The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-31
DERISIVE STARTS A
TRIES TO MAKE THE ISAIC sES AND
MRS. CLAY HURT ONE ANOTHER.

An independent williamsburg Tom Who
scorns the Human Race. steaIs Neat. ana
Draws tho Enemy's Fire at 1noppeFtuno
Moments Tho Resulting CasuaIties.
The exceeding naughty demeanor of Q Will
liamsburg tomcat, according to the testimony
offered before Justice Kramer in the Leo Avo-
nue. Court yesterday, has brought sorrow, dis
hgurement. and rancor into two hitherto peace
full families. The cat is the property of neither
family. He Is a gaunt freebooter that, in the ad.
venturous spirit that possesses SO many cats that
come to maturity, scorns human ownership. Ho
knows neither affection nor fear. He regards mon
as noisy. stone-throwing incidents in q serene,
sclf-conhdent, reasonable at-life. In his philos.
ophy women are accounted useful inventions
In 80 far as they cast food out of windows, but
they have a fantastic and meaningless habit Of
shaking their skirts and saying scat" The
real object OF existence in his scheme of life IN
to sleep by day and to aunt and sing by night,
he Is known as the North Ninth Street Tom.
He hns spoiled the temper of every woman ON
the block between Kent and Wythe avenues. He
ia blamed for late dinners, rainy wash days and
cake that refuses to rise. II they remembered
'Pinafore over there. they would sing with
Mr.. Gilbert 1T Is the cat" But as It Is they
speak the words with bitterness and ornate
application. Their feeling is not unreason-
able. How is a lady to peel vegetables properly
when she knows that the steak. in its cold
storage box on the fire escape, Is likely to DO
snatched by North Ninth Street Tom IL her back
Is turned for Eve consecutive minutes.
Mrs. ~lsaacs, who lives at No. n, near
Wythe avenue, has been his victim several
times. She has hurled wet dishrags and oven
I'm pans az the malignant beast without inter
fore yesterday he took q tenderioin steak that
Mrs: isaaGs had put under an extra heavy box.
heard the crash of the falling irons and saw
Toms NANCY brown TANKS dash across the are-
i iH water IN fpO Mss the "'. ssoys g at ss.a sSse tim Full s Ct t sS,l;
three steps across the room and cast stewpan,
"A1''wS' Wild IDS sS na Sp' f iea9 be siHssinf fSile9e woFld For .
moment Mrs. lsaacs was beside herself with
1 az s Bse IN am a moment the Shrek became artiou::
M M6o li E,sr q ,'eoS G abgvs a t GSo%isly Young women
came right up from tho street to tho Isaac0
s,eamins and wiltsd hat and a nH scaldepd hand.
s syIa attn M or repentance in what Mrs. isaaes
Isaass IS a markswoman and Of North NintS;
against iG M. 80 isa Mss; GRi adI sEsss; her m mshts
the cat. She determined to XIII tho creature Il
everit came within her range. Even az. she
! !sinss On IN t her S SrnissG i hes;r tuF 10. No S4sr N shssS
Street Tom ambled stealthily out from the door
VI INC mouse INTO the street beneath. There
Was . beer bottle on the window beside Mrs.
Clay, She hurled it. The cat stepped q pace to
one side. jumped up two feet in the air, and un.
scathed came down on tho sidewalk ON the
blinking fragments of the bottle. He cast up Q
Now Mr.. Isaacs had been leaning out Of his
window, doubtless intent on the cat, at tho
moment when Mrs. Clay's beer bottle fell. Of
course. Mrs. Clay had not seen Mr.. Isaacs's head
have come % near brainiSE him as she SS ala. a. Z
ing the bottle. When no had ceased
to rub bis head no told Mrs. Isaacs
of tho window and exchanged much sprightiy
repartee with Mrs. Clay. Mrs. Isaacs said three
things to Mrs. Clay's one, but Mrs. Ciay's
thoughts we're 80 weighted with intense feeling
oiated. almost as II she feared that / Il was 10 IL
reinforced with a beer bottle.
In the middle OF tho conversation appeared
the eaton the other side Of tho street this Tina.
Mrs; isaaos,a wrath redoubled.
thing" she said. Everybody in the neirhbo<.
hood, except Mrs. Clay. took 1t for Rranted thnt
Mrs. lsaacs was addressing tho cat. But Mr0.
Clay snapped her windows down In Q hurry ana
she obtained q summons for Mrs. Isaace 70
guaRe.'
ne seid mat Mrs; Isaaos was too III to come 70
charge that she had not spoken nicely of MrG.
clay; In somewhat Illogical proof whereof he
exhioitea fragments Of the broken beer bottle
ana said that Mrs. Clay had sought to do him
appear.
Meanwhile the cat spends most of his time On
the fence over the way, cleaning his whiskSI0
and rejecting on many thinr