The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-31
R. SAGB'S CAT HAS WANDERED,
IF you FIND HIM, TAKE HIM TO
632 FIFTH AVE. AND GET So

He Has Been Nice House Cat for Twelve
Years, but They Do Say In Backyard
Society Circles That There's . Scandal
Brewing-Deserted Com panion Mourni
II you pass = Maltese cat on the street
and no answers to the name Malta, take
him to ea2 Fifth avenue and you will get
$40 OF Russell Sage money. Also you will
please Mr.. Sage-and Melita. Who is
Melita1 She Is the sedate member Of the
Sage cat family who sticks ITO the house
on rainy nights and doesn't climb Fifth
avenue back fences.
$40 REWARD will be paid for return OF large
Maltese cat 10 o32 6th av.
That brief statement, authorized by
Mrs. Sage. tells the story Of the disappear,
anoe OF Malta. It Is a sad story. Melita
was singing it or crying 1.-THE cat re-
porter couldn't tell which-from the base
ment OF the Sage house about o'clock
last night. The policeman on the street
knew OF it. He said that Malta was a
nice companionable cat and he didn't blame
Melita for showing her grief to the world.
In cat society, high and low, It was the
one bit of gossip yesterday. The lady
cats, some Of them. said they never ex-
pected anything else from Malta. They
were the Fifth and Madison avenue cats
who spoke with authority. They either
had a bowling acquaintance or knew Malta
we'll enough to call him NAL A sporty
member Of the Avenue A colony was heard
to tell q boon companion that a certain
party who knew q certain party who knew
Malta told him that Malta was "a gay old
boy To pro II he produced a clipping
ho xnCiAtv
following:
1t Is with some interest that we have been
Watching the doings Of an elderly beaui who
H bs set q he amsPpy k me M and
wouldn't surprise US II his many friends
had choice morsel OF scandal TO chew on
before the town season begins
'Pshaw," said the cat to whom the story
was told "A certain party has told me
they printed that because he wouldn't
subscribe to Backyards and Fences
II it must be told Malta is IL years old.
Melita is about the same age. They have
kittens. Malta has been known to make
a brief excursion away from the Sage house,
hold, but never before has he been away
for three days. 1t is particularly disap-
pointing I'd Melita, who has watched over
him these dozen years and who felt that
his days OF wandering we're over.
1T was on Sunday night, dark and rainy.
said young woman with an eye and heart
for the romantic, characteristic OF the Celt
at the Sage house last night, that Malta
wandered Of Why, We know not. Moth
ing has been heard Of him, and Mrs: Sage
put that advertisement in the paper"
Il suppose you have had lots OF people
call here with
aOh, yes, we've had lots interrupted
the Irish maid.
.All kinds of ca"
@Oh, no, not cats-reporters have called.
Nary a cat has been brought here, although
we expected lots
So It may be put down that the Renevo..
lent Order Of Good Thing Workers has passed
a resolution that it is useless to try to get
any Of the Sage money without the goods.
'Yee,' continued the young woman i'm
pressively, Malta must be ~ years old, for
we've had him twelve years. He was
q present to Mrs. Sage from country
friend. He and Melita came together.
They were kittens then,
$50 Malta is Mrs Sages cat?'
@No, that's not right she added. "He
was Mr.. and Mrs. sage's cat. Mr.. Sage
was very fond Of him.