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Show DOGS GO THERE TO Dltt. j 1 Aeurea of Ailing Canities Seem Attracted ! to an Old House.. j The mystery Bnrronnding the conduct of the scores of dogs that have crawled under the eaves of houses Nob. 2 and 3 on City Hall avenue is still the absorb- ing topic around the new city hall. All efforts to fathom the mysterious attractions have been unavailing. The ; fact remains, however, that under these I two htniMCB scores of dogs have crawled and died. Not ordinary dogs, but sick dogs; dogs that were on the verge of death. Twenty-six carcasses have been removed from beneath the old houses al-1 al-1 ready, including dogs of all degrees, j from the beautiful and Intelligent setter set-ter to the measly little terrier who yelped ! his farowejl to earth in the presence of , scores of hia dead and better kind, i Whence come these dogs? Why do j they go there to die iu such large num- bers, and why do they select this par-' par-' ticular spot? These are the questions of interest to the number of visitors who como to Bee them. The Btrange part of ! the story is t hat doga have been recog-1 recog-1 nized that came to the place from some j far distant part of the city, ostensibly I for the purpose of dying, as thoy were seen to stjigger through tho yard, disappear dis-appear and bo seen no more until their moldering remains were pulled out from under the house. From time to time complaints have been made at the health office of the j stench arising from the place, and Al-j Al-j pers, the dead dog man, has been noti-j noti-j fied and requested to remove them. On one occasion he removed twelve in one batch. Newfoundlands, shepherd dogs, bulldogs, enrs and even oue or two fancy strains of dogs were discovered to have come to this strangely selected spot to foregather with their kin. After this Alpers refused to proceed further in the matter, declaring that he did not have j to remove the dogs ding upon private premises, and so the accumulation htm gone on until the condition in intolerable. : A search was instituted by Dr. Furlong, of tho health office, and it was discovered that once more the place was filled with dogs newly dead. The search resulted in the announcement announce-ment that the number of dogs that had j died under those walls could not be ascertained as-certained until the floors were taken up. A feature that seems almost supernatural supernat-ural is the intelligence that characterizes character-izes the dogs' death. Every new animal as he comes to the place to die crawls baok as far as he can get beneath the ' hoTiFe and get cIobo against the last dog I that died, as if to make room for the f next that comes; a fact that Sapor- j visor Barry pronounced the most touch-iugly touch-iugly pathetic nnselfishness he had ever ! known.- j The scores of dogs that have died have come without noise, as testified by the lady of the house, and died without noise. They come almost at the moment of death, crawl beneath the house and join the majority without a whimper. WTiat tho mysterious attraction is is something beyond human knowledge and may never be fathomed. No one seems to dare to advance a theory on the eerie subject, and yet every one was willing to admit that there really seemod to be an understanding or death compact between the dogs, but how, when or where mado, if at all, seemed to be simply sim-ply a controversion of all of nature's known laws. San Francisco Examiner. |