The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-24
PROF. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
IT CAUSES A GOODNESS BETWEEN
NEIG HBORS AT ELIZ1BETH.

Mr.. SANFORD, whe Lives NeHt Door. says Ho Can
Endure ssmo Parrots. Hut Tint the Hosen-
thai Bird " y ScrecchinE NuIaance-Ths
Parrot ana 1s Owners Pat In n perence.
ELIzABETH. ". j.. Aug. GA big green par
rot is responsible for strained relations in
the fashionable neighborhood on North Broad
street. 1t is owned by Prof. H.. Roscnthal, .
teacher OF languages, and its life is in the bal
ancc pending tho decision Of the Board Of
Health on a complaint made against tho bird BY
Roswell @. Sanford, who lives next door to Prof
Rosenthal.
Mr.. Sanford Is tho Secretary Of the Farmers
Loan and Trust Company of New York. Heis
OF a nervous temperament, and says he has
been annoyed by the parrots unpleasant noises
ever since the Roscnthals moved next door to
him, two years ago. One day recently Mr..
Sanford mot President J. W. whelan Of the
Board OF Health and reported the par
rot, declaring that II was a nuisance,
that II scrccchcd continually. and that II greatly
disturbed his wife, who was very sick. Mr.. SAM
ford said he had requested Prof. RosenthL
TO muzzle tho bird, but that 1t continued to
scroech, and he wanted the health authorities
to suppress Polly. Tho complaint has bcen nlod
together with Prof. Rosonthal's defence. and
will be acted on at the next session OF the board.
Mr.. Sanford said tonight that the Rosenthal
bird was the worst nuisance he had ever known.
He said he rather liked parrots II they were In.
t~elliRent and could talk, but the Rosenthal par
rot. he said. shattered his nerves with Its awful
screech.
lover In Cedar street, New York" said Mr..
Sanford, ''s a parrot owned by an Irish woman.
Its chatter is comical. But the Roscnthal bird
well, I don't want any controversy with my
neiRhbors, but the screeching Of that parrot lisa
continual disturbance"
Prof. Rosenthal, Mrs. Rosenthal. their son,
and the parrot told the other side OF the story.
The parrot was perched in a great cage in tho
professors study. 1t is a large. green bird. and
loa 'ou as na9Se; 4 a, E babe T Nn p PR, WSr spia:
had several; Il T. 50 quiet, In fact, thu. W.
porter got in this question;
1T 10 not true then. that the parrot calls;
An there Rosie at Mr.. Sanford whenever
but don ''ttG I wish It could. It cannot talk at ali
except to say its name. Laura"
Sanford had, called TO him from across the
l s1pIsIns sId, ,ho not pro eay any fsten aSsa to Se hi had
ott6sf, word wsss damn. and i do not approve Of
The professor said he had learned that Mrs.
Sanford WAS sick and that he then had the par
fSrthest from the sandfords., and that he pro
hibited His daughter from playing the piano
during Mrs. Sanford's illness.
Yes, spoke up Mrs. Roscnthal. "the professor
did all this in return for the way the Saniorde
treated us while our son was extremely I'll lase
winter. Then one OF Sanford's shutters slammed
al night. SO that none Of us could sleep, and Mr..
Sanford would not tx It."
OH squeaked the parrot
As ! wrote to the Board Of Health" con.
tinued the professor, this Is not the first
trouble we have had with. the Sanfords, For
instance, last summer we kept three chickens
and a rooster. OF course the rooster crowed.
One morning Mr.. Sanford appeared at HE win
dow, half dressed. and said. MIR. Rosenthal,
that damn rooster of yours won't let me sleep
! told him he talked Ike a clodhopper."
Yes" said Mrs. Rosenthal. and he annoyed
US SO after that that we had to build a high
board fence between our yards to keep him
from annoying u.s."
This time the parrot chuckled. As the reporter
was leaving. Mrs. Rosenthal suggested:
Now, you haven't heard a sound from the
bird. have youi Why. that parrot Is 30 quiet
that even the policeman who stands under Q
tree in front of the house for hours every night
does not know there is u parrot in the house.
Among the neiRhbors OF the Shnfords and
Rosenthals are Chief Justice W. J. Magee of the
New Jersey Supreme Court, J. II. Olhausen.
superintendent OF the New Jersey Central Rail.
road; ". II. Corbin, and W. A. Clark. but none
OF them has taken any part in the controversy
over the parrot