Bisbee daily review., 1911-10-26
rHr oLD TIME HALLOWEEN.

Chicago News: Hey. Sl,innyi Look st my ticktackl Amt it a bird? I'm eittin' fixed up for Halloween best you ever saw
 This was what a boy was overheard to tell friend of his own age at North side play ssrouna several days ago. The younsster addressed had been in the city only two years. He said:
 Why. kid. you don't know what 1t is to have a good time. Out in S-- we used to have a big HailOv een---a regular time. but the cops here won't let you talk above whisper. Say. we would steal all the gases in town. ring every door bell along the streets. take wagons and carts out in the middle oi the street and. believe me. We had some fun.
 ''l guess it is true that ;he kids ID a small town get the most fun out Of Halloween. said a Chicago business man. who was born in small town and lived there for RuIobtr of years Halloween doesn't seem to have tho meaning here that it does m smaller places T will not deny that the Chi cago idea is the better.
 He ulREA ADAaNti dtAkN AAAeAAAANA f- having fun was the usual one of dress ing up in masquerade costumes. throw ing corn at windows ringing door bells and running tick-tacks on windows These tick-tacks' were made by notch ing the edges of a spool and running them across a window with a piece oi string. They made an awful racket Then some of the older crowd would
 steal wagons and carts and every
 thing else loose ana pile them up in the street, tip over an old builuing,
 perhaps, get a cannon and shoot il most oi the night aud otherwise make the evening bideous with their noise.
 or course. they all ran in different
 crowds
 The fellows that were going with
 eirls--that Is. the high school crowd and boys of that age usually had the
 girls come out for the evening and would have deer hunt The girls
 would leave their homes. congregate
 al the home of one of the bunch and
 hide. The boys knew only vaguelS
 whero the girls were 10 be ana often
 passed most O. the evening huntin2 them When they were found a dance
 or party usually filled the rest of the
 night And lastly came the crowd O. old bachelors and fellows that reall.
 ought Co have known better They would build Instructions on the little
 public square that would take hours to tear apart One crowd would get at one end of fhe street about mid night and shoot Tho old town marsha'
 who was so iat he could scarcely walk. would waddle down 10 stop the noise when another crowd at the other end of the street would start shooting. "l think the greatest time that ] ever witnessed though. on Halloweeu , was at a little college town We had a town marshal who was serving his l first term and he decided that Hal. loween was going t0 be quiet one n . the town. He appointed a number O. deputies and early iu the evening they , came up to the campus to watch things start They were not to wait loEg. as . bunch of fellows had hidden in a , room during the daX and shortly after , dark came marching out on the fire 5 escape with all Of thet college band in ! siruments. They parsded to the presr ? dents home and gave a sereHade. On the return Co lhe college abou' 10 o'clock the boys carried away all O. i the signs and bicycle racks along the 1, street A hand cart left standing in
 front ol a laundry WEs found pulled , up to the top ofthp flaepoio the neX'
 morning The football team had
 played one of the large colleges ano . was coming in about II o'clock thar
 night With their victory fresh in the
 minds of the students every one was
 going to he train.
 As was customary after the team re.
 turned its members marched 10 fhs campus, where a large bonfire was started with the signs. wheelbarrows and stands that had been brought along. Finally a wagon brought quiet iy hy one Of the fratarnIties was wheeled CJt on the campus and pulled I over the is:r
 $ Thls was too UUea for the toE'H - marshal ard his Get J;ies. They turned 2 m a nre UIarm aud started 10 scatter [ the thp1sabG stIGrufs on the rampdS D When the fire department arrived a Q sturdy lot Of youths stood at ;he fire T plugs and refused to allow the brave ( iremeu to connect their hose. This a caused fight. in which d number Oi
 hremeu and all of the deputies werC Considerably WOrstcd and hustled of the campus.
 Thus is an insult to CUg welcome.
 said one A the football men. and P. propose we get the lnle German banC
 and start out 70 make these deputies s work, which was accordingly done @ They went through the streets and goi D the fellows out of bed who mad turned Q in early. The latter came in their DE P iamss and Hieht clothing and soOu others Of the crowd were stopping al e their rooms long enough to slip on a
 Fsir of pajamas or a night gown d when they all marched Co the cOIiegs 8 restaurant They continued this for a !. couple Df hours. when they raidcd ;
 chicken coop aud Finished the nigh n with fry.