The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-06

OAKLAND, December 23.-Are door
knobs, window shades and electric light
fixtures sacrificed when sorority girls
initiate neophytes7 Do limitations and
similar jinks call for diminishing the
luster of interior finish and for the
seraping off of paint3
These considerations were presented
when suit for $135 damages was fled
in the superior court today by Mrs.
Helen Irvine Of Detroit, Michigan,
against W. II. Chickering and t. G..
Coogan.~> Chiekering and Coogan were
bondsmen of Miss Anna R. Tucker, a
former University of California stu
dent, who leased the house at 2515 LIE
Conte avenue, Berkeley, and who es-
tablished there members of the exclu-
sive Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority,
successors to the Chi Psi fraternity, as
occupants.
The house was to be turned over to
the owner in as good condition as it
was when occupancy was taken under
the terms Of the lease in August, 1906.
But when in May Of this year the house
was abandoned another story was told.
Many Signs of links.
Mrs Irvine complained that there
remained but little of the interior fur
nishings of the house which bore no
marks of the jinks of the girl oecu-
pants. Electric fixtures suffered most,
and perplexlng problem was outlined
in the minds of viewers when the
height of the fixtures from the floor
was considered.
Bolts and locks had been unavailing
to check the tides of merriment and
girlish fun, and these had been broken.
Window shades had been pulled down
| until they could not be made to go up
again The woodwork bore traces of
missiles weightier than those involved
| in pillow fights. Paint had disappeared
| in spots until the original effect of the
whole had been considerably dimmed.
! Electric fixtures, window shades, door
hinges, bolts and locks, and other fix
| lures were destroyed or removed from
said premises, the walls and woodwork
were marred, soiled and otherwise in
| j cAi anu Sdlu ieIilIScS were OLOSi
wise injured, all as result of the care
lessness, negligence or wilful reckless
| ness of the said Anna Tucker and the
persons being upon said premises in
her right and by her invitation, by
which said adaptations and injuries
the plaintiff was damaged to the
amount of $135.
Thus were all of these things set
forth at length in the chilling legal
Technology of the complaint, and the
alleged frolics OF the girls were made
to assume a dark aspect which savored
of plotting against property.
Demands s1125 as Rent.
A feature Of the complaint was a re:
/ quest for slips for rent which woule
| have become due had the lease run III
natural term. The lease extended from
August, 1906, until August. 1909, al
| SIS per month. In may the house wa.
given up, but rent had been paid il
| advance up to the last of July thi:
year. Coogan and Chickering were
asked to make the balance good.
Miss Tucker left for the Hawaiian
Islands recently, where she will engage
in teaching.
The Kappa kappa Gamma sorority
is one of the largest and most exclu
siye Greek letter societies of the goods
of the University of California P
chapter was established in 1880, ane
after a brief existence disbanded. Re
organization, however. was completed
in 1897, and since that time few sorori
ties have enjoyed its prestige, gained
alike from its national character ane
its membership drawn from some of tht
most prominent families in this an,