The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-04-30
THE CITY HORSE MARKETS.
WHBRE OUADRUPEDS AND BUYERS
ARR SOMETI INES SbLD.


Liberty streets. Two noted safe stables were on
oh street Wufdcudykc's lnd John patton'sin
Liberty street, Alec. Campbcus and Henry Van.
dowaters In Washington. there was also an auc-
ton sale stable called -Tattersalls.' IN Broad
way, between Grand and Howard streets. Amos
Chamberlain-who keeps a sale stable on Twon.
ty-fourih stroet--wtth his father bought ont
wordendyke's place, and subsequently Vande-
waters, aud Ia believed to be the oldest horso
dealer In New York to-day,
When the cattle market wns moved up to,.be
vicinity Of tho old "Bull's Head" tavern, anat-
ufal succession " events drew the horse mar
kot to that ne ighborhood also. Drovers used to
bring their cattle here from Onto and other
Western States, over land, driving them by
slow stages, and themselves riding on borso-
back. Upon arriving here, they expected to
turn into money both cattle and horses. and
that this process OF conversion Nigh. be easy
and speedy, they established regular horse sale
stables IN close proximity to the point whore
they were called by their legitimate business.
Buyers speedily came toknow thas this was tie
place to find young, hardy horses, such us the
experienced dfoyer might DO expected to fur
nish himself WITH both for service and as safe
investment for speculation. Tie established
downtown dealers were not slow to perceive
| chances for acting middle men In disposing
OF the droyers' horses, and perhaps also saw pos
sible advantages, In the association OF tho well.
reputed drovers stock. to help them In dispos-
ing OF less saablo en'mals. so In 1sl5 We nnd
the horsennn's principal headquarters in
| Twenty-fourth street, where nearly two whole
bloaks on both sidcs Of the street are occupied
by their establishments. Mr.. Amos Chamber
lain was tho nrst TO establish himself In the
original Bulls Head stables.
Since the old system OF driving cattle TO the
| New York market has passed into disuse-
transportation by rail being the now universally
accep pied means-the horse business has fallen
almost entirely into the hands OF the regular
dealers and their agents. Few outsiders bring
horses here, and stlli fewer do so more than
once. Each OF the principal dealers has his
| own buyers, who travel about the country
through the horse producing districts procuring
| animals whenever and wherever they AN. This
Ia sometimes very slow aud extensive work.
! or even four weeks before he can sue
| coed in purchasing, Mt prices witch he
deems the market VIII warrant him In paying, =
car load - sixteen horses that he may consider
| worth bringing to this market OF course, the
! longer he Is AT u this greater the expense TO be
AVERAGED upon each horse IN the lot foI the first
ones bought have to be fed and cared for, and
travelled from place to place until the last are
found. So calculation OF the cost OF bringing
| horses to New York involves certain very IN
! definite and uncertain elements outside mere
! railroad transportation and the original cost Of
the beasts In the country. For instance, two
dealers received each car load OF horses ono
day last week. one lot came from Illinois. aud
the cost on them over their several prices
averaged 5000 yer head The otner lot came
: si;a, ''O'-"'' anu tue average ~ '"''" ""'
BRED IL THE WEST AND SOLD IN THE EAST.
No horses are raised Tor sale In the vicinity Of
/ New YORK; and, nde,d for hundred miles
! from this city farmers deem II cheaper To come
here and bay horses than TO breed them Tor
! their own use. From all directions outside that
| limit. however. thev dock IN here by thousands.
