The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-19
PETE THE BULLDOG
CHEws NAVY DEPARTMENT CLERK
 ON WHITE HOUSE GROUNDS
All . Mistake, But--The President Special Commissioner Had not Made Coed, and Needed
 Record.

Washington Special to The New Yorl
 Times.
 Pete, the bulldog, President Roose- commissioner to keep suspicious characters, newspaper correspondents. and incessant secretaries of the Inter- for out of the White House grounds, chewed up an unoffending Government clerk to-day after giving him a run through the grounds that rivaled the famous chase of Pete after Ambas- sador Jusserand
 The clerk was John T. Thomas, em- ployed in the>~ Navy Department, and living at 1,2f6 c Street. Northwest He was bitten painfully, and was placed at once under the treatment of Dr. Joseph M. Keller of 1,510 H Street, who eau terized the wound.
 All this happened at about 9 o'cloch in the morning. Pete was not officially on duty, his patrol of the White House grounds being night one. Since he was put on duty few nights ago, Secretary Garfield has not been there at night. and the newspaper correspon- dents '. ho have had to go to the Executive Offices after dark have been chosen from among the fleetest runners In the press gallery. No one who was not champion of his class dt COlleBe ndS D6en sent 10 .tHe Wnlte l House in quest of information of interest to the public. Hence Pete l had not yet bagged a victim, and boti l he and the President have become somewhat grouchy over his Ill suc- cess.
 | So it was in good humor that Pete planted himself on the sward and began to eye inadvertently the clerks hurrying through the grounds on their | Irnr at Building just across the way. But | he could find no excuse for exercising | his constabulary authority. It is a singular fact, and one worthy of study | by psych ologists, that Government clerks do not resemble newspaper men in appearance; and only the most in- | tellectual and handsome Government There was no possibility of Pets mak- | ing a mistake.
 Last of the lot came Mir. Thomas. Ht is handsome and intellectual, and it i; good while since Pete has seen Sec retary Garfield. Pete could not mis- l take him for a newspaper man, but he l felt that here was his prey He edged l forward and eyed Thomas narrowly Just as the clerk passed the White | House he looked at his watch and saw that he was a minute late. He hurrid l ly leaped forward, and this appear | ance of haste settled 1t in Petes mind He parked and jumped.
 Thomas saw him coming. remembered in a flash the fate of NJ Jusserand, ant | fled for his life. Eye witnesses say tha for A few seconds Thomas got up speed that would have made jack | rabbit retire from business in disgust The White House policeman started il
 pursuit, yelling to Pete such deter
 rent watchwords as, Hold on, Pete
 "Good dog. come back here" '"Tha isn't Garfield. you chump," and al
 others, but all in vain.
 Thomas in the course of his flight
 recollected some stories he had hear'
 about the way in which frightened | peasants have managed to dela.
 pursuing wolves in Russia. According ly he cast his brand new Spring ha
 behind him to engage Pete's attention l until he could escape.
 Mir. Thomas said tonight that bull