The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-08
Won't Stand for Expert
ments on Rockefeller Farm
Near New Brunswick.
SERUM SEEKERS CRUEL ?
Mrs. Booraem, Wife of Middle
sex Judge, and President
Edwards, of S. P. c. A., in
Fight Which May Be Car.
ried to Legislature.

NEW BRUNSWICK, Jan. S.-"Ani-
mails shall not be tortured and killed
by the Rockefeller Institute of Medical
Research on the pretext that the work
is being done for the saving Of human
lives
This is the slogan that is rallying
anti-vivisectionists in New Jersey and
Pennsylvania against the proposition
to use the farm near this city, donated
by John d. Rockefeller, as a breeding
ground for monkeys, horses, dogs,
guinea pigs and cattle.
The purpose of the gift is that these
animals shall be used by DIR. Simon
Flexner and his assistants in the in
stitute for the production of serum
for the cure Of cerebro-spinal menin-
gifts, known as spotted fever" and
for general experimentation.
In the report in which DR.. F1exner
first made known his discovery he
lamented the difficulty in obtaining a
sufficient number of monkeys for ex-
periments. They, of all animals, are
most desirable because they most
ly resemble man.
z Largely for the propagation of mon
keys. Mr.. Rockefeller made his gift TO
the institute. The farm is the largest
of its kind in the world and already has
attracted the attention of European
scientists.
g Mrs. II. Weart and Mrs. Theodore
Booraem. wife of the county Judge of
Middlesex, are at the head of the anti
,vivisectionists. A letter from Mrs.
Booraem received a day or two ago by
Mrs. Caroline Earle White, of this city,
told that strong efforts are being made
to suppress the experiments on the
farm. DR. Janeway and DR.. Cronly, of
this city, were arrested at her instiga-
ton because of methods OF v~ivisection.
Colonel E. S. Edwards, secretary CT
the New Jersey Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Animals, is quoted as
having said:
This State shall not become the
-duhaping ground for New York's brutal
titles. l am preparing a bill hat l shall
cause to be presented at the next ses-
sion of the Legislature, which, If
passed, will stop the practise within
our boundaries. Governor Fort loves
animals and is opposed to their being
unnecessarily tortured. He will, 1 am
sure, give just as much support to my
measure as did Governor Stokes to my
pigeon-shooting bill"
Mrs. Weart said:
1.-THE Rockefeller gift has aroused US
all. What action will be taken by the
board in this city 1 am not prepared
to state. but hat w will give every
support to the people of New Jersey
in their effort to make the plans of the
Institute for Medical Research go awry
you car rest assured.
"It has been suggested by some that
a mass meeting held in the Academy
of Music would afford the people of
this city an opportunity of showing
their sympathy with the movement"
she added. 1--WE have lecturers and an
ample supply of lantern slides. and
an interesting evening could be very
easily arranged, enlightening, toe to
those who love animals, but are I'M
familiar with the cruel fortunes to
which they are subjected"
Prominent Philadelphians are also in
terested in the agitation against vivi-
section.