The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1888-02-04

Rode to be around with the English sparrow
yesterday morning. and get his work OF de-
struction in before the departments brigade
could remove the fence.
The fence was a substantial structure on q
line with the stoops OF the other houses OF the
street, and no more an obstruction than any
other front fence in Twenty-third street. But
through II. while the adjoining fences were, of
But questions OF tho justice or propriety OF
the order against Mrs. Langtry's fencs, we're not
for Rode and h h;, men to discuss disc Is a. They e g.l had
could DO i. And they did i; The attack ! W
bearded. ircd-Readed carpenter in white over
alls pried tho eastern half OF the eastern gate
fingered ed a Policeman on the corner watched. a
group of newspaper men took mental notes.
Some few persons passed on. but others came.
ys ado s : MS f.a. sssin SavA the wall a 4
apart. -A street boy hootsd at tbs work
men. 1T T. WIS KS the first as nc noise ,,,o Si ting ,1 den %ns On
hand attic window. The little tip.!ap on the
took in the picture. OF u h~ousemaids pretty
face ut the window. framed in the folds Of the
but an instant. half vexed. half amused. The
eyes looked down upon the mechanics. and the
assemblage, OF men. who seemed 10 have been
room. OF shop girls %stoppinE jusi for u minute
on their wayso the stores. and of boys, all kinds
There were at first about fifty ~loiterers watch
ing the work; then there were twice and thrice
that number; Presently the number dwindled
away again. but when school time approached.
children locked about the place and stayed as
long as they dared. In the houses on the op-
posite side of the street tho spectators were
most persistent. and almost every window held
two or three watchers.
Rode,s workmen had been at work an hour
bound Twenty-third street car. and with a
smile saw that the requirements, Of his depart
after he first looked on the scene a corporation
truck drove up and eight corporation Destroy
ers saluted the Inspector. He said,
Il guess we won't have to do anything. You
may go down to the corner"
,b They ,S were ,I Mill Ing Hor 90 t to the f i9 s.na It is
s sf9ben hoW S,Serf lest the se Rode w Sor rRIDes should
not not rS Snasfsso ssfiF x ssid Mr.. Rod. to Inspector
McGinness. that we could let these brick
piers stand. Mrs. Langtry means to have an
open iron fence put up, and those piers will DO
But those, piers nre part of the obstruction
s5nbhornly refused to take the bricks down;
sroSd Espt e Ias n Rless ans the la Msaemhks, sDt ' oe
At last Rode and McGinneSs went to the office
Of the Department OF Public Works. Mrs.
Langtry's agents argued in Gen. Newton's
taking down the wooden fence. and begged
that the piers might be countenanced. Deputy
Commissioners, Smith objected. All talk was
useless. and the order was peremptorily given
that the whole thing must go. and If the con-
tractor tract wo didn' boS dig to way va Go the h piers frsDt then rM the
Ginnsss. By some. chance this wasn't done
yesterday. 1t may be done to-day.
iron railing. Just such as stands before the nd
joining houses on the street. was there. This
the neighborhood. But when Mrs. Langtry
built the wooden fence a few inches behind the
iron railing and a few feet higher, SO as to rid
some one concluded that the new fence was
An addition. 1t is interesting to know that in
there Isn't a stoop or II fence in the city which
projects beyond the house line that is strictly
within the law