Evening journal., 1896-11-04
THE DOG CEMETERY.
a SEXTON RELATES SOME CURIOUS
FACTS CONCERNING IT.

Costly Menunents Erected Over Dead
Pups by Thelr Sentimental Owners Po-
etisM Epitaphs ana biblical Texts Setting
forth the Virtues OF the Departed.
Toilet clubs arc not the only luxury
that dogs enjoy in common with man
kind; thcy are pampered also with
cemeteries
On Tie northwestern outskirts of Lon
don, in fne old counhy mansion,
surrounded by extensive grounds, lives
and labois ono of the wealthiest and
most fashionable of veterinary surgeons,
who numbers among his customers va
rious members Of the royal family, many
persons of title and distinguished lead.
ers Of society-in fact, his prices are so
handsome that ordinary middle class
mortals cannot afford TO avail therl-
selves Of his services.
dc is a dcg specialist, leaving al the
remainder oil the animal kingdom ia the
hands of other practitioners, and the
fact that he has made very comfort
able fortune justiGes him ip his exclu-
siveness And not only will he tend the
canine species when they are ailinR, but
he is prepared 10 bury them when they
die and to bury them, moreover, with
tho most gratifying pageantry and
decorum.
Tho cemetery reserved for this pur-
pose is IN a corner Of a field on his
estate; but, being inclosed by wall and
planted about with trees, nothing OF
the interior is visible either from his
own windows or from any point Of the
surrounding country, so that few, il
any, Of the neighbors are aware that
such place Of sepulcher exists in the
midst of them.
Some of the dawgs buried here,
said an attendant, showing tho favored
inquirer round, "dicd while we had
'em under treatment in horspital, as you
may say, but many Of EN- died in their
own homes and was brought as much as
six and seven miles to their funeral.
The headstones and monuments in
this singular cemetery are as large and
ofien as costly as any placed above tho
average human body, and the epitaphs
ON them are not infrequently quite as
eulogistic
This one here, " observed the attend
ant, pointing out a particularly neat
and well kept grave with red marble
obelisk at the head Of it, sis where two
pug dawgs We're buried. They belonged
TO an old lady who brought 'em over
with her from Paris She had 'em for
several years, and we were always be-
ing called in to doctor 'em, though they
were always suffering from nothing but
overfeeding. At last one day they
were both taken i'll tOgether-the q
eaten something as wasn't good for 'em
and they died. She was dreadful cut
up about it--she couldn't have been
more so II they'd been ohildren-and
She had em buried here in two as neat
little alright collins as ever you see.
She comes every now and then on Wis
il, ard she pays our gardener 25 shil-
lings year extra specially to water the
flowers she planted ON the grave and
keep it all tidy
'Now, here we have what you may
call a family vault, which belongs to q
ANNANAAt--f 90 gNA NNN ANA NDNAa'AA Nli
the tablet over the doorway. It's deep
ard lined with bricks. and you go down
into it by a fight Of steps. There's six
dawgs down ON the shelves already in
lead lined collins. If you look through
the grating in the door, you'll see the
names and ages on the stone that covers
the opening. His lordship's uncommon
fond Of his dawgs, and whenever fresh
one dies it's brought up here and tho
vaults opened for it. We've another
vault like this which wen come to
presently, only it belongs TO a lady.
" Oh. yes; think I may say every
dawg is buried in box of some sort
and fair proportion Of 'em in proper
collins, brass mounted and everything
You'd hardly believe how some Of the
owEors viii cry at the funeral. It's
mostly ladies that bury their pets here,
Of course AS rule, they've got more
sentiment about this sort of thing than
men have. Nearly all Of 'om come reg
ular for tho first few weeks with
wreaths and bunchos Of flowers, but the
majority Of 'cm begin 10 drop that after
month on two Though there S a dawg
buried yonder--seo that fiat stone with
a railing round itg-the old lady has
come on the anniversary Of his death
every year since I've been here and that s
nigh eight years now, and she seems