The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-10
DOGS GO THERE TO DIE.
Scores OF Ailing CANNES Seem At
tracted to an Old house.

lTdCNcO TO an OlQ house.
From the san Francisco Examiner
The mystery surrounding the conduct of
the scores Of dogs that have crawled under
the caves of houses Nos. and on City
Hall avenue is still the absorbing topic
around the new city hall.
All efforts to fathom the mysterious at
fractions have been unavaiing. The fact
remains, however, that under these two
houses scores Of dogs have crawled and died
Not ordinary dogs, but sick dogs: dogs that
were on the verge of death. .Twenty-six
carcasses have been removed from beneath
the old house already, including dogs of
all degrees, from the beautiful and intelli
gent setter to the measly little terrier who
yelped his farewell To earth in ths presence
OF scores of his dead and better KIND.
Whence come these dogs9 Why do they
go there TO die IN such large numbersl and
why do they select this particular spotl
These are the questions Of interest to the
number OF visitors who come to see them.
The strange part Of the story is that dogs
have been recognized that came to the place
from some far distant part of the city, os-
tensibly for the purpose of dying, as thew
were seen to Stagger through the yard, dis
appear and be seen no more until their mol
derlng remains were pulled out from under
the house.
From time to time complaints have been
made at the health office of the stencil
arising from the place, and Alpers, the
dead-dog man, has been notified and re-
quested to remove them. On one occasion
he removed twelve in one batch. New
foundlandS, shepherd dogs, bulldogs, ours
and even one or two fancy strains Of dogs
were discovered to have come to this
strangely selected spot to foregathcr with
their kin. After this Alpers refused to pro-
coed further in the matter, declaring that
he did not have to remove the dogs dying
upon private premises. and so the accumu-
lation has gone on until the condition Isl n
tolerable. A search was instituted by DIR.
Furlong of the health office, and it was dis
covered that once more the place was filed
with dogs newly dead.
The search resulted in the announcement
that the number of dogs that had died under
those walls could not be ascertained until
the floors were taken up. A feature that
seems almost supernatural is the intelligence
that characterizes the dogs death. Every
new animal as he comes to the place to die
crawls back as far as he can get beneath the
house and gets close against the last deg
that died, as if to make room for the next
that comes. A fact that Supervisor Barry
pronounced the most touchingly pathetic
unselflshness he had ever known.
The scores Of dogs that have died have
come without noise, as testified by the lady
of the house, aud died without noise. They
come almost at the moment of death, crawl
beneath the house and join the majority
without whimper.
What the mysterious attraction is is
something beyond human knowledge and
may never be tathomed. No one seems to
dare to advance theory on the eerie sub
ject, and vet every one was willing to
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Outstanding or death compact between the
dogs, but how. when or where made, il at all
seemed to be simply controversion of all
of natures known laws