The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-10-25
"SHANK'S MARE THE BEST"
The Disease Not Dangerous,
but Disheartening.
HE TROYTNc STOCK THREATENED.
Old Hacks Troubled with q
Hacking Cough.
THE EPIDEMIC ELSEWHERE.

The horse disease has at last succeeded in more
Or less Affecting every horse belonging to the
horse car railroads, stage Ines express companies
and other freight and passenger lines in this city.
Some Of the horses certainly have only exhibited
the milder symptoms of the disease, but there are
numbers in dangerous state, with but little pros
pect OF recovery. The livery and sale stables in
Twenty fourth, Forty-fth and Forty.sixth streets
have also the larger portion Of their stock suffering
from the disease. There is o stable, however, In
Twenty street that has only two horses sick
out Of $50, and again there are others with every
horse sick.
The veterinary surgeons attached to many OF
that the disease is
DIPHTHERIA.
Bone. however. insist that it is bronchitis, and
treat 1t accordingly Nearly every doctor has his
own peculiar method OF treating the disease, and
ac0nite, tar water, solution Of tar, alcohol and
bellad0nna are all administered. Applications or
mustard and strong lIniments are also made ex-
ternaly. The general complaint appears to be that
the disease AFFECTS the appetite Of the horses and
they consequently sink into weak and debilitated
state. Many, however have overcome this Diff
Guilty by mixing some prepared
COMPOUND Food
with the regular mill feed and giving 1t In mash.
The horses appear to relish this food and, gaining
strength, soon begin to recover their health. A
we'll known veterinary surgeon states that the
horse should be treated with as much care as
human being, and, beside being dosed with physic,
should have rest and tasty, paatablc diet There is
diversity OF opinion as to whether rest Is good
for the horse or not as some OF the large horse
owners insist that the horses AFFLICTED with the dis
ease kept in
CONSTANT WORK
are doing better than those resting in the hospital
The proprietor Of the Twenty third street line Of
stages took OF all his stages yesterday not caring
to risk the lives Of the horses by exposure to such
. damp and disagreeable day. The Society for the
Prevention OF Cruelty to Animals should send that
gentleman medal, as token OF their apprecia-
Non of his care OF the poor dumb brutcs.
The valuable trotting stock in this city have also
received their share OF the disease. Dan Mace's
horses are nearly all affected. The celebrated
double team,
DARKNESS AND PLIMpToN,
that trotted at Prospect Park the other day with
Ethan Allen and George Wilkes. are being treated
for the disease, and a valuable Ethan Allen colt,
worth $l2O 900, Is also in the Doctors hands. val.
nable HamDletonan mare worth $4,000 in
Wheeler Wilson'S stable, is dangerously affected.
Numbers Of other we-known tr0tters, such
as Stonewall Jackson, KirkwoOd, Lady Wheeler,
Jules Jurgensen and Captain links also aiicted
In . mild form. Up to the present the valuable
trotters In the stables OF Mr. Bonner and Commo-
d0re Vanderbilt have escaped from the contagion
1t IL expected that the next twenty -four hours
will see the crisis OF the disease In many OF the
badly affected horses. Some horses In the Sixth
avenue, Twenty-third street, Fifth avenue Madison
avenue, Broadway and Seventh avenue and
avenue stables are not expected to live through
the night.
A number OF cars were taken or yesterday,
making about two hundred and fifty or duty in all
tho city lines. The stages yesterday were all run
ming pretty hard, with the exception OF the Twenty
third street line. 1t is expected, however, that the
Fifth avenue and Fourteenth street lines will have
to take on good many to-day II they wish to save
their stock.
The horse disease is now beginning to affect the
public In other ways besides travel, the horses
belonging to Lord & Taylor, Arnold & Constable,
Schutz& Walker, Park & Tilford and other we'll
known houses are all sick and will, probably be
incapable OF work to-day. This Will result in every
body becoming his own porter, and
HoUsEKEEPERs
may anticipate the pleasure OF carving home their
purchases.
The hackmen still appear to be utterly regardless
OF the welfare of the animals entrusted to their
care and ninetenths OF the horses engaged actively
in this business affected with the disease. The
public would do well to show their disapproval Of
this unnatural barbarity by walking whenever
possible, as, II the hackman found business was
dull, the horses would probably be kept in their
stables and taken care OF.
At q rough estimate there appear to be about
sixteen thousand horses sick in this city, with an
equal number in Brooklyn, OF which three per cent
are In dangerous condition.
The street Railroads and Stage Conn
panies.
The havoc among those OF the street horse
railroads and stage companies Is really appalling,
and increases with every hour. Superintcndents
and stable bosses" seem very anxious about the
abatement OF the northeasterly wind, to which,
with the miasmi ofthe atmosphere they give credit
for the sudden appearance OF this distemper. AL
ready lung fever has begun to set in, and II the
wind does not change and If the atmosphere does
not get dry within the next fortyeight hours 10 is
expected that there will be many hundreds OF cases
that will result fatally by Sunday night next.
Once the deaths begin tranic will from that mo.
ment be doomed, and we will have to return to the
fashion OF our ancestors. who employed Sedan
chairs in local travel. The Twenty-third street
line has ceased to run stages entirely, while the
Eighth Avenue Railroad Company will not take OF
any cars until their horses commence to drop down
In the street. 1t is no going to the horse mar
ket to buy other horses, the superintendents say,
for the reason that all the horses there for sale are
cOughy and every horse that comes into town by
rai IL sleo afrected.
FIFTH AVENUE STAGE COMPANY.
This stage line, which has q monopoly OF the ars-
f0cratic passengers OF the uptown districts is in
bad way about its horses. Out of 400 horses be-
longing to the line there are 225 sick to greater
or lesser degree. Nearly every horse is coughing
badly, many are perspirne from weakness and the
nAority wiz not be ut 10 work by the next three