New-York tribune., 1903-04-26
SHOULD CITY DOGS BE MUZZLED OR NOT?

one Of all the dogs his street. He gets separate
living compartment and is served carefully cooked
food. This continues sometimes nearly week put
just he is beginning TO get bold enough to grow
at his keeper change comes over the race "l
things. One day he is taken out with number ot
other dogs and placed in queer oblong tray WIN
a wire railing around the side. A man says some
thing to some other and the tray begins 10
Slowly it slides into place In an aTueh'
steel box especially made for it. The door at the
end is closed with a bang and bolted in place Then
in the blackness Of the death tank can be hearo a
little kissing sound the Illuminating gas rushes
in. little while later worimen come along 10
clear the tank for The bodies of fresh victims
SincSthe outbreak Of the rabies scare in this city
tho headquarters Of the society. at Madison-ave
and Twenty-sixth-st.. have been the Mecca or peo-
pie with suspects.
The other afternoon two little street Arabs came
in with something in big bsndana. that they
handled as gingerly Il il were dynamite
Say. mister" asked of the elevator man.
where's the place fer TO leave dawgs with the rao
-rabbits?'
The dog with the rabbits turned to he
little black-and-tan suffering from hunger and the
mango. The animal promptly sent to the
shelter"
The County Medical Association has adopted
resolution asking the aldermen to pass the muzzling
ordinance and this action has met with the ap-
proval of other medical bodies and the medical
Journals
Life sees the situation a humorous light, and
and armed with saw. doctors bills. bowie knives
and medicine cites these cases from The National
Review
Leopold Nee bitten at Aras. subjected to
the Pasteurian treatment eight days afterward and
died of hydrOphobia month later Inc DOG that
bit him perfectly healthy.
Arthur StObOi, one of the scholars at the Lyceuln
Lublin. Russia. bitten by a dog and was
Immediately sent to the Pasteur Institute at War
saw where he received the usual treatment by
inoculaton. and discharged q month later with
a certificate of cure. the strength OF which he
readnitted the Iyceum and resumed his
studies. Three months later he felt pain in the
region of the inoculations. and shortly afterWard
he died of hydrophObia The dog that bit him re-
mained quite well.
The groom of Sgnor Camelo Nina was bitten by
a sheep dog. and subsequently died of hEdrophobia
having been subjected to the Pasteuran treat
Milan for month the dog had nothing
whatever the matter with it
A young painter of Antwerp named De Aoens,
when visiting a friend. bitten slightly by his
friends dog. He urged to go TO NJ Pasteur at
which he did. and subjected to the Pas
teurian anti-rabic treatment from March 20 to
2 his he suddenly attacked
by hydrophobia and died May Il The dog that
bit him remained perfectly we'll
One good woman. when asked why she was op-
posed to muzzling dogs said:
Well try 1t on yourself and see how you like it,.
Wonder how she'd like being led around by a
rope" erunted OLD who overheard her
One advocate of the muZzle pointed out recently
that dog on a rope chain would be constantly
embarrassed by posts, trees, hydrants and other
friend who was an ardent anti-muzzle pointed
out that a dog with muzze would he worse than
a wooden dog in a street fight.