Connecticut western news., 1911-01-26
THE DRUNK PARADE
FUNNY MIDNIGHT LINEUP
 \ ON TOWN HALL HILL
Couple of Gentlemen From Salisbury Stop Off for RecuperatiOn on Their Way Home From Somewhere in Massachusetts.

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 Way Home From Somewhere in
 Massachusetts.
 If any Canaan night-hawk-assuming Pthat such breed of nocturnal poultry fourishes in Canaan-had been at large, an hour or SO after midnight. last Fri day morning, and ohanced to futter about the neighborhood of Town Hall hill, he would have witnessed a parade worth seeing. A company of men half of them considerably drunker than drunk-were laboriously making their way up the hill in the direction of the hall. Their progress was slow; at times they seemed to be making no progress at all, but they were getting there, ''steady by jerks," just the same, and their advance was as ludicrous as it was difficult.
 Viewed at short range, by the light of the silvery moon, the night-hawk would have had no difficulty in recognizing this midnight band and identifying the members of it. They were J. Clinton Roraback, the we'll known young at torney. who, comes of an emiuently respectable family. his father being 0 Justice of the Supreme Court; MT. Mirton Suydam, Salisbury gentleman; L. o. Rhoades, proprietor of the Can field block tonsorial parlor, whom his fellow citizens have repeatedly elected to responsible positions and who even now holds the office of constable, and MT. Harrison Suydam. brother of Mirton that's who they were.
 This remarkable torchless night pa- rade, which was the climax of @ drunken debauch, had formed at Ives 6 Peirce's shed on Railroad street, and, starting at l2:45 a. m. sharp, proceeded over the following line of march: Down Rail- road street to Main; up Main to Granite Avenue; up Granite Avenue to the jug and disband The procession moved in two divisions and was 37 minutes pass ing given point, At the head of the first division came one of the Suydams, groggy and wabbling, who marched in rag -time-a sort of dish-rag-time. Inn mediately behind him came Roraback, with one hand firmly cIutching Suy- dams coat collar, and occasionally lift ing that saturated gentleman off the ground to keep him right-end up and prevent him from turning turtle. The second division followed closely, with the other Suydam in front, likewise groggy, and similarly chaperoned by Rhoades, who occasionlly varied the formation of the line by picking his Suydam up bodily and "toting' him on his shoulder for a while,' like a bag of feed.
 The parade marched without music, and there was not much said on the way. Once in while Clints Suydam would sag little lower than usual and remark:
 "I'm weary (hic) weary-I gotta si down."
 "Oh, I think not; please do not say that-have courage, man." Clint would say, and at the same time tighten his clutch on his mans collar, and give hun one of his old-time Yale center-rush punts in the west elevation, with his knee, that would jump him three feet in the air and land him for gain of four yards when he touched down.
 Then Rhoades's Suydam wonld make 8 fruitless effort to stiffen up and balk.
 Shay" he said, as Rhoades hustled him across the tracks, 'shay, dyou know who (hic) who am-who am ?"
 Sure" said Rhoades, but you don t know, yourself-you' re Suydam drunk, |" and as his man tried to wriggle into fighting attitude the husky constable hoisted him oyer his shoulder, much as he would shoulder side of mutton. and trudged up the hill with him in that position. When the procession arrived in front of the Episcopal church the fellow reached up, pulled an imagi- nary bell-cord and ejaculated:
 "Guessh I'll (hio) guessh I'll get off here-get off here p
 "All right" said Rhoades, and he gave his passenger transfer to the other shoulder.
 Eventually they reached the lookup at the end of the route, when one-half the parade counter marched, and the other half didn't.
 The thrilling details of the perfor- nance all came out in Judge Ford's court in the morning. from which if appeared that the Messrs. Suydam, who had spent the day and most of the night, over the Massachusetts line, imbibing SD. frum. in quaDtum suf., had hired Walter Johnson to bring them down to Ives S Peirce's establishment, where they arrived at about midnight. Short ly afterward somebody passing down