New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-12
THE COW IN BUFFALO.

a Buffalo paper is entering q strong protest
against the habit the cows of that town have OF
wandering about the principal streets and switch
ing their tails against the plate glass windows and
hooking the policemen off the sidewalks. 1t is
not metropolitan our contemporary suspects, TO
have COWS parading the streets and perhaps lying
down on the tracks and delaying the horse-cars;
and it is very that IL is far from pleasant for
a bool,Sceper. for instance, when he is running up
q column OF figures 10 have n COW, who is COM
parative stranger perhaps. insert her head in the
window and begin going through the waste basket
looking for an ea- Of corn.
There is certainly food for thought in the ideas
advanced by the Buffalo editor That cows are
perfectly proper in their places even he does not
deny. but Is ono OF those places the sidewalk
Can we ask the resident of Buffalo TO allow
strange COW TO sleep on his doorstep without pro-
test? Shall the tenants of of Bufalo's largest
office buildings quietly submit when a large red
cow comes into the hall and puts hege head in the
elevator and delays this popular mode OF ascentp
IL would seem that our journalistic friend makes
q point worth considering when he says that the
residents OF Buffalo have some rights that even
the city cows are bound 10 respect II cows must
parade the city during the day, the sentiment in
Buffalo is that they must behave themselves and
not become too free with either their horns or heels
Il Is no pleasant thing, Buffalo people of great re-
spectnbity and acknowledged trustworthiness say,
TO be kicked by a predatory cow. That IT Is not
metropolitan to keep cows and pasture them in the
streets Is also fact, suspected by the Buffalo
paper The homcly but nutritious COW has been
given up by the best people in this city, who de-
pend entirely on the morning milHman with the
peculiar cry There are no cows on Fifth-ave.
Ii would seem at this distance, however. that
tho Buffalo writer goes rather too far when he IN
sists that the COWS remain of the streets entirely
az night After other people have gone home there
seems 20 be no valid reason why the cows OF
Buffalo should not walk abroad 10 take the air
and inspect the landscape While, as ably pointed
out by Boston writer. the COW is not so sedentary
In her habits as the settiug-hen. still she needs
exercise and must have it 20 insure health. SO
long ms the citizens OF Buffalo retain that bucoic
custom Of keeping family COW. so long must she
have exercise After Buffalo man has returned
home ut night eaten his supper. shut the chicken
COOP locked the barn and MIXED he is perfectly
justified in pursuing his present course OF opening
the front gate and turning his COW into the street,
where the patient beast can exercise, forage ana
otherwise amuse herself till morning. at which
time the intelligent COW always returns to her
home There may he much strength in the posi-
ton OF the Buffalo editor that the COW must stay
OIL the crowded streets during the day and es-
pecaly during banking hours. but he goes too far
when he holds that she should not be allowed on
the streets Mt night