The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08
EVIDENCE TO PINCH COWS ON.
RUSTICATED POLICEMEN LEARN
ING NEW TRICKS IN THE BRONX.

sixteen Prisoners In the Lowing Herd That
t~aliopetl MadIy Der h Lea to Mike
Haley's Pound as East Nights Cur
few Tolled the Kneli OF Parting Day
Mike Haley, the city poundmaster up In
The Bronx, added sixteen more cows yes
terdayt othe twelve arrested the day before.
The present LOT will be held without bail
until Monday, and will then be auctioned
of to the highest bidder, like the previous
batch. These went mostly to butchers,
but anybody Haley says, is free to come and
bid. Nothing less than a whole COW Ii sold
at a time.
Them butchers call this a sort OF a Ten
derloin raid" observed Mike Haley yester-
day evening. land 80 it IL, though we take
our prisoners mostly in The Bronx and over
Classon's Point way. These here COWS has
failed to live Up to the regulations OF the
Board of Health, which ga that the stables
must have concrete drains and con-
nections, and what not. hope to pull in
several hundred COWS kept within the city
limits that have never 30 much as seen a
cement drain. Wen keep at them till
they're all rounded up"
The pound on Clinton avenue near ls2d
street was a stirring place when Mix Haley
and the COWS came home about sunset.
Haley came busting up the avenue in ad-
vance behind his trotter and the hands
cried Here they come" and began to race
around making preparations to receive the
prisoners. A cloud Of dust hove in sight
and in the centre Of it theh herd, mooing and
tossing their horns to theideiight Of q couple
of Juvenile baseball mines and a group OF
OF kiteHiers, who brought up the 9
Thomas Everett Of the Bronx health squad
in a buggy and several bootmen kept the
cattle moving.
With the help Of the war correspondents
from the newspapers and Of a veteran OF
the Franco Prussian war the herd was
headed into the pound yard, where Haley
barricaded IL in with a fertilization OF i'm
pounded sleighs, sulkies and ice wagons.
These beasts are a worry, all right, al
right" sighed the poundmaster as he
emerged, hopping his forehead. Every
mothers son OF them has to be MIXED
night and morning. They had me up to al
hours last night"
1T was a couple of hours before he learned
the combination, you see," explained
Everett.
ycS, IL 5 WOTec hCOpihe sh@A ~ -
catching them." admitted Haley. and that's
bad enough Everett here suggested thai
Haley tell about the dagoes.
THAT COW with the leather collar was
kept by a bunch of Italians explained
Haley, "out beyond a patch of woods over
West Farms way. No, they amt got an
| address, because there amt any street out
there. When they law us taking the COW
| they hollared murder and the whole settle;
| ment Of them chased US with sticks and
knives. Say, you ought to been along. II
/ wa a Bronx cop saved US. But I'd rather
scrap with Dagoes than milk all them COWS
| tonight. Combination. is iii. Why eaof
one Of them you have to milk a different
style, like. No dairy farm for mine.
@The cops, up here get as excited ABOUT
these COW raids as if they were back in Man
haitian. What am l to doy asks one.
Shall I 60 in and buy a drink OF milk for
evidenceP And when he seen all the pots
and pans in the milk room he was for seizing
them and taking them along. II you don't
believe that III tell you another one. Come
on in, anyway, and have a glass OF milk on
me-"
The cows will not be raided on Sunday
but on Monday hostilities will begin again
Citizens are warned that If they want to
save their mooleys they had Better hide
them in the thiokest woods OF Classon't
Point. Mike Haley says billy goats will not
be moIested for the present.
Cows, he explains, tend to reduce thu
consumption OF beer, VI goats are to bt
regarded az q benefit to the city. They
clear The Bronx OF old newspapers, ever
eating pink ones with apparent relish
The goat is called The Bronxite's friend
Not SO the COW. She wander on JEROME
avenue and the Southern Boulevard, an(
frightens the little girls on their way t.
and from school, and stops automobiles
even attacking policemen.