The New York herald., 1872-10-30
State OF the Sick Steeds in All
the Stables---Strange and Sad
Scenes in the Streets.
"WArT FOR THE WAGON !"
Harlem Residents Crowding the Downtown
Corners Horseless and Homeless.
The Epizootical Ahliction All
Over the Land.

Ihe city was duh yesterday; but In less degree
than II has been since the advent OF the dread
hipporhinorrhea. Broadway presented much
hvelier scene than on Saturday and Monday, and
the general aspect Of animal life was more cheerful
and spirited. The stages were running quite fre-
quentiy and the draymen were out in greater num-
bers, with huge loads Of merchandise upon their
vehicles. But the sidewalks were more crowded
than was the centre OF the thoroughlares; CON-
mon humanity which makes the world akin
had created evidently some feeling Of pity
- well as sympathy in cold and worldly
breasts, recalling thought from the absentness
q absorbing business anxiety or OF petty
troubles. and 1t seemed that Broadway had
awakened to o recognition Of the noble duty
Of selfsacrihce that seldom s fulfilled in its selfish
annals. The history OF Broadway is one of selfish
ness: the story OF the steps Of proud, heartless
women and Of mean, powerful men who have trod
its pavement; who have noated along in uncon-
sCi0us companonship, In the affinity Of vanity and
arrogance. Those are the components OF what has
been known as the broadway style"-vulgarly,
the eg drama" Of the city, because Of Its appeal to
I'll the sensual traits Of New Workers and their
love Tor notoriety, popularity and admiration. But
yesterday the sensuality, the arrogance and the
vulgarity Of Broadway were lost in the common
current along the noble but stony channel. The
distinctions OF wealth and power and So
cial position lost their acutcness, for al
though there were q few stages running the
loads that clung to them, composed Of smaIt.y
dressed downtown clerks, prosperous cashiers and
fair women Of lazy dispositions, were only tlthe
Of the immense tide that at MONDAY rolled along
the ninty street. On the sidewalk mixed all the
cosmopolitan types OF humanity that are present
among us, and the widely spread hippo-malaria
had brought low the pride Of the great, 80 that
horse was no longer an easy acquisition for the
purposes Of ease and pleasure, and they suffered
the torture OF being looked at by those who are
poor in pocket and ordinarily are compelled to
walk. % being no better than themselves Oh,
what foil was therel The princcly merchants
strobe along the pavement and had the pleasure OF
seeing some OF their draymen on their carts or
trucks driving past them at O vaulting pace while
they laboriously crept through the crowd It
was remarkable fact that the draymen, who seem
60 have taken better Of their horses than the
public lines Of travel. and to have relieved them
from labor earlier were, yesterday. in quite nofa-
ole numbers, able to drive them although Of course,
quite slowly and tenderly and the exercise said
fhe knowing ones, did not harm the animals in the
least but quckened their step with fresh strength
and filed their eyes with the vim and liveliness OF
renewed spirit AS class these men seem to have
shown the greatest humanity and consideration
Jor their poor beasts and not death among them
has yet been related.
On the contrary, many Of the hack horses and
the poor steeds that are used before the stages and
cars seemed every hour losing their stubborn and
almost heroic power Of endurance, and disgusting
sights were frequent Of the most sickening symp-
toms Of the disease.
It Is pleasing to remark the continued good con-
kept in the uptown livery and private stables, and
che fact only proves what was said in the HERALD
at nrst that only careessness and ignorance in the
treatment Of the typhoide laryngite leads to
actual DEATH Very few OF the "arst class" coaches
could be hired yesterday; very few hacks with
well-bred and welkept teams could be seen going
around the streets; but there were many
OF the miserably bony and cmacated steeds
whose drivers are the most importunate and IN
suitlng Of mortals, and always drive you mad when
you step or train at the Grand Central Depot with
their kind inquiries respecting your intentions OF
riding or walking. These animals presented the
most aughabe spectacle ever seen in the streets Of
New York. Most OF them were wrapped In blankets,
% that they looked like feeble dowagers walking
out for their health, and some were even pandaged
at the throat from the head to the shoulders with
huge circles Of f1anne white or yellow, soaked in
goose grease or some other remedy for the mystic
rious malady and were not unlike certain gutteral
voiced and heavy. minded clergymen who sport
those sort Of things underneath their reverential
chins. The poor stecds looked out Of their numer-
ous wrappings bewildered and seemed to ask, iu
mute besecchment, whether they had been trans-
ported suddenly into the cold portion Of Dantes
purgatory.
These teams however, were not in so great de.
mand as might be supposed, the public seeming at
n n n n IN " cnrr,-
passion for the poor beasts and to have awakened
out Of their stupor Of indifference.
The cars, however, werc loaded to degree of
torture excruciatng for the horses, and especially
those Ines which run to the very northernmost limit
" the island. The Third Avenue Railroad presented
during the nrst part Of the day the samc scenes Of
suffering and cruelty have been recounted before
but at two O'Clock IL the afternoon, when the tide
Of travel had somewhat abated, lo the great Bergh
appeared upon the stage OF events looking exactly
- he used 10 look and guarded by his body-guard
Of detective agents The following letter had oil.
ready been circulated among the news. aper
Onloes to warn them Of the coming exhibit Of
his plucked-up courage
MN. BERGH on THE HORSES.
% e sef soe1e'9 s1f9s o9 o. ~, Ssx o. c,,v
% he ass .6sss : s %
Be setting % much ~orse that the nsacr
GIG paSiE; and ssf them % cease insstins on these
GHrous creatures the cruel labors Of dragging them
Snout tne Ciy ana moreover respectfully requests the
dra W Cor time their dying animals from work.
No severe reflection on our bOasfed ation
can be nrsnea than the torments endured by the srug
and out with young and robust persons hayinu n full
CONSCIOUSNESS Of the murderous labor which they are the
Again while someof these .proprietors have vounta
viy and humaney suspended the OF their horses
lhs. remainder have aa they themselves declare,
realized the same amouiN =, pron daily although they
This s confirmed By the, abominable loads which we
II we are civilized and Oh stan people, let us show
NV and walk. To assist THIS umane dutv would re.