The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-27
IS CHOSEN DEAD MAN
BROOK REELECTED DIREC- TOR OF CONNECTICUT HU- MANE SOCIETY.
Two Live Bridgeporters Selected t6 Keep Company With the Departed Who is Resurrected For Humane Purposes.


 Can a dead man be chosen to an Cffice that is supposed to receive the attention of a live man?
 Ask the Connecticut Humane society.
 Yesterday the annual meeting of Among other matters officers were elected.
 First in the list of directors chosen, appear the names of three Bridge porters or rather two live Bridge rcrters and one that has some time since laid aside the cares of this ter 1estial sphere.
 The animated personalities who succeed themselves are our distin- guished fellow toWnsmen Hon. Henry A. Bishop and Hon. Morris W. Sey- mour, each of whom is very much in evidence in every day activities.
 Equally distinguished in his day and time perhaps, the late Major Louis N. Middlebrook was honored with Q reelection by a unanim o us vote. It must have proven a most agreeable surprise to Messrs. Bishop and Seymour to learn that the erst- while redoubtable Major is still re- cognized as among the living and no uOuDL tllGIS WILL Ut IIluCn CuIlOS1Ly manifested when the directors get to- gether, as to whether the Major will turn up and insist upon his rights.
 Other directors chosen were George M. Woodruff, Litchfield; Mrs. H. H. Bridgmann and Mrs. Thomas Purdy, Norfolk; Miss Cornelia F. Baird, Nor walk; Mrs. Emily l.. B. Fay, Stam- ford.
 President Love said that the so- ciety now has S08 agents scattered through the state.
 Miss Mary E. Lally, secretary of the society, rendered tabulated re- port showing that the number of aged men whose cases were investigated was 26, the number of aged. women 60 and the number of children 505. The numb of animals relieved was 7,638 and the number humanely kill ed was: Horses, 630; neat cattle, 60; small animals, 75S; making 8 total of 1,448. Sixty-tWo cases were prose- cuted and 59 convictions resulted. The number of warnings given was 4,672; persons advised, 3,251; cases received completed, S93; referred, 75; consid- cred unfounded, 12; cases observed and relieved by agents, 5,416; total cases for the year, 8,396. In addition the Greenwich Society for Animal Protection has relieved 56 animals, ueStIOyeu 11S oHO COLSlOcIeu IA4 cases.
 The report of the treasurer, Ralph w.. Cutler, showed receipts for the year Including balance on hand at the Leginning of the year and legacies, amounting to $30,S16.5S, with ex- penses amounting to $14,13S.66. A statement of the various funds of the society was also appended.
 General Agent Dwight W. Thrall reported that during the past year he had made SIT visits in 148 towns and villages outside Hartford. Complaint vas made that a man 88 years old was living in board shanty of one room and a low attic and was en- cum bered by a family of seventeen persons. He found that the family had been slightly reduced as one man had died and another had been sent to prison, but there were still thir- teen left in the family. There were two women, seven young children, a weak-minded boy of 16, boy of IT, @ man of 60 and the old man first mentioned, while they frequently had friends visit them for a day or night In the center of the lower room was a stove with the pipe going through the room. There was but one bed Those who could not find lodging place there either sat in chairs or lay on the floor nights. The old man re- ceived pension and the others were most relatives who lived on his boun- ty. The older persons were sent away to care for themselves or sent to the temporary home and the family was reduced to the old man and his son and daughter.