New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-27
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THE CAT, LIKE THE TIGER, TUMBLED'

ANXIETY IN FIFTH AVE. RELIEVED AND THE
LAW OF GRAvITATIoN STILL IN FORCE
Port Arthur has fallen and the Tiger has falleil,
and now comes the news that the cat, too, mas
fallen. Mrs Dorff, the wife Of the janitor at No
326 Fifth-ave owns the particular cat or owned IT,
rat her for It is dead The cat stole choice
rece of srlon steak. She stole from time 10 time
other pieces of meat each piece of which she man.
aged TO get on the outside Of successfully. As
often as that cat did this just often did Mrs
Dorr get in her fine work" on the cat, until at
length the animal would any self-respecthg
animal with four feet. rebelled and ran away.
DIR. Bell lives at No 800 Fifthave. and when Mrs.
Dorff found that the cat was gone she pursued
hlm-a natural thing to do. But she didn't sue
coed in catching him, for he made Dig leap, 10 the
top sill of window No. 32i, next door Then
ne went on by leaps and bounds unit. he got to the
last window of Or. Bells house, No 800 lie stayed
there over night Men from the Society Tor the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals came, ana
policeman named Cavanagh, from the Ienderioin
Precinct. came. and tried to coax the cat away
from his dangerous perch but. unlike the coon Ill
the story he wouldn't come down.
Mrs Dorn appeared with piece OF the before
mentioned sirloin but still the beast. who thought
he 'knew 1t all" and therefore. like the Tammany
Tiger dehed public opinion. wouldn't bulge an inch
A crowd had gathered In the street TO watcn nlni
and as ne pushed forward in his narrow place ne
didn't have room even to turn Then the rtiiculou5
on air or that the law OF gravitation had been
suspended and. moving forward one step too many
he fell and was killed.
To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In view Of the fact that the action OF the
American Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty TO
Animals has grossly msrepresented in re-
gard TO the matter of the cat at Ffth-ave. ana
Thirty-second-st think 1t Is due TO the society
and to myself personally to give some of the facts
in the
on Thursday afternoon a cat appeared on the
Intel Of a fourth-story window of the house No.
800 Fifth-ave 1t had evidently been frightened ana
had run out of one OF the windows Of No @i or NO.
1926 Fifth-ave.. then along the cornce TO the place
where II was first discovered.
The society was notified by the police. and an
officer was sent Investigate, and upon investisa-
ton II was found that to attempt To dlsiodse the
cat by force would probably result in the cats fall
ing TO the street and being killed. The cat moved
from window to window. and on Friday night went
into one Of the at No. 32O and ate some iood
that had been placed there for H. The cat was IN
the room in the morning. when the occupant OF
the house went into the room to try and catch it.
whereupon the cat climbed out OF the window and
resumed its position the Intel again 1t changed
it's position frequently going from window 70 Win
dow sometimes disappearing entirely from view
going 10 the roof 81 adjoining house .u
Attempts were made from time TO time by oiicer
q, me society 10 entice the cat into OF the
houses hut without success. | myself saw the cat
mmp from A window Of No 322 70 WINDOW OF %
52n and then back again TO No 322 and 50 on 10 10
dow at No 32f or No 32G whore mad arranged 10
have the windows left open for that purpose put
known person during the temporary absence OF me
society's officer this morning FIRE Depdt trleil'
Tho result was that the frightened or
pushed OF the Intel by one of the hreneh' ana zen
to the street and was kilied. u,rxrs President
New-York. Nov e. 1894.