The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-17
WHY KILL DOVES :?
Gentlemen of Both Kinds
May Answer.
JUST A THIRST FOR BLOOD.
Bluerocks Are About as Hard
to Hit. -:
JUST A THIRST FOR BLOOD
WERE PRAcTIcINd YESTERDAY
Some of the Gentlemen Who VIII
Il Pot Doves at Monterey Cracked
Lots of Pottery.

+: Incidentally. of course, and to brace
their nerves and quicken their eyes.
number of crack shots of this city shot
away part of their incomes a. bluerocks
over on the Berkeley grounds. Merrily
the shells popped as: the things OF clay
started on their parab0le journeys from
the trap, and fingers witched and eyes
+ snapped as the maFksmen let so both
barrels in succession.
:. And when the shades of night fell on
i the grounds heaps of broken pottery ali
over denoted where the steady aim of the
shooters had made sad havoc with the
eccentric blueFocks. All the gentlemen
| present enjoyed themselves hugely. but
| not-not as much as they will at the CON-
| ing dove shooting tournament at the Coun-
| try Club outing.
To. the Notwithstanding gentleman
| this will seem strange, and he will ask,
why didn't they enjoy themselves as
| much? Isn't the course of the bluerOck
| just as eTratic for all. the time it takes to
| shoot it as. a dove2 Doesn't it take as
| quick an eye, as steady. a nerve. as prom pt
| decision 10 shatter one as it does to hit a
| dove? Well. If it does. then. why didn't
| they enjoy themselves as much as il they
| had been shooting doves?"
| That's where the non-dove-killing' gen.
| tEeman betFays himself. He ought to
|. know better He should know that the
| doye-killing: gentlemen want-besides the
| nerve, and the eye, and the parabolic
fl light and thepromptnesS of action-one
| thing the bluerOcks can produce no more
| than a rurnip. They want blood; rivers
| fthe blood of the dove, of the color of
| priceless .balas rubes. That's what the
| doye-killn gentleman wants. not action,
! and qutckened eye, and steadied nerve.
He wants the blood of the poor little de-
! fen seiesS timid bird. whose coo is love,
whose life is content, and peace, and hap
| piness, aud. whose death is sin and
| crying shame: -.
Now, does the non-dove-killing gentle
man know what the dove-kiiling gentle
| men desire2 o..
They get thousands and thousands of
the gentle doves from the market men, pay
| so much apiece for. the use of them. and
| kali them tomake up the difference Then
| they turn the poor lacerated carcasses
/ over to the market man, their duty done.
| They perform their duties as butchers
and receiyetheir pay in the sport they get
! in the slaughter.
The nom dove killing gentleman will
probably be easily able to grasp the situa-
tion.a
This is a paper L often read" aid Rev.
Hobart Chetwood. a prominent Episco-
palian clergyman. when asked for his
views. on the question of gentlemen
slaughtering loves. .'.-
THE magazine Is devoted TO the inter
ests of dumb nimals," contiD ued the rev.
erend gentleman, turning over the pages
Of The periodical he had indicated. cit is
an excellent thing in its way, but some
times it carries things little too far, rms
them into the ground. in fact. | think
there is; an extreme of sentimentalism
and mawkishness to be guarded against in
these matters. As fer this shooting of
raped pigeons, however, it is absolutely
a cruel sport and ought not to be tolerated.
u think the American sense of fair play
rather goes against the thing In this
country, where fair play is SO much
Thought of,~the sense of justice ought to
| prevent a sportsman from shooting a
creature that is not given a chance"
Mr.. Chetwood when asked to define
gentleman recalled the words of one of the
professors of his college, "A diamond
POLISHED that was just diamond in the
| rough" ITO go into particulars on this
pigeon question:" he continued, "a gentle
man should not only respect the feelings
of his fellow beings. but of the lower
creation. OF course as / say there is an
extreme of sen timentalism to be guard ed
against, but there should be as great an
avoidance of cruelty as possible and no life
should be wantonly torn ted. Only cruel
nature would actually take pleasure in do
ing lit"
."There are such different standards in
different countries Of what constitutes a
gentleman" observed Mrs. DR.. Pawlicki
refiectyely. '1n some of the older countries
men of family. who are actually bad moral
characters. are accepted as gentlemen be-
cause of their birth aud polished exterior.
For myself. do not count even educa-
ton as an absolute essential to the making
Of a gentleman. consider that gentle
man must be everything the Lord requires
of man. one who is just to himself and to
his tellOw-creatuTes, and is also useful
member OF the community. A drone does
not according to my way of thinkin g,
come under the category of a gentleman
even II he is educated and has big for
une. AS for dress and manners making a
gentleman, the idea is not to be tolerated
for moment" 1t was with great earnest
ness Lnat Mrs. PaWllckl SAID the latter
words, and she added: 'Some of the Eu-
rOpean habits that our men Initiate occa-
sionally when they want TO be elegant are
not conducive to the making of real
gentleman 1t is pity that they do not
copy the virtues only and let the folles
and vices alone.
"As Tor shooting doves Well, IL gentle
man wants to become an expert with the
gun let him. Some OF the best gentlemen
in the world cannot shoot at all, ana some
of the greatest vulgarians are professional
marksmen. Whether gentleman Is
sportsman or not is really beside the ques-
ton, but l believe that no gentleman
worthy of the name ought to be wantonly
cruel. The animals were intended for use,
but they were never meant TO be abused"
Charles S. Holbrook, the SECRETARY Of the
California Society fer the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, regretted that the
society he represented was incorporated
only for the city and county of San Fran
cisco. 1--WE would arrest them if they
tried to shoot trapped pigeons here" he
observed. grimiy. There was some talk
Of cultvating that sport In the sand dunes,
near the McAllIster-street entrance to the