Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-21

hardly dangerous at all, and they
die of shock when an ordinary
patient would be in no danger o
succumbing. ''There is not case on
record" concluded the police Father
Matthew, "Of the employe of a brewery OF
an inOrdinate beer drinker surviving an
accident resulting in a serious injury
and they sometimes die from not much
more than the scratch Of a PIN" New
York beer, by the way, averages very
bad.
THERE rs HARDLY A REV YORKER
WHOSE FACB
! and figu re are more familiar to his fellow
| citizens than Henry Bergh, and he does
| not per nit them to grow strange. He is
| always before the public pursuing, in one
form or another, his pet hobby. During
| the hot weather of last week he visited IN
! turn every horse railroad in the city, and
personally inteFfered in behalf of the over
| worked and overheated beasts Whenever
he saw occasion. Despite his eXertions
and those of his men, however, large num-
bers of horses fell victims to mans cruelty
| and the SUMS rays, and the tracks of the
/ different railroads, especially the Third
Avenue, were lined with their dead
| bodies. Those who have once seen Mr..
Bergh seldom forget him. His tall figure
and erect bearing would make him re-
/ maFkeQ IN a CIOM0, nOn6NSI idt SG3 Sf C4
! if the predominant expression of his face
were not one of intense melancholy. He
! is certainly knight OF rueful counten-
! ance, in addition to being QuiXOtic in his
attempts to prevent cruelty to animals.
| Judging from his face, one can readily be-
lieye what has been said of him, that he
has committed great crime for which he
ever suffers remOrse, and that his deYO-
ton to the cause of what he calls the
lower animals, to distinguish them from
man, is a penance he performs in eXpia-
ton of his sin.
Many stories are told of Mr.. Bergh's
interference for the protection of the
lower animals at the expense of the in
terests of the higher. He once caused
Mrs. William B. Dana, when sick and
suffering, to walk a considerable distance
because the horse attached TO her cab
was the victim of some equine disorder
which rendered travelling somewhat
painful. A poor laborer who, like care,
had killed a cat, was sentenced, owing to
Mr.. Bergh's efforts, to 6 months impris-
Onment, although he was the sole support
of his wife and children, who nearly
starved during his incarceration. AS
may well be imagined Mr.. Bergh's office,
in addition to being no sinecure, is one of
not little danger. Often only his athletic
figure has saved him from the vengeance
of some brute whose cruelty to his beast
he had interfered with, and once his
smaller nephew was knocked down and
badly injured by a cartman whom he had
arrested for beating his horse. Mr..
Bergh's knight errantry in behalf OF
british beasts, on the other hand, has had
its reward. His name is known all over
Europe in connection with societies for
the prevention of cruelty to animals, and
he will doubtless go down into history as
the friend of the dumb brute.
When one looks around the rooms of
the society at Fourth avenue and Twenty
second street and sees the many trophies
assembled OF the work it has performed
in the cause of mercy to animals, one
does not grudge Mr.. Bergh his honors.
Among these trophies is the hoOf of
horse which was driven by his merciless
owner several blocks with two legs broken,
so that with each step the fractured bones
were crushed against the sidewalk. When
one learns that the cruel wretch who
caused so much intense suffering was
sentenced to but a years imprisonment,
one is tempted to think the punishment
too light and Mr.. Bergh not vigorous
enough in his prosecutions. He certainly
is right in wishing the whipping post es-
tablished here. Beating on the bare back
with raw hide would do not only WIFE
heaters, but unmerciful men who are not
merciful to their beasts good!
One of the granddaughter of the late
Gen, Webb ought apparently to be an
honorary if not an active member
of Mr.. Bergh's society. When her dog
died in her arms, as she was
carrying him up stairs at Sharon a
few weeks ago, she became i'll from grief,
and for several days was confined to her
room. Certainly person capable of so
much affection for one brute should eX-
tend her sympathy to the entire dumb
creation. Mr.. Bergh, indeed, has several
gilded youth, if not spoiled daughters of
fashion, among the honorary members of
his society.
THE ''HERALD' is EVIDENTLY LOSING
MONEY
in it's fight with the newsdealers. As
many as twenty of its reporters have been
dismissed the past week, and, although
new ones are advertised for, there seems
to be no intention of filling the greater
part of the vacancies. The move is evil
IDENTIFY in the interest of economy,
and it is a confession that the paper
is either losing money, or is not
making in suficiency to supply Mr.. Ben
nett's eXtraVagancies. Some of the best
known men on the paper are among those
dismissed. How the news is to be got by
the few reporters, comparatively speak
ing, who remain is puzzle to those ac-
quainted with such matters, but tine Her.
aid evidently intends to rely for routine
reports-such as police court cases, etc.
on one of the two news agencies. These
news agencies, by the way, are consid-
cred by reporters the monOpolies Of jour
nalism. They already supply the even
ing papers and two Of the morning with
police and similar news, and conse-
quently save the services to those jour-
mails of so many reporters. There would
be room for perhaps fifty more reporters
in New York were it not for these mo
nopolies." Ben Butler should attend to
them.
Two of the brakemen on the Elevated
Railroad have a history. They are Rus
sian refugees, and their father and sister
are banisked to Siberia for connection
with some Nihilistic conspiracy. They
managed to escape, and they owe their
present employment to the interest which
their story excited. Like all Russians,
they speak several languages, and it is
safe to say that they are the best educated
brakemen that can be found. They
deserve employment better suited to their
capacities, ID,