Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-19
PITY THE POOR SONGBIRDS! !!
The Menace of the German Bull'-finch
and Some Others

yrIIE Goyernment is so busy with num-
l. ber Of things II can scarcely be expected
to concern itself greatly over the conserra-
ton OF our songsters. but there is an a'iary
fronting Gramercy Park in New York where
terrible things are happening which threaten
tho utter extinction of our national warblers'
For there at stated intervals crumbs are
thrown out to attract the tunefd creatures,
and they flock to the place to feed and later
to indulge in rival twitterinGs. Immediately
they are at the mercy of--Cats? Oh, mercy!
never say that
Cats Of course are the main menace or
the feathered clans. but the musical bipeds
of whom speak are Of the so-called
human race; and the aviary IL the foetry
Society Of America
The songsters assembling there, we
started TO say, are at the mercy OF any
alien enemy who migNt take II into ms
head to blow up the building while the
singinGs at its height, and thus nt one
stroke stll the nations last cheerful chrrup'
And passing over the eats, there Is an ailen
enemy who. until recently, had free access
to the ayiary. aud who knows all the ins
| and outs Of the institution, His name is
| George Sylvester Niercck, and lie might be
| classified as a German Bull' finch.
Not long ago the tonic utterances OF this
translated twittercr became too utterly Teu-
| tonic and Jared upon other members ot the
,,a,,o,, oioc,ion irto ,bc outer air some of
ni,r. syeciest singers ,ycro among the obiec-
tors, and they made quite noise about II,
| The managers Of the ariary promised
| remedial measures. but the indignant Amer
| lean song-birds later learned TO their ais
| gust, that no very severe punishment had
been administered to the German Bull
| finch, An admonitory finger was shaken
| under his bealS and he was requested to
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