The sun., 1895-05-20
MIR. BUCKLEY,s PEACOCK.
RE Sits In q Tree and sings All Night
Artist Travers Complains.

RE Sits in q Tree and Sings All Night
| Artist Travers Complains.
Most priced among tho habtants OF Andrew
| Buckley's barnynrd in Newtown l.. l., Is n very
| big pencock with very refulgent tall On
warm afternoons when the peacock expands
the tail and shakes 1t Mt the meek and lowly
| bnrnyard fowls the citizens of Newtown come
| and lean over the gate beeside Mr.. Buckley's
| butcher shop and admire. OF late. however,
| the peacock In the pride OF his youth, not con-
tent with enchanting the eyes of the Ncwtown-
crs, has set about appealing to their ears 1t is
| there forc that ho has been made the subject of
| a complaint to tho Board of Health of the vii
lagc.
Pcacocls, as n race. are noted for strength Of
vocality rather than for sweetness Of tone, but
Mr.. Bucklcy's bird has voice, so his detracturs
declare, worse than even peacock has n right
to possess. And the worst of 1t Is that he exor-
cises It when the village Is engaged in slumber.
OFT In the stily night the air of Ncwtown is
shattered by II shrll clamor OF II buzz-saw
penetrating an iron bar and the Inhabitants
turn over in their beds knowing that II is Buck
ley's peacock singing himself asleep and the
rest of the town awake, md curse the bird from
the cres, OF his naughty head to tho tip feather
of his eXuLerant tail. So tnr-,cnching
is that voice that man who lives
three miles away, so it Is reported in n
house with all tho modern improvements.
was wnkcned by IL one quiet night and
spent the rest of the time until daylight with a
bulls eye lantern In one hand and :,2-calibre
revolver in the other trying to find ont which Of
his burglar alarms had gone Off or late the
creature has taken to answering every whistle
from the Long Island Railroad trains with u
counter blast, and now that the summer increase
OF trains is Oh he is kept pretty busy. The
neighhors have dubbed him Macbeth. because he
As MIR. buckley. who owns the singer. is popu-
lar in town. nobody liked to make u fuss about
it. but several OF the neghbors called In in Ia
done to mitigate the bird.
I'VE wonnt mind it II II he he only ,s9nnwkSSd Si
he's getting worse every day, and he hasn't got
| bit Of ear for music"
We'll, didn't buy him for an operate artist"
said the owner. 1T isn't my fault that he
thinks he's a nightingaie. II you can tell me
| bird. Fin perfectly willing totrv it. Lord knows,
I'm not spG hm on his sxSsu,om He'd suit me
But no one, could think of q remedy that
| wouldn't entail discomfort for the peacock. so
the matter was dropped for time; and when it
| quarter of a mile, as the mosquito flies from
hapn, Of the rs e3HGck lives MF g. A.
revoltcd against the siren notes OF Mr.. Buck;
WAS buzaing within his head, only to have the
| mucous SOulu TcSOINc llSell lHc Oul-
over, over Mrs. Traycrs has been i'll, and
wrote s u'si letter @ to the Board Of Health setting
| forth the outrngcs perpctrated upon his aural
suscsp;ibilities: ana praying praying m TINT the Board r
note was considered ut the last meeting Of the
Board. and an Informal discussion was held.
| One Of the members opened the bail after the
| letter read by stating that there was no
doubt that the peacock did make noises at night,
and that the only question was what measures,
| if any. should lie taken.
Couldn't gag be made for the bird ?" asked
| one member OF the Board.
| Most birds won't sing on the ground" said
another. " | understand the peacock always
climbs tree b., before letting himself loose at
chain on him it might do some good
II fr .nT ion. on 'a1 1 as sIia ma thrd;
tion to natural history offered by another and
nny way don't believe n tree toad'll sing unless
."It is my opinion, said the President Of the
Board tha, that bird is lonely a,h I'd that's the
you wouldn't hear another loot from him" =.
know VINO how Wits ~th YOU but 'ase" lack
prano on to that tenor I'm going to leave town v
the be the
Of the fowls vocal Efforts was reported to Mr..
Buckley He wns y u ineiinsH Hn to G@ey, ths ,
down." said Mr. buckley % TO 4 SrS W reporter yes yes
terduy, = although don't think that any body
| has n right to lterfere with the peacock. He
never bo,hers me. and / don't believe he
| sQuawks much any way. 1t doesn't stand to
| reason that after prancing around all day he'd
| stay awake all night Just for the fun of squawk-
ing, However. I'll Eivc that loneliness theory n
| trial as soon rs | can get pcah-n. only. don I
| want anybody to blame mo If she sings too"
| Mr.. Travcrs when seen said:
| This matter is 10 johe. Its n serious thing
| TO be- kept awake night after night. For nearly
| two months now that bird has been making that
| noise. kept track Of him last night. and he
| sQuawked every four or five minutes. | shan't
! do anything further in the matter I've done
all could i'll appealing to the Board Of Health"
N
| importance rs public nuisance goes on spread
! ing his magnificent tail by day for the admira-
tOn of all who may come to see and by night
exercising his long distance voice for the aggra-
walton of all, whether they wish to hear or not.