The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-30
HORSES ~ NEW YORK.

The Fast Horses and who Own Ths N.
FLon, Lhe NeW York Commercial AdUertiteT.
From a careful estimate, based upon
the most reliable data, 1t is believed
that ten years ago the number of work
ing horses In this city amounted to
50, 900; five years ago 1t hadiucreased to
20, 600, and is now estimated at no. 900.
An immense amount of these horses
are owned by men who have accumu-
lated small fortune as draymen and
wagoners, and as "boss draymen" own
from 10 to 90 horses, driven by their
employees, while they supervise the
business.
Probably over 200 are blind horses,
making their eternal circuit within the
narrow permits of various humble
shops, and as many more upon the
modern horse-powers OF tread-mill
construction, also furnishing motive
power to the artisan. More than an
other hundred are cadaverous speci-
mems, degenerated sons of by no means
noble sires, apparently termed "scabs, !"
who partly earn their double living as
itinerant peddlers of the honest class,
collectors of broken scraps, rags, etc.
Some OF their wretched taskmasters
boast that the feed for one OF these
half.starved brutes (eked out with
scraps of Otfal) costs them less than half
a dollar week.
BY far the best kept class of work.
horses are those large, muscular, splen-
did looking teams, with sleek, shining
coats covering fully rounded form,
drawing the heavily-laden wagons of
German lager bier brewers.
Ten years ago there were but few
livery stables of any extent. There
were at that time a little under four
thousand horses on livery; i've years
L. tn RTyEt nd
at the present time this GLASS Is esti-
mated at nearly nine thousand-an in
crease of some twelve hundred during
the first half of the decade, about three
fold that increase during the latter half.
| Some of these sta bles are of mammoth
proportions, handsomely provided, and
owned by men who have too much
principle to charge tor meals which
their four-footed guests had never
! eaten.
Ten years ago the private stables of
the city contained about twenty-three
hundred horses; five years ago some
three Thousand, and the present num-
Der is estimated at four Thousand. 1t
will be noted that while 1t is a we'll
| known fact that the increase in private
stock (or pleasure horses,) has acceler-
ated within few years, the increase
of those in private stables is not much
greater than during the preceding five
"
Is found in the large increase of horses
on livery, the most of which are road
Sters and carriage horses. Conhrma-
tionnf this is found in glance enPGSSdnt
at the date before us in regard to private
carriages. These, ten years ago, mum
bered only some eight hundred; i've
years afteTward about twelve hundred,
and now reach In the neighborhood of
twenty-five hundred, with valuations
ranging from four to fifteen thousand
dollars each.
Within ten years the value OF horses
has increased from l50 to 200 per cent.
To ascend somewhat In the scale, there
are believed to be from three to four
hundred horses in the city worth from
81, 900 to "a, 900, and from fifty to eighty
ranging from that sum to $4,000.
Most of these are valued for their
speed; among them Frank Work has
2:28 mare, worth $1,000; A. Wintercars
II Ham bletoniRn 2:3l mare, worth $4,000
VIM. Hamilton 2:30 gelding, $4,000, a
Sc, 900 mare, and another worth 5000;
A. r. Lamb a horse worth S., 600; Pc.
ter Dubois 2:30 gelding, worth $1,000,
etc., etc.
Among the splendid teams of match
horses may be named two of n. +.
Higgins, one of which Is worth SO, 900;
Simmons ponies, same figure; Somer-
dike's roans, 5000; Edwin Thorne's
81, 900 team; VIM. Glading's Jersey
match, worth IS 600; Mr.. Hasker's span
of browns, valued at SIT 900.
Four-In-hand teams are no longer a
novelty, as the hdbitueS of our unap-
proachable Central" well know; some
of these are known to be high priced
stock. Among such drivers are Sine
on Leland, u. L. Simons, Ia $4,000
team.) Edward Brooks, Potter Palmer,
Mr.. Gilman, E. w. HOughton, Leonard
W. Jerome, August Belmont, etc., etc.
There are probably from forty TO fifty
horses in the city worth over Sl0O 600.
Among these are Louis Pettee's bay
mare and sorrel, Peter Dubois Sll, 600
black mare, Mr.. Noes Atlanta mare,
Jas. McMann's mare (worth S2O,0OO,)
VIM. Simmons Hambletonian stallion,
(worth S23 ,00O.)
Its worthy OF remark that publi-
sentiment has become greatly modified
in regard to the moral effect of expen-
sive horsehesh. Not many years since
sedate paterfamilias would fear to
tarnish his reputation for society by
paying more than 81, 900 for horse,
and Col. John Harper may be par
doned for drawing two checks to con-
ceal from public criticism the payment
of s., 500 for a horse that suited him.
These fancy prices are. of course, deter
mined mostly byspeed-but fast horses
are no longer monopolized by butcher
boys or bar-room swells.
Mr.. Nelson Post has the largest sta
BILE of any horse fancier in the city. It
numbers about $50 horses, value at
about $3.50, 900. a-,
Commodore Vanderbilt has long been
noted for fine horses-he has two worth
SIC, O,000-one costing him $4,000 (has
made 2:25) and a number of others of
considerable speed and value.
The most valuable stud of horses is
owned by Robert Bonner, Esq, of Led
ger fame-and 10 him more than to any
other ia due the demonstration of the
fact that one may own fast horses and
still be gentleman. Mr.. Bonner de-
clares he will have "the fastest horses
and the largest circulation" Among
his stud are Pocahontas. an English
running mare, worth $40, 0,0OO-of whom
| Woodruff declared she could be made
to go in 2:1S; the Auburn horse, cost
ing him Sl3. .OOO-behind which Wood
ruff made his last drive; Peerless, who
made 2:2311 to a wagon-the fastest on
record; Lantern, who made 2:241z in
double harness, being dead heat
against Ethan Allen; the team of mares
I-FlaIbush and Palmer-worth 81 600;
the stud comprising the six most valu-
able horses in the country. Mr.. b.,
Ike some other modern gentlemen,
will not allow his horses TO run for
money.
IN New York and the Northern
States generally, people find the hours
Of daylight scarcely long enough for