The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-08
THE Gov. BIDS WELCOME
THE NATIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY
MEETS IN ST. PAUL.
Program Includes Addresses BY Not
able Persons Interested in HUI
manitarian Work.

! Delegates from $50 Humane societies
in the United States are in ST. Paul
today attending the first of three
days session of the American Humane
association meetings. The meetings are
being held in the old capitol building.
The program will include addresses
by notable persons interested in hui
manitarian work and many of them
are men and women of international
reputation.
The meeting today was called to or
der by President w. o. Stillman of
Albany. Governor Eberhart briefly
welcomed the delegates and in doing so
kept promise made by the late Gov
ernor johnson who long ago said he
would deliver a welcome address as
the official head of the state Mayor
Lawler also welcomed the delegates on
behalf of the city.
President Stillman's annual address
was devoted to review of the good
work done during the past year in aid
ing helpless human beings and dumb
brutes.
Mrs. Hugo Krause of Chicago read
a paper on "Why Humane Education
Should Be Made Part of the Pub
lie School Curriculum" This was fol-
lowed by an address by Guy Richard
son of Boston on "Band of Mercy
Work." and then there was a general
discussion on animal protection.
AS this is animal day" the entire
session was devoted to papers and dis
cussion of animal treatment
In paper on cine Transportation
of Live Stock" DIR. T. NJ. Libby,
United States meat inspector for the
st. Paul district, dwelt on the inhu-
manity of mixed shipments, where the
railroad car is first filled with large
stock and then small calves and hogs
are run in under to be trampled to
death by the larger animals. As a
remedy for this abuse Dr. Libby sug-
gested that railroads be compelled to
partition off cars for mixed loads and
that these partitions should be main
tanned by the roads as part of the
necessary car equipment.
In the discussion that ensued, more
stringent federal legislation regarding
the transportation of live stock with
an especial provision for the abolition
of double deck cars where the floor fire.
quently breaks through and causes
all the calves which have not been
gilled by the grown cattle to be
cha fo I,.I sc
nourishment. The matter was referred
to the committee on resolutions, OF
which Rev. c. Herbert Shut, president
of the st. Paul Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty, is chairman.
The matter of using cruel methods
in killing and catching fish was brought
up by Delegate Oscar A. Trounstine
of Cincinnati, who is also an assist
ant secretary of the association. The
indiscriminate slaughter of fish by
spearing, dynamite, slack lime and
bunch hook methods was condemned by
Mr.. Trounstine, who contended that
all manner of fishing should be con-
trolled by federal legislation.
Mary E. Lowell of Philadelphia
wanted to know how it could be
more cruel to kill fish with dyna-
mite than to torture them with hooks
and President Stillman stated that
the matter of killing fish by the
wholesale has now become an eco
nomical problem which is being studied
and solved by the various state gov
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