The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-11
CRUELTY TO ANiMALCULlE.
MEETING OF CITIZENS.

Last Tuesday meeting of large citizens
was held at the Board of Trade Rooms, for the
purpose of forming Society for the Preven-
tiOn of Cruelty to Animals. Quite number
of ladies, with their chignons, were in attend
ance. His Honor Mayor McNIichael, who has
control of the worms in the Squares, presided.
On taking the chair the Mayor expressed his
hearty approval of the object for which the
meeting had assembled, and stated that, in his
capacity as City Magistrate, many occurrences
of cruelty to animals were daily under his
observation; that he was continually panied
by seeing the large lager-beer teams, besides
being loaded with their barrels, to have in
addition to haul one large Dutchman each as
driver, who, in his opinion, was a load in
himself for any two-horse team, particularly
when full of lager, as they generally were. He
said that, in cooperation with an association
formed for the purposes proposed, he would
instruct his detective police not to catch goats
hereafter by their tails, and the dog-catchers
not to choke the dogs to death before they
advertise for their owners.
A gentleman offered the following resolu-
tom
ReSOLUed That the citizens of Philadelphia
here assembled have witnessed for many wears
the increased means of torture adopted by the
city authorities towards the little summer
worm that reVels in our public squares. and
that, after prosecuting them with brimstone
washing them out of their homes in their
infancy, by turning on them full stream of
cold water from steam squirt; trying to domeS-
ticatesparrows among them, whose known mode
of warfare, in the language of the Declaration of
Independence, is lndiscriminate slaughter and
the last fowl crusade against thea nv mira
ducng to their acquaintance Chickens of both
sexes, when it is well known they will be as nm
tremendously eaten as a PatagOuian mission
ary, calls for the condemnation of all right
minded men,
ReSolUed, That q committee be appointed by
the Chairman of this meeting to visit the Goat
Pound" every morning, ana see that the leCec-
tives provide for these agile animals boxes, old
Wheelbarrows, or other wrecks for them to
climb upon, as by these helps to represent their
own native cliffs, they can be happy.
Resolved, That 1t is eXpedienL to form an
association whose duty 1t shall be, prud entity
and discreetly, to take chignons in hand, and
to carefully remove any animals, known as
"burlakes," that may be there cking Ou5
miserable existence, and provide for them
better quarters in car-cushions or other Suita'
BILE places
ResOIUed, That a committee be appointed tC
test the val ious dangerous drugs sold uude
the name of "EXterminators." and see ii the
death produced by eating the stuff is 'wituou
odOr" as the advertisers say, or otherwise.
After the adoption of the resolutions, whicl
was done by acclamation, one of the gentle
men present made some remarks on the sub
iect. He said that in London such a societ,
as the one proposed had progressed so far tina
they had now done away with all instrument
that in any way had tormented animals, whicl
were