The New York herald., 1921-09-03
PARROT saw IT ALL,
BUT minnie DIDN'T
Heroine of New Wonder
land Is Run Down by a
Common Truck.
MOUSE CAUSED TT ALL
Back Yard Pet Was Giving
a Roman Holiday When
1t Happened.
PRIDE PRECEDED FALL
The Four Legged Rooster, the
Bulldog and the Goldfish "
Are Mourners. /:
PRIDE PRECEDED FALL

There were number o. very ex-
traordinary things about Minnie, who
lost her life yesterday, martyr to the
belief that the world stopped and re-
garded her when she saw fit to chase
mouse. Just big, clumsy yellow
cat. Minnie was so kind and gentle
that she dwelt in perfect harmony in
the back yard of Banks restaurant. in
% West 1880 street, with a parrot,
trained pig, a goat, a monkey, q bull
dog, four legged rooster and pool
OF goldfish.
Her disposition was SO amazingly
angelic, in fact, that not only did she
refrain from dining off the goldfish,
but she had been known to stick her
paw into the pool and give one of
them push after the poor thing had
started somewhere and had grown too
tired to swim any further.
Minnie was such a wise old cat that
she had learned the utter futility of
protest when one of the children OF the
neighborhood was seized with a desire
to pull her tail Consequently she let
tHcfi pun II, anu icl lHtul Sel TOuSl
with her. She was disgusted but calm.
So Minnie became the darling OF the
neighborhoof. and nobody near Banks
restaurant ever caught a mouse in
trap that Minnie was not invited to the
feast.
Roman Holidays Were Hers.
Almost every day kids came with mice
for Minnie. and the merchants of the
district caf mic To-,
and then sent for Minnie to make the
kill. This she did amid great cheering.
and after she had killed and eaten she
sat back complacently on the curbing
while the trained pig or the monkey per-
formed. or the parrot made a speech for
the edification Of the crowd. For Minnie
never went out alone. She was always
accompanied by some other member of
the back yard family. excepting the gold
fish. who never went anywhere.
Yesterday afternoon merchant came
into Banks restaurant with a mouse
trap that had mouse in it. and Bank
sent for Minnie. and also for the bull
dog and the four legged rooster. the idea
being that after the kill the rooster
would perform and the dog would act as
guardian and a protector for Minnie
her tail being somewhat sore because
of an influx of new kids with strong
desires to pull it, Everybody went out
into the street. large crowd gathered
to see Minnie and the four legged roos-
ter, and the trap was sprung amid
great excitement. The mouse popped his
head out Of the cage, looked dazedly
about FOR minute. and then caught
sight of Minnie, sitting gravely on her
launches. Minnie could have killed the
mouse then. but Minnie was a sports
woman. She gave her game a chance
that is, she never jumped on them until
they started to run.
Under Chariot Wheels.
Finally the mouse started across the
street with Minnie in hot pursuit. while
the crowd cheered and laid bets as to
whether the mouse would gain the oppo-
site sidewalk as a mouse or as an in
terror decoration for Minnie's digestive
system. 1t was almost q foregone con
'lusion that Minnie would catch the
mouse. hut, alas, she didn't. a heavy
truck, driven by Sidney Cohen of Mad
ison avenue and 10th street. came
along and ran over her just as Minnie
was about to seize the mouse. Minnie
expired at once, and then the commotion
began.
The crowd yelled. but the bulldog
and the four legged rooster took more
definite action. The dog growled fiercclv
and began biting the horses legs. while
the four legged rooster jumped on the
animals back, shrieking like a maniac
and began scratching and clawing and
digging with his beak. The horse
screamed in fright, Cohen shouted and
the crowd yelled. Cohen knocked the
rooster off the horses back with his
whip. but the crowd pulled Cohen from
his truck and began to beat him. He
jerked away from them. however
jumped on his truck and lashcd his
horse down the street and escaped.
They found Minnie Graded in the lap
OF little gfTs whose principal delight
had been to ptA, the cats tail. and the
little girl was crying. And lot OF
other kids we're just standing there.
looking at Minnie, and they were crying.
too. The grown ups let them alone, and
the children carried Minnie into her back
yard and put her in her house. while the
trained pig and the parrot and the mon
key watched. Tomorrow the kids will
bury Minnie. and they'll have funeral
for her In the back yard. with the four
legged rooster as chief mourner.