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Show WrVAMA- of te B I D E-A-WEE OME of Abandoned Fido ana Pussy a Theatre of Cheery . Comedy and Gripping Tragedy of Animal Life, Which Possess a Deep Human Appeal. the story of u setter thnt was found scratching at th door ..f the Bide-:i-Wec stable, begging for admission. Hearing ill- sounds outside the door, one of the veterinarians vet-erinarians looked to Ic:iru I lit.- lause of the noises ami. on opening Hie door, found the dog cringing there. Ho lifted it ncross the footboard that stretches beneath be-neath the entrance and led It back to an Inner room. The sr-ttcr AViis. suffering, as far ns the man was able to gauge, from nothing more serious than hunger. At Ieat l-.unp.-r sconicd to Im the doc's chief trouble. Culling one of the attendants, the man caused a choice nscortmen; of dog nourishment to be placed In front of the Miim.il. nnd tlie way the latter got away with the big meal lospoke wonder. fining about their duties for a few minnlo. the two men left the ettor alone, and. on returning soon after-wiird, after-wiird, were snrprbod to tlnd Mm gone. They ran to the door and there discovered the sitter trying his best to get away. An Artful Dodger. At that moment a knock was heard on the outside of the door, the latch was pulled aside and a tall, well dressed man entered. I'.ut before the Inner had i chance fi ask the o.uestlon thnt was on his tongue he caught sight of the i.etier. who had run m way Into n far corner of ihe office. TIow did that dog get In here?" he demanded, lie was told. lie was also fold of the largo meal that the seemingly starving animal had been treated to. to certain persons classified by the grace of God aa human beings? The original lew nle of the real drama to w hich reference ref-erence has been made was in Harlem. The theme of the play, speaking In the phraseology of Thcspl?, was; Is there Mich a thing as love between male nnd female animals!' The drama in question argued, and argues, for jhe alflnuatlve. To get to the heart of the story, an inspector on the .staff of BIde-a-Wee had his' attention sonic time ago called to two dogs, a female retriever and a male spaniel, who were to be seen e cry night in the v lulty of the old Harlem Hospital, at rii avmt nvcnue'and l:Mth street. These dugs were always together and, to nil a pKa ranees, were homeless. Oddly enough, however, they wore never seen until evening. The inspector 'Midcm orcd to catch them on numerous numer-ous occasions, but they eluded his every effort. With the n!d of an !MlMant the inspector finally lo-nteil the "home ' of the couple, under n huge pile of lumber near the hosplial grounds. Iieslrlng to solve the mystery mys-tery that surrounded the canine couple before effecting effect-ing their capture, the two men "laid low" and watched tl;e movements of the dogs. line day the female did not come out of her "homo." The male dfd, however, but remained away only an hour. Then he returned with a bone that he dragged July the place where his mate was hiding. This performance was repealed the nest day and the day after us e!l. The curiosity of the men wjs aroused now , nnd. enlisting the services of :j couple of laborers, ihe.v cleared off the snow ami organ to remove re-move the lumber under which the docs were making iltiP -? '&$mm&:- jMm J One of the Hospital Patients same uay ne did go to the waiter's bouse, saw Uu waiter, saw the dog he had abandoned and begg.il the man to allow him to have the animal for his child's sake. ' I'.ut," answered the waiter, "nvy own little daughter daugh-ter has got to love the dog so I wouldn't give blm up for anything." The father urged, urged again nnd offeird n large sum If the waiter would return his old pot to hloi, but to no avail. The rich man as n last resort went to the dog and tried by patting him and railing him by name to get the animal to come to him. I'.ut the dog remembered and ran off Into the room where his new little boss s"at playing w ith her doll. Thai's bow far their home, .ft.