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UNIVERSITY MISSOURIAN.
VOLUME I.
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1908.
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DAMPER ON CLASS
RUSH BY DR. HILL
President Says Annual Fight
is "Not Befitting of
Gentlemen."
WILL CONFER WITH MARSHALS
Eent Postponed Until Friday
Evening Officials Are
Chosen.
FACTS ABOUT CLASS RUSH.
9 Pn-ipom-d until Friday evening. 0
0 ion: mil men to take part. 0
0 IVt -idciil Hill -ay- it i- "unbe- 0
0 lining gentlemen, ami ha- no sine- 0
0 turn imiii Univer-ity nllifi.il-. 0
0 i'on light pole at north end of 0
0 canipu- to be center of fight. 0
Pn-idcut A. Ki Hill threw a bomb
into tin- l"nier-ity Assembly this morn
ing when, in the tli-eu iou of student
actiutie-. he -aid the ""cla-s ru-h.' set
for tomorrow cvei'ing. is not "befitting
gentlemen." and pointed out that the
l'nier-it lias given to it no official
..auction. The u-e of the buildings and
"round- haie not been "ranted to the
student. Dr. Hill said.
Cautioning the men taking part ill the
rush again-t anything that might dam
age the reputation of the University.
Dr. Hill urged that they take precaution-
again-t any phy-ieal injurie-. He
will eon f er today with the officers of
the ru-h regarding it.
"The speakers thi- morning have
made eloipient pica." Dr. Hill said, "for
the support of student enterprises and
have invoked your college spirit and
loyalty to the institution. 1 support them
in their appeal, -o long as student en-terpri-es
and activities are conducted in
a m.iner helpful to University life in
general, and so long as they tend to
improve the in-titntion and its reputa
tion. Class Rush Not Recognized.
"One activity not represented on the
program thi- morning, nor, so far a
I know, an organized student activity,
may he thought of a-, sanctioned ly the
Univer-ity ollieially. and. indeed. 1 have
been a-ked very pointedly this morn
ing whether it i- recognized. I refer
to what is called the class ru-h.
"I wi-h to take this oportunity.
when -o many men student- of the Uni
versity are pre-ent, to say that the clas-ru-h
i- not ollieially rccognicd as a
legitimate performance. Xo one ha- ob
tained the ue of University building
or ground- for the purpo-e and I do not
think it can be claimed that such a
performance is necessary to student life
or that it i- befitting of gentlemen.
"Let me lcque-t of you students that
nothing be done in -tudent exercise- or
student enterpri-es that will lead to
damage to individual students or ill
rcptiit regarding your character, or to
the siood name of the Univer-ity."
Will Hold Marshals Responsible.
When asked, by a reporter for the
University Mis-ourian after the a em
Wy, whether any step- would be taken
again-t the participants of the das-ru-h,
President Hill replied, "That 1
can't tell. I consider that the men who
are to siipervi-e the ru-h re-pon-ible
for the phy-ieal safety of every man
taking part.
I am not po-itive whether any -teps
will be taken to suppre the rush by
the Univer-ity ollieially. I will call a
meeting of the men who arc to siipervi-e
the ru-h and cou-ult them before tak
ing any oilicial action. If they don't
gne me satisfactory as-urance then it
i- po ible that I will take official ac
t ion."
Other -pcaker- at the assembly were
W. F. Woodruff. Harry Hunt and Mer
rill Oti-. Hunt spoke about the Oven.
of which he is editor this year, remark
ing that the first issue might lie mild,
but that the publication would "warm
up" with succeeding numbers.
Woodruff, secretary of the Alumni
A ociation. told briefly of the benefits
and purpose of the Students' Protective
A-.-ociation. Otis talked about the re
appearance of the Independent.
President Hill began a consultation
at 3 p. m. with the members of the
Tumor and Senior classes having in
''targe the class ru-h, between the
rVesiimen anil Sophomore classes, in
regard to the advisability of holding
the rush.
0. D. CHRISMAN WILL
BE GRAND FIELD MARSHAL
Two hundred young men of the Sopho
more class of the University of Mis-
(Contiuued on Third Taje.)
"OVERZEALOUS, NOT
CRIMINAL," ASSERTS
JOHN D. OF STANDARD
Rockefeller, in First Chapters of
Memoirs, Declares He Expects
Justice From Posterity.
