The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-04
I'D ON YALE'S FRESHMAN ROW
RI iCE 70 REIGN on TINE SCENE
or NAVY ID STCRB4NCES.
A Faculty order Issued Scattering the
students Who HAD a Colony There and
Played Many Franks on Other Resi-.
dents CASE or Tive Rubber Boots

students Who HAD a Colony There and
Played Many Franks on Other Resi-
dents Case or Two Rubber Boots.
NEW HAVEN, Nov. 3.-Yale's Freshman
Pow. for years the scene OF students pranks,
Is doomed. and within IA few months by
faculty orders fewer than fifty freshmen
will be living in the block where at present
are uuartered some 300 or more.
After trying every other method to quiet
tho disturbances that have caused the
residents of that fashionable part of the
ritv TO make bitter complaints to the college
authorities Director Chittenden has an
nounced that after this year only three
freshmen will be allowed to live in any one
house in that row, and that il thisd does not
end the trouble no freshmen will he allowed
20 live there at all.
Various offenders who have assaulted
uassersby or have made it necessary for
residents in that neighborhood to stay up
night after night to protect their property
from being burned up in a wild celebration.
have been brought before the faculty of
the Sheffield Scientific School or nave been
taken to the police station without any
seeming lessening in the disturbances.
Residents tell tales Of thrilling escapes they
have had from being roasted alive by the
overhilarious students.
One Yale graduate who lives in that part
Of the town was aroused at 2 o'clock one
cold November night after a football victory
TO see from his window a huge pile Of boxes
and boards some twenty feet high standing
almost against his wooden fence n within
a half dozen feet of his frame house. Around
the pile stood some fifty Yale freshmen
about to empty a can Of kerosene on the
pile and start a blaze. sssskt
Without stopping to dress he rushed
out and begged the Yale men TO hold OF
until he could rouse his family and get them
out alive. He and the police spent the rest
Of the night watching that pile OF lumber
and the next morning il was carted into the
rear yard of the indignant citizen to be
used for kindlings during the winter.
The row itself consists Of seventeen brick
houses. SO closely do the houses resemble
one another that frequently Yale men cannot
tell in which they live IL they fail to remember
the number.
Here for the last fifteen or twenty years
has been housed nearly the entire fresh
man class Of the Sheffield Scientific School.
The houses we're put up by the late c. S.
Bushnell, the builder Of the Monitor, TO
be used as student boarding houses. Any
where from six TO fifteen students room IN
each house and whenever any excitement
arouses the residents of the block that part
Of the city is soon in a hubbub.
Whenever there has been any disturbance
on the Yale campus the police have made
for Freshman row at the first outbreak
sure TO find there the r~ingleaders IN the
disturbance. Bottle night at Yale, when
every Undergraduate thinks il his especla
privilege to break everything within reach,
has for many years been a night OF terror 10
the residents in that neighborhood.
Wash bowls. pitchers, croGkery glass;
ware of every description has been thrown
from the windows until frequently the
broken glass on the sidewalk ana road
nas been two or more incnes ueep IN Piaces'
Il was through this that citizens would nave
30 pick their way II they happened 10 Do Oh
the street on bottle night.
Last wear one Of the we'll known alumni
narrowly missed being hit by two beer
pottles which were thrown from a second
story window as he was passing. Not a
Yale man was to be seen at a window IN
hat neiChborhood, the bottles apparently
dropping from the full moon overhead.
He reported the matter TO the Yale faculty,
and although no trace Of the bottle throwers
could be found the Yale officials soon
began to make plans to clean house;
II was only a short time after that mat
Gen. j. Fl. Whittemore. a retired army
officer. and his wife we're returning to their
home on Temple street and passed along
in front Of Freshman Row. Word had
Deen passed along the Row that Gen. mite
more had been a complainant against the
students on various occasions. ana without
any warning a handful Of mammoth torpe-
does were dropped from overhead and ex-
ploded directly in the path OF Zen. Whltte-
more and his wife.
In an instant heads appeared at the
windows where q moment before not q
person was to be seen.
The General quickly recalled his fighting
days and then and there challenged the Yale
men TO come down and fight II they dared.
Il was said that before the evening was
over President Hadley, Director Chittenden
and various policemen were on the scene
Of the disturbance. summoned there by the
rate army officer.
Another complainant is F. II. Beede,
superintendent of public schools, who lives
across the street from the Row. According
10 the Yale mems side OF the story, every
thing that happens in that neighborhood
- attributed TO them, whether they are
Innocent or guilty. In connrmatio Of this
stand they tell this story OF Supt. Beede:
The latter had complained OF the Yale
men several times and the Students hat on
subsequent occasions shown their disap-
prevail by yelling and shouting and making
sleep almost impossible for the nelghpor-
hood. One night when this din had been
kept going until very late there was a crash
of glass.
Supt. Beede, who had gone to bed, rushed
down stairs In his house TO find a large plate
glass window smashed in by a pair OF large.
heavy rubber boots which reposed in the
middle Of the room. He was pretty angry
and the next morning announced that
things had gone far enough and that he
would report the incident at once to the
Yale authorities.
Just az he was on the point Of doing this
ne was J1rprised by q call from his next
door neighbor, Frank =. Butterworth, the
farmer Yele football star.
Hello, Mr.. Beede,' said Mr.. Butterworth,
did you find "A pair Of my rubber boots
IN your parlor this morning."
Why, l found these said the astonished
school superintendent, holding up To view
the boots that had dome the damage.
We'll, those are mine, all right" laughed
Mr. Butterworth, and I'll pay for the dam
age, You see It was this way: | was nwak-
"ned by some cats In the back yard and
couldn't get 10 sleep. 1 reached for my
nooto and threw them out and a. heard