The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-02
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
.LNSEOTIVOROUS.

Arrival of Lot of SparrOws I'm the City.
Determined. If possible, to avoid a returA of
that nuisance-the plague of worms-which
has visited the city each spring for many years
our authorities some months since took the
matter earnestly in hand and set themselves
10 work TO devise ways and means 10 accom-
plish their desire. The worms have been fought
with every conceivable and known eXpedient
supposed to have any avail in destroy ing them
Trees have been smeared and scented and
trimmed with tar and molasses cups. To no
effect. When they bloomed forth in the spring
time, together with the leaves appeared the
dangling insects. We all know how disastrous,
too, in addition to the damage they worked
patience-not to say our piety. VINO has not
mathematical them as they swung into his
face or crawled around the regions of his
carr It was known all this while, however
that in England the trees were never troubled
with them; And why? Simply because on the
Isles girt by the seas OF Britain, swallows
pretty birds, warbling birds, insectivorous
birds, In countless myriads. flew, sang and ate
Fathers that perhaps those same birds could Se be
Imported. No sooner thought on than acted
Tor a number Of them, to he used as an eS peri
ment in our public squares. Appended viii he
found an interesting account of their procnrse ee
ment in that country and expectation tRence
II Is taken fTom rom the Ashton (England) Reporter
"Many years ago, Mr.. John Bardslev. of Port.
land street, left the land of his birth for the
United States, In order TO Inc prove his position
school, and was very we'll known in the tow
especially at the Vest End. Since that period
ne mas peen w hlneIlca several times, and
finally settled down as master painter in
Germantown, Philadelphia. AbouLlast ChrIstl
mas he arrived in Ashton on a visit To ~
relatives and friends, and while here he hos
received commission from the municinaI
government of Philadelphia to take with hin
upon his return large number OF sparrows
Ii appears that there are no American birds
which will eat insects, and 1t Is thought thai
nsparrows can be imported and acclimatized
they will do much towards removing one O
the great pests Of American agriculturalist
and and. gsrd;SnerS' They feed upoT
is calculated that pair OF spaTrows during tn,
time they have TO feed their young will destro,
on an average 1850 caterpiilars "A week. Thi
government of Philadelphia having taken tn
grams Were sent through the Atlantic cable d
Mr.. Bardsley to obtain as many sparrows as b
could, regardless of cost. Accordingly he wen
to work, and In few days time ne obtaine
more than thousand birds, the principal poT
tion having been caught in the neighborhoo
was opened. Lads have also been at work Il
Ashton, and the prices have run from 21Sd I
4d. each sparrow. Last Tuesday forenoon Mi
Bardsley and his brother Frank were two G
twenty-three emigTanLs VINO left Ashton 70
Liverpool and the United States, under tn
were in l8 cages, each OF the latter being abou
two feet long, eight inches broad, and one foe
deep. There would thus be little over 80 bird
In each cage Great Interest was manifested b
the passengers who happened TO be at the sta
tion. and many speculations were ahoat as
the number OF fsparrows which would arrive Q
their destination The weight OF cages an
birds was cwt When the train arrived 9
Manchester IL was found that c0nBtderabl
NUMBER or sparrows were dead or dylnl
through the motion OF the train having spille
bne water they had to drink, The bros thus 80