The New York herald., 1872-10-29

Eighth PTecinct-Dead horse IN 'front.' Of NO. a wooster
j, % a0Fsss II front Of Nos SO and
.1ssS :sss ss % s. .sss .ss at NJ No. e Cherry D
Fourteenth PrccnctDead horses in stable corner Of
@ r ss r.
Seventeenth Precinct-Dead horses at No. aR First
Eighteenth rrecinct-Desd horses at No. s0 East
No eighteenth street. re- tam and No ~ Esss Tseny
anS aSs Fifty
Twentieth Precnct-Dead horses at z6i West Fortieh
Twenty rrecinct-Dead horses at s2o East Thirty
nuS nns SIS W:s West West Fyzh Street
sIsst horse at Ninetyhrd
g horses at Adams Ex
Twenty eighth rrecinct-Dead horses at Sl7 Washing
Twsntynnth Prccinct-Dead horses at 1853 West Thirty
TsTayrst horse north side Of sixty
sixth sns s a. s founded by
The horses Of
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
and OF the Department Of Public Works, all OF
which are sick, are not improving very rapidly
OminOus predictions are made by some persons
that the trouble OF the horses will last throughout
the winter. disease similar to it exists in Cuba,
sores outside OF the neck the throat, and can
not be cured in many months The animals are
sad to die very rapidly from this phase OF the
PUBLIC FEELING
yesterday throughout the city was strongly deri-
work. and the petty arrests OF cartmen and vend-
ers which were made while thousands OF car horses
were their , lives away Dragging selfish
toll, flied minds and hearts with indignation. One
poor man was was brought before the Justice
Bergh, who, with an air Of angry triumph,
saw him duly consigned to q cell. But the street
derous loads until the horses sometimes gave out
from exhaustion and sank by the road side. Two
and the City Hall yesterday, and witnessed by
hundreds Of pitylng people who yet were ready
and III her Se scrnes Ga,e m 'S ce
the terror Of q long walk.
Broadway, the Silent Highway.
Broadway at Fulton street is usually a danger
ous spot The jam OF stages, coaches, cabs, drays,
light wagons, trucks and spring carts, together
with the turmoil caused by the connu-
ence OF the termini OF eight or nine
street railway companies, renders it o place
not OF meditation or Of prayer The figures Of the
bigbodied policemen in blue, who ore in
cessantly on the move, numbering to and
fro, here with q timid widow, there with q
n0ydenish girl In tow, like small boat hanging
from the stern Of sugar lighter; the 0aths Of the
stage drivers, the shouts OF colliding cartmen and
the Internal din that lasts from eight O'Clock OF the
morning until six O'Clock Of the evening, in June
and December when the apple blossoms begin to
blow and when the snow covers st. Paul's spre;
all this picture is only equaed by one other in the
world and that is the scene on London Bridge dur
ing the same hours Of the day, when the trac goes
roaring to and fro between the Middlesex and Sur
rey banks Of the muddy Thames
dxuor 10
heaving biiows, oil individuality is swallowed up
in Its roaring mouth Bismarck himself would be
stunned by the din. Gravelotte was nothing to it ;
the wild scream OF the breakers an iron coast
akin to 1t. The hurlyburly Of clerks of merchants
OF draymen, OF peders, OF drivers, OF politicians
and OF whiskey bummers goes on like tide going
out to sea. II 10 repeated day by day, and its re-
sstlcss impetuOsity seems eternal. Up town
sends forth at early morning oil those who have
rested over night and who have breakfasted
.comf0rta,lS after dawn. And those who have not
breaklastcd and who have no place 10 buy their
meas over night are compelled to beat the unfeel-
ing stones OF implying Broadway as well. When
the lunch hour has passed and when the business OF
the day is at It's zenith, then comes the greatest
rusn Of all. The American people are given to hurry
and to confusion. AT nOontide and at eventide Wall
street pushes forth it's thousands OF excited busi
conveyanccs to carry them to the brownst0ne fronts
up town from whence they came at morning.
morning TIL night. din. hurry scurry and BABEL
tongues OF all nations. fut now it mas changed.
The men seem despondent, for horses are scarce
and the epizOot has struck business blind and
severed Its arteries. 1t is motiOnless dumb, para
lyzed, and the shock which it has received Is
Instead Of the great Jam Il. at Fl Futon IAN and wa and
Cortlandt streets, which always is to be seen at
those points. there seems to be an
used their whistles to urge drivers for nearly
week The driver finds space on ali
does not find poe SUCKING in him from seh
nor load OF hay or brooms threatening to topple
over on mis- head, on his right nor hogs.
smash his horses legs to Jelly The writer at Spring
street yesterday, waited for fifteen minutes ny the
clock in Tinanys old building, and saw but eighteen
vehicles pass five (which we're stages Part OF these
eighteen were gong up, part OF them were going
vehicles wOuld pass at this given point during the
same time and from the nOstrils OF seventeen OF
these horses these fecks OF foam depended show
men OF the Broadway squad, under the command
OF Tony Allaire, were visbly affected with the epi
vocabulary Of Americansms The policeman wore ore
sad expression, but had no discharge and needed
no mustard embrocatton to his chest.
At Canal street the cars were stopped, and those
who waited for transportation waited In vain. The
intersection OF this street with Broadway seemed
Thirty fourth street, Is generally more crowded
than was Broadway yesterday at Canal street.
Every horse that passed looked wan and hectic,
and lean as Don QuiXote They also moved at o
funeral pace-the horses heads downwards-and
when the poor animals came to a slippery place
they stumbled and Slid as II they were about to drop
on the cruel stones.
The wide, oper space around the statue of WASH
tngton, ut Union square, looked as II 1t were de-
serted platZ in a third rate German CITY, The cab
men at the usual stand were conspicuous by their
absence. A few were standing around, but their
horses would have been glad had they been placed
in their little beds. Around Madison square and In
the vicinity Of the Fifth Avenue Hotel and the H0f
man House the politicians had great difficulty in
trigue, and at Thirty-fourth street the lookout
was very dismal Tor man and beast Here
aud there stage or dray crawling
along, the driver disheartened and the horses
dying by inches Where are now the agents OF the
philanthropical philozOoist, BerRh, and where are
his eficient mouchardss They are like the cabmen,
conspicuous BY their absence, 1t would seem.