Show MANS INHUMANITY An Early Morning Tour by Mr Berghs Officers New York Herald The vast majority of the population of the metropolis is asleep when at 330 a m the stable gate of the societys building is thrown open and Old Gray harnessed toe to-e rell < fourwheeled business wagon with the official seal on the side darts into the street Superintendent Charles HanMnson holds the reins and ems accompanying him are three of his officers They are on the early I morning tour of the great city to ferret out and stop the cruelties of man to animals of every kind Old Gray knows the route and striking one of the great East side avenues turns his head northward and speeds along in the direction of the Harlem bridge As the wagon nears the carstables it is stopped A car comes rumbling on with a halfawake driver and a limpino team of old plugs Stop cries the superintendent to the driverWhat What for is the sleepy reply Those horses are lame Youll have to turn them out and take them back to the I carstables Well boss says the driver who from I being often lame and sick himself and yet compelled to work has a sympathetic feeling feel-ing for the poor horses Ive been lookin out for you and to tell the truth Im glad Ive met you I didnt want to go out with them Ill take them back A little further on an illuatuied fellow is caught whacking his famishedlooking horse over the head with savage earnestness Scarcely before he knows of their presence the societys officers have wrested the whip from his uplifted hand and before they part from him they give him emphatic warning not to lepeat his act of cruelty Tho saloons are by this time opening and the bartenders bartend-ers are out on the sidewalk sweeping broken glass into the streets Old Gray is reined in in front of the offenders The man has just completed his sweeping Do you know that there is a lot of broken glass in that rubbish asked the superintendent superin-tendent I I guess so indifferently Youll have to pick the glass out of the street and throw it elsewhere The bartender would much rather fight than undertake tho task but ho looks first at the official seal and then at the four officers and finally with many mutterings does as he is bidden All the other offenders are treated in the same determined manner Some of them understand the meaning of the law the majority do not know what to make of it at all The superintendent has driven away from the last of these indignant dispensersof liquor when his attention is attracted to a plug ugly who is strolling along the street with a dog with almost as little claims to good looks as himself An unfortunate cat crosses their path Sick em cries the plug ugly The dog dashes after the tabby His master is in the height of his enjoyment at the imminent risk that tho cat runs of being overtaken and ill treated when some one grabs him by the i coat collar He turns around in astonishment astonish-ment and is face to face with the officers Call back that dog says the superintendent superin-tendent Plug ugly takes in the situation at a glance and whistled for the brute who returns to his side Now take that dog under your charge said the officer and dont let me find you cat hunting again In the distance a string of dirt and contractors con-tractors cart is seen There are about a dozen men on them Suddenly all the carts become driverless Theyve caught sight of the gray cries the superintendent When the red wagon arrived alongside of the carts the horses are found to be suffering suffer-ing from sore backs They are taken to the nearest stable and left there subject to the societys order At Harlem bridge a number of oxpressmen are encountered They have got out their working stock of lame and diseased horses and are hurrying them across the river at this early hour to avoid coming in contact with Mr Berghs officers Surprised at their tricks they reluctantly return at the superintendents command to their stables Across the bridge a caravan of farmers carrying vegetables to market is met Three out of every four have brokenwinded horses They are turned back But my team has come from tother end of Westchester urges one of the more obstinate ob-stinate of tho number You cannot go to market with them is the reply Next time set out witha good team and you will faro better The red wagon rattles over the west side of town and once more is making its way through tho thicklypopulated streets Truckman after truckman is caught either beating his horso or driving a disabled animal ani-mal The whip is snatched from him ort e poor brute is taken away At Franklin street whore the stock comes in a longer stop than usual is made Calves and sheep are by order of the officers fed and watered In Washington market tho calves that a eon n to tho slaughterhouses are if their on way crowded taken out and tho load lessened Tho licensed venders in this and Gansevoort markets are overhauled and every one of their horses is examined to find out if it ism good condition If any sores are discovered the venders are made to shift tho saddles so that they will not come in contact with tho sores The red wagon when it arrives at the post office building remains there long enough for the officers to alight and look at all the horses in the service If any animal unfit for work it is sent to the nearest stable and before the mail can be carried to the destination des-tination fresh horses have fo bo procured By this time tho superintendent has quite collection of whips and has met with a piteous app als from New Jersey and many half Long Island farmers who have been frightened to death at their encounter with whether their offense was him not knowing punishable by simple arrest or whether they are liable to be hanged for it The officers work is not yet ended At the fish markets if they find turtles tied by the fins they compel the dealers to untie them They see that fowls are properly housed and if overcrowded on wagons extra ex-tra coops are secured and the fowls watered and fed It is not an infrequent occurrence to bite the to their dogs for rude men urge through the winch > any ladies pets accompany to this streets These officers put a stop I pastime also |