Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-31
HUMANE SOCIETY
DOES GOOD WORK
Officer Has Made Practice of keeping
Young Boys on the Streets
After NightfaIl.

Inc ROCK Island County Humane
society is an institution with head
quarters in Rock Island and work in
the interest of children and dumb an
imals is carried on largely through
the paid county officer, II H. Robb,
who gives all his time to this branch
of charity. The society works unos-
tentatiously but with good results.
The humane officer has made it his
special interest 10 see that young
boys are off the streets after night
fall. He has frequently accompanied
young boys home in order to see that
they arrive there safely and in this
alone has done much good. He has
examined many horses in harness and
has seen that they are properly blank
eted in cold weather, shod for slip
perry streets; he has reprimanded driy-
ers for carelessness and abuse. etc,
The society meets in monthly session
for the transaction of what business
may come before it and is assisted
by the ladies' auxiliary, a body of wo-
men who give aid in various ways
/ In his report for the year just
closed Mr.. Robb gives the following
items:
Complaints ,....s-..-........,. 1876
Reprimands Observation-Disclosures. So
/ Horses examined ........... 293
Small animals destroyed ........ 10
! Boys off the street late at night. 81
! Horses destroyed Observation-Disclosures.
Horses laid off work ............, 10
Cases sent to county officials. .....
/ Cases referred TO Judge ..t....
/ Cases referred to railroad officials
Cases referred to visiting nurse 49, /
| Cases referred to charity matron /
Horses sent to shoe shop .........
Mrs. George N. Elliott, recording
and corresponding secretary of the
/ Humane society has prepared the fol
! lowing statement OF the work of thai
society for the year 1917 in which
she explains its object;
I THE Reck Island County Humane
/ society takes pleasure in making use
of this opportunity TO show the re-
suits Of the work at the end of the
| 10th year in this field of endeaY0r
/ While at times the outlook was some
what discouraging, yet, on the whole
/ the public has responded to appeals
/ in a manner that has been eminently
satisfactory. Opportunity is also here
taken of thanking the commissioners
| of the city OF Rock Island and the
supervisors Of Rock Island county fol
their liberal contributions in behalf
| of the organization, without whose
help it would have been difficult tC
maintain the high standard of the
society.
I'VE desire TO call the attention Of
the public to the work of the Rec
Star branch Of the society, This is {
new field OF humane work, opened
up in the last year. This organiza
ton performs for the army animals
work similar to that performed BY
the Red Cross for the soldiers. The
United States government has callet
upon the American Humane associa
ton to assist in promoting the hui
name care Of army animals The
horse and mule are just as essentia
in carrying on the work at the from
as the motor. In many ways the,
are superior to the motor as there
are many places where the animal:
can go that it is impossible to send {
machine. And unless the boys at tn,
front have every help we can giyi
them We who stay at home are no
doing our bit In the past two year.
on the western front the number o
animals killed and wounded hai
4 ~. a,zf-- e.,
sand horses and mules per month
At thesend of the first drive at Yer
dun in eight hours there was a vast
age of SOIL horses on a three-mil'
front Through the liberal contribu
tons of friends of our dumb animals
There is now maintained a horse hos
pital every eight miles on the Frencl
front Shall the American army ana
its horses be less we'll cared for?
THE secretary Of war. Hon. Newton
D. Baker, has written in part as fol
lows: The American Humane asso
citation could very well function IN ;
similar manner In assisting the gov
! eminent in caring for the sick an,
wounded animals in its armies
Therefore for the sake of our countr,
and for the sake of humanity let u
striva to make the Red Star ANNA
] relief efficient.
, THE work of the local association
: has been up to its former standart
, and we have TO thank the Ladies'
: Aid society for the splendid help /
, has given. The haZar netted a nea
, sum which has been Of very materia
, helm TN caring for those who hav