The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-12
THE DOOMED DOGS.
Visit TO the New York Dog POund--Sta-
tisttcs of Canine MOrtaIity-The New
York DOgs-Their Social status and
Varieties, Etc.


Varieties, Etc.
The slaughter-house for unknown dogs is
almost adjoining the home tor the unknown
dead, between TwenLy-siXJh and Twenty-hfth
streets, East river. The "Morgue" and the
death-pound for muZZeless canues are contigu-
Gus, and thus in the case of trendess, graveess
men, it Is not violence to suppose that Pope's
statement of the Indians vision OF heaven may
be realized, and that as the clay-cold body OF the
human unfortunate is iced and preserved for
identification, the unmourned Vitality OF some
luckless canine may take its flight near by the
unconscious corpse, very possibly of the ami
mails mundane master. ana. simultaneously,
Admitted to that equal sky,
HIS faithful dog shall bear him company"
Since the 10th of June, 1850 earthly members
of the Sirius tribe have suffered 0eath from
drinking too much water during the hot weather,
and as was the case with the Scripture supper
Mr.. Matthew describes, "the cry is, still they
comet" Statistics show that dogs and children
multiply in reverse ratio to the pauclty OF
pence which the thousands of poor in New
York possess. The greater the penury the more
numerous the puppies. Nature makes these
animals vagrants Neglect unprovides them
with muzzes. Dog-brokers then capture them,
while neXorable law puts them out of life by
hydraulic pressure.
A VISIT TO THE DoG-POUND
leads through legion of small shops and
smaller boys and piles OF garbage that Mr..
Shultz's nose has not abolished, up to mere
shed of rough boards, divided halt-wse by
III. 3. X,
who signs the bills OF dog delivery that Marshal
Tappan cashes at the City Hall, preside, with q
superintendent over the canine oosequies.
Seedy men, apparently ''made by natures Jour
neymen, and not halt DONE" walk in worm-fence
Ines, bowed down, and forced into O Zigzag
course under heavy weight of dogs that they
have put in BAGS and shouldered. The bags are
decidedly active, They kick and squirm and
gyrate as if a halfalive "Desdemona" were
in each sack. Alongside of Two bars that
run through the middle length of the
room are tied about three hundred dogs
OF every kind, sex, color, size, and value.
Even Dickens man, who was wont to say
''therc amt sort of dog as amt bred" would
! own his ignorance among these victims. Only a
! few can be instanced. The first one was huge
| hound that gave evidence OF high feeding and
| favor. HIS dignity and composure well contrasted
| with the yelpiDg pack of small dogs that Whned
| for freedom ana snarled at each other. The dogs
| that "nobody owns," or would own, were there.
Tney were the inevitable stray dogs that eter-
nally haunt corners, cellars, and back-aley
| ways. Their tails always caress their stomachs,
| and curve never upward in conscious control
| "Hang-doen is lettered in every line OF their
rat-trap phz. They never bark in the "honest
way that Byron thought it "sweet to hear.'
They only half open their lantern jaws, glance
quickly, cowardly, either way askant, as it to
dodge the oft-telt boot, then stretch out their
snakv yellow necks, and whine in low, mise
rable tone to which a steam-saw filing through
flint is music. They have regard from none
kicks from all. Even their own tribe disowns
them and not the misery of deaths expected
fellowship can abate the contempt which thei1
nober brethren feel for them
| A pretty King Charles spaniel, eau de coiogne0
and red-hannelled, didn't seem to understand
| his situation and mourned for my lady's lap,
and his dinner of boned fowl, sauced with
VINE. He traternized with big butchers dog
that had his ears cropped short and his 'tail
drove in behind" noble Newfoundland got
along well with large dignided, sleepy-eyed
masth, while an Italian greyhound and two
agile, pipe-stem-lim bed terriers played pranks
with large leopard-hke spotted coaCh-dog, that
however, appeared to be DESTROYS of cultvating
the good opinion of pretty little Bohemian
A little boy came in to redeem mis- jack
One was looking for a bulldog "that knowed
darned sight more than many man, and a 'hu
grist of womin."
gentleman came to recover a terrier that
had been his lately dead daughters favorltC
playmate and "money couldn't buy it," A
| loquacious SWELL of ginned odor, and haltsport
| ing appearance, thought shed seen fellow
J mizzling round the corner with my Toby, and
lust wants to ketcb him when he comes here
and won't take him (the dog p out of his hide
by Jove!p
But the time of ransom is up, for the day
The latest and most promising canine arrivals
are spared till the morrow, while the rest arr
sent out of their troubles, and may we not hope
to more congenial clme than is Gotham in thu
heated terms-Neeo York World.
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