Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-30
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The Horse Disease.
The Bistemper on the Decline ia New
TOrk-Its Appearance in Other Places.

Ihc BlStemper on the Decline In New
TOrk-Its Appearance in Other Places.
NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-The weather is cool and
clear this morning and hence favorable to the
horse malady, bat there is no abatement in it.
| FEWER horses are seen on the street than at any
| previous time. 4 few stages and cars are run
| ming on all the lines but the Ninth avenue. 1t
is generally noticed that the fine express horses
| and other animals well cared for are suffering
| less from the epizoOtc, Cartmen, along with
| hackmen, are oycrworiing their well horses to
enrich themselves with eXtortionate fares
| Bergh will continue to-day TO arrest all those
| using unfit horses One hundred and twenty
| four dead horses are reported by the police for
! the week ending Saturday, aud thrty-four
| deaths were discovered on Sunday All these
need not necessarily, however, have resulted
| from the new disease. Vast piles of freight
| have accumulated on the wharves The diseased
| trotting horses at the Fleetwood stables are CON
valescmg. The Second avenue is the only horse
| car line which employs dummies during the
| continuance of the distemper
| An Oswego special says that many horses
! from the surrounding country were attacked
while in that city. Great depression exists there
| among Iorwarders and shippers. Canal treights
| TO New York and tide water have risen to twelve
| cents per mile, and are still advancing The
| dlstemper is becoming general in the northern
| part of the state.
The epidemic is now said to have reached its
| worst point here, but Notwithstanding the wide
| cases yesterday, the disease is thoUghtby many
| experienced horSemen to be on the decrease
To-day is cool and pleasant and hundreds of
partially affected horses will be used in conse-
| quence. Several of the leading physicians of
| the board of health think the disease will prob
| ably soon attack man, and it is said a few men
| in Brooklyn who have worked about sick horses
| have the malady, but this is very doubtful
There is a strong public feeling against the
| continuous working of sick horses by many
| railroads. Nothing, however, has been done to
| prevent the inhumanity, but arrests are made of
| petty carmen, and yesterday the philozooist
| Bergh had poor man consigned to the TombS
| for using his animal Two incidents occurred
| yesterday Of horses falling dead in the harness
on the street railroads from Overwork.
Some branches of business are at stand still
| Merchants who are under contracts to ship -four
and other articles find that they have TO pay
| enormous prices for carriage Broadway is
| thoroughly packed with pedestrians throughout
| the day Some of the railroad lines are com
| PEELED to stop to-day. Others are reducing the
| number OF their trips. Many of the principal
marts OF trade have gloomy appearance. The
| streets present a spectacle of wretched looking
totterng horses, dragging trebly oyerladen cars
| and vehicles
The epizootiC is more severe to-day in Jersey
City and vicinity than since its first appearance
and there are hardly enough horses 10 drag
| hearses to funerals. John Pcrcy, well known
citizen of Jersey City, was seized with the horse
| plague, and is dangerously sick.
New YORK, Oct. 29-EUeniRg.-The horse
| distemper continues, with no striking change
either for better or worse but generally there is
| ShShtlmproyementm manifest. Ihenumber fatal
| cases has, however, increased, The deaths Sat
| urday were 30, Sunday 81 and Monday 06. The
| Third and Fourth avenue cars were stopped to-
| day by President Bergh Of the society for the
| prevention of cruelty to animals. Few or no
cars were run on East Broadway, Avenues
| A, b, G and d, Seventh and Ninth avenues, or
| the Belt lines; and the Sixth and Eighth ave
| nue. lines stop their down trips at Canal street.
| There is no probability of the use of dummy
| engines, which can hardly be procured before
| the horses recover. The stages are beginning to
| run more frequently, and horses are improving.
Hundreds of custom house trucks and other
| vehicles yet remain unused in the streets, but
| many teams laid up last week are making their
| appearance, and huge breaches have already
| been made in the brcastworks of cotton bales
| lining the piers along West and South streets.
| Notwithstanding these signs of returning
| activity, there is no reason to believe that the
| epidemic has left the city. A large number of
| South American ponies arrived yesterday in per-
feet health, and half OF them this morning ex-
| hibited symptoms of the disorder.
The horses owned by the express companies
| are still affected, but majority are at work
| Reports from private stables are more cheerful,
| and the horses up town are beginning to relish
| their food and are looking much better.
| A greater number OF cabs have made their
| appearance in the neighborhood of the stock
| exchange to-day.
The agents of the different piers say goods
| are rotting, and before there can be any posi-
| bility of their removal, will be useless.
AT the Boston and Worcester line piers, few
| horses are at work, all in a diseased state, and
| the pier is almost impossible, as well as at the
| Boston and Fall River dock. No freight will be
| taken until things improve. The Old Dominion
] and California steamship line piers are blocked
| with vessels heavily laden
Business is suspended at the National line
| pier while the City Of Washington, of the In
| man line, is slowly dischargug on lighters Ii
| is believed that the Guion steamer Idaho will be
| detained many days as only 800 out of 1850
| bales of cotton are engaged for her yet.
The disease still seriously interferes with bust
| ness in Brooklyn, and but slight Improvement
| is generally noticed among the horses affected.
| The car lines are running irregularly and haul
| off early in the evening. A few teams were
| working to-day at the wharyeS, and the ice COM
| panies are using their horses.
| The livery stables report large number of
| DEATHS but the sick horses are now improving
| ALBANY, Oct. 29.-Two thirds of the horses
| in this city are disabled by the disemper and
| business is considerably affected.
| PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 29.-About fifty horses
were reported sick here. A hundred are sick in
| Camden.
| ELMRA, N. Y, Oct 29.-The horse disease
| has rapidly increased here the past two or three
| days. Nearly one hundred horses are now suf-
| terins. Nearly all belonging to the street rail-
| way company arc unfit for use.
| TITUsVILLE, Pa, Oct. 29,-The horse disease
| has broken out here.
| OswEGo, Oct. 29.-The movement of produce
| by canal continues light in consequence of the
| epidemic among horses. Over two-thirds of the
canal horses are affected. Two tugs were sent
| out yesterday to pick up and tow the boats on
| the canals. The weather to day is cool and
| bracing.
BosToN, Oct. 29.-Reports from down east
| state that the horse disease is very generally
prevalent in that region, but in a comparatively
| mild form.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, SOct 29,-The horse cpl
demic has made its appearance here.
| BALTIMORE, Oct. 29.-The horse disease has
| fully developed in this city. Fifty cases are re.
| ported to-day by one veterinary surgeon.
PoRT JERvIs, N. Y, Oct 29.-Ihe horse dis
| ease has made its appearance in this vicinity.
| The boat horses employed on lthe Delaware and
Hudson canal are the principal sufferers