The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-11

Got Ont of Their Cage on n Sunday, and
for a Few Hours They Owned the Store.

From he Boston Journal
Two small monkeys with large capacity for
mischief held a carnival in the bird store Of
Charles Ludam. 80 Bromneld street. Sunday
For three or four hours they romped through
out the store. playing tag with each other
among scores Of cages containing hgh-priced
canaries and other singing birds. talking par
rots and red squirrels. They sat on top Of
glass globes containing goldfish snatched the
fishes from the water with their caws and
killed them.
They had pitched bate with ar! O.. the
door OF whose cage they uniastencd. and came
out second best. 4 handsome blucbird was
one OF tho victims of monkey atrocity.
number Of turtles proved source, Of in
tcrcst to the rioters; and they turned them
over and over. Finally one OF the turtles got II
monkeys hand in his grin. and squeezed 50
tightly that the tormentor spucaled with pain.
After that the turtles We're let severely alone
Altogether. the monkeys did about S25 worth
vi wr ' h HIyn
fishes were some OF them thrown in the ash
barrel and others were strewn about the floor
store tore were led at g L. NJ Sunday by one Of his
emp!oyees. It is supposed that the bar OF
and that when the man left the store the
monkeys BECAME aware OF the fact and took
one the monkeys was considerably larger
than the 0therMi re Il SUITE mt3 ,, and
Oh Sf1 ha %sH ae Knit "S or s soT hs
are from south Africa. + he monkey cage. are
on tho iioOr, and two monkeys are usually kept
in cage. 1t was only three weeks ago that
the larger nm, MONKEY Msscared orc night and
Hundreds OF people were attracted to tho
windows 10y the antics Of the monkeys There
are entrances on Bromheld and Bosworth
streets. and both were crowded with spcctn-
tors, The monkeys appeared to enjoy the at
eS over shar " aT faG an
things, they would every few minutes approach
the windows and doors and with many grim
"a In f,f hn i. ia
of the glass. Every other animal in the store
was Completely t"rroriz.d. The canaries ut
their Gdcd cages restessly The squirrels
ran miles on the little metallic wheels IN their
ut linn out u'iS 6Ge T'" sHuawks sG one OF
the taking parrots: occasionally.
Before long about every animal in the store
was making noise of some description.
All except the poor goldfish.
Perhaps il they could have cried out with the
others they might have escaped. Their move
ments in the glass globes as they swan about
attracted Immediate attention from tho ter
rorzers Of the place. Two or three of those
glass globes were swinging in the show
store. They were suspended by steel chains
The monkeys would Jump on these swinging
muuching crackers and In accclerating the
swinging movement until once or twice they
appeared in danger OF crashing through the
\ boy on the sidewalk raped on the window
thr"ateningly. with stick. during one OF these
performances. Tho monkey showed his teeth
aud appeared to be about TO jump at tho bow
He chartered angriiy. too.
The hight with parrot was enjoved by tho
Spectators. IT was pute fierce while 1t lasted
The parrot got, one Of the simian's paws in its
hc4k. and would not let 60 until the raw was
pulled away 10y main force was
Not until about 3 O'Clock in the afternoon
was the proprietor of the store Mr. Iudiam
notified Of what was taking place lie Was in
formed 10y one of the notification companies
On Mr.. Ludlam's arrival he had no trouble
in capturing the little fellows, although the
larger one tried to bite him. They were put
back in their cages in disgrace
Luckily none of the glass globes containing
FISH was broken, although number OF tho
little stone castles inside Of them were taken
out and broken and the pieces scattered about
II took about an hour To replace the cages and
furniture and clean UP generally after the
monkey carnival