Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-18
MONEY FOR THE CAMPAIGN
Some Contributions, But More
Speechmaking at Mass Meeting.
70 TEST THE REGULATION
Committee to Be Named to Present
Chicken Fanciers' Grievances
to the Commissioners.

| All was quiet OH OIA SlIocL ldoI IA6AS
The young girls tripped. gaily back and
forth from the ice cream places, the
policemen swung their batons with
happy and nonchalant air. the cars hum
med merrily along. The scene was one
Of peace and Joy. Not harsh or strident
note disturbed the harmony Of that well
known thoroughfare.
But bark! From the open doors Of
No. S24 come a mummur. 1t grows
and grows louder and harsher: like the
mob in the distance OF the theatrical stage
It increases In fury and volume with re-
markable presidency. Sharp notes OF rage
play the staccato parts which contrast
| like knife slabs against the deep dfapason
| OF human discomfort. Ninth street IL no
longer as serene as the village green. but
becomes q thoroughfare on which folks
trembIe in their boots. Something surely
/ is amise.
| It was the second meeting Of the
Poultry Protective Association. It met
| last night to see what 1t would do about
this business Of having the commissioners
pick on the rooster all the time, and they
| are not going to let them pick on the
rooster without making a protest. From
| such small beginnings does such HOOD
of rage overpower the peace OF 9th street
| northwest When all was said and done,
the P. P. A. has decided to protest to the
Commissioners against the regulations re-
| curing a rooster owner to get the major
! ity Of his neighbors to allow him to keep
| the bird and the regulation which keeps
a rooster in the fire limits. twenty-five
| feet from the house. and out OF the nre
| limits, fifty feet from the house.
eye scribe's" Narrow Escape.
President Geddes was explaining just
what was to be done with the money
contributed to the p. p. A. when a Star
the front door of No.
1874 9th street. The reporter started to sit
down on a brooder. or a patent coop or
something of the kind, but he was urged
to sit somewhere else:
cred a friendly rooster lover. An egg
crate was furnished for chair Then
the president went on to tell how nobody
was member of the p. P. A. until he
support doesn't pay anybody's dues in the
P. p. A. You've got to put up the cash.
One gentleman thought he was a member
last Tuesday night, and made the air
vibrate with his speech against DR.. Wood
ward of the health department: This
was so warm a speech that the P. P. A.
wrote a letter of apology to the Com
missioners, and the speaker hurried to
the meeting last night to say he did not
want any body of men-no., he did not
apologize for him. He said what he said
in the heat Of anger and that's all there
was to it. Whereupon he was reminded
that he was not a member, and that
little contribution was all that was needed
to make him one-but at 9.O5 pm. he had
not yet contributed anything more than
moral support.
The matter Of having to keep chickens
twenty-five feet away is a hardship to
great many poultry fanciers. Hark to
the experience of one man, whose name Is
suppressed because he asked to have 1t
SO:
"Twenty-Three" for Him.
"Of course. I amt gotta big lot or q
ten acre or hundred acre farm. 1 just
gotta little place of my own. an I like
my chickens just like anybody else. OF
course, one Of these chicken inspectors.
or health officers. or clerks or somthin' I
dunno, he might a been a Commissioner,
come up to the house an measured of
the place out back, and 1t lacked only two
feet of bein' twenty-five feet away from
the house, an I gotta give up my chick
ems like my chickens. but dunno"
Lacked but two feet of twenty-five.
Fatal "twenty-three." Goodbye. chick
les!
There was much discussion over the
regulation requiring the permission Of
70 per cent Of ones neighbors in order to
keep roosetrs. The p. P. A. thinks 1t Is
only fair that the burden Of the petition
should rest upon the man who kicks
against the rooster and that he should be
made to circulate the petition and OBJ
tain the names of Is per cent of people
who object to roosters.
And, say remarked a rooster lover.
'ff these fellows would go to bed early
they would not object to hearing rooster
crow early in the morning"
There was a quiet gentleman standing
In the background. Somebody mentioned
having approached the Commissioners on
this poultry matter and intimated that
there was a certain frigidity in the at
mosphere which led him to believe the
Commissioners were going to laugh him
to scorn. Up jumped the quiet gentle
man in the background. He said in an
cry tones:
"Well. let's stop talking about the mat
ter. Let's do something: Let's show
these fellows we con fight; let's get an
attorney, let's"
"Ah." assured the president. ''remem
Der, the p. p. A. as body has not acted
yet. But we will act. I have consulted
an attorney"
Don't Believe Its Law, Anyhow.
"And this chicken law" said another
gentleman. II don't believe it is law.
any such law and don't believe It is a
law until Congress passes IT..
Then there are the families whose chick
ems have actually been banished, but who
have three or four more days to either
get rid of them or move the hen house
back a few feet. They go out every day
and see their pet chickens running about
answering by name, mayhap. and drop
| a tear when they think dear little fluffy
Lena and that beautiful Fritz. who today
some lonesome grave. All. 1t is sad!
Tsese chickens. on whose head rests the
heavy hand of the law, will be the first
consideration OF the P. p. A. committee
which visits the Commissioners.
1t has been decided that the president
ehnu1d annont a commit nf fur RI law