Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1916 — New Yorker Finally Finds a Use for Bagpipes [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

New Yorker Finally Finds a Use for Bagpipes

NEW YORK. —The zippy question of what earthly purposes can bagpipes serve has been answered at last. They can be used to break a lease and get a tenant expelled when he wants to move away. Such a tenant is Sandy Mackinnon, a young artist in a studio _ J._

apartment in West Twenty-third street. He wished to seek other quarters, bnt was detained by the binding clause in his lease. He decided to make his tenure so obnoxious that his landlord would throw him out of the building. He sent his wife out to Invite all the Scotch pipers of their aqquaintance to ft skirling contest. Twelve earsplitters answered the call. Never did rebellious Irish tenants give an Eng-

lish landlord a worse drubbing than Sandy’s Scottish friends administered to Ma ■■ ; ~ ‘ -—r- ———- —— From midnight until daylight their hideous, barbaric music proved that Macbeth was not the only Scot who “murdered sleep.” They played to raise the roof and danced to stamp the floor in. Tenants howled and begged for merey to-no avail. The next morning as the sun was peeping over Manhattan island a notice was served by a deputy sheriff for Sandy to “git out and git out dern Quick, dqrn your ornery bide.**