Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-04-06


for twenty-one sick horses stand easn-
ty and fOrlOrn, no pussies are mewiHx
in the cat wards, even the birds have.
flown from their perches.
On bright sunshiny mornings visit
full urchins from the nearby teae-.
ments gather in the street outside ths
hospital and look in vain for their
friends the horses that exercised i'm
the paddock. The daily operations fn
the surgical wards are over and DONE.
The diet Kitchen is disused and eIeckrf-
cal massage is temporarily suspended
There remains only the lethal chamhsr.
where stray cats and dogs are put oue
of their pain. Every day four or Eve.
miserable little waits are brought I'm
from the street, given last good meal.
and then kindly hands put them out or
their misery.
The house PHYSICIANS" report Ter
August showed that fifty patients had
been admitted to the wards and over
seven hundred and fifty treated in ehe
dispensary. The number had increased
every month since the opening of the
hospital, for lovers of animals learned
| that expert care would be given frealy
to any pet. Every driver in the Work
horse Parade, which annually takes fts
proud progress past the mayor and city
officials of New York, knew that the
same women who had instituted tho
parade had opened this hospital where.
sick horses could be boarded and fed.
and made we'll again without expense
Many maiden lady of discreet years
carried her parrot to the hospital to
learn what diet Polly must have To-
brighten her plumes and how hest tn
improve her temper and even her Ian
guage, Solemn little boys with sad
tailed puppies under their arms came
to put their pets in the distemper room,
; and equally solemn little girls inquir-
: ed anxiously for the sovereign RENE
dies for each of the nine lives of a
precious cat Rabbits were here, and
canaries. even q monkey or two, and
pet mice, the very smell of which had
to be carefully guarded not to excite
y the cat patients 1t was as If the Noah.s
y Ark of nursery days had suddenly
! grown up and turned to real brick
and stone. and all the stif little wood :
on Masts had grown real, too. Here
they were, neatly arranged and ticket
cd, and happier than they had ever
been in all their lives before.
Alas that this should be over nows
With the first of September, the war
was on in grim earnest. In New York
City the stock Exchange had closed.
and the necessary money for runnlng
expenses, about $500 a month, was
hard to find. Finally, the president or
the league decided that for the pres
ent the hospital must close, not Co re-
open again until peace should return.
With the cry of suffering humanity
4 rleging loud abroad, there are few TO
listen to the plea of dumb animals at
home.
4 The league, however, continues To
contribute great and needed service.
The diseases for which small animals
are responsible are very considerable,
and for the relief from these the COM.
lnittee is greatly responsible. The con-.
citions of sanitation and humanity have.
been given careful attention in bird
end animal shops, in poultry markets
and in bird and animal circuses. The
educational and relief work in behalf
Of horses, is, however, most to be com
mended, as the horse is, in every sense,
a bread winner. Outside of its hospital
work, the league distributes fiy-nets.
lightweight brides and humane bis.
lin summer, and in winter, blankees.
chest protectors, and ice shoes.
Mrs. James Speyer is president e,eGs
the league, and Miss Ella Mabel CLARK e
Mrs. Cornelius C. Cuyler and Mrs.
L.