The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-30
GOAT,LONESOME
C0BBLE|:R'S PAL,
WILL BE BANNED
Board of Health Rules
Against East Side Shoe
makers s Pet.


With his wife and four children
many miles away in a lonesome VII
lage of Italy, Joseph Endago, shoe
maker, at 1881 Pernbroke street, will
be deprived of his sole comfort, a goat.
by an order of the board of health. is
sued this morning
-1Joe'' started in business on Penn
broke street about 10 years ago and
as the years went by business picked
up Six months ago he purchased
an up-to-date machine for the repair
of boots and shoes. Business was
thriving for three months or SO until
suddenly there was a noticeable fall
the presence of the goat in the shoe
makers household and patrons shun-
ned the cobbler shop to avoid the pc
culiar atmosphere
About three months ago the cob
bier was notified by the board of
health to keep his animal in the back
yard and he complied with the order
until the cold, wintry blasts began to
annoy the goat With the approach
of winter +Joe's decided to keep the
goat in his home
The cobb1er shop is an interesting
scene every evening upon the approach
of O'Clock, when t+Joe' lays down
his cobsbler's kit after doing a hard
days work About this time every
of the shoemakers shop are half
drawn and every electric light, with
the exception of one, is extinguish ed
Then an Interesting scene is depict
ed
Congregated about the stove in the
center of the shop may be seen Joe, .
softly tuning a mandolin, while on
lockers are the goat, four cats, a mon
greI dog and a pair of rabbits As
the flames in the open stove are seen
to flicker and cast gloomy shadows
upon the walls and ceiling of the es-
tab1ish ment the lonesome cobbler is
heard playing a national air and hum
ming an Italian ditty while his mind
| is many miles away across the sea-
thinking of his wife and little ones in
the gloomy cottage in the vicinity OF
Vesuvius-
According to patrons Of the estab-
| 1ishment who have had occasion tc
visit the place while the above scene
| is being presented, the goat is the
most interested of the party while
strains OF music are coming from the
mandolin
| When arrives in the evening
| joe is wont to stop work ever
though tit may dfsplease his customers
who are in a hurry to have their work
completed
While the cobb1er is an adept man
| do11n player and mas resided IN this
! country for more than 1 o years, the
/ only American piece that he can play
| on the mandolin is e'Blue, Bell and
/ this old time ballad is often; played
upon the request of children who
oftfmes congregate within the shoe re-
pair shop.
During the day the goat may be
SEEN nunching strips of leather and
wandering happily about the sllo'
shop while "Joe'' is hummfng a. nativ'
song as he merrily pounds the sol'
| of a. shoe. He has long been waiting
the arrival of spring as he has bee1
| given to understand that by that tim,
/ the goat may be nailked and "Joe'
will no longer need to purchase mill
| FOR the kittens and the pair of rab
| bits. But. woe. to 'tJoe's'' intentions
| the goat will be taken away from him
The cobbler shop is anything but
1 healthy place. Piled in one corne
Of the sitting room is one ton o
coal recently delivered. The Goa
| was dumped upon the oil cloth an,
leaves black ridge about the wall
/ paper,
i Although it Is necessary for tn
/ good of the health of patrons OF tn
shoe shop and neighbors to have th'
| goat removed, the sympathy of tn
4 residents ef upper East Bridgeport
extended to the lonesome cebbier.