Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1911 — Accident Leads to a Canine Debauch [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Accident Leads to a Canine Debauch

BROOKLYN, N. Y. —score or more dogs of assorted breeds livened up things on Fifth avenue the other day by becoming intoxicated on the spilled contents of an overturned brewery truck. It is said by eyewitnesses that the drunken dogs acted almost “human’’ in the delirious frenzy, which followed their excessive libations. The truck, one of the motor variety, was chugging along Fifth avenue between Ninth and Tenth streets, when It broke down and its contents, several cases of a very popular brand of hop beverage, were spilled into the gutter. Immediately a golden stream, sparkling with the pent-up effervescence, gurgled and bubbled down the gutter. The day was hot and all the neighborhood dogs, most of which belofiged to Fifth avenue storekeepers, were wandering about in search of water to drink. Blitzen, a graceful greyhound, raised her head from between her paws as she lay in the doorway of a millinery establishment and sniffed the air suspiciously. The couchant Blitzen became rampant.

"Woof, my dears!’’ she bayed, and in 20-foot jumps made for the spot whence came the tantalizing aroma of the wasting beverage. Immediately every other dog on the block, and some others ffom adjacent blocks, realized that at last it was his “day.” Following the lead of the leaping greyhound, they made for the gutter and eagerjy began lapping up the amber drink. How many aching heads there were next day in Fifth avenue dogdom will never be known, but members of the large crowd which quickly collected to watch the drinking bout aver that the quantity put away by the canine tipplers was something to marvel at. The dogs, too full to find their way home, and too dizzy to navigate anyway, were later led or carried to their homes by their owners.