Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-23
FAR REACHING INFLUENCE
 OF STATE HUMANE SOCIETY
Pathetic Conditions Found in 9 New London Honne-30- Year Old Horse Re-
 leved of Miserylin Lyme.

The work of the Connecticut Hu-
 mane society is statewide in it's scope
 and varied still it has a most inter
 esting side especially when through
 patient effort the fallen are lifted and
 in a measure regain responsibility and
 one sees neglected and starving chill
 dren restored to their rights in the
 home.
 Of course there are cases where the
 parents, either one or both have to be
 severely dealt with through the courts
 to bring home to them the meaning
 of duties in the home, and particularly
 those due their offspring, and there are some hopeless cases wherein all
 kindly advice and counsel fails of it's
 mission in the homes where drink has
 for the care of the little ones or aught else in the line of humanity. There are too, the cases of neglect due to the shiftlessnessfi laziness and indif- ference. cfttimes, of the mother, which no kindliness or suggestion of the numerous agents of the society will reach and these have to be subjected
 to the stimulation of the courts, and with the result that in hardened cases the children have to be separated from the parents. placed in the care of rel 1 atives or sent to the various county homes provided for them, or otherwise : disposed of at the suggestion of the humane society or the court.
 The scope of the work of the society 1 is very, wide and as far reaching in its influence as the state itself. Scarce ly hamlet but comes within the juris- diction of one or another of it's agents. Nearly everything endowed with life particularly the higher forms of it, come within the care of the society. Human rcings, animals and birds can not suffer harm with impunity In Con- necticut.
 Some of the more fragrant cases with which the society has had to deal in this section of the state re- gently may serve as an outline of the work which the society is doing day i in preventing cruelty to doumb ani- mals
 Manson and Isabel Pearl of New London, the parents of six children, ! varying in ages from 19 years to about , months, were taken to task for neg l lecting their children, on complaint issued by Clayton B. Smith. the pros ecuting attorney for the society. The children were found in an ill-kept home, and the floor and pieces of tat tered carpet served as their sleeping places. The family of seven were l quartered in a single room. The par ents were addicted to drink and it was apparent that no improvement in the conditions of the home or care of the : children would be made without re- sort to stern measures. AICeT a re- view of the facts of the case in court, the mother and her babe were pro- vided for in the New London hospital and the father was sentenced to six months in jail The execution of sen ! tence was suspended, however. for the same period, and the father placed un- der probation that his wages might be collected and applied to the support of his family. The remaining children were sent to the county home.
 For over-working and abusing 30- years old horse which he bought for $15, William H. Maynard of Lyme was taken in tow by Local Agent T. l.. Haynes after Maynard had been warn ed not to use his animal Contrary to all advice Maynard used the old horse and the last time while drunk. drove the halt and suffering animal through the main street. The home of fee was notified of the circumstances and an agent from Hartford was sent to investigate the case with the result that Maynard was arrested and tried before Justice George Griswold in the court of Old Lyme. Maynard offered ] a plea of guilty and was sentenced to pay a fine of S7 and costs. The fine was remitted and the case nolled sub sequently, upon the condition that Maynard apologize to the local agent of the society and kill the aged animal. Miss Mary E. J. Lally, secretary of the society has some twenty-four eases under her personal supervision which relate to the neglect of family members and she said that it was surprising how many cases yielded to the counsel of the agents of the so- ciety and how much good the organi- zation did within the state throughout the year. To be sure good resulted in many eases only after encourage
 ment and the most patient effort but it paid we'll to see the family rehabili- tated and the parents get a new hold upon life. It was those thoroughly dis heartened by their impoverished condi- tions or hardened in the habit of drink or firmly rooted in the way of shift l lessness that were the hardest to re-
 claim to the ways of right living. A recent appointment is that of A. F. Roswell as an agent for the society