Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1916 — Puppies Are Guests of a Great New York Hotel [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Puppies Are Guests of a Great New York Hotel

NEW YORK. —With the hum of mighty drivewheels for their lullabys and grimy engine-room workers for their nurses, seven motherless puppies are being coddled to strong young doghood in the subbasement of one of New

York’s greatest hotels. On the diet which was devised, along with the feeding apparatus, by the chief engineer of the hotel, they are growing fat and playful. Up in the hotel kitchen, nearer the level of the earth than the deeply hidden engine room, highly paid chefs each day prepare the milk which the puppies suckle three times every 24 hours. It is diluted and sweetened and then heated to the proper temperature before it is poured into seven carefully

scalded bottles that are placed in the rack from which the pups are fed. ffnch hot tie has a rubber tube and the conventional nipple, only in this case the nipple is the tiniest which could be found. The seven little pups, packed close together in a row, eat regularly at nine in the morning and at one and half-past four o’clock in the afternoon. . The dogs are the offspring of the chief engineer’s fox terriers, Nifty and Dot Dot, the mother, died less than two weeks after the pups were born, and’the chief engineer faced the problem of either drowning the dogs or raising them The idea of drowning them never seriously entered the chief engineer’s head, for heToves dogs, and he had seen the marking on the pups and knew of what breed they were. ... So he sat himself in his big chair and thought for a long time; after which h« called on the chefs in the kitchen and talked persuasively. The result was the nursery in the subbasement, where the great machinery which heats, lig ts and maintains the hostelry has its being. The pups have never been to the surface of the earth yet, but they are getting frisk and fat despite that.