The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07
ESPECIAL" IS DEAD
DOG OF WIT AND INTELLIGENCE
 MET CRUEL DEATH
Under the Car -Wheels-Son ot "owney" the Celebrated Globe Trotter-BuHed With
 Honors.
New Orleans States.

New Orleans States.
 The friendly yelp of poor Special the companion and playfsllow of every child back in the neighborhood of Josephine and Dryades Street and the pet of men and women, tramp though he was will be heard in his old haunts no more. The deadly trolley has done its work; did 1t swiftly and surely. and all that remains to remind his old friends of the cheer ful spirit that was is a aower-covered mound 1T. Billy O'Neil's backyard, at the corner where Special made his loafiing place and playground.
 Special was a dog of distinguished descent. ills immediate ancestor was one of the famous dogs of the earth, and he had travelled it from one end to the other. Owney was this progenitor, and there is not trainman on the northern continent who did not know Owney or who would have dreamed of .efusing him a ride, despite the fact that he was not a member of the trainmen's union, for Owney was a tramp dog of personal charm and intelligence, with a quick wit and 2 ready friendliness that descended from him to his progeny, and Special inherited all the gifts of his father and travelled and made friends until he de- cided to abandon the rowing F4e and set tie down as we'll as he could in one pre- ferred neighborhood, and his affection centered upon the tenth ward. and, though he was no voter, no election was complete without Special as the mascot and champion at the polls. The dog was given to the veteran undertaken John G. Roche about ten years ago.
 Last Saturday night Special had been playing with the children of the neigh boyhood He had raced with them and baYked and yelped and frisked until his nd vnfr had and he determined to go to bed at respectable hour and be up bright and early to accompany some of lis favor ites to the market nearby and assist them in tho selection of e6ibles for the break fast table and to receive his usual reward of choice scraps ,oS meat from the buetoh- CTS stalls, his gratefulness 'cr which he acknowledged with enthusiastic wage of his nondescript tail and in the brightness of hts expressive eye.
 So bedward-bound. Special lightly leap ed over the gutter and started across the street. Some child cried to him in the distance and he lifted his head with an answering friendly bark. That was the Last yelp to. come from the throat of poor Special He had not seen the big trolley car rushing down the tracks. and as he started to cross them the electric monster was upon him and in an instant Its cruel wn6eIS cruSn6Q ana IuAueleu ms small body into sickening pulp and whirled him over and over undsrn Iath the car as it went. and then sped on. leav- ing his mutilated and lifeleeS carcass lying in the middle of the track, not knowing that in one seconds tune the life of one of the most unique characters of the tenth ward had been sacrificed under the wheels of the modern Jugger- naut
 The child who had called to him saw 1t all as did several bystanders who knew him; and they ran to where his poor body lay and saw that it was all over. There was sorrow In the neighbor- hood that night and execration on the lips of many who were his lifelong friends So they tenderly picked up the battered remains and placed them in a box and carried poor Special to O'Neilrs place and there in the yard dug grave and went about and told the neighborhood sending word to one of his old owners John Roche, the funeral director, who saw that nothing was wanting to make Specials last rest proper one.
 The funeral was attended by the great CT part of the men, women and children