The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-03-06
Mrs. E. w. Murray to Convert
New Jersey Home Into
Refuge for Them.
WILD ANIMALS PROTECTED
FOR YEARS SHE HAS TAKEN
GREATEST INTEREST IN DUMB
BRUTES AND HAS ALWAYS
TRIED TO AID THEM.

New York, March 5.-On the banks |
of the Raritan river at Somerville. n. |
j., surrounded by beautiful undulat-
ing countryside. and approaching
through the neighborhood made at
tractive by the country estate or
James B. Duke of the tobacco trust, |
is historic farm of 146 acres belong
ing to Mrs. Evelyn Wentworth Muir
ray of New York, who has for many
years befriended animals of all sorts,
and intends to turn this estate into a
a sanatorium for old and decrepit ami
mails. Many times Mrs. Murray has
appeared in Manhattan courts against
cruel drivers. and she is forever res
cuing some poor, nameless. breedless
dog, starving in the streets, taking
it to her farm and nursing it back to
health and happiness. The kindness
thus shown to one yellow cur last
summer resulted in the burning OF
her bungalow the other day-for the
dog accidentally set the house afire
and burned it down, since which time
Mrs. Murray has been living in one
room building she built for den in
order to be near her animal pets.
Humanity Owes 1t.
II have long felt" she said, that
there ought to be some place where
tired horses, worn out by toll in the
city. and perhaps sick, could be taken
for vacations without expense to the
owners. who in many cases are poor.
Humanity owes much to the horses in
oif hn1 al<n rat
as human beings bearable. Why
should we rot return little of the
Kindness they show us by taking prop
err care of them in their old age or
sickness?
II am going to build hospital here
on this farm, have fine pastures,
lawns, cool groves for them to rest in,
pools where they can battle, as all
horses like to do in hot weather, and
every other convenience for nursing
back to health creatures that may
have fallen ill., Then poor man who
has horse that is tired out can bring
it here, leave it and we will lend him
q good strong horse to take it's place
while his is resting. We>~ill have a
good veterinary in charge to look af-
ter74the horses-the kindest man on
earth, and | know who he is, too.
She Studied Horses.
II have three horses now on my
farm; two of them very valuable. and
] have for many years made a study
of horses and know what they need.
This farm will not be a recuperating
place for horses alone, however, but
will be for all sorts of animals in dis
tress. Dogs, cats. cattle, birds and
any other creatures that need help.
have four or five dogs here now, and
all OF them | rescued from the city.
One of my favorites is Rover, a fox
terrier. One of them is dog that
had been run over in the city and
had it's leg broken. My chauffeur
caught it for me and l took it to the
society's rooms at Twenty-sixth street
New York. There they told me the
best thing that could be done for the
poor dog was to take it to the gas
house and have it asphyxiated So !
took 1t there, but the poor creature
looked into my eyes so pitifully that ]
could not do it, and so took it to the
hospital in Twenty-fifth street, where
1t was many weeks getting we'll. | paid
$25 for its care there and then
brought it out here, and you should
see it now. 1t is the healthiest, happi
est-looking creature you ever saw.
This farm is retreat for all sorts
OF wild animals, for they seem to know
they are protected here. There are
wild rabbits, squirrels and birds
Some of Mr.. Dukes English pheasants
are continually living on my side O
the line.
On the night my bungalow burned
down one of the dogs. fox terrier
that is the special pet of my littl,
nephew Gustav and niece Evelyn
caught cold and now has pneumonia
l am taking special care of this pc
myself and expect to nurse it back t,
health. I have made a bed for it il
the little house where l have my den
1t is for this reason that | am stayin:
at the farm after the fire instead @
going back to Manhattan to live"
Mrs. Murray, who is wealthy, has
wide acquaintance among artistic an
literary people, and herself write
both prose and poetry. She has re
Gently been writing play which ha
for moral lesson the kindness tina
ought to be shown for horses and ott
er dumb animals.