The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-11
Five Fraternities and Four Sororities Are Connected
 With B, H. $. They Have Ever Made Trouble and Promoted Snobbery and Heart
 burn Other Scandals Connected With limitations Likely to Be Disclosed By Investi- gation-One Youth, Dip ped in Icy Water, Has Pneumonia.

ped in Icy Water, Has
 Pneumonia.
 | Because the daughter of Representa- i tive Fayette c. Clark and Mrs. Clark was all but killed by the rough treat \ ment to which she was subjected by the members of Alpha Alpha. a High
 school secret society, the Board of Education will at it's meeting tonight ! begin an investigation of the happen l ing.
 It is not improbable that the result will be an order forbidding fraterni- | ties in the schools. not entirely because of the brutal treatment to which Miss LOrain Clark was subjected, but be-
 cause they have always been a seri-
 ous injury to the discipline of the High school, promoters of strife, breeders of snobbery among the boys and girls,
 and objectionable to the instructors.
 Representative Clark will appear be- fore the Board of Education and lay the facts connected with the hazing of her daughter frankly before the members. =
 It is said that the young woman was tossed in a blanket. That she was forced to, swallow disgusting and dan gerous mixtures and decoctions pre- pared by her companions. already members of the Alpha Alpha.
 These are some of the doses which Miss Clark was compelled to swallow,
 
 1. Oysters, prepared in sugar.
 2. Maccaroni boiled in soap.
 3. A mixture of all these things with assorted spices.
 4. Some kerosene oil.
 She was then subjected to a series of rough jokes, many of which are
 She suffered greatly as a result of this treatment, growing so rapidly worse that her parents deemed it ad- visabIe to send her to Linden Lodge, Rr9ft1ahnTO VI whnrA ShR TIndRr the care of pr. Lawton, a noted spe- cialist.
 the home of one of the members of Alpha Alpha, but after school hours and beyond the Jurisdiction of the school authorities
 It tis not quite certain how the Board of Education will proceed to abolish the fraternities.
 In some other places pupils on enter ing the schools are asked to state whether they are members of such or sanizations. They are not admitted to the school if they support frater-
 The scandal relative to Miss Clark has been kept very quiet Represen- tative Clark said this morning: t'I had hoped that nothing would be printed CpoE the subject until had laid the matter properly before the Board of Education. I have nothing to say at been presented to the board I will gladly say whatever seems neces- Sary.''
 A Farmer reporter interviewed a number of the Alpha Alpha Sorority girls today. They seemed to main tain a pose of silence. and were not They all seemed to realize that the affair had assumed a more serious as pect than they had contemplated. and for this reason desired to say as lit tie as possible. The girls seem to realize that they went a tri1e too far in impressing on the mind of the young importance of the oatl1s she was to take, and the secrets she was to keep.
 It was learned that the girls take great delight in attending the meet ings at which there is to be an initia- tion- They vie with one another to see who can evolve the most ingenious plan for the amusement of themselves and the torture of the initiate.
 After the initiation, the initiated en- ters into the schemes of her co-part- ners in the practices they carry out on the other novitiates, even with more ardor.
 One of the girls talked to said that they had been in comm dnication with Miss Clark since she went to the san itariuna. The affair was very regret able to them, especially because news of it had become so general. after be- ing kept quiet for such time. This young lady was asked if it were true that Miss Clark was submitted to the She replied:
 Miss Clark has a very vivid imag- ination. The things have ~been very much exaggerated
 Further than that she would not have anything to say
 At the local High school there are nine secret societies, five of which are fraternitfes and four sororities. There l is also another fraternity which has no ee9l poaeG mogS of but aeB66i iGh hdy m be the go, each of the fraternities is connected in some way with one of | the sororities, which is styled a sister | society Thus. at the B. H. S. the 1 societies go along this way. Theta | Sigma fraternity is identified with 1 Delta Psi fraternity. is associated with l Kappa Phi Sorority; Beta Kappa l Sigma fraternity is associated with | Kappa Mu Sigma Sorority; Alpha 1 Delta Sigma fraternity and Alpha 1 Alpha Sorority go as brothers and sis 1 ters, while Beta Lambda Phi frater-. nity is without a sister associati ton. | The members of the latter organiza- | tion are exclusively of the Jewish per- | suasion.
 The fraternity on the outside, which | is composed mostly of high school | boys, but still has no school connec- tion, and does not wish to be recog- | came Beta Theta Nu- All other | pupils in the school are c1assed un- l der one body, known as non-frater- | mites. Within the past few years, | some of the friendly relations which l existed so strongly between the frater- | aities and the sororities were broken off. In one instance Theta Sigma | sarded Kappa Mu Sigma sorority as ts sister society. cast the latter off. | This started the formation of a new sorority, Lambda Iota Nu. which has