Evening capital., 1907-02-14
NASRECEPTION RESPONSIBLE
CULMINATION OF CANDIDATES.
SCRAP LAST NIGHT.
General Impression Said To Be That
Glass And Mass" Feeling
Was The Cause.

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Five candidates for the Academy,
were this morning found guilty OF dis
orderly conduct in participating in
what is said TO have been intended rs
a gathering OF students from the two
local preparatory schools for n pitched
battle on the streets of Annapolis last
night. The five guilty ones, each
OF whom was fined and released, with
two others who were acquitted were
all from werntz' Preparatory School.
Two other young men, members of
the student body of Professor Winners
School. will be given a. hearing this
afternoon before Justice Charles G..
Feldmeyer, who disposed of the morn
ing eases. Those fined this morning,
all OF whom spent the night in Jail,
gave their names as John WitherspoOn,
Henry Hardy. William Jones, George
Brown and John Warrick. Each paid
So. IS for his participation in the es-
capade. Edward Forrest and Samuel
Meyers were acquitted. The two Will
mer students who were atTrested early
in the night and released on collateral,
were John Jones and William White.
The whole affair of last night. which
through the determined stand taken by
Chief of Police George Hahn and the
officers under Round Sergeant Charles
Oberry, was nipped in the bud and
prevented from reaching serious and
rioteous proportions, seems directly
tracable to recent reception given
the Annapolis candidates by some
members Of the board of governors of
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton. ON the board of governors are
some Naval Academy people whom,
il is said, rendered the reception
with an idea of selecting for the can
didates, who will be middies, young
lady acquaintance whowill be more
welcome 10 the Naval Academy So
cial functions, particularly the hops
given by the midshipmen.
The affair at the time created some
little talk and feeling, as il was al
legged that the ladies auxiliary of
this Y. NJ. &. a. was practically
ignored by the givers of the reception.
The candidates then returned the
courtesy extended by giving a dance
at Carvel Hall on Tuesday night. At
this dance ii is claimed that some of
the more fashionable youths tried TO
enforce the same social censorship
which was organized for the Y. NJ. G.
A. reception. 1t is said the more
manly of the candidates refused TO per-
init such dictation, and in the discus
sion and feeling which resulted from
this practically all of Werntz' candi-
dates Withdrew from the dance.
The young fellows, however, have
carried the matter further, and on
the night OF the dance captured one
of their school mates who, il is said,
had claimed to be better than they,
and after blacking his face and clip
ping the hair of one side of his
head they appropriated the supply
of refreshments from the rear of the
hotel. All others of their school who
attended the dance, five in number,
were clipped" yesterday. Last
nights encounter was the outcome Of
the feeling cngcndered between the
two schools by the reception and the
dance. The whole affair has created
considerable feeling, and while there
is little danger of another personal en-
counter between the two schools, the
''class and masses phase of the
trouble seems likely TO be felt for
some time TO come.
1t is understood that an effort will
be made at the hearing this afternoon
of young Jones and White, to show
that Winners candidates were the ag-
gressors, ami that some of the youths
from the other school we're chased
when caught singly or in pairs earlier
in the evening before the whole crowd
got together. The trial this morning
drew big crowd, which filed the
streets outside the Office of Justice
Feldmeyer, while inside the witnesses
and prisoners with the police
force, filled the 'Squire's court TO
overlooking.
Forrest and Meyers, who /were ac-
quilted, stated that while they were
arrested right in the midst of the
crowd which had marched up Main
street to the corner OF Wost street and
Church Circle, they had not partici-
plted in the trouble. Forrest, accom-
panied by Meyers, had, after coming
out of the theatre and learning that
Witherspoon was in the lookup, gone
to find the crowd and take up n col
lection TO raise the necessary collateral
to get him out. Both were 'pInched"
almost as soon as they began to 'pass
the hat, /" Chief Hahn and his officers
simply gathering in whom they could
reach in the thick Of the fray with a
view to administering a lesson and
dispensing the crowd, without stopping
to ask questions OF each prisoner as
TO how long he had been in the mob.