August 12, 1916

BUSTANOBY HALED TO COURT

Called Complaint Against His Restaurant a "German Conspiracy"

Jacques Bustanoby, indignant, stood before Magistrate Krotel in the West Side court yesterday and heard his restaurant at 1843 Broadway called an early morning madhouse that ought to be put into a deep wood far from human habitation.

"It is an outrage," he said excitedly, and asserted he was the victim of an German conspiracy because his patrons loved to listen to the strains of "The Marseillaise."

Bustanoby was summoned to court by the tenants of the Pasadena apartment house, 10 West Sixty-first Street, right around the corner from the restaurant, who charge him with maintaining a nuisance. He was represented by former Deputy Police Commissioner Henry Newburger.

Frederick L. Lavecburg, a manufacturer of colors, described the nuisance as piano playing, yelling, and singing that continued until the early morning. Henry Deutsch testified that the noise was such that he could no longer sleep. Miss Grace Boyle said that some of the language overheard was bad, and James Carby, the superintendent of the apartment house, testified that many of the tenants had threatened to break their leases if the noise continued.

The hearing was continued until next Tuesday.