The sun., 1891-06-20
SEVEN GIRLS, THREE PIANOS.
1fR. BROWN APPEALS TO THE PRESS
AND TO THE HEALTH BOARD

1fR. BRoNN APPEALS TO THE PRESS
AND TO THE HEALTH BOARD
Breakfast and After supPsr. Over His
Back Fence Into Ms Back Windows
Tho Girls Say i1s Classical Music.
There arc two sides to this story. One is the
Fourteenth street side, and the other is the
Fifteenth street side. Tho Fifteenth street
side Is Mr.. Charles A. Bronn and his four sis
ters. Tho Fourteenth street side Is Mrs. Mar
garet Barkley and half a dozen young women
whom you wouldn't think capable OF the hor-
rors attributed to them. They are all practis-
ing piano playing as hard rs they can In order
that they may become accomplished. and there
you have it all In q nutshell.
Mr.. Bronn lives with his sisters at 154 West
Fifteenth street He is o contractor and builder
and II o slender man below the medium
height. Mrs. Barkley keeps q boarding house
named "The Boston," at 1853 West Fourteenth
street Her boarders arc mostly young women
who have como to this city to complete mu-
sical education. Mrs. Barley is a tall. flne-
looking woman. with silver hair and eye-
glasses.
1t began over Q year ago. In the early morn
ing. whom the dew was still on tho back fence.
plano In Mira Barkley's house would start OF
with do-re-mi-fa- sol-la-si-do; do-sol-do; do
la-do: do-si-la-sol.fa mi re- do, and then break
into pyrotechnics Of the scale. Whereupon an
other piano would begin at do and doditto.
And then. Mr. Bronn declares. late at night.
whom the sun had long disappeared In the
western sky. aud when. after tossing about
festlessly In his bed for several hours. he felt
himself slipping into unconsc cousness. the last
thing that came in to his weary brain was do
si-ln-sol- -fa- mi redo.
Ono Of MIR. Bronn's sisters. Q bright-faced
young girl, whose INDIGNATION seemed to
como from her SOUL told SUN reporter yester-
day how the smoldering embers blazed into .
bright 6hme.
I'VE endured It as long as We could" she
said. III they only knew how to play We
wouldn't have minded 1t. Just think how
nice It would be to lie back In chair and hear
them play sweet airs on the pfano. That would
have been lovely. But the thump, thump OF
those dreadful pianos that never lot you sloep
was moro than We could bear. Their house.
you see, is almost directly opposite our.
They play and sing and sing and play all
day long and such gyns and snsh
$ S$ss SI Noe !sss Zine % We We dian's AZ AZ. any; s;
ipl. Do-re-mi'lnG ali the blessed day as il
mind you one On ,,,n each door nnd sT0 them
0!o COp0 W tuo WHINING Anu "AuOOWo oE0
% nesySSs from ONT the masio-shese. DO you hear
Miss Bronn held up finger and stepped to
the window on tiptoe; Tho reporter followed
shat rans sear Hs
there came across the yards
Tn T'o .e s isna q you. yi''''
Then. with an impatient exclamation. Miss
Hronn snapped the window down and con-
"Is1 isn't TT that % %dreadfulp Well as wa. saying.
two Of my sisters became so nervous that they
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politely Il shs wouldn't %Id please keep the win. w.
could do as she pleased in 1t. Then he grew
p:gas Called .Rs
Hsy.. there. yop woman with the brass
pie. but & yog oolldn't eet any. sleep at night
~ The s0S ssDorter ssid o he wouldn't. wha. fol-
lowed NJ Bronze UNIQUE remark 70 Mrs.
ss M:s its she
sb.ainsd Bronn ne
told Mrs. BARLEY that she you'd have to pre-
@ would have to sead MESSENGER: II them the man
i ss:a ;sfy Sna % m IL
e &C. ana shs dssdsd f. send Bridget bd
bR sou shs
quite willing to undertake the errand and to
a sd.sD ds BSs hsd x0
ingly; alittle dress .shesrsel end M sbe was in.
t ss G sse You'd fo5
Arrived shs house the doSr 6s and
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lis caller where he had met her before. She
Robe Before SIYe ys my message are 'e Mr.
He said he was. and she said:
Then here's paper for ye from lady"
Well. the case was brought to court on Thurs
and then told them ali to 20 home and behave
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It was then that his sister gave her version OF
e se%s ssna aS WS S!SnsS S lsssss
sonsDiEsSy n Of r. mi.ia;sels that came
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hod Just written. 1t read like this:
2othe Honorahte the Bnnrd Of H.dIM:
The undersgned- . citizen Of the city OF New York
resident Of ias West Fifteenth street. herewith petitions
mental 10 .host and dsngsrous to iife This ~ tbe
piano ana vocal practice kept day Of the week
sunday in the misses of the house
..Ths Bo.ssn" kept BY srs Narsar:I BARLEY on West
Srance sai Advice and police bavs
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sleep nLht and quiet by day The petitioner fearing
nervous prostr for some members his family |
be. beer obliged pending action BY your honorable
body, to send them Certainly pursuing |
morse!esaly musical education should seek aattinx
sicsi conservatories that tho city affords More eSps
caliy where persistent sndeavor unrelisved
any spark Of natural In every civil
lied country Ibsisve the exception of the United
Btates pfacuca vocal and instrum enta
Tho petitioner therefore that the Board OF Health
will take action tending to she speedy abatement Of
shS nusapce.
Then followed space for q hundred sigma
tures. which MIR. Bronn hopes to get.
The reporter suggested to Mr. Bronn to 20 to
Mrs. Barkley and ask her II she couldn't do
something to settle the controversy amicably.