The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-23
A PET CEMETERY.
Fine-Haired Dogs and Costly Cats
to Have-@a DaryinE Ground
Near the CapitaI City ','-..+2.

~ nave D0fy1n8 Ground
Near the Capital City 2.
The deaths of many valua bic pets of
fashionable men and women of Wash
ington's inner circles have suggested
to some enterprising mind the idea of
establishing a dog and cat graveyard.
1t is intended, also, to allow parrots
and monkeys to be inferred in this GEM
etery, and, in fact, animals of any kind,
if they are pets of fashionable people
who have: money enough to spend on
this new fad.
A petition has been sent to the dis
trict commissioners requesting permis-
sion to conduct such an enterprise.
However, this could not be granted, as
the commissioners decided that such
cemetery could not be established in
the District of Columbia. This did not
daunt the orignators of the scheme,
however. They at once decided to go
just beyand the district line and start
the business in Maryland.
The plan is to obtain about quar-
ter of all acre on the prettiest site pos
sible, and make beautiful little park
out of the place. The grounds will have
an attendant, and will be kept in sp!en-
did order. Money will not be spared to
make the cemetery attractive, and only
the dogs of the rich can afford to rest
in this exclusive and fashionable little
graveyard. The owners of Doggie and
Kitty, and Polly and Jacko, as the case
may be, will have to put up their money
in order TO Plant their animals in this
particular spot of ground, as the space
will be limited, and only few hundred
graves will be made. These will be
costly. The poor bootblack, however,
with ''yaller dog" will have to let
the garbage man cart his pet away, or
sneak over to a vacant lot on a dark
night and put away his faithful COM
panion.
When Admiral Dewey's dog Bob died
in New York the admiral telegraphed
to the hospital where the collie was and
ordered that he be given good burial.
The best that the hospital authorities
could do, however, was to send the re-
mains of the dog over to New Jersey to
L
Heath's little Cuban poodle shared q
like fate last week. Several days ago,
when an old cat, one of the pets of the
white house, died, one of the servants
dug little grave in the back yard by
rose bush, and Tommy" was laid to
rest. 1t was all right for Tommy" for
he could not have been in a more aristo-
hoo ri MI
lovely woman who loves her dog more
than her bonnets, said: ut was right
hard on Dewey's dog not to be buried
in the white house yard also.''
The plan of the dog cemetery is not al
together new one, but rather an Eng
lish adoption. There is in London just
such an enterprise. 1t is situated near
Hyde Park and is about $50 feet square.
DR.. Cecile French. the well-known
canine authority, says that when he was
in London last summer he visited the
institution for the purpose of ascertain
ing just what it was. He says: 1T is a
beautiful spot, with large, old weeping
willows and hedges. 1t is surrounded
| by wall composed of lockwood, which
is so thick and dense that it is impossi-
BILE to see what is going on inside. After
much difficulty and persuasion, 1 was
| permitted to enter and investigate.
There are numerous miniature walks,
so narrow that only one person can
walk in them. There are many little
graves about foot and half long.
They are kept in perfect order, and
most of them have little headstones
and some of the people have gone so far
as to erect monuments over their dead
pets"
/ IL have here few epitaphs which
copied from some of the gravestones,"
said DR.. French, to a Post reporter,
"and if you wish you may copy Them
Here are a few chosen from about
hundred which the doctor had copied
in his note book:
To our dear Kibbs,
Born June H. '93; died February g. 81.
After lfe's "titful fever" she sleeps WE'LL
Betty"
And when at length my own lifes work is
DER
L hope to find her waiting as of yore,
Eager, expectant, glad to meet me at the
door.
To Rover
A faithful companion, more loving and
trustworthy, more constant than man..
Sir H. bon-Gordon, Bart.
The time will surely come when the