The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-02
THE NEW DOG ORDINANCE
THE MOST GENERAL TOPIC OF CON-
VERSATI0N YESTERDAY.
Omsia Notice of Re-Enactment OF the
Law Given Today Movement by
Some Dog Owners to Get Injunction
Against Enforcement of the Law.
Aldermen Commended by Many CI:f-
zens for Continuing the Ordinance I'm
Force.

Mr.. b. F. King, city clerk and treas
column OF the enactment of h new
dog ordinance by the city aldermen
Wednesday night, providing that dogs
found running at large on he public
streets or within the corporate limits
shall be impounded and their owners
required to pay five dollars for their re-
lease, and that any person conducting
a deg through the streets must have
the animal muzzled or chained and I'M
der control, under penalty of IS for
each violation of the ordinance.
In speaking of the matter yesterday
the chief of police said that while the
lima goes into effectGa at once the
dog catcher will not go out in search
Of stray dogs" before next Monday.
However. the police will be on the
lookout in the meantime with orders
TO Capt4l~ my Cogs which they may
meet on their rounds.
TIE LAW MUCH DISCUSSED.
1t is safe to say that the dog ordi-
nance was the most general topic of
conversation in Wilmington yesterday.
Sentiment, too, was much divided, the
action of the aldermen receiving both
10 NOAAAAAACAAA1NAOh Al o1FGIC SiANA
cism. Many sportsmen who keep fine
dogs for hunting are espe-
cially o~utspoken in complaining of
what they claim are hardships impos-
ed on dogs and dog owners by the law.
The fact is, a Messenger representa-
tive was informed yesterday, that an
effort is on foot to accumulate a FUND
to defray the expense of procuring an
injunction against the enforcement of
the ordinance and carry h case to
the supreme court. However, it is the
general opinion that the aldermens' au-
thority for enacting the law is absolute
and the only thing that the opponents
of the law can possibly accOmplish~in
such a contest would be the possible
p"oStponement of the effective cratic
of the ordinance.
A prominent citizen said yesterday
that the majority of the people are SO
we'll pleased with the results of the OPP
Grafton of the law during its tempo
rary enforcement during the past
month that the action Of the aldermen
in re-enacting it will assur the author
titles the very strongest support in con-
testing any movement which might be
inaugurated against the enforcement
of the provisions of the ordinance.
The following communication, which
was signed 3D." is a representative
one of several rendered The Messenger
yesterday for publication, to-wit:
THE indefinite of the dog
ordinance by our city fathers is hail
ed with delight by a large majority of
our citizens, especially by parents of
children who have been exposed to
manifest danger upon u principal
streets. The ordinance may be a hard
ship to dogs, but it is better that all
the dogs in town be killed if necessary
rather than one human being hould
suffer a horrible death by hydrophobia.
We read in the morning papers that
two persons were attacked and bitten
'en yesterday by vicious dogs in the
most public thoroughfares of Whining
ton. 1t is high time that the ordinance
be Figidly enforced"