The San Francisco call., 1896-11-20
n. P. COLE WANTED
FOR PRESIDENT
He Will Probably Succeed
Jacob q. Davis Next
Month.
Worked Long for the Welfare
and Protection of Dumb
Animals.
Boom in the Mem bership of the So.
ciety for the Preve ntion of
Cruelty to An mails.

The Society for the Preventio of Cruel
ty TO Animals would have elected a presi
dent yesterday to succeed Jacob q. Davi.
had there not been so much business tt
consider before the subject of election
came up. Mr.. Davis, it will be recollected
died not long ago in Philadelphia. The
board of directors sat yesterday in the
room where his picture, draped in black
is conspicuous object. He had long
been the leading spirit. His death occa
stoned vacancy in the board and also
imposed upon the board the duty of elect
ing possibly two new officials president
and vice-president.
N. P. Cole is the present presiding Of
ficer, having been elected vice. president
some months ago to succeed Ira P. Ran
kin, upon the death of the latter. Had
there been little more time there is very
little doubt that Mr.. Cole would yesterday
have been elected president. Nearly all
the board were there, those present being
N. P. Cole, II. Lissak, Colum mbus Water
house, James S. Hutchinson, f. P. Glib
Stein, ]. 81. Mangels, Theodore S. Gruen-
hagen and Martin Stevens. They strongly
favored Mr.. Cole for the place. Mr..
Waterhouse felt disin clined to be candi-
date. Mr.. Cole also had no wish to take
the place, but all the indications are that
he Is the coming man.
Mr.. Cole has been a member of the
official BOARD OF the society fully ten years
and has devoted much time to its busi-
ness, having always taken lively interest
In the work. He is the natural candidate
for this reason-as also on account of his
ackno wledged fitness for the place. But
no election occurred, the matter neces-
sarily going over until the next meeting.
Next to the expected election the ex-
pected appearance of owners of fox ter
riers who are interested in coursing was q
leading matter of interest. The pressure
in favor of permitting the dogs to chase
live rabbits in this City and County con-
tinues. For some reason the owners OF
coursing dogs did not come up in person
or through communications Yesterday.
The directors had considerable routine
business to transact in addition to the
auditing of bills. The membership roll
had boom by the addition of eleven new
mem bers, who are named as follows: f. W.
Hinckley. W. T. mbrose, DR.. G. n. Van
Orden, George f. Cameron, Rev. William
A. Gardner, H. B. Montague, Maurice
Schweitzer, Melville Schweitzer, Samuel
Szanlch, Maurice Kuttner and Frank R.
Burkhardt. This list is somewhat note
worthy. 1t con tains the name of the Sec
ond clergyman who has ever joined the
society, Rev. William A. Gardner of the
West Side Christian Church, and also the
name of the recently elected Superintend-
ent of Streets. Rev. MIR. Gardner is so in
terested in the work that he will soon
deliver sermon on the subject OF cruelty
10 animals.
There were also inspection officers of the
society to elect yesterday, and the follow
ing were elected: ]. f. Burgin, A. G.
Bauer, William Cans, Alfonso Petit,
III u loo
A. E. Buckman. Two of these officers are
we'll known as street contractors, who have
excellent opportunities to see how ami
mails are treated. The reports indicated
activity upon the part OF the officers
Since the preceding report $40 cases o.
| alleged cruelty had been Investigated, in
volving 722 animals, of which 203 were
taken from work. There were twenty siz
arrests and eleven convictions during the
period.