The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-13
PROPER PROCEDURE
 AFTER KILLING DOG
Some Think Best to Stop and
 Give Aid
Other Drivers, Like Bernard Shaw, Speed Ahead--Instances Show Circumstances Alter Cases

over a dog ought not to stop. One reason given was that if there was a woman in the car it would distress attempts at sympathy were apt TO meet with cold reception. The Club Journal of the Automobile Club of America was stirred to action by the apparent hard-hearted posi- ton of MT. Shaw and among the 1n- teresting expressions of opinion which it gathered on the subject matter are the following:
 Henry Clews-'I am happy to say have never had an experience of impossible to lay down a hard and fast rule of action for these cases. One must use lis best judgment as the individual case arises, always act ing as hum nity prompts A man who runs over A dog and leaves him maimed and suffering in the road when no owner is in sight is a brute. ''
 Robert Lee MorTetl second vice president of the Automobile Club of America: ''This is not a question with me. I instinctively go back if l strike any living thing, with the pos sible exception of a chicken. TWO dogs are all have to answer for, but I must also confess than I ran over squirrel in Central Park one after noon and upon stopping found ne was still suffering. Taking a wrench from the car I struck him on the head every man who drives a car to go back after running down an animal and see if it Is suffering. If 1t is he should kill it at once.'
 Peter Cooper Hewitt said it was a subject upon which he would not like
 
 thought it largely a matter of "lndl- vidual cases" which should be treat ed with ones best judgment as they arise. He remembered that during one of the early French road races which he attended one of the noted drivers tried to avoid killing a dog which ran out upon the course and he injured four spectators.
 MT. Hewitt said he thinks the ma jority of American motorists have saved the lives of more dogs than they have killed"
 Alan R. Hawley:-"Do everything you can to avoid accidents. If they come in spite of you, drive on. In all my motoring I have had just one accident of this kind. I was tour ing France with a friend and in one of the country districts 8 sheep dog, evidently seized with sudden motor cidar mania, jumped from the bank above directly at the front of our ra- diator. Of course he departed promptly for the ultimate bourne of all good sheep dogs. Two men were with the animal, and from previous experience with the >cupidity of French peasants we knew that we would be called upon to pay not only for the dog but for the flock of sheep he was tending as well. We genuity could not have saved the dog. We took the course that common sense suggested and shook the dust of that part of the country side off our wheels as fast as the motor would turn them.'
 members of the A. c. A., who keeps several high powered cars on his es- tate and who not only drives a great deal himself but admits that he likes to go fast, gives MT. Shaw and all others who kill dogs, to say nothing of those who do not stop their cars, a severe raking.
 "I should like to have MT. Shaw in my office for few moments" said MT Park. 'I would tell him a few things which he would not put in his heretical plays.
 ''It would be interesting in the first place to know if MT. Shaw ever ran over COW and failed to go back. I venture to say that during this per iod in which he shamelessly admits killing ten or more dogs he has care fully avoided every very large hole and every very large animal on the roads where he has been travelling.
 "sThe man who does not stop after killing a dog is a plain coward. The least he could do would be to go back and offer his sympathy to the owner.
 "As a rule the dogs which are kill ed on the road are only valuable as pets, and the loss of one carries more sentiment than property value. It Is seldom that you could pay man in cold cash for a dog which you have killed. A few words of regret count a case.
 "I do not know that I have ever run over a dog, but only recently while driving in from White Plains I ruin ed two new rear shoes by lodging off the road 2to save the life of neighbor's dog. Automobiles gener- ally say you cannot avoid killing a dog once in a while, and this may be true, but there are too many men who will not even make a slight at these men are nothing but criminals and there should be a law to punish the man who kills a dog and drives away without stopping.
 eff MT. Shaw is really so extreme ly considerate of the nerves of his
 
 should extend a little consideration 10 the good country people who keep dogs. There is no logic in MT. Shaw's argument. He aims to be intensely practical but displays only inhuman ity. A man who drives as reckless ly as MT. Shaw must, to kill ten dogs, should not be allowed to take ladies out riding in his car. Then he could trump up no possible excuse for clearing out as he says, after killing a little child's pet"
 Bryan l.. Kennelly-"Good heay- ems! if my car were to go into whole sale slaughtering of dogs, as MT. Shaw seems to take it for granted we all do. I would give it up. I use every care possible to avoid running over any living thing, even at con siderable risk to neck and car, and l am glad to say I have been successful so far.
 motorist cannot avoid killing or in turing a dog. and if I am ever unfor- tunate enough to do so, 1 shall simply go and stand not upon the order of my going.'"
 Arthur Loves Dickinson-"Why, it seems to me the least a man can do if he runs over a dog is to go back and try to repair damages. 1 would certainly stop unless I were in a for eign country and did not speak the language. Then I would get away as fast as possible.
 f'1 am glad to say I have killed on- ly two dogs in all my motoring ca reer. Both these accidents happened in France. The owner of the first dog accepted five francs as compensa- &i,, IL