The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-05
MAD DOG
PANIC IN
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group of young citizens. The young
woman, who first saw that the dog
was mad, was the only one to notice
the danger, and she raised UP above
the noise of the distracted air a So
prano yell of Mad dog"
In a second the children scattered to
adjacent doorways and the young
woman stood alone in the street. The
dog blindly changed his course and
bore down upon her as If enraged at
her for giving the little ones a chance
to get away
For a the woman was too
dazed to move. Then she ran to a
nearby grocery, and with skirts raised
she jumped upon a pile of boxes and
~repulsed the raging dog. The dog was
blind with his distemper and nly fol-
lowed her by the instinct which leads
all meane creatures to follow their
masters.
In a moment the dog tired of the
shaking pile of soap boxes and rushed
up the street. Again the soprano dan
ger cry rang out, and the children ana
others who were watching rushed peli-
nell into open doorways Of houses
stores. Up near Springfield avenue W
~inattentive women, gossiping over the
days labor or pleasures, were lett on
the open sidewalk, too late to reach
the shelter of Railways. One of them
jumped to a hitching post in front OF a
saloon, and by an acrobatic perform
ance that would admit her in a circus
she managed to balance herself on the
top holding her limbs and head on a
horizontal plane while she implored
somebody to save her.
Her friend showed strategy. She was
of ample girth. but no other hitching
post being available she hid, ostrich
like, behind a three-inch sapling, gath
ering her skirts snugly about her and
plaintively watching the
terror, moving about the tree as the
mad dog bore down along the centre
of the sidewalk. Fortunately h dog
paid no attention to either of these
picturesquely terror-stricken humans,
and made his way as though by ap-
pointment to the rooms of the Eddie
Gnichtel Association, where the base
ball team and some of its admirers
had assembled and were making ready
for their game.
Through the crowd of athletes the
mad dog rushed, while members
Jumped to chairs. tables or railing and
strove nightly to gather their legs up
from under them. The mad dog rushed
through, in one door n out the other,
and again was on the street.
The cries of Mad dog" had by this
time aroused the neighborhood for
blocks. and children were summarily
hunted UP and carried home by fear
stricken parents.
Shortly after reaching the street from
the Gnichtels' headquarters the mad
dog developed a new trait. He rushed
for thirty or forty yards and then
stopped suddenly, swaying from side to
side and dropping into commissions. At
these times courageous and curious
men would gather at respectable dis
tances. While from overhead. ON
Notwithstanding woman would pour
down a pail of water intended for the
dog, but distributed Unfortunately
upon the heads of the surrounding
circle. This happened several times,
the drenched army taking the wetting
as a matter of course.
From the Knichtels' rooms the mad
dog ran to the headquarters of the Bay
View Wheelmen's Club. which he
rushed in a similar manner the few
athletes there doing stunts after the
approved Gnichtel manner But the
long race of the unhappy dog was near
ing.
Gus Naegele, the batsman, heard of
the incident which had sent all his
eliminates to the bench, and was angry.
He seized one Of his soundest bats and
sailed forth to hunt the mad dog
down. Naegele saw the crowd of
shouting men and boys going down
Sixth street, AND as though waiting for
a spit BALI stood in the direct line of
the rabid dog. the crowd meanwhile
standing breathless watching the
climax as though in a theatre.
Naegele waited until the dog was al
most upon him, while in fact the open
fangs were ready to seize the only
human he had gotten near enough to
~bite-when the bat descended upon the
dogs skull, and the excitement was
ended.
The police of the Fourth Precinct re-
moved the dead animal later, No one
in the n~eighborhood recognized 1t as
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