The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-09-28
THIS is SARCASM !!
The Citizens of the Heights
Should Get the Redress
They Ask.

The residents of the Heights in the
precinct commanded by Captain Farrier
are again making the Captain miserable
| by complaining of the small boy. There
| isn't man in the citywho has the trou-
| BILE Farrier has. The people on the
Heights seem to think the Captain ought
to spend his time responding to their APP
peals to suppress the small boy. This
time he is the recipient of several COM
munications, containing long and bitter
complaints against the youngsters who
| amuse themselves in the lots or in the
streets.
One resident of the Boulevard, near Gift
ford avenue, writes that life is no longer
filed with joys and that death alone can
save him from further annoyance at the
hands of the irrepressible small boy.
''Our sleep is destroyed says the let
ter, "and all the evening we are forced to
listen to loud curses, yells and shouts. Do
the police do anything besides ring up at
the signal boxes and Chin to servant
girls? OF course the officers are always
on deck when the Roundsman comes
around, but these disturbers are never
caught
The writer says that the boys gather in
Clifford place, and until ten and eleven
o'clock their shouts and curses ring out
loud and clear. The boys do this playing
football. The complaint wishes the boys
to move to some place about a mile or
two from that neighborhood, where there
are no persons to disturb This is but
one of the numerous kicks registered
daily. From everywhere come grievances
of the same nature The police are in
structed to keep on chasing the boys from
one place to the other until the policemen
are tired of the game.
The Captain is sad and weary over the
many tales of woe that are poured into his
ear. First comes a kick over the tele-
phone about some loafers creating a dis
turbance in one part of the precinct.
Closely following this, q citizen rushes in
to the station house and demands instant
relief from the annoyance caused by some
lads who are playing in lot near his
home, and to cap it all off, letter is re-
ceived demanding the immediate arrest
and falling of another set of youngsters
who are only amusing themselves by
making night hideous or insulting citi-
zens in the lots near some dwellings.
''This sort of thing is simply sickening,'
said the Captain. Even when 1 was in
the downtown precinct, 1 never had half
the trouble. Boys must play and keep
themselves out of mischief. What are
we to do with them? How can we arrest
lads for playing in lots? Where shall
they go to have their fun? Some people
are so very tiresome. They seem to for
get the days when they sported around.
This matter of complaints is getting to be
a nuisance,
The Captain told the reporter some time
ago of a raft of kicks that were register
ed with him daily. A few days ago he
received a letter from a man who signed
himself Robert Curtin, begging him to
be guardian over his wayward son Peter,
who ran away from home so often that
he was caused much sorrow. The writer
said that the boy was placed in an insti-
tuition in New York, but that he ran
away to the West. Mr.. Curtis said that
he could do nothing with his son and he
wished the Captain to watch over the
boy until he became of age. The Cap
tain read the letter with a smile.
DO they take me for the owner of this
precinct he said.