The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-21
DRODE, MAVOURNEEN
nrItNCFT STREET POLICE GIVE
TT THEIR MASCOT.
SN caring at Her and similar quotations,
~ the wireless Puts U-she Blt n Hole
IN the Scrgeant's Patrick DAY Hat and
Nte the DOOrmRn's Rubber Heels.

earl! East STE Wireless cable Despatch 10 The
sun.
prrr SrEErr. ncc. 20. Erode, the Shepard
dog which jumped from 100 feet high mp on
Tho Williamsburg Bridge "A few days ago
and SD got the name Brodie. although she
aa.1l that kind of a dog. and was after
cprd picked up at Delaney and Willet street
ny Policeman otto Nickly Of the new bridge
.ougd and afterward made the mascot Of the
pelirpev street police station house and given
GOOD home, was strangulated by the latest
bygaGe methods knOwn to science by the
Sn..,tv for the I. G. of Animals. She
ais, Bit holes out of the seTgeantis shoes
and even eat a hat, and some were sorry
me day they made Brodie "A mascot, saying
she Is too rough for a good gentle house dog
and swearing at her and similar quotations.
Rounds jim Boris showed he was touched
hv turning away his features with "A wipe or
the owes a. he threw Brodie into the Society
,or me T.. I. Of Animals dog and animal am
hulsu. and then was strangulated by gas in
tho latest methods OF science. Copyright.
The last SIDE Wireless News Asso. For
dramatic rights to all of my stun apply to
President Louis Z%eltner. 0 Pitt street. Any
prvs furnished on applicAtionl
Rarely has the story of the life and death
nj A dumb animal come so neal to the ele-
ments Of human tragedy as the dogs tale
of Brudie. the faithful mascot Of the De-
laucey street station house. rs mentioned
in the wireless despatch printed above,
BrodIe really jumped from the Williams
burg Bridge only a few days ago, but in
the cold words of the news message there
is no reference to the causes that prompted
the heartbroken animals frightful leap.
If the policeman could have interpreted
,he expression Of WEAKNESS in Brodie's
-. ..v,~ n. he VfplrnI her I'M hA
would have learned that no matter what
the cold, scientific Thompson Setons may
sav Brodie had deliberately planned sui
eide. with no wish for anything but a peace
fll oblivion, with no hope Tor fame and a
saloon on the Bowery with John l.. Sulli-
vans photograph in evening clothes in the
window and the diamond belt back OF the
free lunch.
was Brodie, with a big black head and bits
Of chestnut burrs concealed in the wavy
hair Of her tail. In the bright sunlight
If last Monday forenoon she had dragged
herself, homeless and alone, painfully up
the bridge approach and hour after hour
had gaZed wanly over the roofs OF the city.
smoke was curling cheerfully from many
a housetOp, and the shouts of little children
throwing c Kinney bricks down at passing
automobiles came to Brodie's ears, but
there was none to throw a brick at her.
she sighed and covered against the railing,
waiting for night TO fall 30 that she might
crawl up to some basement window n
watch the merry household trimming a
Christmas tree, perhaps, while she shlvered
cut in the cold night.
Some might say that Brodie was atra-
bilious, but there we're days when she was
the happiest dog in the Gouverneur Hospital
district. Then n day her first born was
skinned by a vivisectionist before her very
ewes, and before the first stitch had been
taken TO replace the skin in the interest or
science Brodie's spirit had been broken
bevond. repair. She wandered out OF the
laboratory in a daZe and never again was
Known TO skip and romp. Since then she
lad wandered the streets until she became
the hollow eyed, sunken checked wreck
that was picked up on Delaney street by
Policeman Otto Nickly on Monday evening
sitter her terrible leap.
Tenderly the policeman carried Brodie
over 10 the Delaney street station, where
there are cells. When she heard the cries
that greeted her entrance Brodle covered
and pressed closer to the policeman tlll
her ~bedraggled coat and Otto's mustache
we're lost in each other. IL took the poor
thing a long time to realize that the cries
we're Of gladness and that she was beng
welcomed by those who had seen sorrow
and could understand it.
Wen make her the station house mas
cot, Otto" cried Sergt. Shanahan, clapplng
his hands gleefully. Every fire house
has a mascot that carries in the morning
paper. and when a fireman gets hurt the
mascot runs into the flames and tries 10
drag him out. Then they don't eat any
thing for days and days, but stand in front
II Bellevue crying till the fireman gets
vel. / see it in the papers every month.
Wen call him Brodie because OF his jump
and maybe he'll get TO do things like other
mascots before we get transferred.
But Brodie began to a up her duties
the, y-o-,- night Cha had baan in the STA
ton house less than half an hour when
Fritz, the mead waiter Of hnabe' restaurant
IN Grand street, came in with a platter con-
tanning a steak and a charlotte russo for
the sergeant's evening meal. When Sergt.
Shanahan merely saluted the steak a. II
vas being carried past. and then turned to
his profession again. Brodie looked worried
and tried to drag the platter of out FTitz's
hand so that she could carry it to h desk.
The sergeant misinterpreted Broule
thoughtfulness and Immediately yelled 10
the reserves TO raise a dinner fund for the
dog. Patrolman Henry Hadlick was APP
pointed the entertainment committee ana
lie soon rounded up SIS cents, of which Capt.
Martin Handy contributed so cents. Kenny
Hadhck ran out to Simon Smohnsky's
delioatessen and came back with more
Bctual food thar Brodie had seen for a
month. The mascot ate the ham n the
salt herring with a relish arsd toyed long
With the cheese, letting 1t rlAl away from
her while che seemed TO be watching
something else and when the cheese had
almost reached the door jumping upon 1t,
10 the great delight of her new friends
And then when she had eaten even the
cheese and the station had turned its atten-
ton to pinochle, Brodie, still anxious 10
chow her gratitude. slipped out TO where
the sergeant's steak was growing cold
N a corner table of the lounging room
and tried 70 carry it into the sergeant.
But as she Jumped over the railing 10 lay
The steak az Sergt. S~hanahan's feet the
tteak, unfortunately, slipped dow the
faithful dogs throat.
Late Monday night or early Tuesday
morning the mascot awoke still hungry
hndbegan 10 nose among thes snoring police
men in the dormitory for something un-
necessary 10 her benefactors which would
MI the internal vacuum. She CHANGED upon
sergt. Mike Walls human plug hat and
reasoned at once that the hat was of next
70 no use TO a uniformed policeman who
was a utllitarian. Brodie merely nibbled
At the outer crust OF the hat tentatively
Tor a few seconds and then turned her at
tsntion 10 a long row OF wide shoes. She
rhoked on Doorman Julie Leck's rubber
heel and as the cops were awakened by
her coughing and grasped the situation
slowly the faithful mascot was presented
Nth d number Of pairs of shoes immedi-
etaly