The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-29
AT THE DOG POUND.

HOW THE WORK OF CANINE DESTRUCTION GOES
oN-AN EXECUTION THIS MORNING.
There were over six hundred yelpng dogs in tho
Pound yesterday the foot Of Sixteenth street. East
Riyor. awaiting execution. They seemed fully con-
scous OF their Impending tate, and threw the most
appealing looks the visitors The most wofui oil the
the Newfoundland dogs, fine, stal~art ami
mails that might DO an ornament to any aentleman's
household menagerie Their great big eyes were tear
iul despalring and their huge frames shook with
nervous apprehensions OF the dreadful fate
store Tor them. They were in most IN
stances the victims OF foul ana cruel con-
spracy, beng. perhaps. duly licensed, but
ca ptured nevertheless even with muzzles cerf-
Gates OF responsibility on their heads and necks.
Pound Keeper ohm MacManon complained in tho IN
terest oil all dogdum that dogs being taken by
dog catcners which had right to have their liberty
abridged and their hives endangered" He said that
only out of the fifteen regularly appointed dog
catchers doing their duty and that the rest were
stealing good and honorable dogs and selling
them undcr cover OF the shields that protect
them by law Inc exercise oil their functions.
He Id further that badge No. 0. representing the
Ninth District OF inc CITY, haa never made It's appear
ance at tue Pound; thai people were constantly com
Ing aud complaining from that district that their dogs
were beng stolcn though they were no k-yi's, but
valuable doss, duly licensed and muzzed; The CATCH
ers Tor the twentieth, Iwcntynrst and Twenty second
wards had made return OF dogs, though tnero was
any number Of running loose up there aud that
systematic plan was on loot 10 steal dogs oil value
and 10 sell them 10 whoever would purchase.
DOOMED TO EXECUTION
Four hundred dogs Will Dc con tsned TO sure aud
sudden ID ths ornng. since the Pound opened
on June Is the number oil dogs received has been
1,34S anu the number destroyed ~ three several
executions, 7S4. Last year the numoer received In
tue same period oil time, commencing july .. was
1906
About two hundred persons called Tor their dogs al
the the begau and about Two dozen
recognized and redeemed Il Is thought tue
Aidermauic ordinance is unjust in compelling tue
OF q dog 10 pay IS Tor his redemption wnstner
no IS licensed or not Besides the multitude OF
k,-yl's there Ia the pound number oil Spitz
dogs dozen plack and taps, several scotch terriers
dozen Newioundands. The receipts from the several
districts yesterday wore:-From the second, "a;
the THIRD II; the Filth, II; the sixth, D. and tho
Twelfth, "a. Charles Mclaughlin, an able bodied
catcher IN the Eighteenth ward, complained that
there were no dogs 70 catch east OF First avenue
MacMahon, OF the Dog Pound, docs not believe In
hyorophobia He expressed himself this way about
bitten ny dorgs y hundred times and never got sign
OF it, Tell you what u IL, man jest aits BIZ by y
dorg and he weak minced sort OF man and
takes on dreadful because hs Is bit BY dorg.
He Jest then works himself into hydrophobiar.
There amt NO sich thing as hydropnobIar.
lbs Jest imagination, and man who bain't got no
gumptiou gts IL Can handle all the dogs thit ever
an DEFY ZEN TO give me hyorophobsr lis all a
mistake people dunno' whst they talkin' ABOUT
when they say dorg's o.te does anything oil tts
Kind"
Business at the Pound might be called dull at the
pres ent moment, though tho execution OF uOgs this
morning Will be on larger scale than since the sea-
son opened.
licenses yesterday. OF these tweaty-eiyhI were re-
peWas eleven permits.