The evening times., 1899-12-13
MAKING war ON DOGS
District officials Capturing All
Stray Animals.
Recently Appointed Cntchers Wag-
Ing an Active Campaign-Nineteen
Animals Taken Today, FOrty-two
Yesterday, and Eighty Monday.
The Methods of Executing Them.

The new dog catchers are having a merry
| time capturing the wandering ours of the
District. The men engaged by the Pound
master Monday. have all been put to work.
On Monday the increased force man.
aged to land eighty dogs. All Of these ami
mails are now at the pound waiting identi-
fication or execution, as the case may be.
II the owner of missing dog thinks
enough of him, he will go to the pound and
pay two dollars to take him out, other
wise the animal will be put in the execu-
tive chamber and killed.
7 The manner of ending the lives of the in
mates of the pound has been changed great
ly in the last few years. Up to short
time ago it was the custom for the Pound
master to maintain large husky colored
sharpshooter in the building. who at stated
intervals would visit the pen in which the
condemned are placed. and select a few
dogs. These animals would be taken to a
far corner of the pound enclosure, and the
sharpshooter would proceed to inject a
leaden pellet into the brain of the luckless
cur. After a sufficient number of bodies
have been secured they are loaded on a
scow and taken down the river to a soap
and fertilizer factory. where they are
turned into soap, or fertilizer. or glue.
Little does the young mistress OF missing
Tatters think that when she is carefully
adjusting her dolly's broken head with the
aid of a bottle of fish" glue, that she is
probably spreading a portion of the poor
dear's anatomy over the scragly surface
of the bisqua lady's neck. But such may
be the case. The dogs are not shot now.
but their bodies are used for the same pur-
poses. POundmaster Einstein has one of
the most powerful carbon dioxide genera
tors in the city. The gas is passed into a
small alright room. directly from the gen.
orator, and only the fraction OF minute is
consumed in killing the most healthy ca
nine. Executions are being held every day
now and it is expected that the number OF
dead dogs which will be sent down the
river this week will reach several hundred.
This is considered a much more humane
method of ending the lives Of the Pound
masters charges and is much cleaner and
cheaper than shooting them.
Dogs that are captured in the street are
kept at the pound for forty-eight hours
before they are executed. The law requires
this. Sometimes. however. when a parti-
cularly well kept or valuable dog falls into
the hands of the Poundmaster he is held
few days longer.
The manner Of catching the dogs has
to almost everyone unless the new dog
catchers are excepted. An incident occur
red on Louisiana Avenue this morning
which demonstrates the difficulties eAperi-
enced. A small but very active dog was
standing on the corner of Ninth Street and
Louisiana Avenue, apparently trying to
decide which of the two markets in the
vicinity would furnish the best forage He
had not made up his mind when the pound
wagon hove in sight. The dog catchers
spied the dog and made dash for him. The
usual crowd followed and as the recently
appointed dog catcher was about to apply
the net somebody hissed at the dog The
cur Immediately took the hint and ran
across the street where he stopped and
seemed to smile at the awkward efforts Of
the man behind the net
The latter mad fresh start and again
dashed at the dog. This time the animal
was locking and just as the net was about
TO descend on his head he started up Ninth
Street and from all accounts is running yet
The dog catcher folded his net as the
crowd laughed and silently stole away
Eighty dogs were captured Monday. for
ty-two yesterday, and nineteen had been
taken up to noon today