New-York tribune., 1911-11-20
HARLEM HAS SHEEP HUNT
Animals Escape from Park and
Race Through Streets.
TRY TO ENTER A CHURCH
Pursued by Sunday Crowds Until
Patrolman Appears on Scene
and Captures Them.

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and Captures Them.
on the face Of it this is a sheepish
story. yet it is true in all it's wild and
woolly details.
Twas the hour when the sun was j-st
sinking behind the rocky palisades Of
Hudson. its last beams f1ecking the bar
rem trees in Central Park with touch
of gold The northern boundary of the
park. 10th street, was thronged with
tn habitual Sunday crowd Little boys
and girls. out with their nurses, faces
newly scrubbed and immaculate as to
bib and tucker; vivacious young women
In all the newest and most distracting
variations of hobble skirt and blanket
overcoat: young men with dishpan hats
and tight fitting trousers; matronly
women and men Of doubtful age, valiant
In stovepipe headpieces and frock coats
all were there to be seen and TO be ad-
mired.
From out the gloom of the woods near
the Seventh avenue entrance 10 Central
Park there emerged two strange ami
mails. Harlem's eminent naturalists
we're not a unit as TO the identity or
species. Some said they were goats;
Others. bulls, and, again, there We're
some who thought they were deer.
Before this technical point had been
settled. however, the animals trotted out
into 10th street and began 10 look
about. The leader bore two large, saw
age looking horns on his proud head
and walked with lordly mien. The
other followed modestly in his foot
steps.
The Sunday paraders at once showed
interest. The children persisted in run
ming out 70 meet the creatures half way,
holding out peanuts and like delicacies,
which the newcomers nibbled at sus-
piciously. only TO disdain them in the
end When one venturesome lad tried to
cram a peanut down the throat of the
hcrnless animal it turned and butted
him in a direction due south.
Wearying Of the interest which they
had excited, the animals started on a
lope up St Nicholas avenue, pursued by
several hundred persons. Automobile
horns honked and trolley bells changed
discordantly. and the woolly beasts in
creased their mad lope. Now they
veered their course and ran TO Seventh
avenue, at that time a whirl OF auto
mobiles and pedestrians. on more than
one occasion collisions were narrowly
averted. and in the mean time Harlem
was going mad with excitement.
While the chase was at its height
somebody telephoned 70 Police Head
quarters that two goats were on ram
page on Seventh avenue. Soon pa
trolman. Cerney by name, appeared on
the scene to arrest the four-footed ter
rors. Up Seventh avenue as far as HIST
street the huntsmen trailed the venture
some animals The doors of the Church
OF st. Charles Borremeo i'm the centre
of the block, were open. Into this haven
Of refuge the two voyagers turned and
hoped up the steps to the vestibule.
Horrifed ushers shooed them out into
the cold where they took up the siren
uous coil Of their existence once more.
At this point Patrolman Cerney ap-
peared. pushed his way through the
crowds and surveyed the scene
Goats, is it," he asked, scornfully.
"Tis mountain sheep they are" and he
uncolled a lassoo and circled 1t over the
head Of the hornless one. Some poet has
said that the female Of the species is
more dangerous than the male" and
Cerney will side with him. for the anil
nal charged madly and showed him
around the street. much TO his chagrin.
After crowded five minutes, however.
Cerney conquered his prize and then 1t
was easy TO capture the male. With the
mountain sheep trotting along in front
of him. Cerney started down st. Nicho-
las avenue 10 the station house
His arms had almost been pulled from
their sockets by the time he reached the
station house and reported g. Lieutenant
Miller The latter smiled, and after
taking the pedigrees Of the prisoners or
dered them locked up in a stable
Later it was learned that the sheep
had escaped from Range No. 40. in Cen
tral Park.