The times., 1900-12-23
CANINE CAR PASSENGERS.
That Little Dogs Have
Over the Big Fellows.
(From the New York SUM-

| Advantages That Little Dogs Have
Over the big Fellows.
From the New York SUM
| While it is the common practice on rail-
roads to exclude dogs from passenger cars
yet passengers do. as a matter of fact
set the rules at naught and take small
! dogs into the cars. They hate to send
their pets to the cold mercies of The bag
gage car though that is what OF necessity
| they do with their larger canine friends
and companions. for those they cannot
! smuggle past the train hands and EN-
! ployes, whose duty 1t is to Ieep them out.
/ But the little ones they carry aboard in
a variety of ways.
! 4 small dog can be carried for in
| stance in travelling bag or satchel and
get plenty of air to live with the
| satchel closed during the time necessary
TO keep il so in the actual boarding of the
| train. OF course, il the dog itself kept
quiet it could in this manner be carried
aboard car absolutely without the knowi-
edge of the most vgilant brakeman or
! porter. The passenger once inside and
settled in his seat the bag is opened so
| that the dog can get abundant air or the
dog may be taken out of the bag for tina t
| matter, to be put on the floor between
| two seats where it is quite out of sight
| of the other passengers and would be
| whine
Passengers also carry small dogs
! aboard under coats and cloaks and in
baskets. There are now made for the
shipping of dogs very comfortable ship
ping crates, as there are likewise made
puppy crates for little dogs. so that it
is no longer necessary. as it used to be
years ago, TO have the dog when it was
sent up to the baggage car simply tied
t. ha
practically was. and so in danger of in
jury in the shifting and handling of bag
gage in tho car: it is placed in crate
of suitable size. in N<lich it is secure
and comfortable. But IT is probable that
people will always continue in more or
less numbers 10 carry their pets into
the cars.
The same rules against carrying dogs
on the ears commonly prevail on street
railroad lines in cities. and they are as
commonly and in like manner eyaded.
On the elevated railroad here, for in
stance. no big dog would be permitted
to enter car. but small dogs are often
carried into them. unknown to the
guards woman could easily carry. as
in fact she sometimes does, such dog
under an ample cloak ard il she sits
in the car al some point not in the
guards view when he opens the door 10
cross seat she may take the dog out from
her cloak to place it in her lap. man
can bring aboard a car easily a small
dog under his coat, perhaps Keeping he
more or less bulging side of Fhis body
away from the guard as he steps on the
car. 4 man carrying dog in that man
ner. who was accustomed to riding on
the elevated. would be likely tol take the
last car. and he would sit in the rear end
where he would be least likely 10 be seen
by the guard, whose station is at the
forward end Settled in his seat this
passenger would open his coat and let
the dog put his head out for air, looking
out meanwhile for the guard who comes
through this car occasionally.
Thus. in an elevated car, one passenger
who had just come In found himself sit
ting next another who was holding very
carefully against his breast something con-
cealed under his coat. Looking up a mo-
ment later from his reading, the new
conner in the car discovered that the hulg-
ing thing which his neighbor was holding
so carefully was a fox terrier puppy. The
dog had its graceful intelligent head out,
now, and 1t was looking around at all the
people, and at everything else around at
that end Of the car. It was handsome
little dog and as still as mouse; it
seemed as though it knew what was ex-
peCted of II. And as for the dogs owner.
he knew how to look out for the dog;
when the guard came through the car to
see that everything was all right behind,
he became instantly interested in a news
paper which he carried and which he now
held. unfolded to the full size of page, in
front of himself and the little fox terrier
and read attentively till the guard had
passed back on his return to his post at
the front platform.
But the dogs are not all so quiet as
this handsome. alert little fox terrier
was; sometimes they whine and bark. So.
in an elevated car the passengers heard
the voice of a small dog coming from
somewhere, they couldn't at first tell
where. This was in a rear car. too.
Sitting in the extreme end seat, on one
side, was a man who had with him, placed
on the floor at his feet, square, COW
cred basket 1t was soon discovered
where ;he whining interspersed OCCASION
ally with a sharp little bark, came from;
she dog was in that basket. and pretty
soon everybody in that end of the car
was looking at it. And whenever the dog
whined or let off one of those little barks,
everybody smiled.
On the surface street cars a passenger
who has a big dog with him may be seen
sometimes. the passenger in such case,
however, standing on the rear platform
and leading the dog, which runs behind.
But small dogs are sometimes carried
into the cars also. though here they are
more likely to be seen by the conductor,
from the fact that he is constantly going
up and down the car collecting fare
But even SO the conductor might overlook
a dog that was not very conspicuous. \
woman brought one day aboard an open
car. nice little fluffy dog which she car
ried in paper bag, open at the top. the
bag being supported on her arm.
When the dog was settled down as of
course it ought to have stayed. 1t was
quite out Of sight; but occasionally the
top Of its little head would appear above
the edge ef the bag. Three or four wo-
men passengers sitting near and around
the woman carrying the dog soon discov-
cred it and they turned to smile over and
admire II. But the conductor didn't see
this dog. It would seem though pass
ing back and forth along the footboard all |
the time. as he was. he must surely have |
caught a glimpse of the top of that silky |
little head. as all the rest did, but appar- |
emily he never saw it al all.
And it may be that in this conductors |
overlooking of the small dog thus car |
ried on his car would be found a key TO |
the treatment of the small dog question |
by conductors in general. The big dogs !
obviously must he kept out: nobody can |
fail to see them, and these would take |
up room in car and might easily be an |
annoyance to passengers. but as to small |
dogs the fact appears 10 be that the con-
ductor exercises his common sense with |
the rule back of him for enforcement il |
necessary.
He Furnished the Proof.
From the Chicago News)
Wise men hesitate; only fools are certain"