great nany come from Illinois. wbere-cspe-
| caly IN tue middle and northern part OF the
! Stat, good deal Of Intention has been given
In late Years to breeding from the NDr-
man stock. Good serviceable horses come
syivnnia, wcst Virena, Michigan, Lower
| Cnusdl. and the Northern aud western
part OF New York. The finest and most stylish
| hetNy coach horses come from New YORK state,
| some animals from Michigan anu Nest Virginia,
win some from ONO. OF course, II cannot be
said that only such animals come from certain
! places and nowhere elsa. Good horses, and poor
once. TOO, come from all over the land, but, In a
general way, tue expectation Is that they Will
| II muck" horses. which used to be brought mere
/ IN considerable numbers from Canada, aie no
specirneu~ of winch enduring but dlaholit brutes
! occa-ipuaily lake their way here, leaving myr-
| iuds 90 cOntus.ons and an atmosphere blue with
! profanity IN their wake. New York wants large
horses, md Of such animals rs are readily sale
abo here. prices range. In the country. from 500
| 10 SLO Tor good common work horses, sl,J To-
| go Tor heavy work horses, 20 70 500 Tor car
here are already largely dependant upon color,
| style, and action, ana are just touching on the
| higher ground where the trOtteIs nd specially
! fancy stock BEGIN to grade upward toward and
into the thousands. Those costly animals never
get into twenty fourth street except w acct
dent, and II they DO. their stay there Is tut
| snort, a. they soon pass into the hands OF IL
other class Of horse dealers who make bust,
moss speciality Of breeding, developing, and
| dealing in phenomenal brutes.
The greater part Of the horses that are brought
here are destined to WORK on the street railroads
| and Omblbus lines. service IN whici they Oniy
| ST, ON AN average, ABOUT four wears, and the
dealers who make their principal business the
IL ara A.
smith, ]. Mehruach, Isaac DOlman. and John
| Henry Wilson. II must not be Understood that
they con0ne themselves to II, for In their large
stables may he found all the time animals TOO
valuable Tor street car Juggling, as well ss some
! perhaps not a. even for that. Other dealers.
| too, furnish horses 10 the street car and omnl-
bus COMPANIES. but those Datued ore mentioned
as the pTnclpa ones, and over 300 horses PISS
! through the hands OF each every year.
There are REASONS why II Is almost impossible
to arrive at even an appro ximate estimate Of the
hunher OF hoIses required " supply TINS marhet
annually. IN the first place. the dealers are ex-
ceedingly reticent and unwilling TO tell anything
about Their business which they can avoid tell
! lng. IL /, hard 10 believe that men who have
! been many years in n business c m know so very
! little Of the laws Of supply anu demand govern
| ing IL as the horse desleTs Of Iweuty-.ourth
! street profcss to know OF their trade; ASK one
OF the venerable deceivers, anu he will tell you.
| with band and caudId smile, that he hasn't
really the faiutcst notion whether tue stIee.-Car
lines use up 100 Or 1900 hors Is a year: he never
even thought about II. Wei, perhaps he hasn't.
FAIRY STORY.
Then another reason Is that II is almost Inn
possible To know how often the same horse
passes through the Twenty fourth street mar
| ket. There Is an old German fairy story about
a wondfous min In which wrinkled old women
were ground up anu brought out agLin fresh
aud young. The rwcnty-fJurth street mar tet
Is good deal that sort OF u mill for horses But
the fairies mill was superior, In that its prod
ucts remained young ana far ever thereafter.
"What do YOU do asked the writer OF ono OF
the oldest mliers on Twenty fourth street,
when YOU GeI hold Of a horse that Is forty
seven years old, aud Vicious, and spawned, and
glandcd, and got the poll evil aud the cpizuOlc
and the bots and all the other things horses
have. to make him look young ana fresh and
sound and gentle IN the eyes OF the unwary
bufrrY'
"Young man." responded the ancient one,
with cunning wink, " / amt agOin' TO let you
nor anyDOdy else into the secrets OF the husl-
ness. what knows knows. But" he went
on To affirm, There isn't one-eignth OF the
fixing ~ OF horses that pt opls believe there II,
and lots that we do to a horse IS for the horses
good; yet II people that didn't understand II
were To come IN and see NJ a doing II, they'd
think we were liking hun up to cheat somebody.
| Now, for instance, you get u horse with an over
| shot mouth. His teeth don't come together on
his IoOd, slip over IL, ana he can't chew good"
Zone Of the results Of very old aget'
We'll, yes, sometimes, may be but some
| horses are that way n ,turally Now 10 does that
horse good to cut his teeth OF so that lie can
clenCh them together on his food
" Besides removing the grooves which are the
evidences OF ageT