Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03
DRAMA Of tie BIDE-A-W w + L

ner That dog has got an appetite that's wonder
We give him three big meals every day and ne spends
the rest of the time snooping around the neghborhoou
in search of more food He never quits eating II ne
can help It,"
frequently worked the sympathies of the neghbors
for food, and had beguiled the Bide-a-Wee at
tendants In the same manner 1t has not peen enron
icled that the setter mistook Bide-a-Wee Tor DOG
wagon"
That the "happy ending" Is not insistently
ubiquitous In the drama of Bide-a-Wee 1t is in the
drama of Broadway Is to be judged from several ex-
ampes of which probably the best for chronicle from
"human interest" standpoint is that referred to By
the managers of the institution "the canine mar
ried couple" Reevantly is not the phrase 'human
interest" pertinent in relation to some dogs as 1t IS
certain persons classified by the grace of God as
human beings?
The original locale of the real drama to which ref
erence has been made was in Harlem The theme OF
the play, speaking In the phraseology of Thespis
was-Is there such a thing as love between male
and female animals? The drama In question argued,
and argues for the affirmative. To get to the heart
of the story an inspector the staff of Bide-aWea
had his attention some time ago called to two dogs,
female retriever and a male spaniel who were TO
be every night in the vicinity of the old Harlem
Hospital at Pleasant avenue and l2Oh street These
dogs were always together and to all appearances.
were homeless. Oddly enough, however, they were
never until evening.
The inspector endeavored to catch them on numer-
GUS occasions, but they euded his every effort With
the aid of assistant the inspector finally located
the "home of the couple under huge pile of lumber
near the hospital grounds Desiring to solve the mys-
terry that surrounded the canine couple before effect
the movements of the dogs. One day the female did
not come out of her home" The male did, however,
but remained away only an hour. Then he returned
with bone that he dragged into the place where his
mate hiding
This performance was repeated the next day and
the day after as we'll The curiosity of the was
aroused now. and enlisng the services of couple or
aborers. they cleared off the and began to re-
move the lumber under which the dogs were making
their home After several hours work they finally
uncovered the mystery for there in among the loose
boards at the bottom of the pile they found the little
retriever with fourteen puppies nine of which had
been frozen to death. The male dog was keeping
guard over his family. Procuring huge basket the
men removed the dogs and their puppies to Bidea-
Wee, and the curtain fell on the first act
month elapsed between the first and second acts.
man to the institution at the end of that time
in search of foster mother and the dog and her pup
pies were passed into his short time
afterward a woman came and took the male dog with
her to her home in New Jersey. Upon being sepa-
rated the dogs whned their sorrow in manner
breathing the grief of human souls The persons
the institution hated to separate them, but there
other way.
Again time passed and the third act began. The
man who had taken away the mother wrote to Bide-
aWee that he giving the animal every care, that
she seemed to like him. but that she gave every indca
uon OF missing her mate. Inc woman who had
was constantly grieving for the mate from whom he
had been separated And thus the drama rests to-day.
Miles apart, in comfortable homes, the dog is
rowing for his companion and she for him. Their
has been recorded the most marvellous ex-
ample of animal love" that has come to the atten-
Although future fourth act to this drama is con-
jectural, promise that there may be possibility
for the reunion of the canine couple may in the
fact that the master of the mother is bachelor and
the mistress of the spaniel an unmarried woman. To
be sure the present writer is alone responsible for
hazarded opinion of the fourth act" but 1t
be denied that the suggestion is legitimate and valid
one, if the future shows that the last act is
to be written.
The limits imposed by space prevent complete ac-
count of the many other comedies and tragedies OF
Bide-a-Wee. BY way of fragmentary synopses, how
ever there may be recorded the story of tenyearold
Maltese cat that after the death of its mistress
taken the institution where it died few days later
of broken heart, not alphabetically but actually; the
story of dog and his mate separated and reunited
year later in accidental way at the farm" of
Bide-aWee in New Jersey and the story of dog
turned adrft by its master on being struck with
paralysis and upon being subsequently cured at the
institution, being given into the keeping of stranger
despite the efforts of his originally cruel but
thoroughly repentant master to reclaim him.
There is good dramatic stuff, too, In the story of
dog that sent to Bide-a-Wee by its Montclair
IN j. mistress, who had tired of it. The dog, evil