The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-28
WILLIE'S KITE LIFTS SIEGE.
MURRAYS GET THREE SQUARE
MEALS BY TWINE TROLLEY.
sunday Fun for Folks In the Back Windows
and on Roofs in Pacific and Dean
Streets-Nlrs. MaEkie Brown FOlled
In Effort TO Starve Out tenants

and on Roofs I'm Pacific and Dean
Streets-Nlrs. Maggie Brown FOlled
I'm Effort TO Starye Out Tenants.
Folks who live in Dean and Pacific streets,
between Fourth and Fifth avenues, in
Brooxlyn, didn't have to go TO Coney Island
or anywhere else yesterday for their Sum
day amusement. They just sat at their back
windows or on the roofs and watched
demonst ion of the utility Of kites in
neighborhood warfare by the Schuyler Muir
rays.
The Murrays live at 572 Pacific street,
or they are trying to live there, in spite Of
the landlady, Mrs. Maggie Brown. Every
body in the neighborhood enjoyed yester-
days kite mannuvres except Mrs. Brown,
whose siege Of her tenants was made in
enectual by tin pail, two pieces of string,
and kind hearted neighbor in Dean
street who takes boarders. Back yards Of
the Pacific and Dean streets houses adjon.
As told in THE Sun yesterday, Mrs.
Brown wants the Murrays to vacate, but
won't let them move out the furniture,
because. she says, they owe back rent.
The Murrays would like to move, but have
no notion Of abandoning their furniture
so none Of them will venture to leave the
house for fear Of not being allowed to get
back
Mrs Brown occupies the basement and
parlor floor. and SO controls all passes to
and from the street The Murrays can't
receive callers, not even their lawyer. OF
course, butchers boys and grocery clerks
are barred, so the question of food supply
became great family problem on Satur-
day night, after the siege had lasted forty
eight hours, and the larder was low.
The device Of hosting things up from
the street with string wouldn't do at all,
for the string had to dangle right in front
Of Mrs Browns windows. and commune
cation with the base of supplies would be
out of. Mrs Brown already had reached
out and grabbed a string to which was
attached a writ Of replevin which Murray
had hoisted up to sign while his lawyer
stood on the sidewalk.
Young Willie Murray realized that food
must come from above or from an elevation
on the level with the roof or second story
window He had the problem solved yes
terday in time for breakfast.
On Saturday night Willie made a box
kite and megaphone.
He spent his summer vacation at the
seashore and visited a life saving station,
where he saw boards that are shot out
to the ship in distress with printed instruc-
tons on them telling the shipwrecked
sailors how to handle the lines of the breech
buoy tackle. That gave him an idea.
He wrote this note to the woman who keeps
the Dean street boarding house and pinned
it on to the kite:
DEAR MRS SEIDENsT1cKER: The Muir
rays want to board with you for a few days,
but you will have to serve the meals at the
house. You can't bring them over because
the landlady won't let you in. We are going
to fool her and want you to helpus There's
two strings to this kite. Just make one
fast to your window sill for a trolley line
after putting it through the handle of a
pail to put things in.
"Tie the other string to the bail of the
pail so we can pull it across to our roof
You must tie one other string to the pail,
but keep the end of it in your house so YOU
can pull the pail back in case we went a
second helping OF ANYTHING,
willie MURRAY
Then Willie Went on the roof with his
kite and his mega phone. He yelled through
the megaphone till he got the attention of
Mrs. SeidensticLer's small boy and told him
to 60 on his roof and watch out for the kite
and grab 1t when it came down.
There was good breeze from the right
direction and the relief kite went up on the
first try. 1t sagged little because Of the
weight Of two strings, but Willie paid out
carefully and the kite scared diagonallv
above three or four of the back yards till
it was just over the Seidensticker roof
Then Willie let out four or five yards
of Irvine at once and the kite dropped into
the upst retched hands Of little Fritz Seldom
sticker. His mother read the note, and
inside of half an hour the food trolley was
rugged and in working order with two
quart pail for a carrier.
On the first trip across the pail was filed
with hot coffee. 1t was pulled back empty
and sent across the second time loaded with
pork chops, fried potatoes and corn
mullins. The Murrays got another square
meal at noon and one at night, and Willie
was having so much fun with his trolley
that he ate between meals