-r several hours' work they finally uncovered the mystery, for there, In among the looso boards at the bottom of the pile, they found the llll'e retriever with fourteen puppies, nine of which had been frozen to death. The male dog was keeping guard over his family. Procuring a huge basket, the men removed the docs and their puppies to Illde-ii-e, and the curtain fell on the first act. Working Out the Drama. A month elapsed between the first and second acts. A man en me to the Institution at I lie end of that time In search of a foster mother, and the dog nod her puppies pup-pies were passed over Into his care. A short time afterward h woman came and look the jnale dg with h: r to her home In New Jersey. Upon being separated sepa-rated the dogs whined their sorrow In n manner breathing the grief of huniau souls. The persons at the Institution hated to separalo them, but there u:H no other way. Again tloie passed ami the third act began. The man who had taken away the mother wrote to Hide-a-Wee thnt he was giving the animal every care, that she seemed to like him, but that she gave every Indlca-tlou Indlca-tlou of miss-lng her mate. The woman who had taken the spaniel similarly wrote that the male dog was constantly grieving for the mate from whom he had been separated. Aral thus the drama rests to day. Miles npnrt. In comfortable homes, the dog Is arrowing ar-rowing 'for Ids companion and she for blm. Their case has been recorded as the most marvellous example ex-ample of "animal love" that has come to the attention atten-tion of DIde-u Wee, Although a future fourth act to this drama Is conjectural, con-jectural, a promKe that there may be a possibility for the reunion of the canine couple may rest lu the fact that the tnrslor of the mother Is a bachelor and the mistress of the spaniel au unmarried woman. To be sure, the present writer Is alone responsible fur the hazarded opinion of the "fourth act," but It cannot be denied Hint the suggestion is a legltlointe. uuj valid one, even If .'he future shows that the last net Is never to be written. 1 he limits Imposed by space prevent a complete account ac-count of the many other comedies and tragedies of r.Ide-a-Wcc. I5y way of fragmentary synopses, however, how-ever, there may be recorded the story of a teu-ycar-old Maltese eat I liar after the death of Its mistress was taken to the institution, where it died a few days later of a broken heart, not hyioiuellcaIly but actually; the story of a doc nnd his mate separated and reunited a year Inter In an accidental way at the "farm" cf Jtldo-a-We in New Jersey, nnd the story of a dog turned adrift by lis master on being struck with paralysis and, upon being suheo,ueutly cured at the Institution, being given Into the keeping of a stranger despite the efforts of his origluolly cratl but now One of the Hospital Patients - s ffi same uay ne did go to the waiter's bouse, saw lfrttf V Xl waiter, saw the dog he had abando.v.-d and begg.d v I 1L, j 'Vf-WH L fA N' A B $ the man to allow him to have the animal for his n v XJ. jfrJfrfaUjj&t ' chiid-ssake. l?j&&Mwy ry'yvv' I'.ut," answered rhe waiter, "my own little fbiugh- XX'V vS&jtfv o ' V4Wvl I W X $aVa ter has got to love the dog so I wouldn't five him up N lNA for anything." ' fcV.Tr- 7 " ' ' The father urged, urged again nnd offetcd n large vtSXJ sum if the waiter would return his old pet to Mo,. wmrSrr WsrTST" but to no avail. The rich man as n last resort went to IWWAwS T f&Wf B5SK.AI I H.HH4. In sot (lip nnliual l. In lilm. ltnt the I OT2i"W JS3&&Wml t, A Av!' V?4 ' A Grateful Patient Well V::-!yV' ; ;' ini VL&jA on the Way to Recovery ( 7 't:'? iCopjrlcit. J910. tT tbe Nit forV Hml,l Co. All rljhti r-rT0. XKW YOi;K. .Sainnlay. - IH'Un are very few )ersons In New York who I do not lainw or think they know just ex-I ex-I actly what the I'.lde-a-Wce Home !s. They have all read about It so often in I he newspapers news-papers that they can lell the Inquirer In a Hash that It Is a place where ebandoncd animals may find temporary refuge. Thus is the matter dismissed for once and for a!L "There you are," they say, "and that's all there is to It." Those persons are right as far as they go. T.lde-a-,AVee is the Salvation Army of animaldom. lint back of the hurried definition, back of the curtain, there 1b n stage on which is being acted constancy a drama of as many themes as the drama of Its participants masters. Bide-a-Wee Is the greatest real single theatre In New York city. The comedy and tragedy and farce to be found In It rival In variety the comedy and tragedy and farce of makebelieve Broadway. "Ah, maybe," you. sneer, "but only In the lives of a lot of dgs and cats, nnd what lu the world is the use of making a fuss over what you dare call the drama of their lives?" Indeed, we are treallng simply of n "l it of dogs and cats" abandoned dogs aod cats, at that! But dogb and cats or men and women, the drama is there. And if, perchance, it may be not so glamourous as the drama of makebellev of living, huniau beans nnd souls, it Is true drama nope the less. Every little slant of theme to be divulged herein stands nady to be verified. llstluct)j It Is up to the sceptics. Not long ago those In charge of the home of aniovil drama received a call at the bnlldiog In Lexington avenue from a woman whose name figures in distinct type in the social chronicles of the metropolis. "I am about to go abroad with my husband and Utile daughter for