The evening world., 1894-02-28
TENANTS HOWL FOR CANNES.
Landlord Kohn Has No Regard
for the Feelings of Either.
Owners Say "Dog-gone Shame" and
Appeal to the Health Board.

An inquisitive defender of New York's
canine population has appealed to the
tender mercles of the Health Depart
ment on behalf of several dear little and
big dogs in an ap~artment-house on West
Eighty-eighth street.
To Gen. Emmons Clark. Secretary Health De-
Sir: viii you kindly inform me whether the sanl-
tary code contains any section which torbids me
maintaining 81 pet dogs In apaTtn'cnt-houseS IL
the dogs are kept ordinarily quiet?
The owner Of this house, POI West Eighty-eishth
street, has seen fit recently to order every oc-
cupant possessing a pet dog to exclude 1t from
the premises. The darling little creatures In our
humane treatment at the hands Of our cruel land
lord. What. II you please, is the law governing
he maintaining OF dogs In living a~Iartments'
POI Yves, Eighty-eighth street.
The health officials can only aid IF.
w. p by telling whoever he or she may
be that If an animal, be 1t either an In
telligent pct dog or a pestiferous little
cur, becomes a nuisance IT must be put
away, and that the Health Department
has not the power to say whether or not
a landlord shall allow his tenants to
shelter a household of dogs beneath his
roof.
There are more than half a dozen dogs
IN tie house In question; TX their ex.
have acquired the good will and admira-
ton OF every one in the house and In the
neighborhood saws the %janitor and the
owner of the building. The latter are
emohatically dog-haters.
There are several dogs in the lot under
condemnation that would probably have
won ribbons or honorable mention at the
dog show had they been on exhibition:
one is Spot, a coach dog, the property of
the veteran fireman, Robert Geddis. of a
hook IL ladder company in Eighty-sec-
ond street. Mr.. Geddis would not, he
says, part with Spot for a farm. He Is
a veteran fire dog and has seen service.
on Spots back Is a big scar, which he
received rec wsmo early rs ~ New se" Years W morning @r n at
dred and Twenty-ifth street, when Mrs.
Ahlbergh, with an infant In her arms.
jumped out Of the window. The babe
was killed and the mother died soon
after.
A hot brick fell on Spot at that fire
while he was with Fireman Geddis. 1t
nearly cost the dog his life.
His welcome bark has guided many a
fireman to safety from a building choked
up with smoke, and he Is n great hero
about the Eighty = second street fire
house.
There Is another noble brute in this lot
Of condemned dogs. He is a setter, a
big. beautiful, white animal, with red
spots on his silky coat as large as two
He is Theo, the l.re saver He earned
that title one night in November. 1892.
street house. ,Theo lived with his mas:
ter. Mr.. Burdette, a nephew of Chief
Clerk Kipp, Of Police Headquarters. on
the second floor. Mr.. Burdette was
awakened by Theo paving at his face.
the halls.
When the dog got in the hallway he
ran up to every floor, barking and howl
ing as never dog did before: Everybody
was aroused and got to the street in
safety. This Is why Theo is a favorite
and why his friends will not part with
him.
As yet only one pet has been banlshed
under the edict. Poor little ~black-and-
tan Gyp, Mrs. De Castro's darling, is
now on the high seas bound for Rio
de Janeiro to JOIN the disturbance there.
His mistress sent him away to avoid a
worse ate. and happily she could do so,
for d relative sailed for there recently.