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NEW YORK’S POLICE DOGS. 
THE famous police dogs, which have been im- 
ported at great expense to run down elusive 
criminals in the sylvan purlieus of the Bronx 
and other unprotected regions, arrived one day 
last week on the Red Star liner Vaderland under 
the care of Lieut. G. R. Wakefield, after the 
ten days’ passage from Antwerp to New York. 
Lieutenant Wakefield brought the five sheep dogs 
from Belgium. Their ages range from six 
months to one year. Four are tan color with 
curly hair, and the fifth is pure black. 
Jean Lembach, one of the sailors on the Vader- 
land, who came from Ghent, whence the dogs 
also hail from, told a Times reporter that Bel- 
gian sheep dogs are the best in the world, and 
that the New York police officials were very for- 
tunate in having obtained such fine specimens | 
for their thief-tracking business. There is noth-| 
ing that these wonderful dogs cannot do, he said. | 
One of their specialties is the art of keeping 
awake when ordered to watch anything, and if} 
the policeman who is with the dog does not 
keep awake, the dog will bite him every fifteen 
minutes to keep his teeth in practice for the rob- 
bers when they come along. 
According to Lembach, the dogs are invaluable 
for tracking men. They can run like jack rab- 
bits, have very retentive memories, and never 
forget an enemy. If the dogs are chasing more 
than one robber, they will capture the first maa 
and then leave him in charge of one of the pack, + 
while the remainder go in pursuit of the others. 
Lembach said that he had known his friends to 
be kept waiting in the forests of Ardennes, in| 
Belgium, for three days with a prisoner,-while 
the other dogs were tracking down the rest of 
the gang. 
These dogs are similar to Scotch collies in 
appearance, but not so tall or large. As a rule 
the Belgian sheep dogs are not more than two 
and a half feet tall. They are fearless and re 
lentless in their business. These dogs only recog- 
nize one master and that is the man who feeds ji 
them. Lieut. Wakefield spent more weeks with 
them in their home at the Chateau Beau Sejour, | 
Ghent, where they were raised, and with the ad- 
vantage of the ten days on the Atlantic they 
have become accustomed to him and growl) 
fiercely at the approach of strangers. They 
growled ominously when the reporters approached | 
the baskets in which they were confined on the! 
deck of the Vaderland. 
The lieutenant did not seem to appreciate the 
new duties which had been thrust upon him, and) 
the stories about the way in which Belgian sheep} 
dogs, in their savage moments, always attacked 
those to whom they were devoted, did not add} 
to his joy. As the dogs would not leave the 
lieutenant, he took them to his home where they| 
will remain until they are trained to know all} 
the rogues in the gallery at Police Headquarters 
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