Owney The Dog Newspaper Article

OWNEY THE DOG
tramp of the rail
way mail servicc is
still on his travels
and was the guest
last week of C. F.
Cullberg of Jersey
City, who carried
him to Philadelphia
and then turned the
four footed protege
of the railroad
postal clerks over to one of the boys
bound for tho south. Owney
will spend the winter and spring
months as is his custom in
pursuit of mild adventure on the rail-
roads of the sunny south. He will be
a welcome guest of Uncle Sam's min-
ions at the health resorts of North
Carolina, Florida and the Gulf states,
lingering for a few days at each of
the famous sanitariums working grad-
ually over the country with the pur-
pose of striking New Orleans during
tho Mardi Gras festivities. It is Owney's
present intention not to return to brave
the rigors of th northern climate be-
fore June. Owney is the most cele-
brated of all canine travelers. The
express companies for a while foist-
ed upon the public a feeble
imitation of this ever welcome
tramp, but the express messenger dog
lacked Owney's adaptability to the ex-
igencies of travel and succumbed sev-
eral months ago. Owney was born
many years ago in Albany, N.Y. Ex-
actly when he became a railroad tramp
is not known but it was longer ago
than five years. He has traveled the
length of every railroad in the United
States and has seen the inside and en-
joyed the hospitality of more post
offices than the oldest inspector of the
service. He is a small dog with more
game than judgment and it is fondly
believed by his admirers that he would

(DRAWING OF OWNEY SEATED)
OWNEY, THE RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS' DOG
FRIEND

tackle a royal Bengal tiger. He views
the ever changing scenery through
which he passes out of one eye. The
other he left in Canada two years ago
after an unpleasant encounter with
another dog. Owney has the postal
car habit so thoroughly developed that
he can rest in no other places and
sleep only comes to his tired eyes
when he lies curled up on a mail sack.
He wears a broad collar with a tinkl-
ing bell and an inscription that tells
an inquiring world that "I am Owney
the railway mail dog whose dog are
you?"