The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-11-02
Eishty-thres Departures from Equine Life
Yesterday in New, York and One Hun.
dred and Forty-six in Brooklyn.
The Strange Sickness in the Streets
and Stables Still.
Measures Of the Sanitary Guardians-A Montreal
Veterinary Surgeons Method Of Treatment
and Analysis Of the Disease Resumption
Of Travel and Traffic in This City
The Epihippic Elsewhere.


reports from the different stables throughout the
city are very encouraging; trafic and travel are
resumtng their w0nted course, and the old order
Of things begins to hold sway once more, the
hithful horse reassuming the place ordained
for him by civilization in the play OF
life. far more cheerful aspect prevails the
streets than during the last week and hail. and
Il may have been observed by almost any one that
she atmosphere II really clearer and more whole
some than before. The services OF the oxen in the
business quarters have proven Of great value to
che merchants and have relieved them OF the hard
est stress Of their necessities. The carmen are
now beginning to recover their former means or
socomotion, and drays and trucks are about as
frequent as ever.
THE SLOwNEss OF CoNvALEsCENCE
Of this disease, however, compels the most extreme
care In their resumption Of work to guard against
Inducing relapse and hence the calamity will not
probably be wholly remedied until the middle OF
next week, when we may expect the great and
curious event to pass speedily into the mists Of
memory, with the hope that it never may recur.
Still, however, there Is much to commserate in
the condition Of many OF the poor degenerate hacks
who have not received the humane kindness OF
treatment that was due them as accomplishing
and faithful servitors in their great afliction. The
railway companies, as they were too reluctant to
cease bartering death for lucre by working their
nick steeds, are also too eager to place all Of them
again In the traces. In spite Of
THE MILD MANDATES OF THE PURSUANT BERGH
TO the contrary. Yesterday there were seven
deaths IN the stables Of the Third Avenue Railway
line, and the cars are running with regular although
less frequent trips, bearing enormously heavy
loads OF passengers. The Blocker street line,
after Mr. Bergh's big crusade, has resumed Its run.
ming. The West street cars used yesterday were
nifty in number, and on the Second avenue
there was the same number as on the previous
days since the advent OF the equine disorder. On
the Grand Central depot line there are fourteen
cars running. All the other roads and stage routes
are using their horses now to some extent, almost
- much as before this inconvenience was first oc-
casiOned to the public. Some Of them double the
teams and reduce the number OF cars but
this practice Affords little relief, as the
multitude OF people who desire to ride is not
less than before. However. in the clear, bracing,
lnvigoratng weather there Is little possibility OF
return Of the danger which so filled the city with
alarm, and 1t ia almost certain that the hipporhi
uorrhea will continue to grow less serious except
In the poorest and most skeleton-like beasts. The
malaria has apparently departed entirely, and
THE HORSES AXE CORRESPONDENCE JOYFUL
and pace the stony pavements with renewed
courage and 1rmer tread. Every car driver, and
even stage driver, wears more pleasant counte-
nance, and the opportunities Of the hackmen are
again frequent, SO that one may in
Deed rest assured that the plague OF
Canada has indeed passed its dreaded
climax, and is leaving us in comparative
prosperity. The dangerous cases are rapidly being
cent by the arrows OF death to shat bourn
rom whence no traveller returns,n even II he 60
at . two-forty gait, and the animals with strong
constitutions and heroic endurance are only to be
left to u.s. it seems that the hipporhinorrhea may
really prove "a blessing in disguise" the mission
Of which was to better our American stock ofhorse
nesh.
RAPID TRANSIT.
Other good fruits Of the "dire afllictiOn" are
Becoming apparent day by day. The "one-legged
railroad" In Greenwich street Is beginning to be
20 well patronized that it scarcely carry all its
W0uldbc passengers, and as practical trial has
destroyed very great amount Of preju.
dice, the downtown merchants are talk.
ing earnestly Of its proposed extension to
the Spuyten Duyvil and final completion, and the
force Of their sentiments will, doubtless, occasion
this improvement to be speedily consumma ted
The depot at Dey street at five O'Clock iast even
ing was crowded as full as possible and q multi
tudc were gathered on the sidewalk below, when
'hc gates OF entrance were locked against them,
waiting for their turn.
sHUFFLING OFF THE MORTAL COIL.
The following list OF deaths was reported by the
police yesterday
lIS Elm street. Second avenue stables-l.
l29 Mulberry street 626 Third avenue.