The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-06

the estimated saving on each carload, accord |
ing to the refrigerang plan, being at least $500.
The frightiul manner of transporting sheep and
calves, by ''sardine ing" them together, has
likewise, during the past year, been largely dis
continued.
But there is one point against which all the
energies of this noble association have been bent
with very little success, and that is the overload
ing of street cars. At the session of the ew
York Legislature of 1867 indeed, bill en-
bracing all that was desired to extend protection
to man and beast was prepared by the Society
| and presented in person by Mr.. Bergh. After a
lengthy conference with the Judiciary Commit
| tee of the Senate, however he was assured that
any such bill, forcing limit to a car load, was
| quite impossible. Nothing daunted, however,
| Mr.. Bergh, on January g. 1S6s-one OF those
| days when cars were mercilessly packed inside
| and out-procured the arrest OF the driver and
| the conductor of one of the Bleekar and Elm
| street cars. The defendants were indicted
| by the Grand Jury and on February q
| were tried at the Court of General Sessions
| before Recorder Hackett, found guilty and SEN
| fenced to pay fines of $3.50 each. An appeal was
made from this to the Supreme Court, whose
decision is now being awaited. On the evening
| of Feb. IL, also, Third avenue car being seen
| to carry one hundred passengers, outside and IN
|
rested. Four days after thu case was brought
before the Court of Special Sessions, where the
Justices decided to entertain no such cases until
the former appeal had been passed upon. So
that it will be seen that in regard to the one ev
| of overlooking street cars, the society," painful
! to say has as yet met with no hattering success
| In regard to dog and cock-fghts, all the prn
| cipal places where these sports have been held
| for so many years have ceased to 90 any bust.
ness almost from the hour when, under the
instigation of Mr.. Bergh, more than year and
| q half ago, exit Burns" keeper OF "Sportsman's
Hail." and proprietor of one of the most noted
resorts of this kind, was arrested. The intense
cruelty peculiar to the Jewish mode of slaugh-
tering animals, was also the occasion of a cir
cular letter being addressed by the Society to
every Rabbi in the city of New York. The cor
| respondence between Mr.. Bergh and the Rabbi,
s. M. Isaacs on this subject, resulted in making
Mr.. Isaacs q convert to the cause, although it
did not draw from him the ackno wledgment
that the Jewish mode of slaughter is parucu-
larly cruel.
Meanwhile numerous agents of the society
have regularly visited the various hospitals
during the year TO report Whatever results may
have taken place in the suppression of vivisec-
ton. Observation proves that an@sthetics are
more improved than formerly, and that q new
one, known as bichloride of methyline, has
become extremely popular One of the chief
operating surgeons of the Bellevue Hospital Dr.
A. Flint, Jr., intimates that he has almost dis
contr ued the use of vivisection, and says that
the only cases in which he does not employ
ether is where the experiment would be seriously
intertered with by an agent OF that kind. IT
so, DR.. Flint's experience is at variance with the
ninin Of IF tha pnnc aI md m
gulshed psychologists that the world has ever
seen. Galen, Sir Charles Bell, Sir George Will
son, Longet, Abernethy Sir Ashley Cooper,
Magendie, and Others that might be named, all
, argue that scientific knowledge is not advanced
by vivisection.
The society has likewise dragged two swill-
milk cases to light, but owing to the forgettul
ness ito use no harsher term) of District-Attor-
1 ney Morris, they yet remain undlsposed Of An
immense effort was made to obtain judgment
against the proprietors of the cattle-yards on
5 One Hundredth street, near Third avenue In
these yards, situated on an elevated and unshel.
tered point, hundreds of cattle, all winter long
, were exposed to the blasts of wind and the
showers of snow and hail until their bodies
I were encrusted with ice. The human brutes
who owned these yards employed the services OF
the late Secretary of State, the Hon. Chauncey
NJ. Depew and the Society those of the As slst-
ant District Attorney, Mr.. George W. Blunt. The
case came up before Justice Connolly, and the
l brute proprietors won the day. Their recent
erection of new milch-cow market, however,
is an involuntary tribute of the respect In which
the Society's power is held.
During this, the second year of the Socety's
existence, there have been over two hundred con-
victions on the ground of cruelty to animals
During the first year there were only sixty-six.
Similar societies have been or are projecting in
Massachusetts,, New Jersey, Missouri, and Cali
fornia, besides the one that already exists in
Philadelphia, and the branch one in Brooklyn.
Mr.. Bergh is in the constant receipt of letters Of
a sympathy and encouragement, and it is one OF
the idiosyncrasles of this indefatgable man that
he never allows one such letter to remain unan
= swered. Around every writer who has once
y benevolently committed himself, he endeavors
TO raise a nucleus of small s. p, G. A., by
= | fostering and cherlshiDg, through means OF his
y epistolary art the sentiments expressed.
1t would, of course, be too much to say thai
y individual members of the society have not
i occasionally been betrayed into indiscretioI
through over zeal. As a rule, however, its ope
rations have been managed with uncommon
prudence, and the results have been more thar
commensurate with the expectations OF some o
Its best friends.
And now, at closing, hesitate and ask mysel
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