The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-06-20
WHERE CAN
THEY PLAY !?
Residents Wont Let the
Small Boy Amuse Him.
self In Street or Lot.
EVEN SCHOOL WALL TABOoED
Captain Farrier Wishes Peo-
pie Would Give Youngsters
a Chance and Leave
Him Alone.

Police Captain Frederick Farrier, OF the
Communipaw avenue station, has been
bombarded with a perfect storm of pro-
tests in the past few months against the
irrepresslble small boy, who, the majority
of citizens in that precinct imagine i
conspiring to make their lives miseraole
and to wreck all of their property. Tnere
has not been a day for the past SIX weeks
that the Captain or one of the sergeants
on desk duty has not been asked to abate
the small boy nuisance. The Captains
life is made miserable by the persistent
and often needless complaints. But he ls
forced to instruct his men to chase the
boys from their various Fairgrounds and
to keep on chasing them.
Principal Joslin of No. Y pubic school,
at Astor place and Crescent avenue, came
to the station house last evening with
letter from resident on Astor place. In
the letter, which had been sent to the
Board of Education and to the Chief of
Police, was a complaint against boys, who,
the letter explained. made the residents $
life constant worriment by their per-
sistent playing on Astor place near his
house. He also said that the boys fire.
auently ascended the high walls of the
school yard and found endless enjoyment
in running up and down on the Gaping
stones. He wanted this stopped.
Principal Joslin, who received the letter
through Director Culver, asked the police
to look after the boys. and endeavor to
abate the trouble. The principal said he
did not know who the boys were, neither
did the complainant. -
Another complainant was Mr. Charles
B. Miller, who resides at No. 621 Bergen
avenue. This Individual owns property
bounded by Bergen and Bramhall ave-
nues. He stated that every day boys
gathered to play ball, and that through
this practice he had lost thre tenants from
other houses he owned in that neighbor-
hood. He would willingly sell his proper
~ for half its value, he said ilf it were
possible.
Residents on Boyd avenue, between the
Rouleyard and Bergen avenue, sent
written complaint to the captain Ie"
weeks ago, in which was stated that
crowds of boys played ball in the iots
there and that the people wanted the
"bigs standing nuisance abated"
eThese complaints, . said the Captain to
a reporter last night, are Simply uiS
gusting. While I was in the First pre-
cinct I did not have one-tenth the num-
ber of protests. Down there the boys
have no lots, to play in and they have to
use the streets. Up here there are nun
dreds of places, but the people insist that
the Youngsters be kept from enjoying
themselves.
.Only few days ago resident on
Madison avenue came to me and pro-
tested against negro who was beating
carpet in a lot near Bramhall avenue.
He said that the noise troubled him and
that the colored man should seek another
place. In the lots on Bramhall avenue,
between jackson and Monticello avenues,
boys play ball, but more complaints are
registered against the practice than can
keep track of.
.'These are only a few of the many pro-
tests received here. What do you think
of a man who commands an officer on
post to keep a dog from barking and an
moving him? Yet we have some of that
sort of people right here in the precinct.
1 am deluged with kicks day after day,
and there seems to be no let up"