New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-07-14
TWO NEW INSTITUTIONS.
THE DoG-pEN AND THE moRGUE.


ave. where the city buges into the East River asd the
grogshop windows are full of great painted casks, the
corners full Of sene Oafers making gossip with the po
hcoman; huge smoky mills abuttng on the highways,
and small boys numerous as at the Zion Palace o.
Brigham Young; when your ears full OF hammers and
quarelng your eyes quite blinded by the rel sunshine
that falls in choking CUTTERS upon curbs hot that the
barefoot girls shrink from them and your nostrs as full
of smells as scavengeTs ragbagit only necessary to
select the keenest Of these smells the unnest and des
of these streets and the oldest of these noises to lind
yourself at the foot Of Twenty fhs, beside the dog
pen.
You NAV know it otherwise by the small and stless
circle OF young yagabond who stand at the door, Put
them on aours and tail between their legs and every
villain Of them would bark of perfect caniny. They
are looking out Of thievish eyes every comeri
for these rascas forbidden TO sell dogs to the city kdnap
cm and restore them to their whom they waylay
at the Pound At your coming there is great turbulence
and business interest.
"Dorg2'
"Waa 1t a bull-purp wi piece orr his hind porr
arm find him for You, sir. He's bean fed rump
steak twice of night, and gravy boiled for him OF
Sunday and leave IL TO Jim Smith, hope may die
Hore there Is great confusion Of epthets and asseyer
tons each OF which is true bark as much as II II had
been followed by teeth in your calves. You see as you
pass in that the dog-pound is shed, almost On
the rivers brink which washes here against the pier IKE
so much greasy dshwaer and brings to you none OF inc
cool associations of the streams The place looks IKE
habarn exteroy used t. stable very spare and slab
sided nar and when you have passed its door and gang
way YOU find yourself in sort Of dock ane-room fur
nishod only with pine desk, and leading by wicket
gate to the greater of the crib There here no FUR
nturc of any kind sort of great box-crat or cage
al the bottom end the lid of which is raised at present.
and beneath it reaches great dripping hose OF leather
This the tank wherein the unrcdeemed dogs perish anu
between the tank aud the wicket the dogs themselves, tied
in rows, waiting for death.
Its ahudded and pitfal scene the very prison Of the
Abbey to these courty and royal households There ere
four rows of hcm theky seated calves in the sham
bes and tied with ropes and straps two feet in length to
the central cords tina, reach enghwse. below that
would be horrible were it not crushed by the great whip
OF the attendant youth that strides up and down. touch
iny now here now there when some bruised and fright
cned quadruped raises his 10 Shrek. Near e.
death yet forbidden even sob the drowning water
making suces visible yet the horror OF The sight and
sound which would lft the ways OF with the vain bray
and dge of the condemned ordered to be borne In silence
at the penalty Of the lash. And with this low tremu
LOUIS almost human whine, every visitor eners the
room every dog leaps up with quick cry and all enteat
ing wag Of the TAIL hopeful that mercy aud master have
come Al ast Here are houseess dogs unOwned, which
have lived from puppyhood on garbage and never
known the soness Of caress kicked and harnessed and
suspectlu and used to rain and night-ogs which have
fallen in some travellers wake and troted behind him for
nos with vclant fear and hope that perhaps IN some
uncommon impulse the may look back and say Poo
follow dogs which have crept once or twice IL
their lives within some open gate and smeed the odor OF
. -. Hoo
tall the cooks and scuons drove them away these a
least, have the end Of dsmalness and the las,
blow is spared them now quietly and sladfny they lie
that the time has aud they have hope arepneve
