New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-24
BOROUGH GOSSIP
Mardi GraS Cost City $1,000
Puts Ban on Parked Streets.

..~.r,ent during the week Of the Coney
I.l,,d Nardi Gras. According to reports
a. IN brooklyn. the Street Cleaning De-
..,,,srt spent this sum. and with il LAO
- NJ confetti and streamers were re-
800 from the streets while the carnival
= /, rrocrcss This amount Is 4IO tons
- thau was removed last year. on
.oh sixty men and sixty carts were
-. tror, a m. 10 10 a. m. each day.
-, art removed sixteen loads OF waste
ard the $50 loads removed by the SIX carts
.o,aued 1890 cubic yards OF material
Mich OF the paper was burned at inc
dumps.
-. n,orssan Union Of the Holy Name
e..,e,,. will hold its annual rally on sun
a., inward OF 25oo0 members OF the Or
,-,t,o, will take part The diocese has
-, 5iyided into nineteen districts eaeh
- church at which the members VIII
-. Tho members in each parish
a7.'-..,os &c rendezvous will meet visit
s.t.-stions and escort them to the
-, .rt. devotional services will begin
=, o'clock. There was some tax lie"
,,or,ps ago ~ holding the rally on the
,o~.5s grounds al Prospect FarK' nut the
- ,,;,, not he tried until 81 has received
more consideration.
The County Court opened for the ran las'
- three parts being ready Tor nusl-
-ass Judge George ". Ward, OF Herh-
- county took charge II the criminal
calendar In Part T. Judge Norman 5. Dixie
- -bis county. in Part II. and Judge Jo-
.n,n r Moore. OF Montgomery County, IN
pat III. took mp the civil calendar A
,ea~ ago. when the court opened, there
,erA only two parts, but two additional
courfrooms have been made Of the quar-
.srs formerly occuIed by the Sheriff and
~ those occupied by the District Attorney.
fudge Lewis L. Fawcett is expected to re-
turn 10 Brooklyn within a few days.
While the people Of the Greenpoint sec
ton are not yet ready 20 deny the truth
Of the old maxim. THE early bird gets the
vorr7. % they do deny that IL has any ap-
pucaton 20 butchers. This came out in
court the other day. when Jacob Brown, Of
No g Middleton street. was hailed before
the bar OF justice for trying 20 initiate the
much honorcd early bird. In fact, he found
that he had carried tire carly bird business
70 such an excess that he had subjected
himself 20 the penalties provided for In
Section 1880 OF the Penal Code.
His neighbors informed Magistrate Maui
nsr that he was in the habit Of beginning
work at o'clock mornings. They first
complained 10 the police that the noise OK
fis cleaver kept them awake, but the police
dd not seem 70 mind So Mrs. Mary Boer-
ner. OF No 81 Middleton street. went to the
Manhattan avenue police court and got out
warrant for Browns arrest. Magis-
trate Manner held him for trial at Special
Sessions. All Of which goes TO show that
there are exceptions even 10 the old max
ms
Now that the mosquitoes have left, Flat
bushites would be perfectly happy but for
one thing-Lewis II. Pounds, the Public
Works Commissioner. has tntimated that
the administrat ton will not look favorably
upon much more street parking schemes
II there IS anything that the people Of
Flatbush pride themselves on IL Is their
street flower beds and grass plats.
Il is the custom In the neighborhOOd 10
fl the streets so well with flowers that
ordinary trucks cannot get by them with.
out great difficulty. While there Is a lot
70 be said In favor Of the flowers, Mr.
Pounds believes that something may be
said also in favor OF the wagons President
Miller q The Bronx has decided 10 stop
the street parking IN his borough, and II
would appear that the BROOKLYN admins
ratlon may soon follow his example