The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-16
SPINSTER'S CATS
 MAKE NEIGHb0RS
 LOSE THEIR SLEEP
Board of Health Has tO Take uD the Case of Colorado
 Avenue Resident

A wierd chorus of feline cries, split ting the night air of the peaceful neighborhood of Colorado avenue. 1y- ing between State street and Fair field avenue. has so wrought the res- idents of the otherwise quiet locality that an exodus has begun.
 Property owners who are unable to move have finally taken the matter to- the Board of Health complaining that the nuisance has become unbear- able and asking that some radical step be taken to end the nocturnal discord
 Music Hall' is the name that a facetious visitor in the neighborhood gave the house. None of the irnrnedi- ate neighbors treats the subject sos humorously. IL has become too fide- ous with them. But Music Hall" stands, nevertheless, and those who occasionally walk through the street late at night often pause for a few moments to catch the strains of the tireless choir.
 To attempt to estimate the total number of feline inhabitants of the two family house passing the figure upon the statements of nefghbors would be utter folly. Figures ranging from 20 to 200 have been circulated.
 
 make nights hideous. The official fg- ure recorded with the Board of Health as to the number of cats is g.
 In the house at 2S4 Colorado avenue there lived for several years the fam fly of Charles A. Stram, on the one aged woman, and her daughter, a spinster, Margaret c. Warehouse. Fol- lowing the demise of the elder woman. the maiden lady has lived alone in the Morehouse apartment, and the troupe of cats, already large has been; increased from time to time. untif now the house is alive with them.
 Miss Warehouse has more varieties of cats than MT. Heinz has of pickles. There are Manx cats, maltese cats, angora cats, cats of uncertain pedt- gree. some sleek, others not so sleek. uable asset of the common or garden variety of felis domestica, thoroughly
 Miss Morehonse's homssis owned by Fl. H. Nettleton the builder. Mr. Nett tleton's family and that Of his cat Iy. and for that reason he permitted the family of MT. Stram. the furni- ture man, to move from the neigh borhood a few days ago for no reason other than that there were too many cats afound for their comfort
  Lynch dodeed thr6ugh the 4Alndrops, went to thea Mjorehouse home,, and rapped gently upon the door He heard a great scurrying about within doors, and awaiting a response for several minutes, finally p1ucked up suffi- cient courage to peer through a Win- dow. He turned and fled forthwith for in the darkness what seemed to him like a thousand pairs of eyes gleamed at him. .
 He is irresolute. He doesn't know whether he'll write Miss Warehouse g. letter or take another chance and wis it the house He admits that he feels a little squeamish about going up against such a big array of cats. all
 Suppose the Health board orders the cats kflled,'' suggested one of Daye's assistants.
 "We'n need special force of men if they do, that" said he There must have been hundred there. Multiply that by nine-for. you know every cat has nine nves-and that makes-but what's the use? I'll have to get Peter White to figure out how many bullets will be needed. We mignf have to call out the militia.