The Alpha's Prize Trophy

The Gamma Flag Now Belongs to Them

Stolen Thursday Night

And Given the Place of Honor at a Smoker- the Tale of How it Was Secured

The Alpha Sigma house, 326 Thompson street offered to the "boys" Friday evening, a bit of the choicest entertainment that the Homeopathic fraternity conclaves have so splendidly provided. About fifty were present to smoke the pipe of peace and caress the weed that drives dull care away. The faculty members, Dr. Halbert of Chicago and Dr. Ernest Clark of this city, were among the honored guests. All of the resident physicians who are members of the fraternity were present, outside delegates and the Alpha Sigma were there, which made it a company, it was a joy to be among. The rooms were decorated in yellow and blue, with bunches of carnations, the fraternity's color, making vivid scarlet patches with the yellow and the blue. There was a continuous program of music and they sat about the banqueting board telling of the things they loved the best, till the bright ends of the cigars grey gray and the cups were drained and the carnations had lost their brilliance. And the story that rejoiced them most was about a Phi Alpha Gamma banner. It was told like this before the banner which hung on the wall, up side down, and draped in black. At the banquet Thursday night, the Phi Alpha Gammas hung up their banner in the faces of the Alpha Sigmas, where it was like a red flag before a bull. A brave of the Alpha Sigma came through the alley, jumped into the dumb waiter at Oyster Bay, and was pulled up behind the screen on which the banner so pugilistically hung. He snatched the banner, threw it down the chute to his fellow conspirator below, who escaped with it into the street. Then jumping into the "waiter" he found that the dumb dummy wouldn't go, so he cut the ropes and descended at a cost of thirty-five dollars- on the china below. In the street two or three Alpha Sigmas met fists with two or three Phi Alpha Gammas, and the present report is a contemplated warrant of arrest for the fellow who "did the job". But the banner peacefully hangs in the Alpha Sigma house, among a collection of trophies, apparently well content with the company it keeps, and resigned to the victors who are confident of keeping it many years to come. It played a good part at last night's function, witnessing the election of Dr. Ibershoff as editor of the Alpha Sigma Quarterly, the highest honor that can be given to any member of the fraternity; also the election of Dr. Copeland as business manager. It would have a tale to tell of the Alpha Sigma, the "smoker" and its new home among the blessed.