Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-10-28
The Horse Disease.

The Boston Journal of Saturday, gives the
following statement of The way business is
affected in that city by the horse disease;
The fall force Of the calamity was felt by
the public, when from store and workshop,
clerks, seamstresses, mechanics and laborers
sailed forth in quest of the customary con-
veyances, little dreaming perhaps Of the dis
agreeable alternative which awaited them
| either to stay in the streets all night or walk
home. Thousands of people lined the side
walks, where they stood in the drizzling rain
waiting in vain for the approach of the IA
miliar hts of the cars of their respective
routes. The various waiting rooms in Bow
dom square, Cornhill and fremont street,
were crowded to excess, and hundreds of
weary weather bound mortals stood impa-
tiently under the old elms, unwilling to ac-
cept the situation. The few cars that arrived
were instantly filed by unreasonable human
beings, who hung on as it were by their eye
lids, rather than go home on foot. During
the afternoon the cars were so overloaded
that out of sympathy for the sick and jaded
horses the conductors refused to take on more
passengers, a thing scarcely ever done before,
while Jealous official connected with the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails actually cleaned oat car in Cornhill
the horses OF which were unable to draw their
load. It's an i'll wind, ETC., and so the steam
roads resped the benefit Of the suspen-
sion of the horse cars. All the roads
with which the street RAILWAYS have come in
competition run extra cars. and went out
loaded with the residents of snburban towns
By six oclacI the streets were desnrted
and in the absence of horse cars. omn;huses
and hackney coaches, assumed dismal and
death like stiffness. Now and then a solitary
hackman urged his reluctant steeds over the
slppery payements. but the princinaI tho.
rouehfares were as ouiet at seven o'clock "a
thew usually are ut midnight on Sunday
n wcllknown fact that theatres and
concerts denena verv larplev mon the snh.
urha3 natronaga and ms 90 ma,tar ~
course has bpen almost wholly cut off INV tho
lessenea facilities of transit in the horsa ears
The attendance at the several nlscas If smnse.
mont last avon;ny was p,nch sm.Ila, ,bor
usnal alrhough strong bill. were evervwbere
offered. In ronseouence of the intended
withdrawal of all the cars Sunday. Mr. Peck
has wisely decided to postpone his concert
announced for Sunday evening
The disease has made such inroads among
the horses of the great express companies'
that they will be compelled 10 Weld To the
fate which has overtaken their less preten-
tious neighbors. The United States and
Canada Express Company STONED taking mr..
ders and calling for goods Yesterday and
should the storm continue TO-DAY. all mer.
chandise arriving here, except such as is per.
;shable. will he stored in the office. The Ad.
ans EXPRESS COMPANY will probably adopt
,ha sar,a oonrso
Tho m,ladv nrevaiIs omonp the trott;nu
horses a., rho r,ra coursp Reacon and Nvs.
,ic parLs and tho valuable horses belonO;ny
to Mr. Dalch have taken the disease in a mild
farm, Physicians are among the suffa rers