The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-25
Horses.


Springfield Repub icdn about horses. He says:
IL Lopdon there are three general classes o.
horses to be seen in the streets. The omnibus
and cab hoIses average, in weight, from ten
hundred and fifty to eleven hundred pounds.
The draft horses are immense creatRIes-some
of them elephantine in proportions. They
were originally of Flemish blood, and were so
large as to render it nece sary to cross the
breed with the English horses. The result is a
somewhat smaller, but every way brighter and
better horse. What the original Flemish horse
could have been, am at a loss to conjecture;
for really, some OF the London horses would
quite place the Herring safe mans ponies in
the shade. The third class is made up of a
breed of ponies, or small horses, we Ching not
more then five hundred to five hundred and
fifty pounds.
j have had no opportunity to learn what
breed OF horses they belong to, bat they are too
numerous, and too much alike, not to be OF
distinct blood. They have none of what is
known In America as the pony build," but are
simply small horses, neatly made and as nimbie
as foxes Now, with all these horses the rule
much work on the road as two pounds do in
America. The cab and omnibus horse does
twice as much as the same horse does in Ame-
Iica. The draft horse does as much at the dray
as two ordinary Gray horses in Americs, ana the
little horses, which are driven manly in
butchers carts and grocers' carts, will tire cab
horse to follow them with no load at all.
IL connection with these statements it should
be recorded that the speed of all vehicles in the
streets of London, whether the localities be
is in corresponding streets in American cities.
The ordinary speed of vehicles in London, in
which passengers or light loads are transported,
is one which is considered not entirely safe in
Main street, Springfield Mass. and one which,
In some streets of Boston or New York, would
be at once checked by the police. A man who
sits in Hanson" finds himself driven at an
unprecedented pace through crowded thorough.
tares, and, Yankee though he may be, he will
often wonder whether he is going to bring up at
last without a broken neck. ...
/ mention this matter of speed, particularly,
because IL shows that even more work is done
by one horse in London than by two in New
York He not only draws as large a load, bat
he travels with greater Iapidlty. The streets OF
London present such spectacle of headlong
activity as no American city can show, IN con-
sequence OF the rapid passage OF all sorts OF We
hicles through the streets. i might add to this
statement touching the superior speed OF the
of the carriages which they are obliged to draw
behind them. All carriages are built more
heavily in Great Bri ain than in America. They
are built TO last, and many OF them seem to me
TO be superhuously heavy.
The point which wish to impress upon my
American reader Is simply this: that the Eng
lish horse, employed IN the streets OF city, or
on the roads of the country, does twice as much
work as the American horse similarly employed
| in America. This is the patent, undensble fact.
No man can fail TO see 1t who has his eyes about
him. How does he do 1t! Why Goes he 90 II!
These are most important questions to an Ameri"
can. Is the English horse better than the
| American9 Not at all. Is he overworksd! l
| have seen no evidence that he ls. | have seen
but one lame horse in l ondon. The simple eX-
plsnatlOn 10 that the Englishman has invested in
| perfect and permanent roads what the American
| eXpends in perishable horses that require to be
| led. We are using to-day, in the little town OF
| Springfield, just twice rs many horses as would
| be ecessary to do its business If the roads all
| over the town were as good as Main street Is
from Ferry to Central; We are supporting hun
| dreds of horses to drag loads through holes
| that ought to be filed, over sand that should be
| hardened, through mud that ought not to be
| permitted TO exist. We have the misery of bad
roads and are actually or practically called
| upon to paw premium for them. 1t would be
demons rably cheaper to have good roads thar
easily kept in repair. A mile OF good macadan
is n ore easily supported than poor horse.
-Villemessant is a great advocate OF the
premium system in forcing newspaper circu
laton. He once secured 5000 new subscriber
to the Figaro in a week by Offering a dozeI
oranges to each in a season of great scarcity o
that fruit. ..
The inventor Of the flying machine tina
| runs glibly on wire in the London Crysta
Palace promises to let it loose to soar across
the country at the close Of the exhibition.
San Francisco has produced a set of "tri
plets'' who have lived a year, and gran,
ball has been given in their and their parents
honor. r... ... ......
Theresa is singing to crowded houses
Brussels.
Newport is in tremor over an approach
ing grand wedding.
Wheat looks well in Virginia.
i - Buffalo a IN atreIaea