Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1916 — Wang and His Pirate Crew Invade Central Park [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Wang and His Pirate Crew Invade Central Park

<|EW YORK—Wang, a tailless Formosa cat pirate, and his hungry crew IN which have been making the nights hideous in West Eightieth street, have moved down nearer to the White Light section. Reports from residents along

Central Park West indicate that they have been giving some nocturnal vocal exercises in Central park. 11. Strowbridge, a guest at the Hotel Majestic, was awakened at four o’clock by what lie supposed to be the cry of a lost soul. It was the pirate leader, evidently striking the key, for, by the time Mr. Strowbridge was thoroughly aroused, the entire band of pirates was singing in Catonese, “Yo, Ho and a Bottle of Rum I” He looked out the window and

saw the heads of many other guests at their windows and all along Central Park West the heads of residents at their windows. Timothy Ebbitt, night house detective at the hotel, formed a posse, consisting ot bellboys, night clerks, kitchen men, and a few scrubwomen with mops. Near the Seventy-secopd street entrance to ...Central park they saw two balls of fire. They approached and sure enough the fiery balls were the eyes ot Wang — minus his tail and in a devil-may-care mood. He was surrounded by about 30 other cats, who seemed to regard him as their leader. As soon as Wang saw the invaders he arched his back and •bowed fight. Ebbitt picked up a stone and hurled It at Wang’s head, but it julSMd and Wang and his followers started, pell mell, down Central Park West