Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-02-13

l ANT1sDO0 AEAGUE.
A Secret Organization to Which q
Star Reporter was Introdueed.
A SOCIETY PLEDGED TO THE SECRET WORK on
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO BE CARRIED
| ON sYsTEMATIcALLY-ANE FFoRT 10 SECURE
LEGAL PROTECTION FROM HowLrNo Dogs
"How do feel? Well, how would you feel II
you mad been kept awake all night" and THE
STAR man had very injured expression on
MS lace as he replied in this way to q friendly
put casual inquiry after his health.
| 1T is not an agreeable way to spend night
that a fact," replied his friend in sympathetic
| tone OF voice. "But babies will be babies, you
know"
..r babies be hanged" growled THE STAR man
would rather have q pair Of bowling twins, yes
| LtIipists r'ght In my own bed room, than q
doss NOT q babe In an Adjoining back yard IT,
Inc last was uttered more in q tone of sadness
n crsn anger put imagine The STAR mans sur
ter and. after dancing about, finally embraced
him as he cried out:
ws sIou are now one OF US. We will be glad to
Iogether In one common brotherhood by a com.
munity ofinterests aud feelings and aspirations
of our purposes win ever dissolve. Brother, you
i i,as VIII us IN common experience and mu-
What are you talking aboutr' finally gasped
out the astonished STAR man. "a common ex-
perience! a mutual suffering!' he exclaimed
IN tone OF disgust. "What do those theatrical
expressions mean?"
WHAT IT ALL MRANr.
III simply means this, !" said his friend moder-
ating In some degree the frenzy of feeling
which he had exhibited. ave, that is to say
some Of the residents of this city who have been
at night, have formed what we style an Anti
Dog League. You know that in the District at
present, owing to defective statutory regula-
inter canes leges silent, which, in other words,
means the law pays no attention to the howl
is sg 81 bdogs the average citizen
ing or toughness of constitution and hence the
AntIDog League. Now you know from the
serve certain degree of secrecy and one of
our rules prohibits q member from ever
naming e tn the TO an outsider
pathy with US and will become \ member. Our
meetings are also secret, but the object in this,
members from the personai s1epnce whcs
would be brought to bear, and the social
nt.oioSuy guy, which would be heaped upon them if
IL should become Known that they were en-
gagged in such a crusade upon the pets of so
clety. only say this by way of explanation.
wa .a 10 come down tonight, when we have
regular meeting, and join us. or course, /
know that you are a newspaper man, but we
don object to having the fact of our organiza-
published, ifonly no names are mentioned The
most of us have our homes here and we would
IKE TO be allowed to live here for few years
longer, and for this reason please have some
consideration"
MEETING OF THE LEAGUE.
When THE STAR man reached the house
where he was told the meeting was to be held
that evening, the members of the league were
grouped about the parlor engaged in converse
uon: presently sharp rap was heard and the
president OF the league was seen in his place
behind a small table in the upper part of the
district and LOOKING around tbs 1en 81 Inc
STAR man saw that the majority were men of
position and influence in the community.
The minutes having been approved the presi-
dent arose and said that he noticed a number of
new races In the room, and while their presence,
according to the rules constituted them men,
oers still he felt 1t his duty to renew the caution
which no doubt had already been received from
the members to preserve the greatest secrecy in
ton.
The presidents remarks caused buzz of con-
versation to spring up all around the room,
raped and said: 1--WE will now listen to the
report of the committee on legislation"
THE NEED OF LEGISLATION
Every eye was fixed upon the chairman of
this committee. who had evidently been
selected because of his legal abilities, as he
was prominent member of the bar. Before
beginning to read the report he said that as all
understood who were present at the last meet
ing, the committee had been appointed for the
purpose of examining into the legal status of
the matter and to learn if there was any known
means of having bowling dog suppressed by
the law: y our committee, after careful ex-
animation" he continued, "are compelled to
report that there is no law in the District TO mt
stop to such nuisance. The main features
OF the common law of forts or the redress of
wrongs have been Incorporated in the laws of
the District. You can be restrained from rum
ming steam engine on your premises or MAIN
tanning most any other nuisance except a dog
The report then went to explain the
law OF nuisances and suggested some pro-
to bring to the attention of Congress
tor the purpose of having them Incorporated
the report, "that quietness and freedom from
noise are Indispensable to the full and free en-
joyment Of a dwelling house." and yet only last
winter we have the Hon. Abraham $. Hewitt.
OF New YORK, appealing in vain to the authori-
tiles tor relief from the incessant barking of n
dog which prevented him from sleeping, so that,
as he stated himself, he was obliged to return to
New York in order to get nights rest Mr..
Hewitt found, as all others have done that the
nuisance, although the celebrated case of
Hon. Caleb Cushing and the yellow dog belong
ing to the cOachnan of Hon. Fernando Wood
may be cited as precedent in our favor. AS
many will recollect in 1873, Mr.. Cushing had
this coachman arrested for keeping a Yellow
dog. which barked necessarily, night and day.
The bark Of that dog, in the graphic words of
Mr.. Gushing, "feil on the ear like q blow" rem
derins not only sleep impossible, but even the
ing the testimony. decided that the dog must
he either removed or killed, aud REQUIRED from
tue defendant deposit OF $25 to ensure the
compliance with this decision of the court
THE COMMITTEE on PoIsoNS.
When the chairman of the committee on
pOisons arose in response TO O call, his face
looked haggard, as The STAR man had noticed
that the faces of all the members looked. He
said he had gone over the entire subject Of tox-
Zoology and had gathered variety of useful
information about irrltants, narcotics and mar
cotic irritants. In his opinion what the league
needed was rapid, but effective, poison, that
would do its work quickly and thoroughly and
the committee had pursued their investiga-
tons with the following conditions in view:
First, that the dogs TO be reached WERE as a rule
confined in back yards which were shut in by
high fences, and in consequence 1t was difficult
to have personal interviews, even if 1t was SO
desired. Second, that human beings and other
animals entered these yards where the dogs
were kept. and third, that the animals most
obnoxious to the members of the league were
in some cases pets spoiled by indulgence
and in nearly all cases over fed. The coInmit.
tee had therefore come to the conclusion that
the poison adopted must be OF the kind that
could be enclosed or concealed in some thing
that could be thrown into the yard to be eaten
by the dog. The committee take great pleas
ure in informing the members OF the league
that they have been able to obtain a small
of a bon bon, and in a few seconds after il has
been swallowed by the dog the poison will have