Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1912 — HAPPNINGS IN THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPNINGS IN THE CITIES

Eight Women Lunch With Eight Dogs

NEW YORK.—A history-making social event took place the other afternoon at the Vanderbilt hotel. As the Chinese clock in the Chinese room struck two, there sat down to luncheon eight Chinese doggies and eight American women. Yes; together—a lady and a dog, a lady and a dog, alternately, all round the table. It took some effort on the part of Mrs. Arthur L. Holland, who gave the party for her Pekinese, Vi-Sin of Alderbourne, to persuade the manager to close the Chinese room to the public for the afternoon and insure seclusion for her aristocratic gathering. Pink, red and yellow carnations decorated the oblong table, and between each teakwood chair was placed a teakwood tabouret inlaid with pearl and cushioned with satin, upon which a well-combed doggie sat Mrs. Holland denied that she was the hostess. The luncheon, she declared, was being given by Vi-Sin of

Alderbourne to his friends from Peking, who were allowed to bring their beautiful mistresses to share ths banquet Besides Vi-Sin, there was Mme. Wu, Wu Ting Fang, Pln-Kee, Ti-Tu Ehr-sln and Fah-Sin, who accompanied- respectively Mrs. William Shannon, Mrs. William E- Belding, Mrs. A. Radcliffe Dugmore, wife of the celebrated African explorer; Mrs. Carl E. Ackley, who accompanied her husband on a two-year African hunting expedition and personally shot the largest elephant ever killed; Mrs. Edward Woodward, Miss Hattie Wood and Miss Doonja de Mitklewicx-Hol-land, a : daughter by Mrs. Holland's former marriage to a Russian nobleman, the Count de Mltkiewicz. Vi-Sin’s costume consisted of a knot of pink roses ,at his collar, matching in tint Mrs. Holland's gown. The place-cards were small dull-finished photographs of the host himself, taken in a variety of poses. The entire menu was Chinese, evolved from the brain of a Chinese caterer and prepared by the hands of a Chinese chef. The musical 5 program was dispensed with, owing to a lack of harmony between the samosens and the vocal ranges of Vi-Sta andhls chums.

One Million Stray Cats in Chicago

ZV HIC AGO.—There are 1,000,000 V homeless'cats in Chicago. • Herein lies a problem that soon must be given serious consideration, in the opinion of Hugo Krause, secretary of the Anti-Cruelty society. As Constantinople collected all its stray dogs and placed them upon an island in the Mediterranean, there to starve to death, so Chicago must devise some plan of ridding Itself of the half-starved felines that infest every alley and practically every building In the older portions of the city and are found In hundreds in the basements of loop buildings. The Anti-Cruelty society has no means with which thoroughly to perform the task. Officials of the dog pound are said to have refused to undertake it because of the old superstition that the exterminator of a blacK cat will ever after be unlucky. "Something must be done immediately, either to provide homes for these stray tats or to exterminate them,” said Mr. Krause the other day. "Their half-starved condition, for they feed chiefly at the alley garbage palls, demands that some action be taken. This alone, regardless of the fact that they are a menace to health, is sufficient reason.” i Over in North/Halsted street there is one building,-recently vacated by a

laundry, where more than a dozen cats sleep during the day and at night wander through the alleys looking for food. At a small store at 517 Wells street, a large wild tramp feline makes Its home In the flooring, coming oht only at night. It has defied all efforts at capture. Only a few days ago a large downtown restaurant was renovated. In the cellars nearly two score of stray cats Were found. Thirty-five of them were sent to the Humane society which maintains a large cattery, sorts out the best of the felines and finds homes for them and chloroforms the remainder. According to statistics one female stray cat will bring from ten to fifty kittens Into the world each year. Throughout the entire city the cat population Is increasing rapidly and even in the newer districts owners of pet cats, in giving kittens to their friends, are laying the foundation for a future pest of homeless felines.

Woman Routs Two Burglars in Home

CLEVELAND, O.—When Mrs. Timothy Clancy, 7718 Superior avenue, returned to her home early the other morning from a call upon friends in the neighborhood she found the front jammed so she could not unlock it Glancing through the dining-room Window she saw two burglars at work. She didn't, scream or run. She calmly proceeded to raise the dining-room Window and just as calmly proceeded to climb in. The burglars fled, although Mrs. Clancy* is slight and weighs no more than 100 pounds. The burglars chose a sear door for their exit, brushing by Mrs. Clancy's mother, Mrs. Catherine Carpenter, and her sister, Mrs. Arthur Dowe, Who had run around to the back when Mrs. Clancy started to climb into the Window. The burglars kept right on going, however, and disappeared over the alley fence. They took $665 worth of loot with them. The apartments of Mrs. Clancy are

located on the first floor of a foursuite terrace. Mrs. Dowe occupies the suite opposite the one occupied by * Mrs. Carpenter and Mrs. Clancy. The three women had been out together.' When Mrs. Clancy attempted to open the front door she was surprised to find that the key would not turn. She next observed that the lights within the apartment were all burning, though she had turned them off when deaving. Mrs. Clancy borrowed a chair from a neighbor and climbed to the diningroom. As she raised the Window she saw the two men inside. “I was not a bit frightened,” said the brave little woman. "I am sorry now that I made so much noise In opening the window, because I might have got in and grabbed one of them. I know I could have held onto him until the neighbors came to my assistance.” The apartments had been most thoroughly searched. Rugs and mattresses were turned over. Drawers were pulled out and their coptents scattered about Clothing was re-, moved from the closets and pains were taken to turn the pockets inside out. The thieves carried away six rings set with diamonds, ’ two goldmesh bags and other articles valued at SSOO. They also found $165 in cash.

Little Indiana Tots in Elopement

INDIANAPOLIS.— Elopement! There was no other construction the officers at headquarters could put on it. And they remarked laughingly that the leap-year spirit is geting some pretty young recruits, when they had seen to it that Miss Opal Johnson, three yean old, hnd J. P. Grady, four yean old, had been sent home, winding np a runaway that had been suggested by Miss’ Opal. > After the youngsters had been taken to headquarters by Patrolman Thomas O’Brien, who found them, Matron Whitman administered a diminutive and much-moderated “third degree.” She found finally that Miss Opal was the granddaughter of Kale Johnson, and that J. P. was the son of Jack Grady, who was called. Miss Opal admitted, under fire, that she and J. P. "wus sent by J. P.’s mamma to dot some buttamilb to And than she waxed more eonfidenP. bayed some apples *n wo ot

“'em, *n den I say, J. P-, let’s wun away. An’ we wunned away *n et some more apples that a big man gived us. An* den we have lots of fun lookin’ at de funny men *n ladies. An’ by-’n-by we wants to go home, but we’s looted, and I c’ys and J. P. c*ys *n a big man turns up and say: Ton tested? An’J. P. say yes ’n den we dets on a street tar wlf the big man and he takes us here. ’’ J. P. sat by gravely and listened while his en ticer told her story, which he corroborated by saying: J'. ’Tdot an order,” producing a slip of paperonwhlehwM written a request to “give J. P. some buttermilk.” - The youngsters were “baited out” inter by J. P.’s father. A -I’'