The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-15
S. ?. C A REPORT.
President MCCARTHY Tells
the Work Done by
the Society.

President George M. Mccarthy, of the
Hudson County District Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has just
filed with the Board of Directors his
second quarterly report of the society's
operations and transactions for 1901. That
portion of it pertaining to the work Of the
uniformed squad the ambulance, shelter,
patrol and emergency departments is
SUMMARIZED
There were 227 persons arrested and
prosecuted for cruelty to animals. Sixty
four of these were for cock-fighting, and
twenty-one for dog fighting. There were
twenty defendants for beating, whipping
and clubbing horses, nine for over work.
ing and over loading and four for over
driving and reckless driving of horses Six
drivers were punished for cruelty jerking
the reins of horses, two for brutality
kicking horses. Six drivers were pun-.
ished for interfering with the society s
officers.
The other complaints were for driving
and working lame, sore, lame and Sore,
exhausted, sick and disabled horses, and
the following, there being one prosecution
for each offense:-Docking horses tail,
keeping place for dog fighting, keeping
place for cock fighting, beating dog to.
death, throwing dog under wheels Of
wagon, shooting birds, shooting cats,
starving horses, abandoning horse to die,
clubbing exhausted steers at stock yard,
beating exhausted COW on public street
There were fined one hundred and eigh-
ty-seven. One was committed to city pris-'
on, two to county Jail, three are await
ing trial, and three appealed. The re-
mainder were paroled discharged, repri-
manded and discharged or sentence sus-
pended. All were men, and five colored.
Their ages were one hundred and twenty
nine under thirty, and the remainder over
thirty. The married defendants numbered
one hundred and twenty-sx, the single
one hundred and one. Two hundred and
thirteen could read and write, and the re-
mainder had no education.
The ambulance and shelter department.
carried one hundred and seventy-eght
horses, dogs and cats in its ambulances,
received two hundred at the shelter in
Jersey City, and destroyed two hundred
and seven that were diseased or disabled
past recovery. Dogs and cats of good
breed to the number of two hundred and
two were provided with homes, there be-
ing steady demand for cats in large
factories, mills, breweries and stables.
Seven horses with contagious diseases
were attended to- Six horses overcome
with heat were doctored and removed in
ambulances. The emergency and patrol
service reports show that seventy-four
sore horses were padded, two hundred and
forty disabled horses temporarily sus-
pended from labor, nineteen starving ami
mails rescued, one hundred and fifty-six
lame and sore horses taken out of harness
and sent home, thirty-five stock yards,
farms, stables kennels, ETC., visited and
inspected; ten dangerous street obstruc-
tons made safe, thirty-six runaways,
eighteen collisions and thirty-seven mis-
cellaneous accidents were reported; sixty
four fires were attended, one horse was
rescued from the river, two horses from
burning buildings, and three cats from
tree tops and telegraph poles; thirty-one
alleged mad dogs were humanely de-
stroyed or taken to the shelter.
The total number of complaints receiv-
ed and investigated was 1,655. The society
published and distributed 1858 printed
pages of humane literature. Twenty-Five
members were elected increasing the roll
to 534.