By United Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24. .John D. llocke
feller, in the first chapters of his me
moirs made public here today, admit
that Standard Oil may have made mi
takes through overzealou-ne-s on the
part of some of its employees, but de
nies that the corporation ever engaged
in any criminal practice.
The memoir- arou-ed keen interest in
liii-iness circle- here. Mr. Rockefeller,
prefacing hi- leniark-, says that he expect-
ju-tiee from po-tcrity and want
to put some matters in their proper
light.
Denies Crushing Competition.
Though -ome of the company's em
ployees may hae made mi-take-. -Mr.
Rockefeller doe- not think the corpo
ration should be condemned for thc-c
in-lances.
lie denies that Standard Oil ha-cru-hed
competitors or forced men to
become partners with it in the oii b:i-i-m.
Standard Oil ha- hundreds of
wide-awake competitor-, he -ay-.
There is no "loyal load to siipiemacy"
in bu-ine which has been peculiarly
the -ecret of Standard Oil's -ucce . ac
cording to Mr. Rockefeller. He say- the
supremacy which it ha- attained i- due
simply to a multitude of men working
together.
CROWD TRAILS AFTER
MRS. JACK GARDNER
IN HER SHEATH GOWN
In Flesh-Colored Silk Hose Society
Woman Parades in Staid
Boston.
BOSTON, Sept. 24. Mrs. Jack Gard
ner, society woman, art collector and
leader of the smart set. who only a few
weeks ago was involved in an attempt
to smuggle ..some $110,000 worth of art
objects into, the country, created a sen
sation in sedate Boston by promenading
down the exclusive Copeley square sec
tion of the city clothed in an ultra
daring sheath gown that opened clear to
the knee. Mrs. Gardner wore llc-h col
ored silk stockings.
A crowd that grew to several hundred
followed her until she appealed to a po
liceman, lie. got a cab for her and she
went home.
COLLARWILTERS OUT
IN FORCE NOW, BUT IT
WILL RAIN TOMORROW
Forecaster Issues Bulletin Which May
Make Umbrellas Popular
Again.
The United Order of Collarwilters
turned out in large force today and pa
raded the streets. This i- no uuu-ual
sight, for the order became firmly es
tablished in Columbia during the hot
weather.
It is announced that thi- parade will
probably be followed tomorrow by an
other parade of the Amalgamated Order
of Umbrella Carriers. The announce
ment was made in this form:
"Possibly showers tonight and tomor
row." The temperature at 7 a. m. today wa
04 degrees: at 2 p. m. it was 84 degrees.
DRAMATIC CLUB TO MEET
Will Choose Play and Arrange Date for
"Try-out."
A meeting of the ltoard of manager"
of the "Q" Club will be held at the
Alpha Tan hou-e tomorrow evening.
The "Q"' Club is a student dramatic
organization in the University of Mis
souri. The purpo-e of the meeting tomorrow
cvening is to choose a play and fix a
date for a try-out for applicants to
the club. Any student in the Uni
versity may compete for membership.
W. B. Hare is director, and William
Harrison business manager of the "Q"
Club.
Beta Theta Pi Pledges.
The following are the new pledges of
the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at the
University of Missouri: Roseoe P.
Conkling. of Kansas City; Burke C.
Monroe, of Quincy, 111.; Verne W. Could,
of St. Louis; C. B. Rollins, of Columbia;
David II. Leitch, of St. Louis; Holland
A. Montague, of Kansas City; Walter
Craig, of Columbia; Ethelbert Talliot.
of Kansas City; John Orear. of Sweet
Springs, Mo.
Dr. and Mrs. Hill To Receive.
Dr. and Mrs. A. Ros.- Hill have sent
out cards for an "at home" at the
president's house of the University of
Missouri. Saturday from 4 until t!
o'clock.
ROOSEVELT
MAKES
ATTACK ON HASKELL'
In :3000-Word Message, the
President Scores Governor
of Oklahoma.
PERSONAL ASSAULT ON BRYAN
Asks Democratic Leader to
Contrast His Action With
ThatofTaft.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 Pre-ident
Roo-evelt, in a statement .'1.000 word
hmg. today voice- an entirely new -et
of ((large- !igaiu-t Cow Ila-kell. of
Oklahoma, and conclude- with a per-on-al
a siult upon Mr. Bryan.
The I're-idcnt's statement ignore- the
demand for pi oof of the tir-t. or llear-t.
indictment of Cow lla-kell. It i- :. typ
ical Roo-etelt document.
