Fear an Invasion by Rats When Mammoth Pile of Junk is Moved From Street.
Thousands Of Rats There.
Have Taken Refuge in Enormous Pile of Junk That is Stored by Janowitz.
    Residents of Ash street are thinking seriously of inserting an advertisement reading somewhat as follows:
    Wanted-A Pied Piper who will guarantee to lead all the rats out of the neighborhood. Price no object. Answer at once.
    The advertisement would not be quite as silly as it may sound for the proposition that confronts the residents of that residence district is a serious one.
    For years Janowitz has had a junk yard on Ash street. Neighbors say that the lower part of the junk heap has not been disturbed for years. During the greater part of that time it has made a home for rats. At first there was only a few of them, but they seemed to thrive and their families have multipied to such an extent that it is claimed there are now thousands of them at the present time.
    Neighbors say it is no exaggeration to state that some of them are as large as an ordinary cat. In fact Mrs. Janowitz is said to have killed one that size with a broom a few days ago. They are said to scamper in and out of the pile in droves.
    Neighbors would not object so much if the rats would stay in the pile but a new situation has developed. Janowitz together with other junk dealers must move his small mountain of junk, and this within a few days. The neighbors fear that when the hordes of rats are deprived of their regular home that they will seek abode in nearby homes and in sheds and will become a positive nuisance. This if they were able to hire a second Pied Piper of Hamlin who would “pipe” the rats away they would be willing to pay whatever price was demanded.
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