at the conclu-
sion of which it was voted that we had a
crowd of seniors and freshmen that would
have faded the flower of Yale, Harvard,
1t required no little skill to make some of
them look youthful enough for their part
but managed fairly well for all that.
When we lined the gang up we noticed
that the trousers of few scarcely reached
to the ankles, and caused one involuntarily
to think that the tailor had done better to
have turned them down instead of up.
and here and there a students toes would
seek to prove at first hand that his shoes
really contained feet. But we conSoled our
selves by rejecting that no one would be
so heartless as to be moved to audible re-
Election by this indication of poverty on
the part of brave young man drinking
deep at the fountain of knowledge. We fur
Their congratulated ourselves, as we ran
our eyes up and down the line, that the
ensemble was not so bad.
Now, gentlemen said one of our
party, remember you are college boys
careless and light hearted with just a
touch of deviltry in you. You are carried
away with the performance of Joseph JEFF
ferson-Mr Jefferson is the greatest actor
on the American stage, you knoW-and you
are enthusiastic to do something that will
show your appreciation of his genius. That
is enough for the present. except that
whatever you are called upon to do, do it
with youthful vim. Throw your hats in the
air, clap each other on the back and make
a noise. Mr.. Joy here Is your leader, and
you to follow his instructions from this
time on. What you don't know Mr.. Joy
wit hout his whiSkerS? Well it is he all
right. If you do WELL boys, there'n be a
rafting fine dinner waiting for you after
the show, in addition to the 80 cents
THE instructions to Mr.. Joy. who was
taken fully into our confidence, and who, in
fact was quite an intelligent fellow were
more explicit. He was given the Hopkins
yell and told to have his men proficient in
this and some other details when the time
70. action arrived.
Gave College Yell.
''As the spectators were filing out from
the matinee at 430 O'Clock among them
were our garnished friends of the Space
who had been let in through the stage en-
trance and then passed out into the audi
forum from behind the private boxes Out
on the street and before the crowd had dis
persed they were ready for business, be-
ginning with what / suppose was intended
for the university yell, and which sounded
something like this:
Rah, rah, rah,
Who we?
Were the Hopkins boys, you see.
Roo, roo, roo
Clear the way
For the bunch from ]. II. D.
"Of course, public attention was at once
centered on this bowling mob of ardent
collegiates and our fellows kept things GO
Ing hot until Mr.. Jefferson emerged from
the alley at the side of the theater He
was Immediately surrounded by the Hop
kins coterie, who cried with one accord:
Jefferson. Jefferson
Grand old man.
Let her RIP, boys
All you can.
He's the stun
Fer and you.
Here's luck, Joe,
From J. Fl. o.
well, sir. before Jefferson had time to