Show I UNIQUE DOG BOG TEAM TEAM TEAM- I I II HAULS DAILY MAIL i iI I 1 i DETROIT One One of th the f fe sights to a Ii lit stranger ranger at the Soo foo Is the Uric dog team used by 11 Capt Mathews Mathew of or U ti t. t local loal fore force In the delivery pry II of the United mail mall Captain MaUlt has a 11 route covering approximately twe ty miles and with the team usually coy O ers ere tho the Soo river from front th the I ithe in inthe the heart of the town to a small suburb J called N NI- NI sP or more mort poetically aftan aft l an old Indian tribe Algonquin Sum times the arc arn drifted l so that It It fy ii almost almust impossible to get set through but hut t uj tilt to the p present time thine th the big dogs have proved pro themselves equal to any Emt emer- emer gency snowstorms to In ll pleasant alike ir the weather team e has iH and trotted r i t tIt n nIts Its It way rot for the past lIt l Ove winters an anti seems good grood for man many more to como come art The Tilt dogs are named Spike anti and Bon situ and are almost l Identical in size halI hal hai weight and n color They ey are r UK tie large C up Shetland I f iu and W weigh o over 1 1 I po pounds Una each cacho They ar are St. St Bernard tutu III New Captain Mathews hitche them then side by side to a specially Ion con conf sleigh large enough to hold himself him him- self Belf another passenger anI and th the mall T 1 In fact It will hold many more mort as l Ing persons St have v noticed when the th captain ca captain II leaves eaves v fur for the city t every morning Then there Is always a Ii merry crowd of or perhaps I ten or a dozen school hool children crowded about I the captain In the sleigh sheikh and hanging hang hang- ing to It from all aloes aides Spike and Bounce art are fed on of cornmeal and suet baked In cakes cake and aud served sll pip pip- In in hot l on the s snow with occasionally o a aUt Ut rt tt ts little le meat but t at rare Intervals and I In small quantities as all the captain has hlL 11 1011 the team works better on the simpler diet did The rho dogs s are arc six years old oM and thud have ha been making milking the mail route every C cia day during the winter for tor the last five years ears |