Daily Republican., 1885-07-28
killing DOGS.

A copy OF the sixteenth annual report
of the Women's Branch of tae Penn
sylvania Society foi the Prevention oi
Cruelty to Animals has been sent to
Mayor Rhoads by Magistrate John r.
Pole of1PhiladelPhia, containing wood
cuts, and full description of the mode
OF killing dogs by carbonous oxide gas,
which has been In use in Philadelphia
since 1874.
The apparatus consists Of an air-tight
box II feet long, and feet inches
wide. At the lower end it is 2 feet 8
inches high, with an moline of the
roof to the upper end, making it 4 feet
inches high at that point, but expert
ience has shown that 1t can be made
lower and straight, instead of being in
clined. There are three windows in the
sides of the box, each of which has Q
sash of glass, and one of wire.
These sashes lift in and out. but fit
very tight. There is also q window on
the top that raises with a hinge. The
floor, ends and sides are covered with
cement to make the room perfectly
air.tight. A short distance from this
box there are two stoves, or furnaces,
known as the rosebud pattern, No. 13,
which are used for generating the gas,
each Holding about half = bushel o.
charcoal. Each of these furnaces has q
pipe % feet in length, with . cross
pipe running into the chimney. This
length of pipe is necessary. that the
gas1may be cooled before reaching the
animals.
There are four valves or hampers in
pipes, and two just above them, in the
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tho end of each pipe where they
enter the smothering box, which
are opened and shut by pulleys. These
are ground seat valves, made of copper
to fit six inch pipe.
MODE OF KILLING.
The fire is started with wood, after
which the stoves are filed with char
coal. While the fire is being started
the hampers must be turned 30 as to
send all the smoke aud heat up the
chimney. AS soon as the fires are well
lighted, the dogs are put in the box
through one of the side windows, and
when all are in 1t Is CLOSED tight.
When the charcoal is ignited, which
/ is known by the blue blaze thatappearf
on the fires, the dampers are reversed,
so that all communication Is cut of
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into the box the valves Mt the ends oi
the pipes must also be opened at this
time. If one of the windows in the box
is opened about one inch, for q minute
or so, it will create a draft that will
cause the gas to flow into the box more
rapidly. In about one minute after the
box is closed the dogs fall insensible.-
After they are insensible they will uttel
a cry and very sooD cease to breathe.
They must be left in for about eight
| or ten minutes, to make sure that in al
life is entirely extinct after that tim.
has elapsed the lower windowsare open
ed to allow the poisonous gas to escap,
before any one approaches to take thu
dogs out. Last year there was owe
5000 dogs killed by this process il
Philadelphia. The apparatus in tina
city will hold fly dogs, but one tina
will contain twelve, would be larg
enough for the needs of this city.
The cost would be light, az the 10:
could be made by any carpenter, an,
the stoves and pipes furnished and a,
ted by dealer in those goods. 1t i
hoped that the Police Committee q
Council will take hold of this matter a
once, as the present mode of dispatchin
dogs is cruel, and no doubt causes th
poor brutes intense suffering.