| Show OR A QUIET Q UIE I 1 TOWN TO WN IVELY CAMPAIGN GOING ON IN NEW YORK can a rooster be restrained from his natural dinst net of crowin crowing compi in the cru sade bade aga ast no se new york no court in the world can restrain a chicken from exercising his natural instincts said magistrate breen in tb eWest bide court when eugene blumenstein was arraigned be tore fore him charged with dainta ning a noise nuisance police commissioner bingham had received a number of letters since his noise crusade started declaring that blumenstein who runs a saloon kept a rooster and four chickens on his roof and that the chickens awakened all the people in the neighborhood mornings and no sleep was possible in west fifty third street after sunup so officer harri gan went up there and arrested the rooster bis lady friends and blumen stein they were all taken to the vest west forty seventh street station you can cant t stop a rooster by law thundered the magistrate it if it crows that is not a crime the arrest Is ridiculous then the chairge was clanged to violating the sanitary code in keeping chickens in a tenement house and blumenstein vas ivas i held in ball for BI si ecial sessions where were the chickens kept last nighta asked the magistrate in a cell with tour four colored men answered harri gan well turn over the chickens to them if they are alive said the court the noise question Is still uppermost in harlem and the police have theli troubles in consequence inspector thompson received a letter from a woman who signed herself mrs dar ling objecting to certain disturbing sounds d which she declared emanated from the house of st regis one hun dred and thirty ninth street and riv arside drive bells are clanging at all hours she wrote and the roosters in a chicken run in the bear of 0 the house wake ua up by crowing at midnight we moved up here to get away from the noise down town and now can t sleep for the racket these bells and roosters make two policemen were dispatched to the house of st regis to listen to the roosters and the bells it Is a roman catholic institution the pushcart men have been the chief chie f concern of 0 the noise busters in harlem several junkmen fruit peddlers and ol 01 old U clot besmen bemen have been arraigned daily in tae harlem police court and as a result these bawling nuisances have quieted down somewhat it was rema remarked aked that the pushcart men had taken revenge by decking out their carts with the loudest colors obtainable the most bril brilliant ilant color discords were mere used for the most part and many of the carts fluttering with co red ribbons looked like yachts at a regatta the idea seemed to be to ta hit the eye of the public as hard bard aa as possible now that the means of reach ing their ears was denied them |
