The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-01
PRINCETON AGHAST
STILL DAzED BY SHOCK OF
TIPLEY'SD DETECTION
Old Grads Labor weepfully with Arch
Enemy of the Demon Rum Now
Turned Saloonster.

John Topley, of all persons, has gone
into the saloon business-the very same
Tip1ey Topley John Topley, ex-proctor or
college cop of Princeton, who for the last
few years heroically has devoted his
young manhood to yanking the kinks out
of Princeton students morals by breaking
up the spring and fall midnight souse
parties down at Keg Hollow, near the
canal, says the New York Sun.
When the new flashed around the world
yesterday that Tipley Topley had bought
out Doc Boice's saloon. opposite the
Princeton campus in Nassau street, the
old Princeton grads-who can picture Tip
ley Topley only Aas a superhuman being
dashing from downy lips the foamy cup
of Demon Rum that steals away the brains
stood aghast and asked with trembling
voices "Can this thing be true?" All
doubt would have gone from Princeton
alumni features had they seen the ex-
proctor stroiling along Nassau street yes
terday afternoon all dressed in a suit of
hossy gray handsome doings, a neat but
efficient Panama hat and a fluffy cravat
of Alice blue.
All Princeton said yesterday that this
shifting of his bets on the part of Tipley
Topley is the biggest shock Princeton has
received since Bruce Bedford struck out
with three men on bases in the Yale game,
a few months previous to the st. Louis
cyclone. Because of the quiescent nature
of Princeton the only incident tina the
town had to date things from for some
years was the battle of Princeton.
About a dozen years ago or so, however,
excitement began to brush up and down
there. After the fall of 1894 the towns
people began to date things from, the day
AL Bull came up from Philadelphia with
his University of Pennsylvania football
team and put 1t all over the Jersey uni
versity. Head over heels on this Grover
Cleveland moved into town and the calen-
dar shifted again. Then Bruce Bedford
struck out. But Tipley Topley as a sa-
lonnster has thrilled the town more than
anything else. The lake presentation by
Mr.. Carnegie was going some, but after
all that was a natural phenomenon.
Only Dean Harry Fine can thoroughly
appreciate the magnificent labor done by
Tipley Topley in the past to throttle the
Demon Rum. nj fact, the last big keg
party killing made In Keg Hollow was
largely brought about by Princeton's new
est saloon-beeper. The killing took place
last fall, when the glad news of the very
finest key party ever held in Keg Hollow
spread all over the works. The news flew
so far, as a matter Of fact. that Dean
Fine heard 1t and warned his little charges
to beeeeee careful.
But kind and well-meant words from
older and wiser heads soon. alas! are for
gotten. Boys will be boys. A key in the
bush Is worth many conditions. And SO
when the autumn sun was sinking and the
nut-brown glades were growing misty in
the gathering darkness and the trees were
golden wraiths in the afterglow-then they
stole down through the witchery of the
early night to get soused.
Hear the merry shouts and the clink
of glasses while the happy youths make
wassail. Little do they know that through
the underbrush Tipley Topley, the edu-
Gated detective. is creeping, creeping dis
guised on one side of his face as a deli
catessen clerk and on the other as a
PRESBYTERIAN minister. He is armed to the
teeth with note book and pencil.
Hist Is that the swapping Of twig
or the far echo of a flat wheel on a troll
ley car trying to tack to Trenton? F'get
it. fellers. Anah. whozh 'fraid " Tip
he! hei weeyowi Wazh 'fraid we Topley
Tipley? Wow Wazh out ~glashezh, Beany,
n fill 'er up gain. And so fifty students
were fired.
Tipley Topley didn't discuss his new
saloon Yesterday. He just strolled along
Nassau street unafraid and zade with
proud eyes upon the little three-story
saloon with it's mansard roof and the
pretty lowers trailing from the window
pots all the way to the caves. What his
old coworker in the rum dragon exter-
mination campaign, Dean Fine, thinks
Of his new venture Tipley Topley didn't
say. Mr.. Cleveland sent out no news
on the matter. either. But all over the
world Princeton grads are writing and
cabling about 1t.
Princeton says that Dean Fin and Tip
- 49, - -. nn-s
that Dean Fine viewed 1t sadly with alarm.
ripley Topley, so Princeton insists, came
back to pointing with pride to his past
record and told Dean Fine that when a
good man runs a saloon right It's run
right and n swell business proposition. But
Ben Hart. who was a freshman for some
time at Princeton and Is remembered af-
fectionately by many classes as a champ
host at GEEK parties, can't see Tipley Top
ley's side of the question.
Ben Hart was one of the first to send a
heartbroken message when the news got
out. "Should have stuck to proctorlng.
Would have got ON Princeton police force
in time,'' wired Ben Hart. And some place
I'm his wanderings around the world Big
Hen Munro Miss Norma's brother. who
could pull the wheel off a Princeton sea-
going hack and use 1t as a hoop to roll
through the streets, eabled Tlpley Topley
to change his mind and go into the butter
and egg business instead.
Dick Elkins, '01. whose father, Senator
Stephen Elkins, achieved some fame as
Dicks father, has written sorrowfully
about Tipley Topley's shift also, and so
have many others.
But it is said that when the students
again roll into town at the end of the
summer they will be more chummy with
Tfpley Topley than ever before. Tipley
Topley's long experience in unmasking
crime, say the students who are working
off conditions in the Princeton summer
schools just now, should enable him to
give valuable advice TO students about
the best Methods Of lodging the proctor
who will succeed the new barkeep. Per-
haps Tipley Topley will not do this. but
he is bound to be more popular with the
exclusive keg party sets in his new job
than in the old one.