The sun., 1918-12-20
|AL SMITHS DOG
IS SOME DOGGUMS
Caesar, About the Size of a
Pony, Is to Guard Execu-
tive Mansion.
BURGLARS DEsPIsE HIM
Great Dane Gift to Governor
. elect From Sleepy Hol-
low Breeder.

bany who had a dog named Patsy.
and before they had been there very
long the dog was quite as well known
as his master They have long since
retired, politically speaking, to the
little house beside the road for which
Patsy's owner always said he hankered.
Presently there viii be inaugurated
Governor of a different sort. and as he
also has a dog-of a different sort--it
is time that the people of New York
knew about Cesar. the Great Dane.
Al Smith, clear back to his East
River swimming days, has always had
at least one dog and sometimes more.
One evening in the Ten Eyck Hotel in
Albany, five years ago, friend intro
duced a stranger from Sleepy Hollow
as a breeder of Great Danes. Mr..
Smith who was then Speaker of the
Assembly, remarked that he had al
ways wanted to possess one OF those
Scandinavian prodigies.
Only . Pup, but-My Word!
The conversation turned to other
things and had passed from the future
Governors mind when, a few months
later. the man from Sleepy Hollow
called him UP and said:
i've been waiting until I had
! perfect specimen OF the Great Dane
to send you. He's just a pup, only
few weeks old. Will you accept him
with my compliments"
Mr.. Smith said he would, and him
! self went to the Grand Central Station
at the appointed time to get the dog
and take it home to Oliver street. He
expected TO carry the infant in his
arms, or in his coat pocket, maybe.
( Never having seen a baby Great Dane
and having had a wide acquaintance
with Boston terrier puppies, he had
his own ideas as IS the probable size
! of the gift he was expecting, and
believed himself adequately prepared.
At tho station, however, he found
creature already in the Shetland pony
class and expanding momentarily.
| 1T seems, the Governor ELECT said
yesterday. that Great Danes never
are very small, and start where most
dogs leave OF. Well, the only thing TO
do WIS TO hire a hack and get this
| one nome, WhlCn | olo.
| Since then this cunning little heastie
has grown up and has become the lord
high protector of all Oliver street and
! its Cherry Hill suburbs. Several lit
tie Smith have been his trustful wards.
and as for providers of dark intent
none has been known to linEer In the
neighborhood after hearing his jungle
voice. Strangers TO Oliver street and
I its mastadonic four footed policeman,
they saunter down the slope, these
panhandlers with an eye TO this or
I that small opportunity that may pre-
sent itself out Of their regular line.
( once in a while" says Al Smith.
( zone Of them rings the basement bell
at my house. If nobody answers he
opens the wicket gate. The idea is
to get into the hall and rummage
second or two for an old umbrella. an
Old pair o. shoes-anything that will
bring the price of a beer.
Burglars Just Couldn't Endure Him
"But just let a stranger touch that
gate when there's no one in the house
10 answer the bell. Cesar is inside. AT
the first sound OF a scratch outside he
| rears up, puts his front paws against
the window and glares out between
those two hams. II he feels like it he
also banks, and there isn't lion UP a {
the Zoo that can roar like this dog
Caesar, IL do say It myself. II would
make you laugh 10 see the brave bur
glars fade away.
I'm the evening when we're at home
he keeps quiet. but Il "a taXicab hap
pens to stop in front of the house
when folks are supposed TO he abed
our dog shakes the block with his
roaring. No, sir. therein be no porch
climbing. no second story work done
when we get to Albany"
II doesn't cost as much to feed the
Great Dane as one might suppose. Mr.,
Smith said. for Cesar likes to break
away from home cooking. Every eve
ming at n certain hour he moves
majestically around into Madison
street and calls on his and the Smiths
friends. the Noians. the same being
Magistrate Thomas !. Nolan and his
family. In'hs own footsteps of every
preceding day he pads up the steps
and up the stairs to Mrs. Nolau'S
kitchen and in his own corner is
treated TO potluck.