Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1913 — Crusade Against Dogs Balked When Owners Cry [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Crusade Against Dogs Balked When Owners Cry

INDIANAPOLIS. IND.—Mayor Shank, who made known the other day thatUie had signed a contract for a vaudeville tour, proved his jbility to “tour some” when he took a twentyminute ride with city dog catchers and superintended the capture of five dogs. He boarded one of the city dog catchers’ wagons and went into the dog-catching game with Gusto. , But it did not last His objection to the dog-catching was not due to any particular dislike for . the excitement What got on his nerves was the spectacle of the child owners of the dogs, who threw their arms around their pets and begged that the unlicensed outlaws be spared. Mayor Shank took no active hand in the proceedings further than to superintend the job and hold the horse from his high seat on the wagon. The job was undertaken by the mayor personally, because he had boasted that each wagon and its crew should catch 25 dogs a day. The mayor’s record out-classed his prediction wonderfullfr. “Those fellows are down there drawing a salary of $25 a week,” declared the mayor. "I’ll bet they don’t catch that many dogs in a year. I

know that I can catch that many dog* in one- day and I am going to show them how to do ’er.” The dog pound attaches, Lester E. Jones and Robert A Walters, do not agree with the mayor. Five dogs in 20 minutes is no record, according to them. ' They have worked faster than that on a dark day, they say. The rceord for the day is 42 dogs. "Gosh, that’s a rotten game,” declared the mayor after his return from the ride. “I would rather, -catch a ‘speeder* any old day in the week than hunt poor little dogs. Then, when the little children ran out and hung on to the dirty little curs, why I just wanted to let them alone. The grief of those poor little kids just made me want to quit. I told the driver to hustle me to the police station.”