The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-15
From the New York Tribune
I.0RSES IN NEW YORK.

Sources CT the Supply and Demand-The
Headquarters of the Trade in this City
Where Horses are Purchased, and How
They arc Brought Here-How They are
Sold, and Their Buyers-Numbers and
Treatment of Street-Car Horses.
There is no prominent business interest
In tue country, the practical working of
which is so little understood beyond those
who are connected with it, as that which
may be called the horse market. 1t is only
when such plaques rs the cpizoot'c cripple
the stables and nearly bring some of the
most important industries to standstll,
through lack of the means of transporta-
tion, that the absolute commercial necessi-
ty of the horse is forcibly brought before
the public The operation of the trade,
its magnitude, sources, and the general de-
tails which naturally associate themselves
with or grow out of it, can be best under
stood by description of the prominent
centeis of the trade in this city.
That section of East Twenty-tourth-st.
between Lexington and Second-avenues,
can readily be recognized as the headquar-
tiers of the horse trade-not only OF the
city, but of all the country within radius
of so miles and, to greater or less ex-
tent, the principal source of supply to
many of the eastern states. Assembled
here are found dealers of small and
great facility-dealers whose capital en-
ables them to keep two or three hun
bred head Of stock in their stalls, and
still control their supply by money in
buyers hands and those who bear the
same relation to large establishments in
the line as curbstonc brokers to the sue
cessful leaders of Wall street and who
"swing" on assets of $500, and call them
selves lin the business"
The heavy drain upon the resources OF
the market here is balanced by the arrival
of animals, which are daily received from
the hands OF buyers. All the principal
dealers have agents who scour the state of
Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Pennsylvania and Vermont,
going even as far west as Kansas, purchas-
ing in lots of one, two, ten, or twenty from
the farmer, until sufficient number is &C.
cumulated. Then the horses are shipped
for New York. The animals, during the
car contains 16 horses, and the shipper
sends, in the accompanying caboose, or
saloon car, an assistant, generally boy,
to look to the comfort of the stock during
transportation, and to assure safe delivery
to the consignee. The length of TIE routes
vary. occupying, as a general thing, in the
neghborhood of five days. There are
regularly appointed stopping places, will
suitable accommodation, where stock lays
over from Is to "a hours for food and rest
so that the horses suffer little or no incon
venience or ill effects from the journey
The stock secured is from five to eigh
years old, and intended to supply tn,
wants of every branch of trade. Tit
street railway and stage corporations, tn,
express and cart-men, the city depart
ments, the sober head of the family il
search of quiet pair, or the man who /!
inside of forty all are supplied at prices
ranging from $50 to $1,000. The bes
horses for working purposes come from
Ohio and Illinois, while those from Ken
lucky and Vermont are most valuable fol-
driving. Lower Canada and Michigan
furnish good horses for both work an(
pleasure. Among the dealers in Bull
Head market who do the heaviest buying
are j. ii. Dahlman, j. Merhrbach, Oakley
Smith, G. & III. Hayman, j. ii. WhitsoI
and j. Dahlman. Between two and three
thousand horses pass annually through tn
hands of each of these dealers.
TIE AUCTION MART.
This branch of the trade is distinc
feature, having little in common with tn,
sale market. Some establishments may
combine the characteristics of each; but
MS general rule, following the manner o
other commodities disposed of to tht
highest bidder, this market is merely
commission house, through which tn
animals pass. A nondescript collection /
often found there on the day of sale, in
GLIDING horses in all stages of physical dis
ability-animals that appeal more to tn
sympathies than to the pocket This mar
ket Is, however, well supplied with goo,
and valuable stock. With the accumula
ton of fortune, it is found that men gen
orally provide themselves with one or NOR
horses. So when fortune is lost, tn
horses are led out as the first avaiabl
assets. The annual pilgrimage to Europe
and the settlement of estates are frequen
sources of supply to the market. Famou
horses which, only season or two before
brought thousands to the pockets of owner
or hackers, often pass into this market I
he sold for mere song. A case in poin
is the recent sale of thorougbreds and fame
horses in this city, the property of Angus
Belmont and Pierre Lorillard. Mr.. Be
mont's celebrated horse Silkstockine
which won the Kentucky stakes at Saratt
ga, three years ago, sold for $i10. MI
Lorillard's Attila, winner of the Traver
stakes on the same course last year, wen
for $3.50. Other animals whose glory la
departed were disposed of in a simila
manner. The sources of supply of thes
animals good, bad and indifferent, offere
at public or private sale in this city, ma
be found in general very near home, tn
principal breeding farms being situated O
Long Island and Staten Island, in New
Jersey and in the counties forming the i'm
mediate environs of New York city.
THE sTREET-CAR HORSES.
One of the most practical ways in whicl
the horse is utilized in the absence of stean
transit is in the street-car lines. AS befor
stated, nearly all the animals for this pur
pose, are obtained at the markets of tn