The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-05
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r,uf Tho fssss Market Har Association
roun'ed 4 fre escape In = hody. and after
~sa-.mbllns on tho roof pasasd resolutions
authorizing itself, In the interests n j~ustice,
IN oren all the s~cutties on thu bloch and
erarrh Tor the funa way. Guy Marshal The
Van Irer. who had followed ths association
~ The roof, looked higher and saw a large
groom bird oircling above him.
fhe keepers, meanwhile, had beaought
'hc multitude 90 b. calm, ~ the prisoner
whp had escaped was Warden An derson's
Parrot. This warden said he would give
. dollar % any one who would bring the
lri bach unacathed. The Offer grew to
such generous proportions, finally getting
up TO 81 600. that all the pushcart men within
Q half mile Of the jail gave up business
temporarily and went sleuthing for the
parrot.
Louis Zeltner, who has g wireless news
service on tho East Side. got word OF the
parrots escape one minute after 10 had
started from tho jail yard, aud THE Sun
man got around before the bird was capt
ured.
The Duke Of Essex Street followed the
eyes Of Van Leer, and also noted the arching
streak of green, remarking that II would
have been a more beautiful sight on St.
Patrick's day. The Duke declares he
distinctly heard the parrot uttering oaths
tI6I dDItdTtu y 10 u lnlAtuIO VI AIuuiSu
and Irish and English. The word damn
game out Of the blue. with other and bluer
streaks, and the Duke is not certain Of the
words but he thinks he heard a ohanty that
sounded something like:
Lay alor. yo lubbers.
And furl the royal sail.
Or jolly Capt. Anderson
VIII lock you up In jail.
"Ye no, heave no, and let the pinnacle
halliards go!"
The Bar Association after gazing some
time at the parrot passed another resolu-
ton saying that it was the sense of the meet
ing that inasmuch as none Of the members
could fly. although there were some pretty
fy ones, the pursuit Of the parrot should be
postponed until Lawyer Able Walsalsky,
this inventor, had completed his flying
machine. h association then ADJOURNED
to the sidewalk and went into executive
session in the corner saloon.
Meanwhile the parrot kept on circling
while a thousand hands were uplifted inn
ploring II to Hight. 1t was arranged among
groups Of the watchers that If the parrot
should fall among them they would divide
the reward. the amount of which kept grow
ing with the enthusiasm Of the crowds in
the streets. After flying about half an hour
the parrot dropped on a roof two blocks
nOTtutdbVO VI Ih0 jail AHt bJdlT ways fedQlnR
to the roof were. damned five minutes
later, and men and boys were vomited from
the scuttle by the pressure below like lava
from q crater. But the bird had disap-
peared. Eight-year-old Otto Blumers, who
was looking down, from the third story
window into the basement at 2i3 Broome
street, saw something green there about
Q o'clock. He had noted the excitement in
the neighborhood but did not know what it
was about. He ran down and found the
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fierce. The boy got nipped several times
before he caught the parrot, which let out a
string Of invectives against all la~ndlubbers
and the sons OF sea cooks Of the East Side
particularly.
molly, with the birds cage, went around
to get 1t. 1t made a strong kick against 60
ing back into captivity, biting and clawing
Connolly and mingling its nautical epithets
with East Side vernacular in a
that would shock a top sawyer. The boy
accompanied the clerk back to the Jail,
followed by several hundred persons, who
believed that, as they had seen the bird
In the sky, they ought to come In on a part
Of the 81 900 reward. The warden received
the parrot with great calmnees and gave
smiled, thanked the warden and ran of, the
multitude olamoring for its share, following
him.
The warden deprecated the printing of a
long piece about the parrot. He said he had
received the bird six yeers CO., before
he was warden, from a sailor and had given
It to Mrs. Anderson. 1t had never been
christened and nobody called 1t anything.
Whatever anybody might call it the warden
was willing to bet that 1t could call that
person much more. It had been until
yesterday a very proper bird, except in
It's language, which 1t had learned In six
or seven years of ~voyaging in all the seas.
1t was not unlikely that II had wearied
Of the surroundings and the language Of
the neighborhood and had decided TO seek
another port. Its wings had never been
clipped and il had no trouble flying. It
had been let out Of It's cage for exercise and
an airing. according to daily custom. The
prisoners in the yard, mostly foreign born,
had tried to talk to 1t, and it had protested
in English as she Is spoke on shipboard,
saying, talk United States. you"-several
dashes. Then 1t found that it's wings were
good and vent right up in the air and over
the Jail wall, while the prisoners looked on
longingly, regretting that they were not
built on parrot lines.
As the parrot was taken back TO the
warden's room it was heard singing:
OF all the girls that are so fine.
We no. lads. no. wen cross the brine
There's none like Rosie Isaacstein.
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