The evening world., 1911-05-08
900 Fowls Are Let Loose at
Brooklyn End of Will
iamsburg Bridge.
ONLY 800 RECOVERED,
Passers on Foot, in Autos,
Street Cars ard Tugs Pro-
vided With Dinner.

a chicken dinner to-day, It was his own
fault. Never before were fowls so plen.
t'fu. and free As they were abou. q
o'clock. when Jacob zimmerlch O., No.
39 Schenectady avenue started 10 take
a w~asonload Of plump pullets across tho
bridge.
Aboard tho wNcon, which belonged n
the New York Poultry Market Of No.
- Rockaway avenue. Brooklyn, were
twelve crates containing 600 chickens.
~ the Brooklyn tower. where the slope
Of the bridge begins. the heavy wagon
began to press forward against the
horse. In q few men the harness
broke and the horse got beyond control.
A. It dashed wildly among the Other
vehicles In the south roadway a crate
tumbied of and scores OF chickens vera
released. The chase was then on. Some
OF the chick ems ran under trolley cars
and automobiles and were killed, others
flew to the cables Of the bridge and
man perched on tops of passing
wagons
Everybody within reach began to
grab chickens. The horse
kept knocking of crates as II grazed
other wagons and soon the Brooklyn
end Of tho bridge was all aflutter.
Runaway Gate Down.
Policeman Driscoll tried to stop the
runaway. but he was knocked from hts
feet and painfully nurt. He sent In q
signal to Policeman McInerny at the
runaway gate. however. and when the
horse arrived at the Williamsburg
terminus the gate was down and the
animal crashed into It.
BY that time only a few crates re-
manned on the wagon. These. like the
others. fell to the road and broke open,
and almost the entire 600 fowls were
fuetering and squawking about. The
Bridge Plaza was alive with them, the
ratings were decorated with scores
and many sta.d old hens aid the high
live from the bridge cables.
Passengers on trolley cars said later
they never suspected there were so
many feathers In the world as were
flying about for Q few minutes. Mo-
tormen stopped their cars n Joined
IN the chase. and passengers were not
Ions in following.
Eight polio men lot the Bridge Squad.
whose duty II was to catch as nan
Of the chickens as possible and ave
them for their owner. Wed with the
common ordinary citizen In trying to
chickens dropped on the decks OF tug
boats. Il rained chickens on some of the
streets under the Brooklyn end of the
brldg and feathera and mangled forms
Of what had been perfectly good fowls
Jay " ~ " "e
e@S tracks
Car Roofs were BOOSTS.
More than one automobile was seen
% hurry nv with one chicken under
an. coat ana another
nan,oru 49, ,onna,r So,
peI'neu pan.s oA 'ne 80"
car Ioois ro'e"io'eu ''Nn "''
on one car aia' mel sought l.'"se o'
the trolley pole' nut the oest she couiu
do was to make a slide for life TO the
roof.
The sirh, busy bluecoats tried their
has, "a danrIva ina volunteer chicken
..,,h.r. -, ,h.,r nriv.s In, r,ost ~
nn, - r,,.h ~.
theHh hiahaseu u So away Wv
pluhuer As iasl as Inv poHee'lo'
woi!d catch a rooster VI puIuu !. .os
"a IL mo ,me eity ~ na ~,
OF the Wiiidihsnu,s oaNt"ss pahA =. -
oroao"ey anu A'."ue =" o
the priuse approach, ~ ~"
eiarea theFe "1s oNe.y AM % 81.
amAs'hao'e " NV '" ~ ~
cnIcheh. n,.
mo enoSo on r.. az nee ,iaJ
ias.en nan an to,h an Tho car iine
UP part OF the TIME potn oh .. %, III
To oh 'no nou'n 49, n nturcd m
.ho .ooso pou 80 az All wnrons.
.ne s'ounu NV aaan,,,, a. Two etnIoton
49, pseu nidao u',re eomght Tho.
49, Ia.o ,s uyaI, a
time as they ever expected to have.