The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-06
YOU MUST DISCRIMINATE.
SOME MEN ARE CRUEL TO ANIMALS
AND BONE ARE NOT.


Twsnty-third street and Broadway is SO
much the center Of the city that the specta-
Gle of a big crowd OF people in that neigh
borhood seldom excitss remarks. but when l
turned into Madison Square the other day
and saw about a thousand people in a fan
tastic procession trailing down toward East
river, | knew something was up and
promptly became the thousand aud first
Presently We turned down Fourth avenue
and stopped il front Of the Office OF the
Berghs society. 4 man in a light truck led
the procession, and an excited citizsn on the
sidewalk was gesticulating with all his
might and talking loudly to an officer OF
the society about the truck mans brutal
itvn The truckman carried in bis hand
light whip, broken toward the end. His
horse appeared fat, well fed and confronted.
Now the officer. the truckman and the
excited citizen went into Supt. Haukinson's
Office, and l followed, scenting trouble.
Within, the excited man kept on talking
about the truokman's brutality, as he
termed it.
"Did you hit the horseF said Mr.. Hankin-
son.
"Yes, sir y replied the truckman readily,
81 hit him four or five times with this whip;
it is light IS cent one, you see. 1t was
DTOk6u DeIOTe.
al don't think we can do anything about
that" said Mr.. Hankiuson. "If we should
take case ike that into court the judge
would laugh at us. There are no wales on
the horse, are therel"
"No, sir !" said the officer.
You can go, said Mr.. Hankinson to the
driver, who went, leaving his whip behind
him, followed by the complainant In high
state OF fury.
-"Just look at that whip; it wouldn't hurt
a child veryi much, to say nothing of IA
horse, said Mr.. Hankinson, examining the
whip curiously. 1t was indeed most
harmless affair.
"Do you often have cases like that
asked.
'Oh, yes, people are running here with
stories about cruelty to animals that won't
bear examination all the time. l have seen
driver acting with exemplary forbearance
to balky horse in block on Broadway.
and an old lady on the sidewalk abusing
him like pickpocket for maltreating the
poor thing. We have to DO pretty careful
about such cases or we are liable TO be led
into doing serious injustice But there are
plenty OF cases OF real cruelty. That muse
um tells its own story. Here's the latest
addition.
The superintendent disappeared into his
inner office, while | stared up at several big
glass cases on the wall, filed with clubs
and knives and spears and probes and goads
which have been Used to cash and cut and
main poor animals, and which the society
preserves as records of mems cruelty.
Out came the superintendent again, lug
glng huge wooden bar from piano draw.
about five feet in length and weighing fully
twenty pounds with its iron tip. He stood
the bar up against one of the museum cases.
and read upon it the label which set forth |
in the briefest terms that John Frazer, the |
driver of arf had lol "a
horse valued at $500, for which he was pun |
ished with fine Of $50.
The bar Is as heavy and strong as q crow |
oar. Ii does not seem possible that any hu- |
man being could strike with it any animal |
OF value
But folks do queer things sometimes.
Within the year and in the state OF New |
York alone, four men have been punished
foc biting off the heads Of small animals or
Dirds, usually on wager One Of these
men, who afterward went to iail for a long
term, was elaborate in his strange deed, He !
DIT the heads off two ducks, put the heads |
In glass of lager beer and drank the lager.
Another man had balky horse. He
opened It's mouth, tied a rope abou. its
tongue, hitched the other end to a wagoa
just ahead, aud when the forward wagon
was started up, Of course the horses tongue
came off. Perhaps it wasn't balky. per-
haps 1t had too big load. l don't remem-
Der just what the label did say, but the
Tongue Is In jar Of alcohol in Bergh's
museum, along with the cats paw cut off
oy hop Sing, Chinaman, the fork which
Jersey farmer thrust into a cows ribs nm.
III It's tlnes were bent double, a number Of
horses hoofs rotted off DIV salt put on the
snow by railroad people, and two or three
original bits, fantastic in their possibilities
OF cruelty. One Of these is probably unioIe.
III has long fat plate designed TO press up.
hnTQnlG
tured the tongue Of the poor beast which
wore 1t was rotted Off. Why the ingenious
inventor devised this bit is puzzle SO is
another which has two prongs devised TO
close upon the horses ia VS. when the bit is
pulled; But there ere hanging around tho
onlce dozens or bit burrs, which tell their
own story OF cruelty. These are fat round
disks Of leather filed full Of sharpened tacta
on the side next TO the horses check. Pnt
one OF these on each Of your horses-on tina
inside, SO that Bergh's men won't ses-and
tne frantic prancing of your steeds will con-
ited.n "1sN 'p''
Inere IS IN this museum a bell hanging
surrounded by game COCKS spur3 and hox-
ing gloves, which has funny history IL |
was rugged up before the door of a ooc<nit
ooWn on the water front one fine eyenin0 |
Two give warning il the officers should come
A man two blocks away held the string |
One ot the offlcers captured the man. and |
the rest followed the clue to the mir WHARF |
they made fine haul, capturing AMONG |
other things fine pair of cocksnurs for |
which the owner said he wouldn't have |
taken 1000. They had never LOST min, a |
battle, be said. They were lucky Cool
lighters are very apt 10 be superstiious
One OF the queerest sights OF this u,usaur,
of torture is a row Of white, chalkv lookino
stones. These were taken from the stomachs
of dead horses Where does the crnaItv
come ins Ga. some enterprising horse faad
men mixed tale aud other mineral substencas
with the meal they sold, aud this was the
interesting result.
For that matter, it wouldn't be strange If
some of us human beings were carving
round tale stones in our stomachs bv next
spring. Ground tale looks exactly ike
-four, and wheat is very high this wear.
There is big mine of this tale nm in
G0uveneur, n. Y. aud tons upon tons arc
taken out. 1t has no known honest use the
least Objectionable being to adulterase
heavy, smooth writing paper. What be-
comes of it all?
the treatment of animals since the society
began work, in spite OF the head biting
jokers, and the burr bit men, aud the tale
men, and the club wielders of the present
day. Before the society was founded it was
customary to cart live calves along the
streets Of New York piled up like cord wood,
with their heads hanging over the edges Of
the cart Now they stand Up on their feet
in roomy, Slated boxes, and would bs COM
Portable enough If they only could rely upon