Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-03
CITIZENS HAVE HOPE WOULD PENSION CATS
Encouraging Prospect for Rec Woman Has Grand Scheme
amation Plans. tor the Government.
EASTERN BRANCH FLATS BIG FARM AT BRookLANo
Congress Expected Make Liberal Offers to Care for 1000 Fenes
Appropriation 30 a Head.
VALUE OF RIGHTS CAN TRAIN THEM TO BE GOOD
rxro+ From Reno of Commits
s,on.re conoress on Desra
lily of Womans Joo
Offers to Care for 1000 Felines at
So Head.
AN TRAIN THEM TO BE GOOD
No Fights When They Know Each
Other. She Declares-Why It's
a Woman's Job.

Ever since somebody or other sent Rep
resentative Tawney of Minnesota cat,
following a controversy between him and
Mann of Illinois on the floor of the House
as to the best method of disposing of I'M
desirable felines. he has been pestered
to death by people who have a love for
animals. Just yesterday he received a
letter from one May Cline who lives at
Harmony. Warren county. n. j.. offering
to run cat pension for the government.
She thinks she would "exalt the job.
Here Is the letter:
Noting In a recent paper that the
House is still mildly discussing the prob
lem of the cat pension and also Wash
ington's homeless cats. 1 wish to express
my willingness to pioneer this new ven
ture especially since / have for years
been interested in animal psychology, SO
that the business is in a line with my
more abstract and intellectual work.
My folks have ten cats and I can give
YOU correct estimate of the cost of a
thousand cats. 1t costs nine dollars
year for one cat-conservative estimate
If milk is given. But since the govern
ment cats would probably get buckets
full of sweet skinned milk with a lot of
bread in it. the cost would be probably
as low as eight dollars year. For a
thousand cats, eight thousand dollars.
Next. the help. AS manager l ask
forty dollars month, and assistant,
who would do all the feeding and cleaning
up. This man i know right here. He is
made for the job And he is good
farmer besides. honest happy. old-fash-
toned, humorous. Industrious, kind and
lover OF animals and justice. He will
exalt his job. He is man you want for
lifetime. He is capable, intelligent and
thoroughly reliable. Besides, he will live
anywhere.
Thinks Brookland the Place.
My suggestion is that you build this
cat pension near Brookland, SO that plenty
of skim milk may be had from the dairy
of the Soldiers Home.
Il expected to live in Brookland and
have not heretofore been a resident of the
District of Columbia, but 1 expected to
be this fall. You will have to have ten
acres of land for 1000 cats. They will
occupy only five acres at a time. Each
pen should contain 100 cats belonging to
one government house as near as possible
in order to prevent fights. II they are ac-
quainted with each other they will not in
dulge in fighting. but nothing on earth
will prevent cat squalls.
Each pen should fast to 1t one-half
acre, which is to be plowed once a
week. The cats pens will open on either
side and one OF these doors will always
q
lot is used. Each FIVE acres should be
used six months only. This gives rise to
cleanliness and also to a chance to utilize
five acres for a crop.
las l said. my assistant is a good
farmer. He will have to be paid $50 a
month, with board added. Board could
be had over the line for s. a week at Do
minion, Va. He will do honest for that
money for lifetime.
Il suggest also fruit trees like peaches,
a N mill rnf
exist and even the tree trunks will re-
quire bandages until they are old trees.
Cats scratch bark and kill small bushes.
but l have often projected young trees
from their claws. There will also have
to be another assistant who will gather
up the food from the city. I propose to
get fresh offal from the butchers and pay
boy to collect live mice and rats from
tells will be asked for barrels Of waste
food at a small figure Bread three days
old will be bought, and 1t is better for
them, too.
Expects to Be sBoss.''
IF can save on the food, of course it
will be my business to do it. / expect to
do all the buying and all the bossing and
all the disposing, for of course you will
dispose of cats to fair offers in order to
lessen the number None, however, to
dissecting houses. / am very humane. 1t
will be very unlikely if do not exalt my
job.
IF the government is willing I will sug-
gest to a certain trainer a proposition to
train certain OF the most intelligent cats
for comedy exposition, he to receive
half the proceeds. He might undertake it
on account OF the prestige. He is one of
the cleverest trainers at his trade and
usually trains horses.
You will need horse. ! can furnish
the right one at s1OO and a pow and a
cart. You can manage with a small sta
BILE.
Each cat building can be built for SD
A pen twenty feet long would do for 100
cats. provided they know each other. To
feed the different pens will be a sight, in
deed. and the picture OF 1T will be SO hui
morous that it will furnish complete
moving picture show.
The above is good outline of the
business in this Job. 1t is no woman's
job. l don't expect to touch it. But the
person who can do the actual work is not
the person who can manage it. wom-
an is better to manage humane job like
this than any man living. Cats live In
houses like women and their natures are
much alike. They understand each other.
No "Graft" In It.
You will note. honorable sir, that my
price is not excessive. l put 1t low on
purpose. knowing the nature Of the gov
eminent Let 1t not be supposed that
would do the country out of a cent. The
shoe is on the other foot. as I can prove
by the patent Office. 1t requires Rookie
Teller to get anything but a living from
Uncie SAM My prices. therefore, are as
low you could get along with.
Cats differ. Some live to eat Other
live to declaim from the roofs. Others
are domestic. On the whole, If you plant
orchids run training college and NOV
ing picture Office. it might be that you
could operate the farm. spare the cats
and come out even. ] have always want
ed an experimental school for animals and
cats offer as fine material as there is. Be-
sides. the plan is very economical. Sim
cerely, NAY CLINE"
Dining Room Of Circus.
From Popular Mechanics.
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