The morning call., 1891-09-05
ANIMALS HOME.
Elegant Quarters for ImpOunded
Dogs and Cattle.
The Public Pound Almost Completed Scratch
ing-Posts and Other Ccnveniences
for the CANNES

After many delays and the overcoming OF
many obstacles San Francisco Is to have
model Public Pound, according to the
promise of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals 1t will be ready for
occupancy on the 18th of the present month.
At first the society had difficulty in Sc
curing site on account of the numerous
protests that were made by property-owners
in the localities selected. After lot had
been secured, then came the second difficulty
of construction. All works on the subject
were consulted and communications were
had with the leading Eastern establish
ments.
This caused considerable delay, yet fin
ally the architects were enabled to draw up
plans and specifications embodying the
ideas of the members of the society who
had given the subject study and attention.
Contracts were Immediately let and all
possible expedition has been exercised to
finish the buildings in order to permit the
society to take possession on the 18th.
looks LIKE A DWELLING.
As one ascends the hill rising on Six
teenth street, west of Harrison, he will see
on the southwest corner of Alabama street,
at its intersection with Sixteenth, a two
story frame building painted in the bright
est of carnation, and ornately ornamented
in front Were it not for a large gilded
sign painted on the arch of a handsome
gateway, and reading, Animals Home"
no one would take the structure for public
pound, rs 1t has much the appearances OF
private dwelling. To all outward appear
ance the building is completed, and It is
only when entering that much of the work
will be seen TO be yet unfinished.
The main building OF the Animals Home
is faa bV IN vida and is the
colonial style of architecture. The main
= entrance is on Sixteenth street and leads to
n visitors room, off which is situated the
'Superintendents Office. Back of the Wis
iors' room Is laYatury Win all the latest
improvements.
Next to the closets and wash-room is the
harness-room and wag0n-houSes, which
constitute the greater part of the main
floor. In the wagon-house are lve large stalls
for the accommodation of the private horses
of the society. The stalls are models of
their kind, each being five feet wide and
fitted up with feed boxes and hay chutes
leading to the managers. This constitutes
the first floor.
OFFICERS QUARTERS.
The front part of the second story is de-
voted to bedrooms for the Superintendent
closets, toilet room, dining room and
kitchen. The central portion is designed as
the homes museum, and will be the depusi-
tory of everything curious connected with
. the dumb animals, particularly the horse
and dog. In the rear Of the museum are
several bed-chambers to be used by the em-
plOyes; whose sleeping apartments are con-
rectad by staircase with their own depart
ments in the rear. This embodies the main
structure and is known as the Administra-
ton Building.
To the south of the administration build
ing is what is known as the Canine House,
which IS thirty-two feet square. The walls
are fourteen feet high, with hip roof, max
ing the building about twenty-eight feet IN
height. The roof is supplied with ventila-
tors and sky-lights and is very commodious
and airy.
The floor will be of asphaltum and plenty
OF water will be supplied TO keep 1t clean.
The floor has a pitch TO the southeast for
drainage to the main sewer. The house has
an elght-fOOt entrance, so that the dog
wagons may enter and deposit their loads
The floor will be divided off into small sec
tions by movable fences or partitions, by
means Of which any dog or number Of dogs
may be kept separate from the rest
THEY MAY SCRATCH.
There will be two scratching-posts erect
ed, so that the dogs may indulge in the
luxury of a scratch whenever 1t suits their
pleasure TO rub their backs against the poles.
In the southeast corner there is an open
ing into which TITS a cage. When it is de-
cdtd to asphyXiate certain dogs they will
be moved toward the cage, which closes and
runs on a track 10 Small structure known
as the Iethal chamber.
The lethal chamber will be "A feet by g
and feet high. 1t will be built of pressed
brick lined inside with glazed tile. The
floor will De of cement and the top thick
plate-glass covering. The door will screw
in and be made air tight. When the cage
containing the dogs runs into the chamber
the door will be closed. A gaspipe connects
with the bottom Of the chamber and the gas
will be turned on.
1t is calculated thatit will take from seven
to nine minutes to complete the asphyxIa-
tiOn.. When the time is over a stop will be
taken out of the top of the chamber, and the
gas that escapes VIII be ightted and pass off
into the air without odor or .offense to any
one. ..-
Around the buildings are over 100 feet of
stalls that will be fitted up with accommo-
dations for all kinds of live stock. All the
Improvements when finished will have cost
the society 5000 outside of the lot on which
they are quilt