Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-11
). r. e. A..
The Pennsylvania Society to Prevent Cruel
ty to Animals.

| OOleHldn cellerS Is president Oh tne society
and among the honorary vice presidents i
]. J. Sprenger, of Lancaster. The list o
local representatives includes Samue
Slokom, Christiana George Badger, Col
umbia: E. H. Burkholder, Farmersville
]. G. Walker, Gap; Levi X. Brown
Goshen; George H. Ettla, Marietta; Dr.
c. H. Stubbs, Peters Creek; r. c. Ed
wards, Quarryville; c. J. Rhoads, Safe
Harbor.
| One of the chief efforts of the association
during the past year has been to promote
school of veterinary surgery in this state
from the neglect of which science many
| valuable animals suffer and many more
| are lost.
The state society last year received 3d.
730. 3G, of which 81, ,469. As was from inter,
ests Oh investments. 1t expended S.
763.41.
The agents of the society have been ac-
lively engaged in patrol!ing their several
districts; in investigating complaints in
visiting the cattle yards, examining and
reporting the condition of stock arriving by
rail, watching their unloading and reload
ing, seeing that they were properly water
ed and fed, and, when disabled or wound
ed, having them mercifully killed also,
inspecting the yards in which COWS and
calves were exposed for sale, and prevent
ing the practice of baggging, which intiicts
great suffering on the cows and, at the
same time, deprives the calves of their
needed food. Complaints are made that this
form of cruelty is still continued, and direc-
tiOns have been given to arrest those
persons who are found persisting in
this practice. The attention of legislators
is called by the society to the sutferings
inflicted on live calves in shipping them
from railroad stations, where they too
long remain unfed.
On the poultry question the report says:
''The increased business of sending
chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, etc., alive
to market by railroad and steamboats,,
consuming several days in transit, has
claimed our particular attention, the ship
pers frequently sending them in coops to
closely packed, without any provision for
food or water. These coODs are often
made SO low as to compel the fowls
to assume sitting posture from
which cramped position they are un-
able to rise, thus causing much
suffering and necessarily rendering
them unfit for food. We have measured
some coops which came under our notice,
and found the height allotted to full-grown
fowls varying from to 8 inches, whereas
it should have been from IA to 16 inches
Remonstrance proving unavailing, arrests
were made and fines imposed by the mag
lStrates ; our secretary has also written
letters to shippers of live poultry, and
called the attention of carrying companies
to this practice, and we intend to continue
our efforts until more careful treatment
manifestly renders such labor unneccs-
Sary.
Most of the cases brought before the So
ciety and minstered to through its intlu-
ence are those of lily treated horses and
mules, but during the past year beat
ell, turpentined, dubbed and tormented
dogs; starving. scalded and dirty cats :;
baited bears and even abused turtles have
received merciful attention. The society
makes strenuous effort to abate cock-fight-
ing and dog fighting, with measurable Sue
cess.
Touching tl.. ...hcliolation of the cOndi-
ton of horses this report says ''We no
tice with increased satisfaction the care
and Kindness generally manifested in this
city in the treatment of horses and mules,
particularly those used in teams and for
business purposes, and-with comparative
ly few exceptions-those used in the city
passenger railway cars; also the relief
afforded to animals by vehicles of improved
construction, which are gradually super
seding the cumbrous cart and dray :;
we are pleased to state that it
is the exception, and not the rule,
that officers have to interfere on account of
improper treatment of draught-horses by
their drivers. There is one class of horses,
we regret to say, that still continue to
suffer at the hands of their drivers,
namely, the horses owned by the rich. We
would naturally expect greater care from
persons of this class, yet scarcely a day
transpires OH our fashionable thorough
fares or in the park but horses may be
seen that are suffering torture from the
use of the fashionable double-bitted
bride, the head being drawn up
ward by the cruel appliances attached
thereto, the mouth forced out of it's proper
shape, and the muscles of the neck un-
naturally contracted by the tightly drawn
check-rein. The drivers have been ex-
postulated with, and communications ad-
dressed to owners whose names could be
yet this shameful practice
still remains disgrace on our civilization.
We cannot but believe that much of this
abuse exists without the knowledge of the
owners, and would again respectfully call
their attention to the subject,
do we solicit ladies, drawn by these noble
to use their influence to prevent
this cruel abuse. "
A detailed account is given of the bull
and bear fight at Custer City, which the
society vainly tried to repress. The
say: lowing to the cowardice
of the principal witness, and the defective
action of the justice at Custer City, We
failed to secure the conviction of a number
of the participants, as well as the contisca-
tion of the animals employed in
this dsgraccful exhibition. The ac-
tion of the society in this affair
has, however, aroused the attention of
thoughtful persons in that remote section
of the state, and will no doubt tend to
nrevant the re enactment Of similar Occur-