The evening times., 1900-06-19
ANNOYED BY A PARROT.
Miss LecI1ie Tells the Commissioners
of n Screeching Bird.


Miss Maeme BeaIe Leckie recently
wrote to the Commissioners complaining
Of the annoyance caused by a parrot kept
Oh COrcO-an Street. between sixteenth
and Seventeenth Streets Miss Leckie
wrote:
In the understanding that this is the
proper channel through which to file COM
plants, have the honor 10 call your at
tention 70. AID pray deIiverance from, the
anadGening presence OF a parrot, whose
yells are ruinous to ones reasoning and
nerves. and l may safely reckon a nuisance,
disturbing the peace Of mind OF hundreds
Frequently I have read OF retusals 10
persons OF the privilege 10 keep and foster
domestic animals with apropeDSity 70 man
fest themselves unduly. and for this rea-
son 7 feel the same law viii free a quiet
loving portion Of The public from the ever
felt presence Of a certain emerald-hued
member Of the feathered tribe
i am a resident OF the Cairo. Ny rooms
occupy a corner in the back Of the
house. facing Corcoran Street. Tha first
thing OF which l sH conscious IN he
morning and the last thing at night are
the piercing. blood-curiliug shrieks OF this
bird native 20 the Southern climes.
possible. confident that il could not last
much Longer. feeling that nothing alive
could keep up any one sound with such
pertinacity. But I reckOned without the
parrot. for the louder. more veciferOUs, and
untiring his efiorJs az sunset, the more
assuring IS his7Tone with the break OF
dawn His conversational powers have
been neglected. and, as II in vengeance
against mankind <OT depriving him Of the
means to perfect this accomplishment with
which .ature has endowed him, he makes
the most Of his solitary note.
Il regret that / am unable to give you
more definite information a. TO his abode,
but unfortunately his influence is so far
reaching and oyerpOwering that I cannot
ascribe 10 his body more limited space
than the earth and the sky between Six
teenth and Seventeenth Streets on COrcO-
ran northwest"
At the request of the Commissioners r.
B. Boyle, lieutenant Of police of the Third
precinct made an investigation Of the
above complaint, located the parrot on
terra hrma and notified the owner Of the
annoyance his bird caused the inmates of
The Cairo. upon which the said owner
agreed to take steps 10 prevent any fur
ther trouble from the bird.
A petition signed by Charles H. Hospital
and fifteen other residents OF BrOokland
calls attention TO recent attempts OF bur-
glary in that suburb and asks that an ad-
ditional detail Of policemen be sent there
If only for temporary service. The COM
plant was referred by the Commissioners
10 the Police Department for consideration
and report. and now Private Henry c.
Stroman submits the following statement
through his superior officers
Il respectfully state that the police rec
ord Of Brookland viii justify my assertion
that this beat. which comprises a large
territory, has been especially free from
burglary during the past year. There
have been during that period only two
entrances effected. one into an unOccupied
dwelling. and the other into an unlocked
and isolated henhouse. Ofieer Bryarly, on
the latter occasion, was on hand and pur-
sued the thieves so closely that they drop
ped their plunder and took refuge in the
unGerbrush o ftaat locality. The citizens
who signed the petition to the Commission
ers live in a sparsely settled section bound
ed by Fourteenth and Seventeenth, Con-
cord, and Providence Streets northeast
and from six TO nine blocks distant from
the BrOOkland post