Canine Cemetery

NZ Truth, Issue 889, 9 December 1922, Page 1

Canine Cemetery

At Hartsdale, New York State, there Is a canine cemetery, where aristocrats of dogdom are burled. In this cemetery there Is a mausoleum of granite that coKt .C2GOO. Jt is thero that Snowball, a prince of *" poodles and "star" In many theatrical ventures and m Hollywood film studios, was buried recently, m a casket of pine. Snowball's remains rest m a, little plot on the side of a wind-swept hill, his grave banked with pansies and roses. With him arc 3000 other dogs, together with a goodly number of cats, a lion, a, pet hen, threo white ducks and a horse. Thero are buried Mlra and Nanette, whoso, mistress, Evelyn Nosbit Shaw, was onco a cynosure of thousands of eyes. A beautiful marble* l noadstone, with tho inscription. "In memory of my beloved Grilllns," tells the world of l heir mistress's grief. On tho highest part of tho hill, overlooking the valley, is the 'gigantic mausoleum erected' to Sally and Toodles by Mrs M. X "Walsh, the widow of a Mount Vernon real estate dealer. The epitaph, written In immense letters across the top, rend.s: "My dear, little, true, loving hearts who would lick the hand that has no food to teed." This imposing mauHOlein was constructed of fifty tons of Vermont granite, and tho big vault is ten feet deep. A hospital for children Instead of a cemetery for dog« would have been a much greater Improvement for the country. The money thtu is spent, annually for tho upkeep $f the cemetery would go a long, way to help to koop tho wolf frorn^ the door of many a starving family.