The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-01-21
S. P. C. c.
5. P. c. A.
Much Good Work Accomplished
by the Local Societies for
Prevention Of Cruelty.
SOME PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS

The annual meeting Of the S. p. O.,
In Morris county was held at Mrs. f. |
r. Kellogg's, 81 Boyken street, last
Thursday morning. The usual bust
ness was transacted, and the officers
elected for the new year as follows:
President, e. @. Keasbey vice-presi-
dents, f R. Kellogg, Rev. P. f. Stur-
ges, Mrs. F, r. Kellogg, Mrs. Benja-
min Nicoll, Mrs. R. H. McCurdy. Mrs. |
Elliot Smith; treasurer, Augustus L. |
Revere general secretary, Miss Louise
Shelton The members of both child |
ren's and animals committees were
reelected with the addition of Miss
Egbert to act as secretary on the for
mer committee, and Miss Waterbury,
as secretary for the latter committee.
The reports of the work for the past
year showed even larger number of
cases handled than in the previous
year, and the treasurer'S report gave a
balance of SO. There were cited nu-
merous interesting cases of both child
ren and animals which had been most
successfully dealt with by the agent,
James e. Welsh. A vote of thanks
was extended to him for his most ex-
cellent service. Some of the interest
ing matters discussed and resolutions
adopted were as follows:
1t was resolved that the s. p. G.. A.
shall have 6 White List, after the
plan of the White List used by the
Consumers League of N. Y. This
F" White List" shall contain the names
of all the MorriStown marketmen, bag
gagemen, liverymen, teamsters, ETC.,
ETC., who cwn horses and do business
for this community and who are known
to give good care to their horses. The
list will be printed for members and
lovers of horses will be able to en-
ploy those men who believe in kind
ness to animals.
1t was also resolved to recommend
the Neverslip horseshoe for slippery
weather, the calk No. being the
most approved of the several varieties.
The S. P. G. A. has made inquiries
about these shoes, and finds that they
give entire satisfaction to many horse
men, such as Pruden & Burke, Ed
ward T. Condor, James E. Welsh, the
S. P. @. A. agent, and others. The
shoe will last year or two, and in
slippery days the calKs can be screwed
in by the driver. The No. calk is
inexpensive and need not frequently
be renewed. When itewears down, a
new calk can be screwed in in two
minutes. OF course there are some
blacksmiths who will make objections
to this shoe because it deprives them
of a certain amount of business in the
season when horses must be frequent
ly roughshod, but James e. Welsh, at
his Office, 81 Morris street, will be
glad to answer any questions on the
subject, and to explain what a saving
of trouble the Neverslip shoe has been
to him in his livery business.
AS the result of many complaints it
was resolved to call the attention of
various tradeSmen in town to the fact
that the very young boys often en-
ployed to delivery wagons, are menace
to public safety as well as TO the well
fare of their horses. Some of the boys
do not appear to be older than ten or
eleven years of age. They whip and
race their tired horses through the
streets, and invariably the lash falls
just before corner is turned or just
before the horse is brought to sharp
sJandstill, which is so injurious to the
horses legs. Boys should at least be
taught how to drive before they are
permitted to act in this capacity. In
New York, young boy is forbidden
to drive any vehicle, and a similar Or
dinance would be benefit to Morris
town.
In the MOrriStOwn streets daily,
boys may be seen smoking cigarettes,
although the law forbidS them to
smoke under the age of IA years. 1t
has been proved that smoking is so in
furious to boys health, so impairing
TO his mental faculties that it seems
almost a crime to allow these children
to ruin their constitutions when 1T
could be at least in measure pre-
vented. An officer in citizens cloth
ing could be appointed to arrest few
of these boys and bring them before a
justice for reprimand, and the habit
would soon be stopped. The same Of
ficer might look for boys who lounge
in pool rooms or near saloons, and af-
ter the winter season the same officer
could be quite busy rounding up the
boys under Is years Of age who carry
firearms. 1t was resolved at the an
nual meeting OF the Society for Child
rem to ascertain what can be done to
stop the lads from smoking, and all
good citizens should order boy to
throw away his cigarette when he Is
found in the act of smoking.
The following statistics will give
some idea of the work of these united
Societies during the past year 81
children removed from vicious sur
roundings of these q we're placed in
families and "a i'll Institutions; l04
cases of children were remedied by
warnings, advice and help; l6 cases OF
children remain unfinished. The to-
tai number ISL children'S cases were
handled in twelve months in Morris
county.
In the Animal Society there were
lot dogs and n cats received at the
Animal Shelter on Morris street. 25
old horses were mercifully destroyed.
l16 complaints were investigated, af-
fecting 247 animals. 8 cases we're
brought before the court and won.