, 1872-12-08
THE HUMANE: SOCIETY.
Report Of President Br0Wn-.- Smooth Shoe
ing and yerloading--AdYice to the
South Side Car Company.
The Society "Going for" the Cruel School
Teachers--.How Some Schools are
Disciplined.

10 the Editor af The Chicago Tribune:
Bm: We have to report that the condition
OF the horses in this city has greatly i'm
proved since our last report, and our
agents (of whom we now have only one
half the number that We have had for the past
few weeks, owing to lack Of funds) have. had
their attention called principally to cases Of
overlooking and smooth ahoeing. Iw had the
money to pay them, va should station an agent
at the approaches to each Of our bridges, where
the most frequent cases OF hardship to the poor
animals occur. Will not some good citizens aid
US in this direction Our agent at the Union
Stock Yards is doing good work, and is gradu-
ally, but surely, causing radical reform in the
treatment Of stock Of that place. We
find TINT, although the general
condition of the ho1ses belonging to
the South Side Horse Railway was much better
at the commencement OF the epizootio than that
Of the West Side Railway, the former has lost
by far the greater number Of animals. There
have been, IS ne are informed, only three cases
Of dropsy on the West Side, while there have
been several times that number on the South
Side. This we attribute to better medical treat
ment and care in the one case than the other. In
this connection FIG would again repeat, what ne
stated some weeks ago, thatit is highly Important
that the men having the care and charge Of stock
should be men Of absolutely sober habits. We
have also no hesitation in saying that the South
Side Road would find it more profitable, as well
as more humane, il they should use too lighter
horses On their "one horse " cars, instead OF
one heavy animal, as at present.
Our attention has been called, during the past
few days, to cases Of cruelty to children in our
public schools, which ne propose to remedy, It
possible, and We think that the great majority
Of parents in this city will gladly assist us IN our
endeavors to do so. Last week we reported on
the cruelty Of keeping the children out Of doors
in cold weather, waiting for the opening. We
have now to report d mode Of punishment or
training in vogue, which Seems to us cruel in
the extreme. In one school, some Of the chill
the day, did not keep step (probably the poor
little things we're 60 glad to get out that they,
childlike, forgot what they were doing), when
the soho2e number wore compelled to march up
one flight Of stairs and down another, as
We s1e informed. dhlts-t10o tines On one
occasion, and nineteen times on another.
Among these children was lame boy. To quote
the quaint Language Of letter have received
from one Of the sufferers, handed to me- by his
father" II you had asked any of the boys tho
next day how they falt, they would have tol
you that they did not caro- about marching mp
and down stairH tonight" There are other
abuses in our schools, such a. Keeping, the chill
nights, and the like, which will receive our con
sidefation in due time.
Reports have come to us that the keeper Of
the pound in Hyde Park is habitually guilty Of
gross cruelty to the animals under his charge,
keeping them for whole days without food or
water, and the like. There should be humane
thought enough in the residents OF that place to
remedy this, without troubling us Herewith.
Respectfully,