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Show BOYS AT PLAY UPSETTHIS il W. B. Porterfield Complains Against Roller Skating on Sidewtlk Noisy inventions of small boys, used for tlldlnc alons the pavements, aio the cause of a romplnint made to Mayor Krauk Francis nncl the hoard of clt conmlr..-ioners yesterday by W, U. Perterfleld Mr Portei field asks that tho lurls be compelled to play In parks tind playgrounds where provision n,ii been mads for them instead of allowing them on the sidewalks and pavements. Mr Porferfleld's complaint follows: I ii tho neighborhood of Twenty-t-econd street :ind Monroe avenue, a number of the tmal nt-lghborhood boys hav. procured roller skates to whic h they have attached a boarel up-, . proximately three inches wide ar.d thiec feet lonjr To this Is attached a box with ii cross bar or handle bar on top of the box Thev iih tnis in-l.ventlon in-l.ventlon us a roller skate ono foot on i hi- narrow board, usinr the other foot to push themselves along on the tude-w;ilks tude-w;ilks Mm- of these noisj inventions gotten up by tlw boys will make as, much noise as un ovation given a promising candidate at a national con-vantloUi con-vantloUi and three boys will make, three iirn-.s the noise of one With three or four of these (whatever thejv may be called) operating on t!e sidewalk side-walk In front of one 3 home Is without question a public nuisance there be-1 ing so much noise made that one can not read, rest ot have any of the com-; fortg he is supposed to have In or atj his home (.'ondltions as described herein are an every evening occur-1 rc nee at the point named herein and I write- to Know if there Is any way that this nuisance can be stopped. We have our p.-.rks In which are our playgrounds with all kinds of equlp-menl equlp-menl u amuse our younger people, all of Which we huve h-on laxeil for anel the writer can see no reason why chll-! dren are allowed to play on the sidewalks side-walks and make the racket thoy do thus annoying the ent're community. ' I kindly ask that yon do what you j can to check this nerve-racking nulal ance." |