Show I Honor for Owney the Postoffice Dog ow Y TATS HAA RIGMt IApI t1Y SON COaitA eF son T00 CWNEY Is about to como Into hisS his-S own Owney was a dog Ho still Is but ho Is a dead dog Ills mounted remains will be on exhibit at the Ohio Valley exposition to bo held it Cincinnati next autumn Postmaster General Hitchcock has also arranged to send a postal exhibition exhibi-tion to tho show The chief clerk of he department has notified the exposition expo-sition management that he has selected se-lected tho leading features of the museum which will bo forwarded In I nmplo time for the opening But Ownoy will get the place of prominence Tho dogs story makes for pity Almost 24 years ago tho little Scotch terrier was found curled up asleep on top of some mall bags In the postofllce at Albany He had taken refuge from the cold The mall clerks adopted him They at length named him Owney because of tho frequent question Who Is your owner Ono day ho followed tho mall wagon to tho station and boarded a car while the mall was being loaded Ho was unobserved till after the train had started Then the clerks sent him back to Albany After that ho made frequent trips The employes of the ofllco tagged him Owney Albany Postofllce Albany N Y They requested re-quested other mail clerics to afllx tags to him on his trips showing where he had been Ho soon became so extensive exten-sive a traveler however that he couldnt carry his tags While he was once passing through Washington the postmaster general gave him a set of harness From this the tags were then suspended lie traveled from place to place always following the mail In addition to covering the United States and Canada he visited Europe and Asia The mikado of Japan presented him with a silver medal upon which was engraved the national coat of arms Owney met a death not In keeping keep-ing with his honored life At Toledo on ono of his Journeys he was chained In tho basement of the postofllce A photographs attempted to take his picture Ownoy barked his objections objec-tions A clerk sought to sooth him and was bitten The cleric spread the report that the dog was mad and a policeman shot him Now he goes back to Ohio honored but still a very dead dog |