Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-23

built and no space has been lost. The first
entrance leads to the office. There the visi-
tor is met by an inquiry as to whether he is
In search of a lost dog or wishes to buy an
unclaimed one. A ticket is then made out
granting permission to enter which the visi-
tor hands to dogkeeper in attendance, and
the visit is begun. The kennels are so d.
Vided that not only are the sexes separated,
but dogs OF different breeds as well are kept
apart Here can be seen in one kennel
half hundred mastiffs, retrievers, and dogs
OF that ilk, while near by are twice that
number of fox terriers making their lam
entable complaints for lost masters and
. home comforts. Here again is fighting
bulldog accorded a place to himself by
reason of his combative propensities.
All are snug and comfortable, and the
kennels are wonderfully clean and dry.
Each set OF dogs has a covered kennel and
also q yard in which to run, and as there is
a plentiful supply of water the place is
washed down several times a day. The
food is cooked in an outhouse, and consists
chiefly of dog biscuits with meal and in
some cases even better food. At one end is
a dog hospital, where cases of mango are
treated.
Each dog when brought to the home is en-
tered in a book and is kept for a week. At
the end of that time he becomes the property
OF the home, and if he is valuable price is
fixed on him and he is marked for sale
Owners have lost their vested rights in the
dogs if they are left unclaimed for more
than seven DAYS, and have to purchase their
late property in the same way as strangers.
With this knowledge the owner of the lost
dog communicates with the authorities at
Battersea Immediately, and in ninety-nine
cases out of hundred finds his property.
HOW vAGRANTs ARE KILLED.
1t is not only in the housing and feeding
of dogs that the. Home excels. At least
20, 600 dogs are destroyed each year, and it
is done in the most humane way possible
one that the Pittsburg crusaders could take
a lesson from. The lethal chamber has a
double wall, the inner one of white glazed
brick and the outer of ordinary bricks,
coated with cement, and the interspace is
lined with silicate cotton. The chamber is
closed at all parts except at the front, where
there are sliding doors, and at the escape
pipe or fue The chamber is so constructed
that cage, in which the doomed vagrants
have been placed, can De rapidly rup into it
on wheels and can be as quickly inclosed
by pulling down the doors.
Before the animals to be DESTROYED are
placed in the chamber the chamber itself is
fully charged with narcotic vapor, produced
by passing carbonic oxide over a surface of
anasthetIc mixture, composed of chloroform
and bi-sulphide of carbon. The carbonic
oxide is obtained by the combustion of the
carbon in the two condensing stoves at one
side oil the chamber, as seen in the illustra-
fion.
To make the action of the carbonic oxide
more certain and to keep the chamber at all
times Iethal there is an extra provision. At
the two points where the tubes from the
stoves enter the chamber two of Doallon's
glazed cylinders are interposed, which are
8 feet long and inches broad and