Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-08-27
THE LONDON DOGS. HOME.
Dowwows Given Three Days Grace and
Thea Destroyed.

0oWwows Given Three Days Grace and
Thea Destroyed.
Every morning vanloads OF canine
outcaRts stand outside the dogs home
In the Battersea. Park road: and now
and again a vanload of calcined bone
and ash goes out. says st. James Ga
zette. There Is an interval Of five days
between the stages. The law requires
three. Three days after dog has been
IN the hands of the police the original
right OF ownership in it ceases. and II
may be sold or Moderated as conven-
fence dictates. The process Is very SIM
pie and it goes on in London wear In
ana year out, whether there is a muz-
cling order in force or not. Every
morning covered van draws up before
each OF the police stations in the met
ropolls. On each side are two rows of
rings. and at the end is a galvanized
iron receptacle. The dangerous dog, If
there be one is brought out of the sta
.ioh ana 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 foor-space of the van
tnus covered with animals, the horses
mead is turned toward Battersea. Just
now there are not enough of these
special vans, and the police have had
10 requisition vehicles from the green
grocer or other local tradesmep. Ar
ri'ed at the dogs home. the vans wait
their turn to pass into the yard, their
occupants filling 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-
tincation on the collar entered in
DOCK, and then in groups of tens and
Lwehties are taken into the kennels.
mere 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 a
second furnace built for the incinera-
ton OF the carcasses. Since the LIST Of
January nearly $4,000 dogs have passed
lRrough the gates-the vast majority of
~ pass out again in the form OF
Is me and ash, and of these
~ HAY have come in since
nv 49, Il ~ rAuukiias order. AS the
- ~ Scconmoda ttdA afor about
49, De- only RID = hard ut to it
to ffnd akeAnd room. Rse1tthutAnd dag
the additional space 1t IN uSaiixe4 m
der the railway arclss ~ v6teAf ~
struction can be imaginsd The prwess
of destroying the dogs n ahanfrtflS /
painless. The lethal chamber n ~
invention Of DR.. Benjamin Ward Rich.
ardson. and the writer of this saw it in
use recently. 1t is constructed 80 az tn
dispose OF 100 animals of the terrier
class at a 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 IN
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 is
by anaesthesia, and such a death ia
death by sleep. The dogs are overcome
with drowsiness, the moment they
breathe the noxious fumes in a single
minute they are in 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 ia
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 ia
completed there is nothing but an in
odorous ash and incincrated bone.