| Show KILLING Ol 01 0 New York Vork Sun Tho The Interstate slaughter maiming and torturing 2000 tome tamo pigeons for tor forthe the tho th purpose of ot advertising various kinds of or powder shot and guns went vent on all allday 01 allday day In spite of ot the drizzling rain min Soy Sev Several SOl oral eral women wOlen were among antong tho thia spectators and seemed to enjoy seeing the butch butchery butcher cry ery er very tery er much luch to the true sportsman as n well veli as a to tIle the laymen It I was WI not very vory tn to see seo the tho thomen themen themen men hired by b the powder companies stand Bland a 1 few Cow feet teet away and for tor hour hout after hour bour blow birds bird to fin flin flinders ders tiers or so mangle the harmless crea cren creatures tures that there remained nothing for them but to feebly wing their way wn off or to linger Ineer dying somewhere out In tho the rain Some fifteen maimed mil mod IIno man nina mangled mangled birds wore vore found dead In the vicin vicinity ity Iy of ot the clubhouse c and thero there must have been a hundred or more adrift and dying all al about tho the neighborhood with wih beaks shot eliot oft off of feet teet shot off of and even their bodies bodt 8 horribly ho torn orn and an lacerated V V ri l e Boston ot n Transcript r ru It I Is Impossible that n a brutal Indulgence Indulgence indulgence ence In such alleged sport should be other oilier than grossly roel demoralizing no matter how well wel dressed and outward outwardly ly by refined they may be who are arc re responsible for tor t I We WI have put bit the ban banot of ot vulgarity anti lawlessness r R upon cock cockfights cockfights fights but are ore a II thou thousand thousand sand times more cruel and a u thousand times more demoralizing because they have hac th the protection of ot law and the sane tion Uon of ot those who set themselves up as lS the arbiters arbiter of oC social propriety and I lawgivers with wih respect to fashion anti and to form torm To our thinking the slaughter of ot twenty thousand pigeons Is in It both the tho height of ot cruelty and the height of ot gar garnished vulgarity |
