Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-02
UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
II Boston Lady's Trip to New Jersey
to Consummate Deal in Dogs.

FROM The 4Ns1O l0rk sun.
Sergeant Darcy Of the Long Island City
police WAS aroused from reverie on Tues
day evening by a medley OF yelps aud
bowls outside the dopr II police head
quarters. moment later queer, cid
erly little woman burst on his vision, and
he rubbed his eyes 10 make sure that what
he saw was not the baseless fabric Of
nightmare. The presence OF Policemen
Conroy aud Dunn treasured the Sergeant.
Following the queer lutte woman were
thirteen dogs, OF several dill rent sizes,
muZz ed and unmuzzled, attached TO a
stout cord which she held IN her right
hand. On one arm she carried watering
can and on her other arm two sotchels.
Her lau bard was engaged, also, hold
ing bag and an aprontul OF yeIps and
sQuesls that added to the intermittent
bowling OF the thirteen dogs on the
strla.:.
The little woman dumped ont the con-
tents OF her apron upon the floor. They
we're six pups. and the thirteen dogs im-
mediately SURROUNDED them. Then she
turned the bag upside down, ana ten more
CHUNKY little fellows, with eyes fast shut,
rolled out and over one another like a l)t
OF rubber balls. Banks and bowls and
yeIps We're a, thick as mosquitoes IN
Jersey Tor q minute or 50. When the
little woman had got things Gained down
sac made hers Il sure tu8t the animals
Were all there. She then told the Serge.
ant that she wanted lodgings for herse T
and beuch show.
She said she was Loretta J. whitman,
and that she mad just come from Boston.
The infant dogs, she said, had come INTO
the world on tae way. she bad Missed
the tram for Eastport, l.. l., wh.ther she
intended 10 20 and dispose ot the pack OF
settlers, Tor such she declared The dogs 20
be. The Sergeant suggested that she
should take The dogs 20 n livery stable.
she said shp thought the station mouse
would bee fhe safest place Tor tTn animals,
and she offered TO pay for their lod Eing.
The Sergeant finally consented to allow
the dogs 70 remain IN the corridor, with
/ out pay, and when he learned that she
was gong to stay with the dogs he offered
TO rig her up bed. sRe REUSED his Offer,
and slept all night III cHalr, with tbs
dogs surrounding her. sac remained in
the station aotii noon yesterday. when
sbe put the pups away tn bag and apron,
and started for the Lon" Island railroad
depot followed by Policeman White and
/ the thirteen grown dogs on string. TIE
( depot master attempted 10 put her out Of
/ the waiting room, but she stayed there all
/ the same, She said she would pay pas
/ senger rates for her doEa il II was neces-
4 sary. She dropped The bag H. her excite
meat, aud 10 began moving around like a
/ new kind OF an animal without head or
/ le2s. Ia grabbing for the bag she spilled
/ the six pups out OF her apron They all
4 hogan to cry, and then all the big dogs
/ began TO howl.
She was soon mistress OF the situation
/ again, however, and then she resumed
negotiations with the Long Island Rail-
road Company. The depot master told
| her that her dogs could 20 in the freight
car Tor 81 25, but she would not have
them 20 that way. She finally chartered
"A baggage ear, ana thus, at $3.50 O'Clock,
started for PASSPORT in the car with her
setters.