SCR00007.136

THE BAT. OCT. 4, 1887.

THE inhabitants of West Kensington do not look upon the Wild West as a rose fallen from Heaven, and are signing a strong petition praying that the music licence may not be renewed. They plead that the entire neighbourhood has been ruined socially and financially (if that were possible) ; that dissolute roughs and drunken idlers swarm together ; that residents' houses are continually peppered with shot and fragments of glass balls ; that house property has fallen in value, and that the increase of traffic at late hours disturbs their rest. They consequently say that if the present Exhibition, "or any other objectionable entertainment, be continued after October," it will force many of the better class of residents to leave the neighbourhood. It would be a pity if such trifling matters should compel us to forego the delights which civilisation experiences at seeing Miss Annie Oakley perform with her rifle.