The New York herald., 1872-11-15
THE SICK HORSES.


The Now Phase or tho Horse Disease
The Stage and Car Lines suneringp
hut tho Private Stables All Right
What Brought the Disease About-Mr.
Bergh's Views.
The various Car companies and stage lines were
seriously inconvenienced yesterday by the new
phase which the horse disease has assumed The
wet weather OF course made matters worse in
every respect and h0rses that could have been
used with certain degree OF safety had the
weather been fine were In consequence laid up An
the stables. Still several Of the stage and car lines
persisted during the entire day In driving their sick
horses, and it is reasonable to suppose, therefore.
that by to-day the list OF fatal viii be very
considerably heightened. Mr.. Bergh and his ON
GERS were about and doing usual, and in severaG
instances turned stages backcQn their way d0wa
town on account o. the weak condition OF
THE POOR HORSES.
HERALD reporter, after making the, rounds Of
the various car and horse stables. dropped into
Mr. Bergh's ONCE ana had q horse talk with him.
the burden OF which, as q matter OF course. re-
lated exclusively to the new disease now preva-
lent. r
THE fact Of the matter is." said the gresk
philohippic, "men owning good horses have naE
taken the right kind OF care Of them. When they
(tne horses, not the men) were indicted with that
influenza some time ago they (the horses) should
nave Doon 8uOWed g0O0, VI.
LONG PERIOD OF REST,
until, In fact, they had completely recovered. HaG
this practice prevailed In majority Of cases thou
OF that most Of tho horse owners particularly the
car and stage lines, were too anxious to make
that were allowed to recover only partially arc
nSM soe M on Saes that are falling victims to the new
than relapse the poor horses that were workc6
when sick before have fallen into"
sna sa. n ne
the epSzSSy % q s, that had fully and completely re-
s'They have, and their Investigations bear ous
just what have told you-namely, that the dropsy,
as the new phase OF the disease is called is nothing
more nor Less than natural enect OF the epix0otyr
THE CRUELrY OF THE OWNERS.
not attacked any of the horses that TT had cs nsd
disease. Tnis is q rebufe that cruel horse owners
what bad treatment win do and what could have
been avoided by care and Kindness"
OF horses under the weather proved a serious in
convenience to many Of the car and stage compa-
NO PsRcEPTIBLn INTERRUPTION TO rRAyEL
few stages were hauled on and few cars On
some Of the lines, but this was made up in . mes-
sure By the cars and stages used making extra
quick time. The car lines were especially able to
do this, as whenever they had to lay q team up
car. In all the stables sick horses were found, and
seven fatal cases OcCurred-tw0 In the Third ave-
nue. StaDeS one ON Cn0 bleoCkeE street line, one on
the Eighth avenue, one on the Sixth avenue line,
one on the Seventh avenue and one Ia the Dry
Dock stables -. There seems to be general re,
stage stables to give information as to tho
condition OF the horses. They probably feel that
the 'reapse" OF the poor horses was caused by the
cOmpanies own cruelty in driving them when they
were sick, and the less said about the matter the
papers the better for themselves. 1t should bo
stated, however, in conclusion that the disease
does not seem to be general among all the stables,
and that there is little danger OF It's becoming cpl
where the horses when sick with the epizo0ty were
properly cared for, are not afflicted With the
called ''drOpsy" With the return OF dry weather
the horses now sick and which are being well
attended to will undoubtedly quickly recover.