The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-28
WITH ALL HER rwENrY-NINE DOGS
Loretta j. Whitman Travelling Under Extra
ordinary Diffic altses.

ordinary DlmcultEeS.
New York SUM-
Sergeant Darcy. of the Long Island City po-
lice, was aroused from a reverie on Tuesday
evening by medley of yeps and bowls outside
the door of police headquarters moment
later queer, elderly little woman burst on his
vision, aud he rubbed his eyes to make sure that
what he saw was not the baseless fabric of a
nightmare. The presence of Policemen Conroy
and Dunn treasured the Sergeant Following
the queer little woman were thirteen dogs OF
several different sizes. muzzled and unmuzzled,
attached to stout cord which she held in her
right hand On one arm she CARRIED a watering
can. and on the other arm two satchels.
Her left hand was engaged, also. holding a
bag and an apronful of yelps and squeals that
added to the intermittent bowling of the thirteen
dogs on the string s7ssa faf, sst.-
, The little woman dumped out the contents of
her apron upon the floor. They were six pups,
and the thirteen dogs immediately surrounded
them. Then she turned the bag upside down,
and ten chunky little fellows. with eyes fast
shut, rolled out and over one another like lot of
rubber balls. Banks and bowls and yelps we're
as thick as mosquitoes in Jersey for a minute or
so. When the little woman had got things Gained
down she made herself sure that the animals
were all there. She then told the Sergeant that
she wanted lodgings for herself and bench show.
She said she was Loretta j. Whitman, and
that she had Just come from Boston. The in
fant.dogs she said, had come into the world on
the way. She had missed the train for PASSPORT,
IL. L., Whlther she intended TO 60 and dispose OF
the pack of settlers, for such she declared the
dogs to be. The sergeant suggested that she
should take the dogs to livery stable She said
she thought the station house would be the SAT-
est place for the animals, and she offered to pay
for their lodging. The Sergeant finally con-
scented to allow the dogs to remain in the corri-
dor, without pay. and when he learned that she
was going to stay with the dogs he offered to rig
her up bed. She refused his offer, and slept
all night in a chair. with the dogs surrounding
her. She remained in the station until
noon yesterday when she put the
pups away in bag and apron, and
started for the Long Island Railroad depot. fol
lowed by Policeman White and the thirteen
grown dogs on a string. The depot master at
tempted to put her ont Of the waiting room. but
she stayed there all the same. She said she
would pay passenger rates for her dogs if it was
necessary. She dropped the bag in her excite
ment, and it began moving around like new
kind of an animal without head or legs. In
grabbing for the bag she spilled the six pups out
of her apron. They all began to cry, aud then
all tho big dogs began to howl
She was soon mistress of the situation again.
however, and then she resumed negotiations
with the Long Island Railroad Company. The
depot master told her that her dogs could go in
the freight car for ST. %. but she would not have
them go that way. She finally chartered bag
gage car and thus, at $3.50 o'clock, started for
PASSPORT in the car with her settlers.