Litchfield enquirer., 1852-05-06
MONKEYS AND ORGANS.

MONKEYS AND ORGANS.
With the return of warm weather.
a horde ofmonkeys and organ grim
drrs are annually let loose upon our
citizens. We have of'en wondered
where they came flom and wIliiher
hey went. Their place of rend-
ezvOus we have at length discovered.
A lofty building il Orange street,
evidently designed by the builder
as the abode Of comfort and eir-
gance, has been for some period in
the compete occupancy OF these
creatures. The threshold crossed.the
organs of scent, sight and hearing
the fumes, the fifth, tile screech.
es-leave no doubt Of The character
of the place. Each apartment.
forms the abode of bo,h men and
monkeys; aud it would require
no great stretch Of i'm ,gina,lnm in
the visitor to suppose some Of the
inmates representative of those ia
terror African tribes who are said to
possess tails. In his lower room,
Jacko was generally resiric, I'd in his
Peranlbulations by short chain but
IN the attic and upper apartments,
where The monkey tribe greatly
predominated over he genus homo,
the animals occupied boxes about II
foot square, having apar,urps for
ventilation, snd 10 admit food, and
were bereft Of conpa lionship. In
o'her cases, thu monkeys are made
to occup, small closets, par,itioned
off into small con altments. In
one room thus occupied. in part.
were three brdstea.ls, overspre,.d
wi h tattered and filthy quilts where
on slept, at night, SIX o, nine ndi-
vlduals, of botI' sexes. Adjoining,
was an apartment where, among
swinging cobwebS and the sooty
accnnrulations OF decade If years,
was to be seen the whoIe apparatus
Of street mu managers, monkeys
aud or2a,s--ior The weaihe, was
unpropir GUS for the prosecu icn of
the fine arts. Our sudden entrance
taking them by surprise, q gre up Of
men around table pushed tI.m
sight the cards with which they we're.
paving, and cnricus'y eyed h e
visitors. One Of them Proceeded o
show off q iavorite monkey. whic h
lie said was worth stree kunrlrd
tollar.'' The ordinary price ranges
m$20 TO $50 Close hy the cald-
players. all aged couple, with bag
gard visages, were gracelessly
stretched out, faces upward, over
heap Of hand o'gaEs and boxes
heavily sIumbering.
During the interview which en-
sued, various information was ellci-
ted. the receipts of organ, p ayers
ale now small compared with toI mer
years on account # the great ccm-
petition in the business. but j, il not
unusual for these yag,an,s 10 make
dollar, or even $l,5O day. Tie
monkeys are imp, r'ed, hut ,heir ctn-
sii,utlons are unable TO bear Up TN
der the rigols OF winter in illest high
attitudes, and they are now CHI gid
to spend The most Indictment part Of
he season in H.. Southern States.
The re are al present bu, few mnn-
keys in the city, IN consequence Of
this Temporary abstnce. The rald
weather has the effect TO induce +, h. IL
malic pans, cran p in the stomach
dlanhea. &C., attended with loss of
flesh. The city does not hold out SO
great Undue en'ents 10 itinerant olgan-
1919 as the country, The former Icing
less liberal in its patronage.
Monkeys are not at all faslilious
as to the nature Of their food. Tie
hand organs are generally owned by
the performers. and are nanuiactui-
ed abroad. There are lnsta, ces in
which they are the pr 'perty of some
capitalist Included in the fraternity,
who hires them out for a certain
per centage of the profits. The
performers are chiefly from Italy ;
and though, in the instance here re-
ferred to. living together in consid-
cradle number, associate rather from
instinct than interest. AS the mon.
key-musical season will recmr with
the commencement of warm
weather and the consequent return
of the monkeys from their Southern
tour. the pecuhiary result is looked
forward with no ordinary interest
Nsp York Joar. of Com.