The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-28
SING FROM MIDNIGHT TO DAWN
THIRTY-FIFTH STREET WOMEN
DRINKS ALL VOCIFEROUS.
walls OF Captain shire's Cage Act ~ .
Megaphone-No Sleep for Neighbors,
Even 1t $4,000 Year-Gramophon
euro as Counter.Irritant Proposed.

walls OF Captain Shfre's Cage Act as q
Mesaphone-No sleep for Neighbors,
Even at $4,000 Year-Gramophon
Cure as Counter-Irritant Proposed.
Tho tenants in the new apartment house
ut 152 East Thirty fifth street are having
their troubles and have gone to the police
with them. The apartment house Is only two
doors west OF Capt. shire's police station,
and Capt. Shires police station is sort OF
clearing house for DRINKS that are rounded
up in bis precinct and in the Eighteenth
precinct, the station house Of which Is In
East Twcnty-second street. The DRINKS
arc from Third avenue and eastward to
thu river. for the most part. and Of the
Third avenue DRINKS large percentage
Is made up Of women-"ohips that pass
in the night" the Third avenue policemen
call them.
They are brought to Capt. Shire's
retreat at all hours of the twenty-four, and
the interval between midnight and dawn
produces the largest crop. There are
drunks Of all the standard varieties-drunks
rampant and DRINKS couchant, DRINKS
cheerful and drunks tearful-and the ten
ants Of 1852 are willing to bear witness that
at least 80 per cent Of the DRINKS are musical
dE1 uudU I'll Ol UIleUl dTS VOClleTOub nc
women DRINKS are oorralled in the prison
in the rear Of the station This prison
opens upon paved court about 80 feet
square. High walls surround the court
and serve as a sort OF megaphone that
carries the oaterwaulings that come
from the women's prison upward to the
windows Of the apartment house.
1T Isn't 80 much their cursing and swear
L. IL 80 h.
yesterday, sits their damned musical en-
tertainments that drive us all half mad
about here at night. Sleep! You might
as we'll try to sleep with an East Side po-
litical association holding a picnic under
your window. There was one woman
that howled for three hours on stretch
there last night. The older and tougher
these Third avenue cruisers are, the more
sentimental they are, and when they are
sentimental they burst forth into song. I
supposed Only a Pansy Blossom and
"Tis But Little Faded Flower. were dead
and buried until moved into this neighbor-
hood. But they survive in Third avenue
and 30 do Comrades I've heard all OF
them yowled by the hour down in that police
station every night since I've been here.
You take these ditties mixed up with about
sixteen catfight duets going on at the same
time and you've got fine show for sleep.
They've got the toughest lot Of night hawk
tomcats around here. to begin with, that
ever struck. think the caterwauling
in Capt. Shire's drunk reservoir draws EN-.
I believe that tomcats come down all the
way from Harlem TO dissipate and have
scraps in our block. It's an East Side tom
cat tenderloin so far as can make out
Some Of the tenants Of 1852 went to the
Thirty fifth street police station and COM
planned to Capt. Shire, and the captain
could do nothing for them, He can't turn
and choking or chioroforming them. he
explained, are equally measures beyond
lis discretion. The delegation Of tenants
said they would carry the matter to Police
.HaadquarteFs. They say they nave 70 3b pay
apartments and they think that that ought
rs bring. with IL the privilege q having
n little sleep now and thens 30 they want
20 go Recommendations. McAdoo cant 90
something for them. They had not got
to, the Commissioner yesterday afternoon,
and the Commissioner is not crossing bridges
OF thatkind until he comes to them or until
they come to him.
x see that out in Cleveland, said Capt;
Shire yesterday, @they have installed
musical monographs with megaphone at
tachments to Iull their nocturnal! drunks
to slumber. They say it works well. Only
love. songs and soft and tender melodies
We never even tried grind organ on our
drunks. But of course. l can't open
series Of phonograph song recltas for
our guests without authority. the Com,
missioner says so, why OF course 1t WIN
be done. It might have a good effect:
Music works wonders sometimes; haven't
personally received any complaints from
the neighbors here. but I don't say the
complaints have not been made. l don't
know that our drunks are any worse than
seemed to be about the regulation article.
But dr,Iuks are apt to be musical. there
Ia no denying that. But how are you gong
to stop 'em' Choke 'em of? But that won't
.Drunks is different" said veteran
policemen, who has had a wide experience
in all parts Of the city and who Is Philoso-
.pher "Drunks is different and some
drunks is peculiar Women .S drnn aat. %
longin' fer their distant mountain home,
then they generally takes to love songs.
They're easiest handled Of all then: except
them that is fearful. The only trouble with
a fearful woman drunk Is that you never
gets to cussin' and clawin' and caterwaulln
NV experience is that tears and q rampage
Is never for sport in women DRINKS lear-
full drunks is the quietest as long as tney
last. mat III auIint. DuI ny" ius
they goin' to last? That's the trouble;
Year in and year out I'll take a musical
drunk any time in preference to tear1u,
drunk. That's why think that Cleveland
music machine scheme Is the best thing
that's been struck yet But you've got to
he careful about your music. ! have had
psalm tune dr,Inks in my day that raised
more hell than all the other drunks put
together. Not that they raised It them
selves. They set the Others raisin' 1t,
Drunks as a rule resents psalms and takes
10 cussin' and damnin' when psalm singer
gets wound up. II you was goin' to use
that Cleveland scheme discriminitin' you'd
look over your drunks and size 'om up and
sort 'em out before you turned the music
on 'em. II they was cheerful, you'd give
'em raptime. II they was on the distant
mountains home order you'd turn on love
songs. I regard that Cleveland scheme as