The New York herald., 1921-03-07
FRAT INITIATION
LANDS 4 IN JAIL
New York University Students
in Costume Demoralize
Fifth Ave. Traffic.
TWO BIG ACTS STAGED
Tormentors Compel Boys TO Do
Stunts Leading to Arrest
for Disorderly Conduct.
TWO BIG ACTS STAGED

Members of the New York Univer-
sity chapter Of the Delta Sigma Phi
fraternity had considerable fun yes
terday afternoon in their chapter
house in Borough Park. Brooklyn,
initiating into the mysteries of the or
der four university students who later
told the police that they were Harry
Stoll. 16, 1890 Fifty second street; Sam
uel LANCER. IT. 2223 Benson avenue !;
Ralph Schapiro. II, 1919 Twentieth
avenue. and Herman Matter, 16. 2S7O
West Twentieth street, all of Brook
lyn. But after they had prodded and
padded the boys for more than an
hour they wearied of the sport; their
arms became tired and they decided
to show the general public what they
had added to their collection Of mem
bership.
So they dresssd stol In costume
that made him O caricature OF Daniel
Webster, they made a Rip Van Wrinkle
out of LANCER and a Dolly Dimples ou,
OF Schapiro and they transformed Matter
into a most amazing vampire. Then
they piled the four boys into a taxicar
and set forth for Manhattan. Their
first stop was at Fifth avenue and
Forty second street. There they dumped
Stoll, Matter, LANCER and Schapiro and
forced them into the Public Library
The invaders were promptly seized BY
caretakers and special policemen and
thrown out. Then the students com
PEELED their captives to go through vari'
edification and amusement Of a large
crowd
This crowd was soon Increased by a
recital audience which left Aeolian Hal
| shortly after Ave o'clock II became
so large and noisy and caused so much
| trouble with the traffic that several traf-
ac policemen left their posts and tried
| earnestly to catch the dozen or more
| students. particularly the four in cos
tunes. But the initiators hustled their
captives into taxicab before the police
| could catch them and started up the
avenue with them
At Firty-ninth street and Fifth ave-
nue. the taxicab stopped. and the stu
| dents prodded their captives into more
publicity. This time the four boys we're
compelled to make loud speeches, the
result being that in fifteen minutes
more than 1000 persons milled and
pushed In an effort 10 find out what was
going on and who was being murdered.
Traffic was disorganized and finally
stopped completely, several women s
hats were torn Off in the jam. two or
three fights started. and a strenuous
time was being had by all when Patrol
man George Van Etten and Sergeant
Eugene Barry came along In one Of the
Police Department motorcycle bath
tubs"
The boys tried to get away when they
saw the policemen. but for once the
crowd was with the police and opened
path. Van Etten drove the ''bathtub"
UP to the taxicab from which the boys
were Grating and invited them to come
with him. He placed Stoll, Matter, Lam
ger and Schapiro under arrest, squeezed
all OF them into the motorcycle sidecar
and took them TO the West Forty-sev-
enth street station.
Later the four boys we're taken 70
night court, where Magistrate Joseph
Schwab reprlmanded them and sent them
homo under a suspended sentence.