"Now contra-t your action in thi- ea-e
of Coernor Ila-kell." say- the 1'ie-i-deiit.
"with Mr. Taft'- action a- regard
Senator l-'oraker. a- -et forth in hi
letter of -Inly 20. 1!)07, which I quoted
in my -tatenient."
According to the l're-ident. thi- let
ter was submitted to him a year ago
and then mailed. There is nothing on
rccoid from Mr. Taft to show that he
wiote it nor i- the testimony given of
anyone who received it. It now bobs
up in the President's file-, ready to ex
culpate Taft after a l-'oraker compact
had been made in Ohio to help carry the
State, a compact broken only when the
Archbold letters trail-formed Foraker
from a political a et to a political
renegade and corrupt ioni-t.
A phra-e several times repeated today
by the President, "common notoriety,"
shines out a- the ba-i- of the excoria
tion and denunciation devoted to Ha
kell. As to thi-, al-o. if it is to be the
ground of reading prominent men out of
their parties, critics of the Pre-ident
will ask. "How about Cannon 1" "How
about Aldrichi" "How about Dalzell"
"How about Penrose?" "How about
Ilopkin-l" "How about Payne i" "How
about the whole republican congre ion
al machine, of which Foraker still i- a
con-picuou- menil er I"
BROWN & CO. EXPELLED
FROM STOCK EXCHANGE
'Wash Sales" Led to Action by Board
of Governors.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24. The governor
of the Stock Exchange today expelled
A. O. Brown, and L. Centers, junior
member of A. O. Brown & Co.. as a re
sult of a searching investigation in
which alleged gambling in "Wash Sale-"
by Brown & Co. Aug. 24.
The immense volume of trading on
that day arou-ed sii-picion. An inves
tigation ensued, and was followed by
the failure of Brown & Co.
Brown .-aid today he had expected
thi- action, to prevent repetition of the
"Wash Sales."
PASTOR DISAPPROVES
SHORT SLEEVES, OUSTED
Rev. L. D. Bass Leaves East St. Louis
Church.
EAST ST. LOUIS. Sept. 24. The Rev.
L. 1). Ba . pa-tor of the First Bapti-t
Church, in Ea-t St. Louis, was dis
charged without trial at a congrega
tional meeting last night.
Mr. Ba arou-ed indignation in a
sermon a few week- ago by saying
young hidie- should not wear short
sleeves. He had sent hi- re-ignation to
the meeting but it was not acted on.
He al-o was deprived of three months'
salarv.
Meeting of D. A. R.
The Columbian Chapter, Daughters of
the American Revolution, will meet Sat
urday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home
of Mrs. C. B. Miller, to plan for the
coming State conference here. Mrs.
G. B. Macfarlane, regent, who called
the meeting, is especially anxious that
the attendance lie large.
Paul Prosser to Speak.
Paul Pro er. of Fayette, Mo., demo
cratic nominee for prosecuting attorney
of Howard county, will speak at the
Courthoue here tomorrow night under
the f.u-pices of the Boone County Dem
ocratic Club. Mr. Pro-ser is one of the
recent winners of the state intercolle
giate oratorical contest.
OXYGEN
REVIVER
FOR IOWA TEAM
j Coach Catlin Will Need It,
! Monilaw's Admirers !
Here Declare.
TIGERS HAVE ONLY FIFTY PLAYS
Opposing Men Will Have
2.-J7, and Will Try to
Spring Them All.
It"- Catlin again-t Monilaw when
I Iowa mets Mi ouri on Bollins Field
I next nth. Catlin. head coach of the
Ilawkcye-. Loa-ts of 2.!7 different play
I he expect- to drill hi- men in, while
I the Tiger coach said this morning that
he expected to hac onlv about liftv
I
Iph'V- leady for the Iowa game, but that
all of tho-e would be good ones and
jwell ma-tficil by mid-October.
Catlin believe- in new-fangled thing-.
land will experiment with oxygen, as a
ivier and -tiinulant for hi- men. lie
I expect- to try thi- experiment in the
game Iowa play- with the Alumni Oct.
It!. The le-ult- will be watched all
out the country. But if the Tigers do
what is expected of them. Catlin will
need a tank of oxygen, el-e some of hi
2:J7 play- might, through the aid of
Bhiek et al., fail for want of energy
and direction.
