St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-15
THE LOCAL SOCIETY.
Partial Work Accomplished
MONT nP Results

Partial Work ed-Re-
port Of Results.
After the adjournment Of of the state
society the local society held short
session, l. A. Abbott, president, preSid-
ing.
NJ. l.. Hutchins, secretary, read his
report, and beng called as witness in a
case the society is interested in in conrt,
left the room to return to the court
house. Mr.Abbott made short address,
in which he Sketched the work the Soci =
ETY. has done in the past year, spoke of
the money raised to defray the expenses
of the work and of the success of two
women. MeSdameS SauZe and MiZen, i'll
raising money. These women go from
town to town raising money for this OBJ
ject, and are deVJting their time to this
work and are most successful.
Secretary Hutchins reported the fol-
lowing as a synopsis of the work done
for the past year:
Cases reported to this Office and ate nded
to....:..... .....:...;..... 49,. 10
Cases of cruelty to animals. .......... I59
Cases of cruelty to children ............. 81
Total $3.50. ................. $50. 10
Prosecutions made. ..................... s
For the protection of animals. ......... 4
Children. Observation-Disclosures. l
Our work consists of taking begging
children from our streets and securing
their attendance at school. OF taking
children, both boys and girls, from sa-
looms. warning the Saloonkeeper
against selling to them, also parents
regarding sending them to the saloon
after their beer. We have also taken
several children from the streets who
were sent out in the cold at night by
their parents to sell papers and matches.
some Of them but five years Of age. We
have also removed young girls from
questionable houses where they were
employed as servants, and returned
them to their homes. We have en-
deayored, as far as possible, to prev ent
tObacconiStS selling, aud young boys
from purchasing cigarettes. We rejoice
that measure is now before the legis-
iature to prohibit the use of the cigar
cite.
We need strong law to reg ulate
child labor; our little boys and girls
who are now employed as cash 4 nd in
factories should be in school.
Careless Parents.
We have repeatedly found small chill
| dren locked up in their houses, while
| their parents were both away. and some
| times found the children lying upon the
| floor sick at the tender age of three
years. We have also found several
| crippled children who are uncartd for
by their parents or guardians, and had
them placed under the kind care and
| treatment of physician.
We have made but few prosecutions,
as we have found as a rule the people
needing counsel. advice and reproof.
We have given both cheerfully aud in
large quantities. as we felt il to ba nee
essary.
ThoughsIess Owners.
Through the recent cold snap we
| have notified. covered and attached our
| warning cards to 1856 teams, who,
| through the thoughtleSSneSs of til {
| driver, who has either been on bushes $
or in some building taking lunch, were
left in the cold uncovered.
We ought to have a law to prevent
the banging of the tails of horses. which
is their only protection against flies i'll
summer. and also to prevent clipping
! horses except in certain months OF the
wear. and to prohibit the use Of the
! Jackson oyer-check and the cruel
double-wire bits which so injure a
| horses mouth.
|
dumb animals in our present gathering
of representative men of the legislature
who will see that these measures are
attended to, and we shall soon be able
to check these abuses.
Transportation Of Stock.
The matter of transporting stock
is still in a very unsatisfactory, crude
and cruel condition. The cars used for
shipping cattle are anything but prop
erIy arranged. We need compartment
cars for the proper handling of stock,
so that they may not be trodden and
hooked to death as we have been called
to the transfer to witness such state of
things. Since our last investigation at
the Minnesota transfer, having written
| up the both to the shippers and to the
firm III Chicago regarding the number
We found dead ami dying, through Cars