The sun., 1919-05-29
STUDENTS AVOID TROUBLE
In Response to Deans Plea
They Stay Indoors,
Despite Jeers.
Special Despatch TO THr soy.

the eiius III u 1Ale generation went NOME
for dry clothes.
There were only six arrests Up to IL
o'clock. all Of them booked at police
headquarters as for rowdyism. The
men were arrested for throwing stones
at police details at College and Chapel
streets.
Town and college had been expecting
trouble all days. Threats had been made
all through the streets that the fight of
last night would be resumed.
AS consequence the New Haven
green between Church street and the
campus began TO I'LL with a miscellane-
Gus throng Of men. women and chill
dren. There were few men in uniform
in the crowd and those who were there
had their girls with them.
BY 1880 o'clock the crowd was mill
ing back and forth in College street be-
low the windows OF the dormitories on
the east side Of the campus. The dormi-
tory windows were filled with students,
but the gates were closed, the lights in
most Of the windows were out. and the
students kept unbroken silence
1t was a crowd that might have been
set rioting by single spark, however,
and Mayor Fitzgerald from his office
across the green gagged its temper ac-
curately.
At about 1880 o'clock policemen be-
gan to circulate through the crowd and
to urge the people to go home. They
got no response and fifteen minutes
later two big motor fire engines roared
into College street and coupled up to
hydrants.
Still the crowd kept stirring about and
refusing to move. Occasionally some
BOY or very young man in the crowd
would yell "Babyr at the dormitory
windows. Then without warning the fire
hose cut loose.
Ffremen Spray Crowd.
Two big streams roared UP into the
air and sprayed the crowd far and near.
The crowd began to break. whereupon
the firemen lowered their muxzles and
sent the stream straight at the midriffs
OF the front ranks. The effect was i'm
mediate. Lanes were swept through the
crowd and soon the grass of the green
was strewn with New Haven citizens
madden than any hen that ever was
doused.
They shouted protests at the flremen.
but the firemen didn't hear. The hose
kept playing and the crowd scattered
and ran, those knocked down by the
stream scrapbling to their feet shouting
threats 10 sue the city for their ruined
costumes.
Within an hour the green had been
cleared. Ahead of the water barrage.
fast as II rolled, there strobe the lively
little figure Of Mayor Fitzgerald. The
hose spared him. but his tongue didn't
spare the crowd
Pressing the recalcitrants on the arm,
showing and urging with his hands. the
Mayor would say: Now you folks go
home. I'm the Mayor OF this town and
the law gives me the right to tell you
to 60 home. When you don't go you're
breaking the law OF this State, and by
gosh. here the Mayor lost his gentle
persuasiveness-"if you don't go home
YOU go either to jail or to a hospital
want to be fair with you. for I'm one
of you, but II you don't listen to me
you're rioters, and when you're rioters
I'm against YOU
Almost every one agreed here to-day
and the character OF to'night's crowd
bore this out-that IL was purely town
and gown fight. An alleged insult to the
lo2d Infantry, New Ravens heavy cen
tribution to the Twenty sixth Division
when It paraded here Saturday, had beer
PASSED about the town arr exaggerated
until Il served as the excuse for las
nights riot. Investigation by the college
authorities to-day proved that no sucf
insult had been passed. The feeling II
the main between the students and the
officers and men of the 102d was showr
to be OF the best. II was even suggested
tonight, and the suggestion was ac-
copied heartily both among the soldiers
and on the campus, that the regimen
and the college hold parade together.
Then IL there's a riot" said zoe
pound student guarding the Daniels
gateway to the campus, these town
rowdies will learn what riot Is"
Police Chiefs Theory.
Chief Philip t Smith OF the New
Haven police also believes that las
nights crowd was made up of wilC
youngsters always more or less at wal
with the boys In the college.
New Haven" he said, has been hi
pretty hard by this war. You'll see The
names of several hundred OF our dea6
on the tablets In the Green. OF cours
II stirred them pretty badly when the!
heard the college boys had insulted th'
parade"
Students asserted that there seemed t
be a definite organization in the crow
last night, but the police deny this. an
no widespread organization was eviden
tonight There were groups OF rowdief
each with loud voiced youngster a
their head. but they were nothing NOR
than the sort of groups that form in
on election night AS to the alleged In
suit 10 the soldiers by students Deal
Jones and a committee of the facult,
canvassed every occupant of room OF
Chapel street and Dean Jones described
the result as follows:
I'VE found that in one room OF Wrigh
Hall there had gathered a group
boys, mostly freshmen, and one bo
who had been a student with them a
Andover had served overseas and re
turned to New Haven to prepare 10
his entrance examinations this spring
Yates Smith OF Detroit and Lowell Nc
Donald were the occupants OF the room
and they tell me the story.
THE Andover boy knew many OF tn
men in the 1924, as he had grown Vi
in New Haven. AS they marched b.
he greeted them and called them b!
name, and they called back at him
This was al good natured chan abou
what are you doing stiii in uniform
ana How did you get out SO soonT'
syrhe boys tell me that the soldier
in the rear OF the group this boy knew
aid not understand what was going Of
and thought some OF the students wer
kidding them.
Students Keep Temper.
Each succeeding rank got iittl
more sarcastic in its remarks at Tn
college windows, but every one agree
that our boys remained good natured j
their replies and that there was n
disposition to b nasty, The last par
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