Some Are Off Feed.
l-i-t night's practice was fast and
-nappy and the men show better knowl
edge of signals than is u-ually the ca-e
at this time of the year. The rain of
the la-t two days ha- softened the field
and cooled things oil' considerably, and
this will aid materially in the condition
ing of the men, several of whom, espe
cially Deathcrage and Anderson, are
somewhat oil' feed.
Aside from the regular practice last
night, the men had pictures taken.
P. Huberts, con-idered by many the
be-t full-back in the Middle West last
year, arrived in Columbia yesterday,
but will not be able to play football
this year. He piobably. will be out for
track next spring, and as he holds the
University record in the broad jump, he
-houhl prove one of Monilaw's reliable
point winners.
Training table will be started Satur
day night at Mrs. Brown's on Mary
land Place. Out of the 40 men now
on the 'Var.-ity, 12 will be selected to
start with and thi- number will be
gradually added to until the number
reaches 24.
j Side line support is not yet what it
! should be. but the number of inter
! e-ted spectator- is growing larger every
' day.
STATE CLOSES MORE
CLEVELAND SCHOOLS
Twenty-eight, Lacking Fire Escapes,
Are Called Unsafe.
CLEVELAND, O.. Sept. .24. Eleven
more schools, making a total of twenty-eight,
are ordered closed by .T. II.
Morgan, State Inspector of Public
Buildings, in a letter to Mayor Johnson
because they lack fire escapes. Sixteen
public schools and one parochial school
were previously ordered closed.
The sixteen schools ordered closed
now accommodate 10,000 pupils. Presi
dent Ilazert. of the Board of FMucation.
says the Mayor's order will be com
plied with.
Mayor Johnson's order was the result
of a report bv the State inspector that
the Cleveland Board of Education had
not safeguarded its school buildings as
provided in a law passed by the Ohio
Legislature immediately after the Col
liuwood school horror, which co-t 172
lives. Temporary buildings may be
Used.
FOREST FIRES DO
$10,000,009 DAMAGE
1
Government Agent Reports That Brush
Is Still Burning in Northwest.
Bj- United Tress.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 24. R.
W. Pullman, a government agent sent
to investigate the forest fires in the
Northwest, reported today that the loss
from" the fires was $10,000,000 in Min
nesota alone.
He adds that the country is very dry
and that brush fires are burning every
where. The only hope of stopping them,
he savs. lies in continued rain.
Subscription to the University Mis-s-ouniAX
is $2 for the school term, SI. 23
a semester invariably in advance. Sub
scribe now.
HE'S SURE OF PLACE
AS TIGERS' END MAN
W. Llovii Driver.
CLASS RUSH ATOP
3-STORY BUILDING
St. Louis "Medics" Battle
Until Members of Faculty
Stop Them.
Br United Tress.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 21. One hundred
students of the St. Louis College ot
Physicians and Surgeons engaged in a
class fight on the roof of the three-story
building this morning.
The Freshmen rai-ed their Hag on the
roof of the building in retaliation for
the hazing of one of their members.
The Sophomores stormed the roof and
tried to capture the banner. Many stu
dents narrowly escaped being hurled to
the street, fifty feet In-low.
The appearance of the faculty ended
the fight without serious injury to mem
bers of either class, but with the Fresh
men victorious.
DOG TRIES IN VAIN
TO PREVENT SUICIDE
Dies After Pulling Tube From Man
Inhaling Gas.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Sept. 24. Peter
Sehread. a prominent nicnilicr of the
I'ark City Yacht Club, of this city killed
him-elf in his room, at No. IS!) Cedar
street, in spite of the etrorts of a pet
cocker spaniel to save his life.
Sehread attached a rubber tube to the
gas jet. lay down on the bed and in
haled the gas. The spaniel lay on the
lloor in the room. After a time, ap
parently realizing that its master was
in danger, it sprang on the lied and,
seizing the tube in its teeth, tried to
tear it away. The gas had clone its
work, however, and when the dog got
the tube free it was only to inhale the
deadly gas itself. When relatives of the
dead man, alarmed by the smell, broke
in the door of Schread's room this
morning they found lioth master and
dog stone dead. The elforts the clog had
made to save its ma-ter was apparent.
Sehread leaves a wife and three broth
ers, lie was one of the most prominent
German residents of this city. He was
to start to-day on a vacation trip to the
Bermuda Island-.
