New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-05
Il FRIEND OF ANIMALS.
Hundreds of Dogs and Cats Placed
in Good Homes By Bide-a-Wee.


placed in good homes instead Of being put death
homeless Migrants is the proud record Of the
Bide-a-Wee Society for its first years work Con-
sdering that almost from the first the society has
been prosecuted and its operations greatly retarded
and embarrassed by malicious and unjust crtti-
cisms. such showing IS highly credItabe not only
TO the phiIanthropic enthusiasm OF the women who
started IT. but also 10 their courage patience and
powers Of endurance. Most women. however kind
y disposed toward the animal unfortunates-the
lost homeless, abandoned. frieudless dogs and cats
that are part OF the debris of every great city
would have stopped long ago in their endeevors 70
s many they could from suffering and
death. IN sheer encouragement at the msre2resen-
tations which were being heaped on them and that
the Bide-a-Wee Society has steadily gone on right
up to the present speaks volumes for its earnest
ness and pluck.
On the other hand. the Bide-a-Wees were prob
ably never much in need OF the kindly interest
and friendly support Of every lover Of animals
at the present. Owing to the attacks which have
been made upon it. subscriptions have so fallen OFF
that the home at Tuckahoe has had 10 be closed
for the present. although the city home No Us
West Fifty-third-st, is still open and doing fine
work. Tbs closing OF the country home seems the
more deplorable because preparations were being
made greatly to enlarge and improve the accommo-
dations.
a Wall Street man who inspected the place a
little while ago says: The visitor 10 Bide-a-Wee
Will see there a house with fifty acres of land
about it. barn with kennels cut of into sec
tons, on each floor, with wire nettngs q kennel
for each dog. with exit from the barn down 10
. plot Of eight ten acres, incIosed. where the
dogs could take their daily airing; he will
eraI other houses. all arranged for the caring Of
dogs, and he viii the piles Of bones, showing
how the dogs fed. lie will ind outside
house IN which those who were suspected Of being
III placed: he viii find garden, orchard
and everything indicating & very good state Of
prosperity but he viii find dogs, or any one
about the place.
BY inquiry at No. us West FTfty-third-st New
York, he will learn that from this country home
nearly five hundred small animals, instead Of being
suffocated 20 death get rid OF them. were sent
10 good homes. A person who could offer the
surety Of good home had only to say that he
wanted c dog q cat and whatever il was he
asked for-back or yellow. large or small. a yeIp-
ing cur or sedate. afectonate cat-au kinds were
supplied from that little charitable organization
without expense to the recipient.
People connected with the Bide-a-Wee." he con-
unued, do not understand why the Society for the
Prevention OF Cruelty 10 Animals objects TO any
one taking a dog that is lost or abandoned and
finding home for it, but insists that it be turned
over 10 me soclety TO be s2H9cated In Massa-
Animals is starting these little organizations
all over the State, and helping instead of destroy
SBide-a-Wee for the present has suffered a severe
blow. and hopes that some kindness will hereafter
In starting the Bide-a-wee Home for. the aban--
doned and homeless small animals Of Network
said one Of the managers yesterday, The founders
Of Humanitarian impulses in other large cities of
the country. Boston has the Clifford Shelterng
" a 6 NV tb ba| ETn O socieTiee in The
world OF this character are the Hackbridge Home,
in Surrey, England, and the Gennevillers Dogs
along the lines OF Bide-a- Wee-indeed Btde-a-Wee
was directly modelled upon them Its purpose is
not, and never has been to run dog hospital.
Nevertheless il receives and treats II ILL., all friend
!ooAs after me ne1tth OF the anlI5 gIal'g dily
Inspector ana Ire4tneRt 10 az req1lalRg 1pedicai
permanent homes. over one hundred persons, scat
tered all over the country. are now on the waiting
Persons who are moving and cannot take their
Trip to Europe or the South persons who are CIV
ing up housekeeping for hotel life. and 90 not know
what DO with their dog or cat, have blessed the
day the Bde-a-Wee homes were started. for they
OF receiving them D1Gh AGAIN III soou coiIlton or
could give them 10 Bl9e-M ee' certain that taSy
none oS have been put upon the street by their
th5Ightless or inhuman owners If some one had not
interviewed. Add 70 these the waits and strays of
the streets whose meagre frames and wistfql plead
lily seen that Bide-a-Wee has filed and IS filing
This home is in no way antagonstic to any other
OK 81 1jfb ali engaged in a. a2v kind
of humanity work toward dumb brutes."
chariqv Of the Is pubic The Ansonia has for some
tine Contributed three barrels OF bread week for
the dogs. Mrs Minnie Madden tlske VIII soon
Theatre. The home IS under the management OF
well known women, who earnestly beg support OF
the public.
Y T Ellington. president; Mrs. Harry Ulysses
Kibbe vice-president and treasurer Miss Harriet
bingham. secretary: +. Mae CullmOre, assistant
secretary: samuel Wandel and Clarence F. Thorn
an counsels: board OF managers, Mrs. George H.
Gould Mrs Paul Edward Rasor. Mrs ". (. Wood
end Mrs John Trombeson Rainier, ". r. EN-
mons Walter S Gilson Harry Ulysses kiDbe,
Henry Rutherford Dwight. Miss c.. A. Johnson
Nine Cola CondoTy. Mrs. a V T. Ellington,
Mrs Harry Ulysses Kibbe and Miss Harriet Bing-
ham: inspectors Miss c. S. Foater and Mrs. Rem
ington.