The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-08
TO SUPPRESS NUISANCE.
'"Annoy Men as They Annoy Others
is a Chicago Society's Motto.
CChIcagO Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.)
With the idea of making it unpleas-
ant for unpleasant people" an organ
ization has been formed in Chicago
among college men chiefly, the purpose
OF which is humanitarian 1t has for
its primary object, to be secured by
personal endeaVOr, the relief OF society
in general from diSagreeable person
ages, either by Gripping the persons or
correcting their faults. The OrganiZa-
ton is preparing to spread into other
cities as rapidly as possible. The pa
rent society has been formed in the city
hail. the founders and officials being
assistant corporation counsels.
In the formal records of the Organi-
zatiOn it is known as the Society for
the Suppression of Itinerant Nuisances,
Peregrinating Idiots and Peramb ulatinE
Doors, but in the abbreviated form of
every day nomenclature ii is known as
the Society of Sparrow Hawks. It is
! for the suppression of walking nuis-
ances wherever met 1t demands that
every member make it a duty to an
noy a person who is annoying others.
Annoy men as they annoy others,
is the golden rule of the society.
The methods adopted by the society
render it advisable that the members
be of athletic build and of the spirit
known as scrappy-- The man who would
rather fight than eat is guaranteed an
existence of unbrOken joy if he assumes
deavor to fulfill them.
For these reasons the men who have
Joined the society are men who in col
lege were athletes, and who have kept
in training since their graduation. vii
liam H Arthur president of the So
/ clety, has held the amateur middle
weight boxing championship OF the
west and has been one of the crack
cycle riders of the west William II.
Fitzgerald, secretary of the organiza-
ton was a Yale athlete, and the rank
and file of active members comprises
men who are directors of gymnasiums
members of football teams and track
teams, and old college oarsmen.
The general purpose of the society is
to make it unpleasant for unpleasant
people, and it is carried into effect by
meeting the unpleasant person with his
own methods and making it more IN
! pleasant for him than he has made it
] for other people.
/ The society has posted list of '.un-
4 pleasant people against whom the opera
follows:
The person who elbows his way through
/ a crowded street.
The person VINO attempts to enter q
/ to leave it have LETT It
/ The person who requests the. restaurant
orchestra to play the intermezzo from
Cavalleria RusticaDa' or the miserere
street car
The person who whistles when an or
The person who greets an acquaintance
on the street with a sudden, seNfre and
polling prod in the back.
J The person who insists on taIRhg poll
tics to strangers.
> The person who SHORES in a public con
Veyance.
The person who washes his face in a
( finger bowl.
I The person who stands on q street cor
\ ner with cigarette and Ogles Dassersby
The person who carries a cane or UNI
4 Drella point upward IN the street.
+ The person who uses a tOOthpick on
1 the street.
The person who makes a public display
! or tondness FOR feminine companion
/ The person who takes liberties with the
name or another person ard builds feebiS
jesIs upon it.
The person who goes to a beanery and
kicks on the service
The person who takes golf without ces-
satiQn.
The person who steps from a moving ear
p with ms race IN the wrong direction and
VINO abuses the conductor after he picks
The person who blocks a sidewalk bv
stopping 10 watch a toy bug unwind it.
set.
/ The person who borrows a part Of ones
) newspaper IN the street car.
The person who carries the text OF a.
Saakespearean play TO a performance and
! 1OlloWS the lines, reading aloud.
! The person who leaves a seat in the
middle OF section and craWlS over six
| p6Gple between every act Of play
The offenders receive mention in rbas
/ firsL Offic-a al bulletin OF the society and
additional Instructions to the members
] viii be issued from time TO time In the
I crusade against UNPLEASANT pponle No
man who pushes through crowded s+rs-sf
WItnOut regard TO the Lettings OF ofher-
epedSSI TRANS mas received the most atteu-
ton, Tor the reason that he IS the persOf.
dealt with.