The morning call., 1893-06-05
A QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD.
How Church, Street Folks Settled
Their Differences.

Usually the vicinity of Church and JERSEY
streets is noted for the Quietness which
reigns after nightfal1. As usual on Satur-
day night the residents of the neighbor.
hood, weary after the warm spell of tina /
remarkable day, were enjoying their
wonted uuietness. together with cnpious
refreshments procured at the Widow Nc
Carthy's grocery at Church and Twenty
fifth streets.
Shortly before 10 o'clock, while the
moon was just rising and making its late
appearance in the eastern heavens above
BernaI Heights and the Church street den
liens were at the pinnacle OF their quletude,
Mrs. Reilly, who resides at 1120 on the
street mentioned, thought that the pitcher
again needed replenishing. Accord ingiy.
her daughter was dispatched to the
widows store. Unfortunately for the
stiffness of the neigh borhood Mrs. James
Minor. who was sitting in the front por-
ton of her mansion, observed what was
spring and noticed the daughter of
Mrs. Reilly. Unable to resist such a
chance to give her neXt-door neighbor's
child her opinion Of Mrs. Reilly, she
passed numerous dsagreeable remarks
which the girl carried to her mother
Mrs. Reilly, whose vocation as wash
erwoman has made her a well-knOwn per
sonage about the vicinity, proceeded at
once TO break the usual stiffness which pre-
walls on Church street. Armed with a
heavy clothes pole she made for the house
of her neXt-dOor neighbor. In the mean
time, however, Mrs. Minor concluded that
a visit to the house of Mrs. Fleishman on
jersey street, just west of Church, was the
proper thing.
Mrs. Reilly was not, however to be out
done by this flank movement. On the con-
trary she quickened her steps and reached
her rival just in front Of the gate of the
Feshman. Immediately the club de-
scended on the head of the luckess Minor
woman, and the washerwoman. who is
very powerful, also used her fists to good
advantage.
Shrieks and yels rent the air and made
things exceedingly lively about the place
Mrs. FleishmaD rushed out of her home
with a lighted candle in hand and helped
to aid matters by holding the light until
the moon should have appeared high
enough above Bernal Heights to enlghten
Jersey street. The entire neighborhood
was also aroused and witnessed the pitched
battle between the excited females.
James Minor, bricklayer. and husband
of one of the cOmbatant, was awakened
from the repose which he had been enjoy
ing, and hastily slipping on his trousers
made his way around the corner of Church
to Jersey street and the scene of the fes-
tivities. Seeing that his better half was
getting decidedly the worst OF the encoun-
ter he went to her aid.
By this time the bystanders interfered,
but not before both female combatants
were considerably used up.
Yesterday morning both of the fair
fighters visited Arthur Nagle, eX-bailiff
of one of the Police Courts, and sought his
advice as to how to proceed to secure legal
satisfaction. CONFERENCE.-The of arrest
on charges of battery were decided on As
the best way in which the wounded feel
ings of those interested could be satisfied.
and both parties declared that the courts
would be visited to-day and the necessary
warrants sworn to. -.+a -h