The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-19
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anyway. after the hnht wRs aver. Onr hes
got far enough away 10 stimulate a faded
West street palate.
II was y A Meyers, who sclls farm lmpls-
mrnts at ~ Cortlandt street, ground hoor
and keeps bees ~ tho roof. who telephoned
for the police. and II vas , 70. NJ Cooh.
wlsD keeps bees neSt door, who said that II
was all damn nonsense. Cooks bees we're
tho Insects that got away and stung early
commuters on their way 20 the ferries.
A hive was being unloaded from an
express q In front % Cooks place
when the expressman dropped II on the
aldewalk about 3 O'Clock In the afternoon.
The careless driver got his punishment
promptly, but the innocent suffered sons.
too.
II was Meycrs's chance. He invited the
paHeers by 10 come In and he safe and b,Iy
harrows and commercial fertilizers. But
the bees followed before he could slam
the door. Then he ~telephoned the alarm
TO the police,
Sergeant Nugent led the reserves in per-
son, with Roundsman OHara second in
command. They ran into a swarm and
lodged into Cooks place for information.
The sergeant picked up an Agricultural
Department bulletin on bee keeping and,
turning the pages at random. noted a line
to the effect that the queen bee never stings.
His campaign was quickly planned.
-O'Hara,' he said, I'VE must work quick.
BEING the sergeant. I will capture the queen.
You and the men get the workers.
Then he went up on the roof to ask Cook
what a queen looked like. By the time
he got back to the street the fight Was
over and the sidewalk was Uttered with the
bodies Of hve-barred Italian bees, killed
by sh~opkeepers with brootns.
But the trade Of tho neighborhood bad
been interfered with. John j. Cass, the
second hand book dealer, complained
that he was about to sell a book Of Edwin
Marhham's poems when the prospective
purchaser ran out with q yell.
"Was he stung or was 10 something he
saw In the book?' asked the sympathetic
dealer mex door.
II don't know said Cas-. but he didn't
buy"
across the street and saw some Of the honey
with q brown-the-wheat outfit, and then
few away toward the river.
Another boo found it's way round the
corner OF Cortlandt street and buzzed
Its way into q saloon. II stung the tongue.
just as he was about TO take a drink.
Fine" said the regular patron, give
me another. Of the same But the next
was fat.
Of q Plainfield commuters trousers and
he walked slowly so as to get ABOARD the
who was hurrying for the same boat ex-
planned that the man. with the steady leg
had q hive at home.