several months," she said- "vYc have had n dog, a pel, in our home for the last thirteen thir-teen yens. He is getting old now and wc hac decided de-cided to get lid of him. Our trip abroad, wc have decided, will afford precisely the opportunity for which we have been waiting. Of com...?, wc ate sorry, In a way, to give the dog up. but really he has become a nulsauce. Will you lake him off our hands?" Bidc-a-Wce said It would and did The woman, her husband and little ghl left for the Continent. The dog. whining, was dragged away from its borne by lis master's servant and lodged in the kennels of charity. Tor a week the animal drooped, moaning, dog fashion, for the family that had loved it in its youth and had deserted it in age. Another week passed, and then one day a waiter from Martin's went tj r.lde n-Wce In search of a pel for his little daughter. He did not have enough funds, lie said, to buy n good dog and would the persons in charge give him one that needed a home? He promised to take good care of it. The Pica Unheeded. Walking about in the kennel room the wnlter spied the whining, abandoned animal, lie went close to the dog and patted it. The doc. thankful for the show of affection in this his day of desolation, licked the waiter s hand. "I'd like this one," said the man. And twenty minutes later the animal was being "ed by a new master to an adopted home. As the days passed the waller's baby daughter came to love the dog, and the dog. forgetting h'.s sndness. came to love his new tiny mistress as he 'had once loved her little predecessor up in the avenue. Thoj played together all turcn?h the day, and when nighttime night-time came the dog would sit by Iho child's cradle until she had gone to sleep. At times the animal would stick its paw through the liars and. i nllatlug thu baby's mot her s actions, would pat her once or twice. In this way four months came and went. In tin; meantime, the avenue family had returned from .abroad and the little daughter of the rich hegan to gel homesick home-sick for the pet that she had lost tint her parents had given away. She missed him. She would not rest content until she had him back: Her parents tried u convince her that the dog tv3s now too old to have around their home. But still the child. Insisted. filing in to her wbh, the father went down to Blde-a-Wee, told his story nn.J asked for the return of the d'-. It is too late," was the reply. "We have found him a new home." The father implored the officials to get the doK i,;lrk for him. but he wns assured that such a thing was ini-; ini-; jfosMlile as far as they were concerned. He was told, i however, that he might go to tbe waltei-'u home mi J ;try to get bis pet back from its new ui.rsler. That J' A Grateful Patient Well on the Way to Recovery rvv-- :-''r-v?.vav.VT ' ' 'tic-.rr-Z ' -'" -'v "v ' . :'? "' ':,'- '-. ."""-:-.'..'-.- ' v ;- -V. : VnV;V! v--'.:"--,:i--'-'V v'v'f j The New Farm at Harrington Park. N. I. this oue drama has gone up to to day. And probably the curtain b is not fallen on it yet. , About three months ago the attention of the managers man-agers of Blde a-W'ee was colled to the case of two Maltese cats nnd a pug dog iu a homo up In the West Seventies. The reader shall know the cats as Ka'.i and Net a respectively, and the pus as Jimmy. Tln were t he pels of nn aged woman who. with only n servant, lived iu the big house else lilled with soil tude. One day the mlslress of t lie animals was taken to her bed. She had been ailing for several months and the wear and tear of Illness on tier already I axed constitution had begun to make their marks upon her. It had been (his woman's custom for two ear-! at least to keep her pets with her constantly for company. com-pany. She loved them; .they loved her. There they lived, the four of them In complete harmony Thu pets, each In his ornamental basket, slept In a nn off the aged woman's boudoir, ami when :he became confined to her bed throughout the day they would come to her bedside, jump upon the coders and l'n I: her hands in animal tol.cii of tin ir affection for her Soon the woman sank in health eon mn;c, ami then came the day with Its attack of paralysis. The ambulance was summoned the patient for greater enre was taken to a private hospital. Her ets saw her go. They clanibiTed about the wheels of the conveyance; con-veyance; the cats jumped up on the sieplMiard as If determined to stkk to their mistress; the' pug' whined and wheered and barked when they drove him away. The servant, grasping the cats and kicking the dog n-iead of him. managed to get the animals back into tbe house as the ambulance rumbled 4 way. Broken Hearted. Once iii the house the cats nnd the dog ruheJ up the stairs to their mistress' bedroom. They