The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-07-31


sswwsws 1ivsa TArss Days' orsss 90
ThsA destroyed.
Every morning vanloads of canine
outcasts stand outside the dogs home
N the Battersea. Park road: and now
and again vanload Of calcined bone
and ash goes out, says st. James Ga
zette. There h an interval Of I'VE days
between the stages. The law requires
three. Three days after q dog has been
In the hands OF the police the original
right Of ownership In It ceases, and Il
may be sold or moderated % conven-
tence dictates. The process 10 very sim
pie and It goes on in London year in
and year out, whether there is mug
cling order in, force or not. Every
morning a covered van draws up before
each Of the police stations In the met
ropolis. On each side are two rows Of
rings, and at the end 10 q galvanized
Iron receptacle. The dangerous dog, II
there DO one, Is brought out Of the sta
tton and put in the iron box; the harm
less wastrels are led from the police
yard and tethered one by one to the
rings. With the aoor-space of the van
thus covered with animals, the horses
head Is turned toward Battersea. Just
now there are not enough Of these
special vans. and the police have had
to requisitton vehicles from the green
grocer or other local tradesmen. Ar
rived at the dogs home, the vans wait
their turn to pasA into the yard, their
occupants filing the air with cries and
swelling the greater chorus within the
walls of the home. As one van comes
out empty another goes in full. The
dogs are taken out, their place Of origin
and description and any marks of iden-
tihcation on the collar entered in a
book, and then in groups of tens and
twenties are taken into the kennels.
There they pass their days of respite,
waiting for owners that come not, and
spending the hours in incessant bark
ing and in pitiful and friendly appeals
TO visitors. When the days of grace
are past they are led to the lethal
chamber. Just now the home is having
two clearances day and is getting
second furnace built for the incinera-
ton of the carcasses. Since the LIST of
January nearly $4,000 dogs have passed
through the gates-the vast majority of
them to pass out again in the form Of
calcined bone and ash. and Of these
$4,000 nearly half have come in since
the issue Of the muzzling order. As the
home has accommodation for about
1000 dogs only and is hard put to It
10 md kennel room, Notwithstanding
the additional space it has utilized un-
der the railway arch, the rate of de-
struction can be imagined. The process
OF destroying the dogs is absolutely
painless. The lethal chamber ia the
invention Of DR.. BENJAMIN Ward Rich
ardson, and the writer Of this saw It in
use recently. It is constructed SO as to
dispose of 100 animals of the terrier
class at time. The animals are nut
into cage divided into two tiers. with
light iron bars at the sides. Mean
while the chamber is filled with mar
cotic vapor. When. the load is made up
the doors of the cage are shut, the slid
Ing door Of the chamber is raised and
the cage is run quickly on the tram
rails into the chamber. The death IL
by anaesthesia, and such death 10
death by sleep. The dogs are overcome
with drowsiness. the moment they
breathe the noxious fumes; in a single
minute they are in a deep sleep; in
three minutes they are dead. Close BY
the lethal chamber is the crematorium
"a large oven kept at an intense heat
by brick furnace. When the cage 10
drawn out the carcasses Of the animals
are cast into it. There is momentary
smell as the hair of their bodies ignites.
but that is all. When the process n
completed there is nothing but an in.
odorous ash and incinerated bone.