The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-13
WE|TzEL WANTS
4 MODEL POUND.
Many Large Cities Advise
Him How to Gain
His Wish.
HE MAKES DISCOVERIES.
Dog Killing Has Been Brought
Up to a Scientific
Point.
is MORE AT SEA THAN EVER.
Pounds That Are Interesting and
Poundmasters That Are
Facetious.
is MORE AT SEA THAN EVER
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALI
9O8 Broadway, July IL.

OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALI
908 Broadway, July II.
H. L. Weitzel, poundmaster OF Oakland,
made discovery to-day.
poundkeeper is no longer looked upon
as a human brute who takes supreme
pleasure in tormenting, starving and kill
ing all animals that he can turn loose and
catch.
The time is coming, and in some cities
has already come, when the poundkeeper
is regarded as a humane official whose du-
ties are second only to those of the red
cross varieties.
Poundmaster Weitzel knows more to-
night about pounds and dogs and the
method of killing them than any other
poundmaster in the country. He sat at
his desk all of to-day studying. Some
weeks ago he sent letters to all the pound
masters in the large cities of the United
States. To-day he was studying their an
swers. Some were q revelation, many
amusing, but all were interesting.
Mr.. Weitzel is ambitious TO have a model
pound in this city. 1t is under the con-
troll of the Humane Society. and this has
proved to be the best system for pound
government yet devised.
Atlanta. Ca. is the dogs paradise Of the
country. In that Southern city ours and
mongrel CANNES of all descriptions roam
at will. They fear not the policeman with
poisoned meat, nor the man with the
scoop-net. City Clerk J. w. Phillip,
writes: I'VE have no dog pound, and do
not catch dogs" If dogs could but be adj
vised of the news what an exodus there
would be from the Pacific Coast to the At
lantic.
At Galveston, nine mounted policemen
catch stock and dogs, and are paid what to
Oaklanders would be two weeks salary,
viz, $50 month. Chief of Police w. o.
Jones says his men catch about $50 dogs
during each summer month, and only
per cent is redeemed. The 1861 are ca
joled into an air-tight room, under which
is furnace adapted for burning sulphur
| When the connection is made, the stray
dogs are gently asphyxiated. A popularity
of the Galveston ordinance is that it costs
So to redeem goat and only 81 per head
of stock. This will sound strange to the
Oakland cow-owner who has to pay 81
every time his COW his lassoed by the
poundman.
About 400 dogs are caught at st. Louis,
and the pound costs $500 month. When
the dogs are not redeemed Poundmaster
r. I. Price treats them to a fatal inhala-
tioD OF sulphur fumes.
The pound department of the city of
Chicago is an important part OF the gov
eminent. There are eight stock pounds
and six dog-catchers on wagons, and on
each wagon is regular police officer
About 1000 dogs are caught every month
] Jr,r he Of -
few are redeemed. This is the way Super
intendent Eli Montgomery writes of the
manner of destroying dogs: I'VE have an
alright box that will hold fifty or seventy
FIVE dogs, and a charcoal furnace with
pipe connecting with the box. After kind
ling fire in the furnace with charcoal we
place sulphur on the fire, the fumes OF
which are conducted into the box, produc-
ing death in very few minutes.
The Buffalo dog pound is conducted by
the Humane Society, but is under the con-
troll of the police. About 700 loose dogs
! are caught every month, and are placed in
box filed with gas. at takes about If
| teen seconds before the dogs are stiff, ;"
says DR.. w. Clinton of the Erie County
Humane Society. mo pain or suffering
is noticed, and this method gives general
satisfaction"
The desire to use gun that prevails in
Arkansas runs even to shooting dogs. judy
ing by the fees the poundmaster cannot
receive very large fortune, as it would
appear that he gets large part of his
satisfaction in using his gun.
Chief OF Police Frank Mcmahon says:
"We catch dogs with wire loop and put
them in wagon on the spot We kill them
by shooting them in the forehead with q