Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-09
NOlSIEST CONCERT IN
NEW Y0RK'S HISTORY
Madison Square Garden Echoes With
the Voice OF Five Thousand
Cocks and Hens.
nY MADGE ARTHUR.

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| NEW YORK. Feb. Sit certainly is
not customary to have the Official
ceremonies" connected with the open
ing" OF q gala event. postponed until
after the chief participants therein
have gone 10 bed. but that is what re-
Gently took pace in Madison Square
Garden.
Doors were opened at . o'clock in the
morning TO the great exhibition OF the
New York Poultry and Pigeon Asso-
citation. and throug irout the day many
visitors. OF whom l was one. throngcd
/, the vast hall, but IL was not until
eleven hours later. that the high dig
nitaries. including DR.. Jonathan Day,
commissioners OF foods and markets, in
eloquent speeches. declared the enter
prise officially launched,
The reason is plain enough: no human
voice could have made itself heard
combined conversational powers Of s.
o0o ROSTERS 2,eco hens, 500 turkey
sobblers. 4 couple OF hundred ducks and
4 multitude OF cooling pigeons.
though; year or two OF New
fo-. life had hardened me against all
diSquiei!nG noises, but the strange
bable Of sounds that saiuted the ears
o. visitors 20 this feathe.y exposition
Was past Al! imagining. The musicians
gallery AZ the end OF the huge garden
where. during all other c1positions u
ccnid compete aSains; these natural
.nS:rumentaliSS.
TO me conundrUT. What makes more
noise than 4 Golden Wyandotte cock:"
You might hazard the answer. "A Black
MI0orca cockerel or \ Blue A0alusian
hen" and no one be a bit the wiser.
With one fact l was made acquainted
every breeder OF fowls becomes in
sensible 10 their foolish chatter AMI
fancies all other persons have attained
. y,
ever halted before the coop of some
particularly gorgeous bird. was made
ware that the exhibitor was endearor-
ing 20 learn in what .espeoia! line OF
could only nurmur. Il don't hear you"
ead move on.
AS matter o. fact IL was not the
Poultry, Interesting as ;hey we7e-par-
t:cuiarly through the fact that 1000
breeding fowl Will be set aside 20 re-
stock the farms OF Fraace-that had
see, ;hcse, wonderful pigeons which. I
had heard. were fresh back from amaz-
ing rests accomplished on the battle
'front.' q Europe. There were none such
birds of many OF these heroic hiers
were 10 be seen in one OF the galleries
as remote as possible from the clack-
ing hens and Quacking ducks.
The courteous owner of blue
checked bird which when less than
year old had made a hoSnine flight
/
in my hands while he expatiated upon
its merits. Spreading open it's strong.
broad d,, wing as one does a man. he
was air tight. Not an atom OF power
is lost in the sweep Of a saii like
mat. he said. mo particle OF air can
Around the leg of the pigeon was a
CLOSELY fitted aluminium hand bearing
is the custom Of breeders, was placed
Seven sn ;he da ss o TheG the pigeon was bu
forced through the ring and them
again extended. II must have been
Tor the bird is now four years old. and
finds it only a comfortable fit.
n,r N h nearly cooP was Blue,Bar
,nEsed). These two. ! was told. We're
INC n1rents OF several Of the birds that
%reonne f nr9aght Of tSs Of tho
brave soldiers, who had there been
SSni rds I6es by by the enemy. AS parent
mcnts call for highly bred hominr
pigeons, and their sons had proved
these wonderful carrie. pigeons ar ,s
rE9r,oea WITH an irrcmovablc number
NAYS mo,s.r oid: you will see how simple a
of al inefyiduai aiEh; feats accom-.
the homing pigeon record fo- non
,hs Is. ] was told, thir,y-fivc hours
hnlIt: minutes and six seconds Thc
ocautfu!. gentle bird I was perm;,,"i
10, 10 handle had twice during his sbort
EEttee Deen sent by express TO PensecoJ,
M a p nag returned 20 his home a.
~. Rochele. y. y. distance ~
Lofs mics in an air line, in va,,,
G Gtsr.E r'eord time. Its number Is
49, 50 II by any chance il sbouid
ever lcs' it's bearings and 6p "or
;Ma!. !cl Will know how dcservInp !.
Is OF your best attentions '"e -
Reasonable Request.
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