The evening world., 1894-07-28
TREEO CAT, MAD DOG.
Thrilling Experiences Of Police
men in Forty-second Street.
The Feline with the Brown Paper
Taste Escaped.
But the Fox Terrier Was u Victim
to IA Lcaden Bullet.

1t is strange how human sympathy
goes wrong and how hypocrites blur
calls forth unlimited coincidence, while
the really afflicted are too often harshly
dealt with. Two incidents Illustrating
this perversity occurred this morning,
both on Forty second street.
About s O'Clock u throng was gath ,rel
about maple tree in front uf 6i Wet
Forty-sccund street. Every eye was
turned upward t. the topmost branches.
where chung gray cat of the Thomas
gender.
Iiowls and plaintive "me-au-auwows"'
expressed to their untutored minds the
agony of the poor animal. castaway be
tween earth and sky. To them it seemed
that the locomotive economy OF this
particular feline had no reverse lever
and that he could only move onward
and upward, out to nothingness and to
death.
Ali sorts of expedients were suggested
10y the plying bystanjers. from calling
out the Fire Department to ascending
to the rescue by balloon. The police
man on beat was importuned to do
something. one rotund citizen insinu-
ated that 1t was his plain duty to climb
the tree and bring down the cat
But that policeman Is not architecture
ally designed for climbing any Negeta,
bLs less sturdy than the redwoods OF
the Yosemite Valley. Any way. to-day
was not his day for that sort OF eXer-
else.
A small boy finally attempted the
feat, and. as he thought, managed To
shake Thomas from his predlcamentl
down on the shoulders of the crowd
beneath, whence he scampered OF
around Ninth avenue.
This is the view the case presented
by the L,eople, whose sympathy yr FOR ~
Thomas blinded their senses. Here is
what really occurred:
Thomas was out last night doing the
Tenderloin." His whirl or gayety wound
up at o'clock this morning, when he
awoke in the areaway OF a West Forty
second street dwelling. Burning pains
in his head fiabbergasted sensation
along his limp spine and general
"goneness" furnished a diagnosis that
any expert would pronounce "katzen-
"Wo-o-o-w" he yawned. Gee whiz,
what head We got. 1-i-i,-I.u,p;
Wonder where I've been an where-l-go'
tit? Well, I'm hungry any way, and a
bird will fix me up"
In feastng on bird breakfasts, felnely
| the method begins with the first line OF
| the recipe. which reads: Take a bird. "
Thomas proceeded to act by ASCENDING
the tree, where he lay, In wait for luck
| less chippies. Meanwhile he vocalzed
selecting snatches at random from the
various airs he had heard during the
night. His snatches were very random
| in their selection and this Is what was
| mistaken for plaintve cries by those
| beneath:
| Mamie. come s-wow-meuw-hol.i
gee. where did leave an inch OF my
tail? That must have been that shaving
ers are leaking too. oh, | remember
that was that brunette who worked tn,
badger game on me in Fortieth street
Hu,lo, what's these guys down there
STUCK Sf up al here Wow s"sy as I'll d.
a fake fall for that Old lady WINS yeIiin'
Here Thomas pretended to save him
sell from fall to death by wil'
say that kid acts like he was hunting
Here he comes up the tree It's time 70
me to sneak" and Thomas pretended t
be shaken down. but he did the slid
for life" like one long accustomed t,
gymnastics.
A little nve-pouni fox-terrer stag
gered Imply into Forty-second street
| from Park avenue, at o'clock, just a
a vast crowd of commuters We're emery
ing from the Grand Central Depot.
| Westminster County man espied him an,
con ceived the idea that the tshy lool
! about his eyes was a sure indication o
rabies. The dog was suffering, but /
was probably from incipient pares:s o
epilepsy
~
thousand or more persons was willini
to let some one else eNterminate tn
"feroCious beast"
Valorous Policeman Rudolph Weiss. o
the East Fifty-first street station, stroi
up. Fixing mis- eagle eye upon the dog
he charged Not a quaver die. he quavs
not a shudder did he shud and not
tremor did he trem. The dog had takel
refuge in doorway on Depew place
where he lay painting.
club and revolver in hand, policeman
Weiss tiptoed up. A paroNysm shoe
the dogs frame and Weiss beat III
record at back jumping. Then b
stealthily crept up. like the scout /
the dime novel. and fired. OF cours
he didn't kill the dog, but horse l.
front of an express wagon can te
more about how nearly he was hit.
The next try was "A 100 to ! shot, an
the dog kicked his last.
Then the perspring crowd dispense
husinessward and it's dollars to dough
nuts that nine out OF ten Of those VIII
saw the tive-pound massacre has alread
told of his awful and blood-thrliing en-
counter with a mad dog at the Gran
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