TAere is nothing In the world ~ lonely dog wihou
master. For ham there was one work Too u4ueh Ia cIea
Not the whipped wrcohes aonc but dogs Of better days
lie moaning IN this barn. Dogs that have licked the
saucer c and tasted the sweetness OF The table ioi
whom the beef has been fresh and The straw IN the
kennel always dry and clean; dogs that summed thcn'
selves the golden sheepskn a. the door, ana ie VIC
towing a womaus fingers IN their soft ana ske cars
Ia body unduy long prOpped upon lcgf 30 insicifhl
that the WHY hair falls To the floor, ITS tail and feet and
paws and head mere mops OF wool, 30 TINT Us eye1 are
vailed and it, nosirls seved the Skye ter1er whines
aud watches like British exquisite m toe Back noe OF
Calcutta Prompt and erect beside him, with tan euried
sify the back, bright face and taerng MUIR IKE
q swivel al capped and loaded looks TIE terrier IKE a
black eye expcciant. caTeening now ana tueh III
intense mental distress High over both the
mighty mastif crOuches on bis haunches' It's Vaoi
and M gouileness equal in the field but here ~ hanging
CHOPS are AL atrcmble and from It's abrupt muzAc cry
like a whipped babes comes al the Whlle' iS sianu
heart soitened, likewise and IT. crooked eyes uhrsg
looking above and below at single glance, the tcrbe
his rat tail quivering IKE plfoha
death the door aa and his ugly knees smile eae otheI
IN alright. Barking with born garruh! the true cuI
wapders the little limit Of its TopenO longer caphous ana
snappish. but begging, like coward erpPeh, anu So
before II looks the shepherd dOg-oi curly, neecy I %
ermine coilar-subdued, like the sheep he mas ~
bjs democracy of wrechedness the grand stature OF me
retriever" shrnks 90 the spanels ihcnes, anu VIZ ~
blooded setter iorget the VIDE acrgs & i Mines for
with the scent of game the spotted coaIA Iog PM m
the ebony wheels and bnZcl monntlnss looking ePVus
in his terrible ancipations; ana the VOC VI ~ va
hound IA only a despaifing cry saying IL almost inaucu
i,o s,o.ch - Mercy mercy" Lost TO his mistresss
isses the unraveled poodle supid-iaeed YET iees e
nearness Of death and the ST. Bernard lics nNe'ns' ho
freezing giant Here the old NewioundlAh, used 70
breasng the salt waves, comes, lmPng ana ~rllkeu,
feel the last cool strangulaton I'M may hole MUG
STILL the souls quite gone out OF them WIN misery
Now there Is the sound of wheels without ahd Two
Young ladies' very tmid and anxons peep H. over the
top of their COOL immense dresses The oonshs Pon'e
man advances.
{" Lost dog, ladies -"
-" Oh dear, yes, SIR ,
Poodle, spaniel, ratter, something ornameh'ai-of
usefur 80 80 80,
Terrier sir Skye terrier dear little Skye terrier"
" Can you describe him D. ,
"Deaf me no; can you Ann believe he had spot
as big az flea on the underside of hs nose si Ia MS
aiIEno in his ear But YOU can't mistake him. He was
the sweetest, incest darngesi little lap III the "ohu'
This way, ladies ~
PIcklDg their steps 10 tAe hlti 'A'lf -
ones oot down the close miserable hOors and at once
GOES up a half-howl. many-yoced and voumnous win
welcome till the guardians whip l. raised over Dayng
hound and roaring spaniel, as they stand ugghg her
ropes and yelmng and there Is left only whining mono
tone But there is dog that will cry though thcy
stab IT, pinched and thirsty terrier, all eye ana bright
uess sends his treble the door, sharply erect and iran
tic with struggling and al the sound the ades la ioi-
ward waving hands and lace kerchiefs.
"Iapi Tap Poor lcctlc-ieetledeary ootie-tooe oar
ling Tan And the next moment, his legs around heT
peck the lady is kissing the terrier and he is barking and
waggng like an indla-rubber smile Down go the Two
dollars away 90 the wheels and the recovered treasure
spontaneously takes his place at the window looking as
naturally up the street If he had never been caught al
all and never expected TO be drowned