The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-22
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

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There are IS penthouses on. the
roof Of the Park Lane hotel Very
gaily colored, and, tastefuily land
scaped with trees and flowers
about. Very small, too - they're
Lighthouses.
This roof is known as the pup
py Club" which Ii new high In
something or other. But it does
mean that Park avenue pooches
no longer will suffer the ignominy
Of being tied to q table leg In
some secluded corner while their
mistresses dine in the lane or the
garden.
No indeedy! When a dog comes
into the place now, his owner gets
a check for him and the pooch Is
whisked up to the roof. There
he Is received by DR. Charles
Fletcher, who feels his pulse and
tells him to stick out his tongue
and say 'ah-h-h." The medical
examination is necessary because
1t would be very serious thing
for the hotel, as well as for the
dogs. If some proletarian mutt
came into the Puppy Club with a
case OF distemper.N
The dogs are shown to their
cabanas, or houses, each with a
little front yard. and a tree. and
neighbors to gossip with. Meals
are served there, with special at
tention given to special diets. You
might be surprised to know how
many hypersensitive CANNES are
ON strict diets. with counting OF
calories and all.
Dogs Life
All these dandy little services
are provided with the comph-
ments of the hotel. But If dog
wants shampoo or manicure,
that's extra. The Puppy Club was
opened the other day with fash
ion show, They put corsages ol
heather on the Scotties, orchids on
the Pekinese, shamrocks - on.
we'll, you get the idea.
The Bide-a-Wee Home for Ami
mails had something to do with all
this. I don't know what, exactly,
but am content to let the matter
rest. just wanted to point out
that the Bide-a-Wee Home IL
quite a well-to-do institution.
richer than one or two small
western colleges could name.
Dowagers die and leave II sums
up into the hundreds of thou
sands. When dogs die. mistresses
often send In checks in memory
OF their pets.
The home also has its own
cemetery, Immediately kept ana
dotted with headstones. do NOT
wish to be poking ridicule rcrit-
icism at any institution so obvi-
ously humane in motive. But the
whole thing does seem TO Dc
fairly significant commentary On
our life and times.
Gone to Dogs
The dog-diet situation has given
rise to a very prosperous business
called the Canine Catering corp.
II prepares measured portions Oh
selected foods such as broths, veg
tables. assorted meats and fresh
toasted buns, and delivers them
regularly into hundreds of house
holds. For a time the Canine Ca
tering Corp had a competitor n
the K-9 kitchens. But dog-cus-
toners of the latter concern mus
have been taken i'll OF the wnimsey'
because the ks Kitchens no"
have become dog parking =.
ton. Dollar day, or 80 cent
IL hours or less. n
Hooters
Horses sem to have a strange
FASCINATION for New Workers. You
never see a policeman's mount OF
even a dray horse standing at q
curb that he doesn't receive pats
and friendly scratches, and now
and then hunk of apple. Pattiny
a horse probably means, to some
CITY folk, slight satisfaction 10
their thwarted bucolic urge.
A friend reports seeing a trinl
old gentleman dodge around
corner from his Fifth avenue
club and approach a standing
team with q handful Of sugar
cubes. The near horse grabbed
It and the old gentleman turned
away, to be halted by q roar from
the truclsman: "Hey. mister, that
other horse amt no stepchild!
So he went back to his cluf. got
another handful OF sugar, and fed
the other nag. ee
Every morning for years u milk
wagon, on It's dawning rounds has
stopped at an all-night RESTAURANT
on Ninth avenue. The horse stops,
that IL, and losses an expectant
glance over his shoulder. IRE
driver goes into the restauroAt
and, at this time Of year. buys q
strawberry Ice cream cone. Taxes
It out ana feeds Il 20 his hor~.
On cold winter mornings be puyF
ths horse n hamburger. WIFE
plenty Of onion.