The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-06-23
HEALTH BOARD
ATTACHE GOES
ON A RAMPAGE
At Large for Two Weeks
With Big Collection
of Microbes.
PICKPOCKET BY NATURE
Spends Part Of His Time in
Loft Of Street Cleaning
Department ScOw.

1t was denied with nervousness and
scorp around the Health Department
laboratories at the willard Parker Hos
pital yesterday that Jerry. the monkey
that escaped from the laboratories sew
eral days ego and is still raising heck
around the playground at Seventeenth
street and the East River. had quit the
Health Department because Jerry had
gone In for entomology and had left the
laboratories in order to make private
collection OF insects. The story was an
absurdity. said the laboratory folks. II
for no other reason than that Jerry al
ready owns one OF the largest private
collections of insects In the world. Jerrys
collection being second only to the per-
sonal collection owned exclusively by
Pancho Villas war cabinet.
And Jerry didn't leave his Health De-
partment Job fiat either because tho
monkey wanted, as has also been limited.
to get a close up Of all the Italian
parades being formed in the playground
neighborhood these days. Jerry quit be-
cause by instinct he Is a pickpocket,
crook, a fatheaded rummy Of a tramp.
a no good dip. an assailant OF women
and children and a low thief--and IL
any Of those statements be libelous, let
Jerry 20 right ahead and engage his
lawyers. Solomon, Solomon. Solomon.
Solomon. Solomon 4 Solomon of the
Essex Market Bar Association. known in
the legal world as the Six Little Martin
littletons. and sue all summer
Got His Board Free.
For almost two weeks now Jerry and
his outdoor collection Of insects and In
door collection Of Health Department
germs have been dividing their time be-
tween the trees of the playground and
a hayloft In q Street Cleaning Depart
ment scow close by. While with the
Health Department Jerry didn't have
thing to do for his board and lodging
except to be inoculated every few hours
with some Of the swaggerest diseases
now extant. the rest OF the time being
.W1solay'- his own. In fact, the Health De-
all the various kinds of diseases abso-
lutely free, with nothlng'to do from sun
set to sunrise except to recover from
that particular days disease in time to
take up a new disease right after break
fast
But Jerry seems to have become all
fed up with diseases. Two weeks ago
he took his original South American COL
lection Of private insects and his re-
Gently acquired collection OF North
American insects, together with what
ever germs he still owned. and quit his
Job. Now ne has dropped all scientific
pursuits and has descended to the level
Of the tired business man.
For according to authoritative reports
from all over the playground. Jerry has
become a swing snatcher In other
words. he devotes all the daylight hours
to perfecting himself in the art of grab.
bing at the girls slippers as they soar
toward his trees in the swings with
which the playground Is studded. Even
the least tired business man who grabs
at Miss Marie Flynn's slipper when
Miss Flynn sails out over the You're
in Love" audiences at the Casino each
night puts in only a few moments in
perfecting himself in the art, but Jerry
regardless OF his long scientific mind
training at the city's expense. does next
to nothing else
some of JerPy's Tricks.
In Justice to Jerry. however. It should
be said that yesterday he was seen to do
Just few other things. He descended
to the playground level for one thing,
and grabbed some small boys caps ly-
ing on the ground. Again, he annexed
n paint brush belonging by right in
the pail OF a park painter. Also he
caught banana thrown to him by q
street cleaning Official named Luigi.
who, owing to official duties. was un-
able to participate in any Of the various
exercises around town yesterday but
had to be on the job. Also Jerry called,
as has become his custom OF late, for
the apple which Mrs. Anna Deberge of
sol Avenue C leaves under one of the
trees for him each morning.
One other act Jerry performed yes
terday. He was seen to grab a hard
hitting hammer. the property OF the
city, and fling 1t far into the East River.
The only explanation for this odd ac-
tion offered by the municipal authorities
last night was that Jerry. like a lot OF
other city employees, doubtless thought
there were too darned many hammers
at work in municipal official circles Just
at this time.
The banana thrown to Jerry and the
apples supplied daily by Mrs. Deberge
partly explain how Jerry has mana ged
to live since he left the Health Depart
ment fiat. But what the city scientists
were trying to figure out last night was
how his live insect collection. which is
said to number 1864 .9S3 621 .13s.1l2,-
1s6793 distinct specimens, and his col
lection Of s2.614,683, 7ss.4s2.12l.21l,s9s,-
2S2,3s4,74l,911,339 9.S24.521.s63,4 ,429, 632,-
312.s67. 7.3s4.316.4 .4s7, ,221 .104, ,009 germs
manage to exist. DR.. Hoozis of the
geological department Of the Scranton
Correspondence School was authority for
the statement last night that both the
germs and the Insects are sponging on