The sun., 1919-06-16
WILD DOGS FOUND
In INWOOD VALLEY
Discovery of Lair Of Trouble.
some Animals Made by
Boy, Jimmy Gail.
PLAGUE TO WEST SIDE
Many Puppies Taken From
Cave-0lder Animals Not
Yet CaIaured.

Jimmy Gail made his thrilling discov-
cry, stumbling into the lair Of the wild
dogs that have couA at night. savage
and fierce tongued. Wer the great sweep
Of ravlnes and hills and forests rising
northward between the ramparts OF the
Hudson and Broadway from 1s1st street
to the rock pinnacle which juts out over
the Inwood Valley on line with 2o2d
street.
That was forty-odd hours ago, but the
widely separated residents Of the Rookie
Teller Park and the former Bennett es-
tate, who know what II is TO leap from
bed in the middle OF q bitter winters
night to fire vainly at gray wolves ma
rauding In the heart OF New York city,
were still talking yesterday about jim
my's adventure, hoping that it means the
end of probably the most extraordinary
plague OF wild beasts that a modern city
ever knew.
The whole district. which is. roughly. a
mile long and from quarter to half a
mile wide, is the. widest and most natu-
rally beautiful in all New York and above
lSSth street. as one ,approaches the stu
do OF the sculptor dfbrge Grey Barnard,
the Cloisters, and the Sacred Heart
School. on either side OF Fort Washing
ton avenue. there are scarcely a dozen
houses in the primitive expanse.
Tryon Tower. on the site OF old Fort
Tryon, the former mansion Of c. X. G.
Billings. overlooks tn tract of wild land,
and still further north, hidden among the
6tgantic boulders and the tall trees, is
Hill Cottage. the country home OF q.
Arson Jones. manager of the Harlem
branch OF the United States Mortgage
and Trust Company; the Abbey Inn,
overlooking the Hudson at 200th street,
and finally, on the pinnacle overlooking
Dyckman street and the Inwood Gorge,
Captain, U. s. N, retired. And among
these few and far separated houses are
woods and gullies afp cliffs as rude and
untamed as northern Maine or the Adj
rondacks. alive with small game and a
happy hunting ground for dogs gone
Wild and reverted to savagery.
vexed and Often Alarmed.
Sculptor Barnard. Mr.. Jones' Capt
Kinney and others living in the tract
have been vexed and often alarmed by
the night prowlings OF the pack whose
long hidden den was found on Saturday
count OF the blue ribbon chickens and
prize ducks. not to mention pet dogs and
cats, and even calf, that have been
snatched by night from coop and door.
yard. Mr.. Jones, the banker. mourns A
dozen fine white ducks which the wild
dogs made or with last month. while hs
sent bullet after bullet after them
through the brush and timber.
There have been times when there
was greakr cause for alarm than tn,
safety of cherished fowls More thar
orce as guests of Capt. Kinney or Mr.
Jones have struck out over the snow,
on winter nights to make their wal
down hill toward the Dyclman stree
subway station they have seen din
shapes sinking ahead Of them and be
hind them. circling like wolves; ant
once. only few weeks ago, a Kaunt
gray brute more resembling a timber
wolf than any dog that ever gnawet
Bone made sudden rush at Mrs. A. E
Hetzner and the man escorting her al
they hurried along the Hudson bastioI
lust north OF Hill cottage. The maj
happened to be carrying an automatic
pistol and let drive with IL. but he misset
In the dark and the dog wolf was owe
the cliffs toward the river rocks. out O
sight almost befoSe report followe,
flash. IN
Policemen have Hfed at the pack in
Vulnerable times, usually without result
but Mr. Jones. Ifirst rate shot witt
pistol or rife. and Capt Kinney, who's
navy experience taught him something
about the swift. accurate handling o
firearms. have had better luck. tn
banker has bageed four dog wolves, on
mighty brute apparently half collie
half mastiff, ana the Captain has Ave {,
his credit. Hugh Pechar, manager o
the Abbey Inn. has shot three at lon
range by the trick of hiding out at nigh
in the timber and patiently waiting unit
he could draw a bead on the nigh
providers.
Had Manner of Wolves.
Wolves they are. whatever OF do
blood is left in them, and they begi
their coursings every night after tn
manner OF wolves. their leader, a grea
brute which has never been hit thoug
he has been fired at a hundred times
beginning with one ringing call to tn
pack. a midnight chorus OF howlin
which echoes till dawn. How many ar
left in the pack can only be surnised b
the vexed residents OF the park but Their
are at least score In spite OF the goo
shooting of Kinney, Pechar and Jones.
But Jimmy Calls exploit and adver
ture may mean the end of the pest 70
luck gave the kid chance TO uncove
the den where they hste been hiding an
breeding. Jimmy Is a town boy VIII
knows lot about tame dogs, but VIII
has good deal to learn about dogs gon
bad, otherwise he would never hav
poked his stub nose into the cave whic
runs back among the rocks and woods 1
the precipitous hillside between Benne,
and Fort Washington avenues. a stone
throw north of The Cloisters."
He went with his big sister Jane fror
their home at 100 Madison avenue o
Saturday to visit his godmother, Nm,
Marie Herbst, and her son-in-law an
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Jones, at HI
cottage In the early afternoon Will
sister was sketchns from the cliffs be
mind the Billings garakN Jimmy wandere
downhill and southwark in a tangle {
underbrush and small trees that clun
somehow to the crags behind .ghe Cloi.
ters." He started rabbit and wa
pursuing cottontail with whoops OF gls
when his ear caught a queer medley ,
sounds-whinings and short barks-con,
ing from the hillside only a few fe
from the hole into which indignaI
bunny had dived.
The kid promptly investigated, follow
Ing the sounds. and presently brol
through a small. close clurnp OF hria
which had concealed a three foot oner
ing to a cave In the rocks Without
thought of possible danger JImn
crsvIed into the hole and saw the sig
of a lifetime-thirty or forty puppies
various stages OF growth rompjnR. snar
ing, biting at each other, complaint,
from hunger, all seated over the hed
broken sticks and dead leaves which "a