STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KAN.
UNIVERSITY DEFIES STATE FIRE LAWS
1000 IN RIOT!
THE YELLOW KANSAN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 22, 1914. VOLUME XI. NUMBER 138.
6 STUDENTS FELLED BY CLUBBED PISTOLS
KANSAS FIRE LAWS FLOUTED IN ROBINSON AUDITORIUM
Students' Lives Menaced by Lack of Escapes Barred Windows, and too Many Seats between Aisles—Gym Not Fireproof
6 STUDENTS FELLED BY CLUBBED PISTOLS OF ANGRY SHOWMEN
University authorities have been flagrantly violating the state fire laws for the past two years. In 1911 the legislature passed a fire ordinance governing theaters and other places of assemblage, few provisions of which have been observed at Robinson Gymnasium, where hundreds collect for concerts, speeches, and other University affairs.
The law requires that doors shall swing outward and not inward. This provision is vidited. Notices showing the way to exits are not posted, as the law requires. There are no doorways on the floor, even covered with steel framework.
The law specifies that no seat shall have more than six seats intervening between it and an aisle. At the music festival 16 seats were in the majority of rows, and these were only lightly fastened to the floor as the law demands.
The custodian of the building is held responsible under the provisions of the law. The fire chief, fire marshal, or town marshal of the town is supposed to see the provisions of the law are enforced.
The law went into effect March 27, 1911. The penalty for disobedience to it is a fine of ten dollars a day for every day the offence against the law is not corrected, and each violation constitutes a separate count.
STUDENT COUNCIL IN A FLOP; BACKS WATER ON KANSAN ELECTION
The Student Council has "backed water" on the resolution declaring the editor of the Daily Kansan out of office.
The action was rescinded at the secret meeting March 24. Persistent rumors to this effect have been prevalent on the campus since that time and today a reporter has written about him, getting his information from an authentic source.
Five loyal supporters of the original ousting motion stood by their guns to the last. Every other member of the Council voted against them. The name of the lone deserter to the Kansan's side was not learned.
Members of the Council were pledged to secrecy concerning the action; the idea being, evidently, that no one would know whether or not they "made asses of themselves" if nobody knew what was done.
A committee was appointed at the same meeting to confer with the Board of Administration for the purpose of presenting the Council's case to that body with a recommendation for action. The Board failed to appoint Miller and Holloway. The Board has not met in Lawrence since March 24 until this week and the Council failed to assemble last night so no report has been made.
Engineers To Tango
"One hundred mid-week dates for Tuesday, May 5."
This is the slogan adopted by the engineers at a meeting held yester-
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In open defiance of all W. S. G. A. rules, the advice of Dean, Walker, and of the Men's Student Council, the Lingerings evening evening. Whether or not the women will accept the dates is a question, but the Engineers expect
T. N. E., FRATERNITY OF ALCOHOL, ACTIVE ONCE MORE AT K.U.?
T. N. E. is said to be active again
appeared on the sidewalk. Monday
24.
This society was founded at the Adolphus Busch School for Bartenders at St. Louis several years ago, and Kansas Malt chapter was installed a few days later. The fraternity of breweries has tests of brewery workers, and has stood for the best moral and ethical element in the profession.
The Kansas Malt chapter flourished until five or six years ago, when it died out at the instigation of the county attorney and the board of regents. The county attorney said the county survey, but the governor had decided the lord must descend.
For a few years T. N. E. maintained auxiliary and branch chapters in the neighboring commonwealth of Missouri, at Kansas City, Joplin, East Atchison and East Leavenworth, but with alleged reincarnation of Kansas Malt chapter interest in the Missouri auxiliaries has waned.
To Have Student Pastors
Student pastors for the Methodist churches in La Porte, Manhattan, and Edinburgh, will be established as soon as desirable ministers can be engaged. Prof. F, W. Blackmar attended a conference of the educational committee of the Methodist church at Topeka yesterday and the plan of student ministers was adopted.
The Reason Why
Because the Daily Kansan Board has made an unusual effort this year to restrain itself to conservative college journalism; because it believes it can purge its system of every atom of stored-up "yellowness" today; because it will now feel better inclined toward the ordinary newspaper grind; and because, perhaps, our readers will appreciate an opportunity to see how vastly worse the Daily Kansan might be made;—the Yellow Kansan makes its first and only blazing bow, this afternoon.
CHANCELLOR PLEADS FOR CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES
FRANK STRONG.
