The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-20

the stage some of the stage hands tried to stop the advance of the stu up the curtain and began to play hose upon the audience, drenching men and women alike. On the way out the students wrecked everything that came within their reach and once outside they broke the windows ali electric sign was pelted to pieces with rocks.
 The crowd outside was finally dis persed by a squad of police who rushed pell mell into the crowd and began clubbing the students right and left. They fell upon Louis Bomeisler, a brother of Douglas Bomeisler, the star Yale end, and one of them hit him in the head with his club. The police grabbed him. It looked as though hostilities would start again but Bomeisler requested his com panions not to interfere. The other five arrested were for interfering with the officers in their arrest of Bomefs- Ter, Norman Read, picked up Bomeis- ler's hat. and after giving it to him he walked along with the police to the station. There he was surprised to be locked up on @ charge of interfering with an officer. Read was a likely candidate for center on the Yale team before he sustained injuries. Bomeisler was also a prominent can
 
 Samuel A Dyer, prominent oars man, was arrested on the charge of breach of the peace in connection with this same scuffle. Louis Connick and Charles H. Ridder were also ar rested for obstruction. Connick was in @ suit put on over his pajamas and had just got out of bed to see what was going on and had followed the crowd.
 Two other students, William J. r. into the police station with Bomeisler to cheer him up. When they got into the room before Desk Sergeant Tighe. an order was given to clear the room. Both tried to explain to the officer that they wanted to speak to Bomeis- placed under arrest for breach of peace. In the general melee more than one policeman lost his helmet, and reported to Sergbant Tighe ready for duty again but minus a hat. Sergeant Apologies.
 And ls stly James Anderson Hawes, lawyer from New York and Yale '94 man, was arrested. He attempted to plead Bomeisler's calSe, but Ser geant Tighe soon took him into cus- tody, and charged him with breach of peace and resisting police officer. Attorney Hawes was outraged at the insult and imm mediately communicated with Dean Jones, who bailed him out. As soon as he was out of the lookup. the attorney demanded an apology from Tighe and received it, the charge against him being withdrawn. Yale Mans Statement. The following statement was made yesterday by an eye witness of the scenes at the Hyperion.
 I am a New Haven man and a Yale graduate and I was an intensely n Snocfaf afnr af fha small raVO. | lution that-I must express the hope overthrow theatrical regime which. to couch a red-hot opinion In mild terms. was no credit to New Haven. | With hundreds of others. sat. and
 sensed a coming storm, Ynarveling at | the behavior of the management of the Hyperion and much impressed by l the lesson I subsequently, learned of | the psychology of the mob. I joined | in the cries for the whole show as spontaneously and unconsciously as | had joined in what still seems to me | to have been the good-natured cheer l ing of the audience. I helped other gentlemen to protect the ladies from the stream of water which was not playfully played upon men and wOm- | en who were unable to find an exit l from the theater. And I sincerely re-
 gretted the almost spiteful deetruction | of property even as I entertained a
 secret joy that retribution was being
 visited upon the heads, or head-I am
 unable to determine the authentic mum her-of the guilty.
 | "It is early to express a final opin- ion on the Saturday night affair, | which seems to me regrettable and which could have been avoided by the | Hyperion management, I am sure But, with the knowledge at hand from
 my own experience and the newspa- per accounts on Sunday, I do not hess itate to charge up to the management | of the Hyperion three moSt unhappy
 mistakes, and to the student revolu- l tionists one. quite as unhappy but perhaps. more excuSable.
 "In the first place, the theater was guilty of greed, of a determination to play the students for all they were
 worth. In the second place, it was guilty of the poorest judgment in not
 assigning a cause for the curtailing o1 | the play before the student resent
 ment led them to g real roughho'1se' l And in the third place, it was guilty J-and here I am humorously mild of discourtesy in turning in this civil ized age. a hose upon innocents. Try | citizeI, of a city in which I believe with heart and soul-I cannot exon crate that greedy, unpolitic, discount l eous management.
 ''The mistake of the students can
 forgive. to a large extent, on the | STOuHUS lAdl lACy dI y4uAS dUU tAid |circumstances-and the management
 of the Hyperion-conspired to cal | forth the savage which is inevitable there when you scratch far enough be- low the human surface. Their mis. take was in carrying the expression o1 their accumulated ill-will to the point Of destroying property. The affair die contain some of the elements of the !,riot and of the revolution; being so, ii was an astounding affair, at which found myself gaping when I wasn'1 busy trying to save my own or some.
 is that a more peacable means o. saying the same thing could no have been devised"
 JUMPS ON POLICE,