TAFT, AT BEL0IT, WIS.,
PROMISES AID TO LABOR
Says Democratic Party Is Insincere in
Piomises.
Dr United Trc".
BELOIT, Wis., Sept. 24. William H.
Taft. republican candidate for president,
made the lir-t address of his western
campaign tour today at Beloit College.
His -pech was devoted largely to a
di-cu ion of lalMir issue-. He attacked
Goinper-. saying that Roo-evelt had
done more for the lalxiring classes than
any other man who ever lived. He de
clared that the democratic party was
not sincere in the boast that it was the
friend of labor.
Mr. Taft promised that if elected he
would work for effective legislation in
the interest of the working men.
TYPH0N SWEEPS OVER
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
Heavy Loss of Life and Property Is
Feared.
Bj- United Tress.
MANILA, P. I.. Sept. 24. A typhon
today swept parts of the provinces of
Samar, Leyte, Lii7on and Panay in the
Philippine Islands.
Only-meager reports have been received,
but it is feared that later news will
show a heavy Io of life and property.
TRAIN LEAPS OFF
BRIDGE AT CURVE;
TWO ARE DROWNED
Many Injured When Frisco
Locomotive and Coaches
Plunge Into Spring River
Near Carthage, Mo.
ENGINEER AND FIREMAN ARE
PINIONED UNDER THEIR CAB
Women Aided in Struggle
From Shallow Stream to
Safety on Banks.
Ity United Tress.
CAKTIIAGE, Mo.. Sept. 21. Two
trainmen were drowned and fifty pas
sengers are ri potted to June been in
jured near here early this morning when
a Fri-co pa enger train left the rails
on a sharp curie and plunged into
Spring river.
The train was running at high speed
and the plunge from the bridge was
without warning. Neither engineer nor
fireman had time to jump and both were
carried down into the water with the
cab.
Entire Train into River.
The entire train, of pa enger and
baggage coaches, wa- pulled into the
water when the engine jumped from
the rails and careened over the side of
the bridge. None of the passengers in
the crowded coaches had time to es
cape. All were piled in a heap when
the cars went into the water.
The river at that jioint is compara
tively shallow and it is thought that
none was drowned except the engineer
and fireman. They who were buried
under the wreckage of the train and
helpless to reach the surface.
Help Women to Shore.
After the first error had been quieted,
the men in the coaches gave aid to
ward getting the struggling women from
the coaches to the shore. Many lost
luggage in the water and all reached
the shore bruised and bedraggled.
The injuries of several are thought to
be serious. These are the passengers
who were trampled under the heap in
the first rush to escape after the train
went into the water.
Wrecking trains have been sent to the
scene.
WILL GO ON STAGE
TO REGAIN RICHES
Woman Sees $250,000 of Her
Mother's Estate Swept
Away.
PITTSBURG, Sept. 21. After having
almost $230 J tOO of her mother's estate
swallowed up in the Enterprise National
Bank crash several years ago. Miss Kitty
Huddle-on has accepted a final settle
ment of between $0,000 and $7,0U0, and
with it will prepare herself for the stage.
She fought the ca-e for four years
through the courts, and decided to take
what she could get, "before the lawyers
got it all."' to u-e her own cxpre ion.
Miss Huddle-on was a daughter of
Mrs. Clara Huddle-on, considered one
of the richest women of Allegheny.
Cashier T. Lee Clarke wrecked the
bank and killed him-elf. Mr-. Huddle
son had thirty-two pieces of improved
property, but in an evil hour gave
CI:rk: iiie power of attorney, and the
bank crash swallowed tin- Huddleson
fortune too. It is asserted by the daugh
ter that the fact that Clarke had hope
lessly j-ivolved her fortune killed Mr
Huddle-on ju-t ln-fore the bank failed.
Miss Huddleson had almut $20,000 worth
of diamonds, which she sold and began
a fight to recover her mother's property
from the bank tangle, but without effect.
'"Yes, I have had several letters from
managers in the East, and I think 1
will go on the stage," said Miss Hud
dleson. "I wouldn't look bad in tights,
and I have lieen told that I would not
rcipiire such a world of drilling liefore 1
could make good. In any event I will
go down to New York and look things
over."
Miss Huddleson is not entirely un
known to the theatrical profession, as
she made a claim for the e-tate of the
late Charles L. Davis (Alvin Jonlyn) at
the time of his death here some year
ago, alleging she was his widow, but
this the courts would not allow.
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