To the Students of the University of Kansas:
As Chancellor of the University I call upon you to refrain from collecting on the streets of Lawrence tonight and from any disturbance whatever. I ask that students of the University conform to the standards of conduct to which all other good citizens are expected to conform. I cannot think that the students of the University of Kansas would be willing to jeopardize the good name of the institution and its financial support by thoughtless and disorderly conduct.
Chancellor.
BILLIONS OF BACTERIA MENAGE SWIMMERS IN WATERS OF GYM POOL
The water in the gym swimming pool contains from 500 to 8000 bacteria per cubic centimeter, according to analyses made by the state water laboratories. The bacteria are introduced by the swimmers.
While this number is not remarkably large, and the bacteria are not sufficiently numerous to cause illness, they are deduced according to an expert chemist. The method would be to use hypochlorite of lime as a germicide.
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50 COUPLES DEFY WEEK NIGHT DATE RULING IN PUBLIC
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A reporter for the Yellow Kansar counted them on Massachusetts street between the hours of 8 and 12 o'clock.
The violators include twenty sorority girls and at least thirty non-sorority girls. The men in most cases were fraternity men.
This number does not include the various library dates and moonlight sonatas that for various reasons avoided a public appearance.
More than fifty couples openly violate rules on Monday and Tuesday nights.
This unusual transgression, coming as it does so soon, after the ratifica-
Scenes from the Front
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Struck Down When Crowd Gathered Before Entrance to Carnival----K. U. Men Unarmed
The other man arrested was an armed employee of the carnival company, who attacked John Dodge, a sophomore in the College, with a clubbed revolver. Dodge was painfully cut and bruised about the face. The assailant was locked up on a John Doe warrant, on a charge of assault and battery. He was arraigned in police court this morning. Four students who witnessed the attack swore out the warrant.
POLICE ASK AID FROM SCHOOL AUTHORITIES IN QUELLING TROUBLE
The Chancellor's office was a busy place this morning. First a delegation from down town, composed of the Chief-of-Policie, the City Attorney, the Sheriff, and several other men appeared to会计，要求Chancellor to obtain the Chancellor's aid in keeping students from collecting on the Lawrence streets tonight. The Chancellor then held conferences with members of the Student Council enlisting the aid of the Council toward that end, who were anxious to do anything possible to prevent further trouble.
prominent students on the hill said at noon that they had heard of no plan to visit the Carnival again tonight and the consensus of opinion seemed to be that the matter should be dropped.
Six University students were painfully wounded, two men were arrested and the manager of the street fair was artistically egged in a clash between a mob of a thousand students, the entire Lawrence police force (all three of them, with the reserve) and armed roustabouts of the carnival company, on Massachusetts street, between nine and eleven o'clock last night.
One student was arrested for pulling a street car trolley off the wire. Five minutes later he was released, upon the demand of the entire mob of students. Several students who approached too close to the officers were beaten about the head and shoulders.
By Staff Photographer
- Hostilities began when a hundred students marched to the New Vaudeville theater, where a burlesque show was given. By the time the crowd reached the theater there were three hundred in line at the ticket window, singing and shouting old college yells. The press at the ticket window was so great that part of the students were unable to procure tickets, and crowded past the ticket-taker at the door.
When the students were seated in the fifteen cent section, they decided that they were entitled to better seats, and started for the empty rows in front. In four rows of the building, In a short time five hundred University men occupied the reserved section and the curtain went up. The show—, well this is no dramatic criticism—but with the assistance of the audience the actors would be fairly happy with the management was satisfied with the gate receipts.
Here came a hitch. The manager tried to put the Washburn man off with $20, alleging a previous agreement. Weston denied any such proposal and accused of five hundred student, collected the disputed five-chaser.
The students, who had grounds for belief that they were running the show, objected when the Jap wanted Weston to wear a Nipponese wrestler's jacket. Weston stayed the full fifteen minutes with the Jap, and demanded the money.
Yellow Periol Petered Out
The feature of the program was a jiu-pitsu wrestling contest. Young Togo, The Jap Demon, through his manager, had offered $25 to any person who could stay with him fifteen minutes. Weston, who said he was the athletic instructor at Washburn, had come down from Topeka to take the money. The students cheered wildly for Washburn and delegated Bob Hemphill, Varsity wrestler, as the referee.
On To The Street Fair
Then from wrestling fans, the students became carnival "hayrates." They requested admission at the animal show at Innes' corner, but were refused. They marched down Massachusetts to the horse-show, where the management staged an extra act for the benefit of two hundred insistent Oreadites who watched with glee a roustabout on a trick mule.
Exhilateral and edified by this experience, the merry roosters returned to the animal show, where they met the Lawrence police force in the act of vandalism. Mr. Lawrence who was yanking from the wire the trolley on a South Massachusetts
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