Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-11-02
wAsHINGTON.s HORSES.


anu now threatens 20 interfere TO q considerable
extent with all travel and traffic where horses
are used for draft. As q rule, however, most of
the horses which were sick yesterday are no
worse day, ard their owners hore by careful
treatment to cure them in . few days. II is a
remarkable fact that in majority
OF instances the animals affected
have 10 discharge, wcrth mentioning, from
a. aftlict +se New York horses Another fact
worthy OK note Is thai almost al OF the horses
which have the disease continue % eat although
not in such large qesntities rs when in health.
The reporters o. TzESTAR or their rounds OF
the large stables II the city to-day, failed to dis
cover single cEae of where there was either
Scba,g sn9 Src. ts coSsatng or wa5sIy
toms characterize the New York epidemic. A
prominent Physician tod one of The
STAR reporters this morning that the dis
ease Is Simply and properly epidemic intiu-
enzG, and - comparatively harmless in its
effects. Tire same physician deprecated the
withdrawing of STABBED. especially during this
camp weather. unless the horses are removed
Until the vnIte-wash II thoroughly cry. He said
that il Is advisable 10 keep stables clean at all
times, brt that 1t is q mistaken idea 10 suppose
for Tloment that iisinfectants will aid in
curing influenza. Oae livery stable keeper said
he DID rot fear fatal results, and that herses
which die OF the epidemic are plsyed-out nags
and
Comfy WANT AN EXCUSE To DIE"
In every stable In the city the greatest care If
beng taken OF animals, sick or we'll The stables
used freely; fumigation is generally practised;
the horses arc kept warmly blanketed; stimu-
lsting liquids, such as rum. ammonia and tur-
psnsine, are applied to the throat; and every
animal is treated as well and kindly rs if he
we've ga r1sn and a brother"
TWO BAD CASES.
Our reporters found two pretty bad cases of
the epidefnic-one at tn, stable Of Mt. Want, on
s,h street, and one at Pumphrey's stable, on @
street, near 9Th. Both Of these animals refuse
food, q. both are apparently suffering greatly.
heaveconvulsively Is If they were affected VIII
some ecute bowel complaint. Their eyes ere
glassy, their heads droop, and they ere evideHt-
nary surgeon asserts that the case in his stxble
is one of heart disease and not of inffuenza; but
at humphreys stable, where there Is precise
araVated form of the prevsiihs epidsmie "a M.
Steer: agent for Wheeler & Wilson'S sewing
machines in this city, Is the owner Of the horse
referred to in Humphreys stable.
THE STREET RAILROADS.
At the stables or the Washington and George
town railroad company, near the Baltimore and
Ohio depot, where 31s animals are stabbed,
about so are sick day, against about 50 yes
terdsy. Sixteen cars were withdrawn from the
line up TO noon day and IL is the Intention to
withdraw all the cars tomorrow liz case the
weather remains cold and damp. Mr.. Riker
believes that prevention Is better than cure,
and II is but justice to say that animals are
taken from the cars the moment the first
STy n i,Sns, OF he ePahpRic is discovered
the disease DEVELOPS itself, Mr.. Sailer, the
superintendent of the road, says that horses
which stsrted out this morning in apparent
health we're seized with 1t before going half
dozen squares, and had to be Withdrawn. His
own private horse IS pretty sick at present. At
the rh-treet stables of this road che disease has
also made its appearance, and q number of
horses out of 80 ere unfit for duty. Mr.. Sailer
SAYS the discharge from the nose CLOSELY re-
sembtes common mustard mixed with water,
but that in no case is there the running from
the eyes. He IL using hay-seed ss a fumigator,
and thinks it preferable to tar a. leather. The
throats OF the animals are Aiso ribbed with
turpentine, linseec oil, and spirits OF ammonia.
The horses are OF course warns.J blanketed and
bedded.
The disease has broken out IN the stables of
the Metropolitan Railroad company, ard nearly
every horse is selected, though none of them
seriously. Mr. Thompson, president of the
read, has become somewhat familiar with the
symptoms OF the disease, having visited several
railroad stables north during his recent trip.
ks sOOn as q hcrse is discovered with the least
cough or perspring in the flsaks he Is taken out
Immediately and put in the hospital depart
Dent OF The stables. More than one half
OF the cars were withdrawn to-day on
account OF the sickness, and travel over the
In the stables every care is being taken.
The horses stand up 10 their knees in
straw; are double blanketed. and medicines are
administered. Mr.. Thompson has also ordered
that the running time for the horses at work he
tacreased twenty minutes on the round trip
from Il III street to the C&pitol-ten minutes
III
TO be better to- day, and 1t Is believed they win
he well enough to resuRe, work MOndav or
TUESDAY. The stables are kept closed, all
draft being CT. cut of: thoueh the ventilation is
be that all the cars wifi abe taken off before
night. New cases were discovered to- day No
horse Is worked after showing the least symp-
tom Of the disease.
TEE LIVERY srABLRs
In Richard CIuit, ST. s, stable. on 18th street
near G, feur or Ave horses are sick, lbut none
seI1onsly.} out OF seventeeR animals. They were
AT Hugueiy & Bowen's, on New York avenue,
near IN street, there were no cases at half-past
Out of Gheen & osboru,s 80 animals. on G
street, near 9Th, six or eight only are coug Ching,
and all eat their ratiOns.
AT Mstlock's; next door .eut of 30 horses, three
or Tour cough bat ali cousinuo to eat.
Four or five horses are coughing at Keleher's
OBJ Th street, near +, cut of 50; all eat:
MI: Want, on sth street, has fifty horses and
msl!es in his stable. Eight or ten horses cough
An animal seriously Ill IN Unstable is referred
TO above.
st Olcott's stables, next door, there are 20
horses. A number Of them have slight coughs,
but Mr.. Olcott thinks they ere. In proving under
homeopathic treatment.
Price Brothers, on 9Th street, near C, have
20 horses. Most all OF then are slightly affected,
but none at all seriously. Only few have
running at the nose.
At Iloyd's stable, corner 9Th and @ streets,
there are is horses. Most Of them are slightly
At Waters stables, cough out of %.
At Flemings, on street, between Az and 9Th
streets, ell the horses-50 in nuRber-are cough
ing more or less. No serious cases.
There are about 80 horses In Pumphrey's
stable, on @ street, near 9Th; SO are coughing,
and two are pretty seriously III. DR.. Buikleyss
horse seems . little better than he was yester-
day.
Twenty horses out of q are coughing at
Gearys. In Jackson Hall alley; no serious cases.
MIR. Washington Nailor, In whose stables
there are about 90 horses, states that nearly all
are slightly affected, but there Is not q serious
case among them. He deemed IL expedient,
however, to close his stable to-day, although
nearly all his horses were able to works. he
thought the weather was not suitable for them
to be out. The only symptom the horses have
Is cough and discharge from the nose, but
their eyes are bright, and they take their food
as usual Many of them are double blsnketed,
anu every precautiOn taken to make them COM
Portable
Mr. Allison Nailor, jr., who has about IS
horses III his stable, states that he has not q Sc
Tious case In the stable. Eight or ten Of his
horses were affected yesterday, but are better
TO-DAY. THIS morning there were only about
half dozen OF the horses coughing. Most of
his horses are at work as usual
Reyes x Co. (Willard's hotel stables) state
that they have six hit Cases Onlv ont nf sac