Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-04
THE HUMANE SOCIETY.
Its Aims Eioquently Portrayed by Commits
sioner Douglass and Others

was elOquently portrayed al largely ATTENDED,
meeting which was held last evening at the
Memorial Lutheran Church. The vice presi-
dent Of the society, Mr.. II. Sidney Everett,
presided in the absence of the honored presi-
dent, Mr.. A s Pratt. who has been sick, but is
row very much better. Devotional exercises
were conducted by the pastor of the church,
Rev. DIR. Butler. and the first speaker was Com
missioner Douglass, who dwelt on the progress
that is being made in humane education in the
public schools
TEACHING THE CHILDREN.
He spoke of a society which a young lady
teacher had organized among the scholars and
said that the little ones were taught not only to
respect the rights of animals but were in
structed that the law took cognizance of these
rights They were encouraged to report acts
of cruelty which came under their observation
Mr.. Douglass said that this little society had
got mp an entertainment and the proceeds.
ESQ, had been given to the Humane Society.
He thought that this was example worthy of
the emulation Of other teachers. He referred
to the practice of check refining horses
and the use of heavy aprons on
the collars of cart horses, and said
that these practices. in his opinion,
weHe due to ignorance more than TO any other
cause. He especially dwelt upon the inlpor-
lance of teaching the young to be kind in their
treatment of animals and eOnsiderate, and he
thought that in this way the principles Of the
society would soon be generally adopted He
commended the work of the society in the
warmest terms
SUPERINTENDENT OF CHARITIES WARNER.
Mr.. Warner, the superintendent of charities.
was the next speaker. He spoke of the neces-
sity for organized efforts to protect children,
and said that where a child was rescued from
improper hands it should be provided with
good home rather than sent TO a refOrmatory.
The horse. as a servant and a friend of man,
received an eloquent tribute from DIR. Loring.
Horses, he said. suffered much from bad man
agement and ignorant horsemen. There were
no better servants than horses, and people
should stop to consider what world this would
be II we had no horses, and under what obliga-
tlons we are to them for many OF the pleasures
OF life. We could not get along without them.
All domestic animals should be treated with
every degree of consideration. and everything
which would add to their comfort should be
done That they appreciated kind treatment
heyed they never forgot an injury inflicted.
Ex-coMNIssIoSER WEBB.
An interesting account of how the law was
enacted for the protection of children was made
by ex-Commissioner Webb. He said that ten
years ago when he was elected president of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chill
dren. he found that there was nothing in the
statutes which afforded protection to children
and informed the society that nothing could be
done until a law was enacted. A bill was intro
duced in Congress and was passed. Mr. Webb
spoke of the great advantage of having fountains
erected throughout the city and said that he
hoped the number would be greatly increased.
The last speech was made by Mr.. Thomas
Wilson, who commended the work of the So
ciety and spoke specially of the interest which
the ladies manifested. He regretted that some
outside papers had printed stories to the effect
that Washington ladies were given too much to
society to pay attention to matters of charity.
This he denounced as unkind and untrue. No
city could boast of ladies' who devoted more
time to charity work.
At the close of the meeting several hundred
copies OF the BLACK Beauty" a little book
filed with stories about horses and their mas
tiers. were distributed. The copies given away
were the gift Of lady member of the society
collection was taken, after which the meeting
was closed.