The sun., 1903-03-14
ANYBODY WANT A MONKEY?
If so, PLEASE GO TO THE SEVILLIA
AND CATCH THEIRS.
Hos LonG.whisk cred and short.Taiied and
He Has Taken to the Roof and IL Play.
ing Hob With the Peace OF Folks
Around There-Police Appealed 10.

He Has Taken to the Roof and IL Play.
ing Hob With the Peace OF Folks
Around There-Police Appealed 70.
and an appetite has had almost everybody
living in the block between Sixth and Sew
enth avenues and Fifty-eighth and Fifty
ninth streets near to oonniption fits since
Wednesday. The members Of the Catholic
and German clubs in Fifty-ninth street
have been kept hustling chasing the beast.
but the tenants Of the Sevillia apartment
house in Fifty-eighth street have had more
trouble with the monkey than anybody
else.
Yesterday the police were called in.
A Miss Hanna, who lives on the fifth floor OF
the Sevillia, saw the monkey summing
himself on the roof Of the German club in
Fifty-nnth street and decided that il was
time for something to be done about him.
She went to q telephone and called up Police
Headquarters.
When she mentioned monkey the police
telephone operator decided 1t was work
for the Central Park police. So she got
Sergt. Corbett.
Sergeant said Miss Hanna. -there
il monkey over here terrorixing the neigh
borhood. The poor thing Is famishad
Won't you come over and catch him.
The sergeant sent two policemen in
stead. They were fat and couldn't climb
He Is still at large. The police say they
will catch him. but those who have been
trying to do that very thing since Wednes-
day are doubtful
Miss Van Rensselaer,, q maid on the
twelfth floor OF the Sevillia, saw the monkey
first. After she had put her room TO rights
the beast climbed In the window. She
had some dresses on q bed and the monkey
tore them to shreds. After he had torn
ou. % and Sed rot GosepS
Joseph came upstairs armed with q broom
Miss Van Rensselaer, had left . creampuh
on the table. The monkey sat munching II.
johnson went after the monkey with
cornered. but the monkey jumped out OF
a window and climbed up water pipe to
the roof. two stories above.
On the roof is a sort of cabin in which
trunks are stored; One OF the, ,porters sleeps
there The monkey monkey jSmped u y. and a,,Ns wss
stored there when johnson came in. He
couldn't drive the monkey out, 30 Frank
Yochman, Robert Heinberg Walter Schmidt,
Thomas Eager. Sarah o'Donnell and
with brooms and clubs. they moved TO
the attack and chased the monkey around
for an hour. They couldn't catch him.
10 they decided TO wait until the afternoon.
They returned about o'clock on Wedns -
day and chased the monkey again. The
monkey kept away from them and they
decided that they would starve thin out
30 they stuffed q transom over the door
with pillows and fixed q trap below u
They got q barrel from the cellar and fixed
a loose top to IL. On the barrel they laid
some apples, figuring that II the monkey
came after the apples he would strike the
top, fall in and be caught.
He wasn't. Two hours later all the apples
but one had gone The monkey WAS hang
ing from rafter by his tail and the seventh
apple was la his mouth. The top Of the
barrel hadn't even bean moved.
Under renewed attacks the monkey
jumped through the transom. knocking ou
the pillows which had been put there Ca
prevent him from escaping He ranscror-
the roof aud climbed down the water piIr
To the ground noor. amid a fusillsde OF
broken crockery and old shoes. From
the yard he climbed over the fence 10 th"
Catholic Club Ia firy-ninth stree,
doors away found him tho folio wing morn
ing ia q psrlor do~n@,Alrs lie sat ia a.
ornamental palm tree.
In the Aftrfnoon the monkey wss s>tn
again IN the oOun yard bacs ~ the tsiholr
Club A frisky maid thr~w q bad efs
from q window aud tho teAs, disappear
again. 1hls sss tl.s lA<i ss-n of him IN
yesterday aftefnoon, shen MIS- hAn'.a
spled him oh the roof ~ the German fidh
Aocordiis q 10 slor,e. told in the n-lghho'
hood tbs heasi is ons ~ tso, hollu 80
Polo, gwen Ia MAnAs.r phliAps ~ tl.r
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