Jumped on the bed, as they bad done' every" day before. be-fore. She was gone. They rummaged about the house. They couldn't find her. The fact of her going go-ing a way probably fr good slow ly began to get 1 Its work In on them. They had e'en her go, but they : had not been able to appreciate that her leavine was serious. She iiad left before and bad always come back soon. The next day they went to her room and still found her missing And the nest day. loo. Then. e Idenlly for the first time, thei" animal senses seemed to rea'i.e the meaning and seriousness of ki-r absence. The cats and the dog went to their baskets, curled up and icmafned there. They refncd to move. The cats mewed for their missing mistress. The pug remained re-mained sullen. The servant placed food before them. They refused to touch it. nc tried to force them to cat. b'!t failed. The nnininls. broken hearted, were going lo starve t heni.-i-l ves to death. The servant, at his wits' end. called Bide-a-Wre. And Bide-a-Wee came and took the r its away I save them. Bide-a-Wee did not take t ;c pug. I:,-pulsing I:,-pulsing ecry effort that had been made ! get him to take food, he had taken his life through starvation, not curing for It, now that his mlslress h.wi gone. A man walking down Third avenue less tleni .1 year ago came across a stray Irish ten lor who.-e wasted hVvli told Its own story. The dog r.m to him. brushed up against his legs and mutelv Indicated Indi-cated to him the elo.pience of Ills distress. The dog had Iwoii abandoned nnd was starting. The man hailed n passing delivery v.agoii, gathered the do-in do-in ami hurried him down to BIde-a-Wee. "I.ook out for him for ;i couple of days," he said. '"Here's some money Hi it will keep hlni that length of time, I II com,., back for him aud give the oor fellow a home." Three davs later the man returned, the dog ran to blm with a laughing tall, and the man. .'if tine btai up. answered his happy greeting by taking hlni away to his homo on I,ong Island. The dog. thankful for all the man bad done for him. gave dally demonstrations demonstra-tions of his gratitude, nml one night .1 month later saved not only the life of ids Third avenue rescuer, but the Uvea of the latter's family as well when ho aroused the hoiisi hotj i,y j,s parking In the dead of night and thus warned tbe sleeping Inmates of the lire that had already begun eatlDg Us way up trie ulalm. That comedy, even farce, h lntermlualed here with (rkedv am ineb.drniua is to be chronicled through "Stan lug?" the man liter illy yelled. "Nonsense; That setter's name is Brandou and be belongs t,, u I'm Mr. So-arid-So, and my house Is around the cot-ner. cot-ner. That dog has got an appetite that's a wonder. We give hlin three big meals every flay and lie spends ihe rest of the tJme snooping around the neighborhood in sen rob of more food. He never quits eating if be can help it." It devIoei tint this was true; that Ihe d--g had frequently worktd on the sympathies of the nehbor j for ford, and had now beguiled the Bide a W ee attendants at-tendants in the same manner. It bus not been chronicled chron-icled that the setter mistook Blde-a- ee for a "do wagon." That the "happy ending' Is not as Insistently ubiquitous In the drama of Blde-a-Wee a.-. It Is in th drama of Broadway Is to be J mitred from several examples, ex-amples, of which probably the best for chronicle from n "human Interest" standpoint Is that re ."erred to by the ir.nuaiters or the Institution as "tbe canine mar-Hid mar-Hid couple." Itelevantly. is not the phrase "human Interest ' n nertineni In relation to some dogs t ;., thoroughly repentant master to teclaim him. There Is go.d dramatic stuff, too, iu ihe $.ory of n bt; that was soiil to Blde-a-V'ce ,y its Moiitclalr (. J.i mblrcs. who hid tired of if. The dog, evidently evi-dently determined lo make his mistress take blm back. Jumped out of a second Ktory window at the home, effected 'his' escape and made bis way to the ferry.' 1 he dog was found there by n man, who returned re-turned Mm to the home. Again he made his escnH in his etTort to j;et back to his mistress, but nguln he was returned by another man. Oddly enough, Bide-n-Wcc finally found u home for the persistent dog in the very town where lie had originally lived. But although bis new home was near that of the woman who had been hard hearted enough to turn him loose on the world, the dog, with a pride almost human, to this day has never ventured nc:ir bis llrt mistress or her house. His new masters say that the doj; pocs around with a she-w Ill-regret It-some day air and Is happy. The writer has half a dozen frl uids who ghe no Indication of having the sense this dog irns In matters mat-ters of the same nature. |
