Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-02-13
LOO CAR HORSES
FED AND HOUSED AND CARED FOR
UNDER ONE ROOF.
Keeping Them In Condition-How Car
Horses Are Injured-The Average Loss
Fer week-The StabIes-Pur-
chase of Animals.

Ali, there, shouted gruff voice. A re-
porter moved TO one side and n team OF
horses We're driven into the main depot c:
the Third Avenue Surface Railroad CON-
pany a team comes IN ani goes out
every two minutes sail John f. Waller,
the companys foreman.
On each day in the Year, queried the re
porter.
"Nn.' was the answer "but in seasons like
this When are at cur busiest a team
go-s out ami comes in every thirty seconds.
The company own about :. 100 head of
cattle'-to use the technical term-but 400
of them are required for its other stables.
Mr. Waller has made n study of the horse,
AMI Is able to tell 10y CHANGING at an an
imal whether or not it is in
con iiticn. Il laughed said he,
"when an oil horse doctor .old me
years ago that he could tell the
condition Of a horse by looking at him. |
have since discovered that tho old Vet knew
what lie talking about IL you spend
Your days and often your nights, for years.
among horses and keep your eyes half open
yoa can't help ind erstan ling them. They
have much IN common with the human
family The old horses, for instance, never
take kindly at first to a new horse and will
At MIN Nutl iicN As
soon as the stranger begins to feel at home
the kicking stops, becau,e he has plucked up
spirit enough 10 kick back. They often fight
over their feed The horse first served is
looked upon with feelings of envy by those
that have To wait little longer. They
seldom kick any of the men, except If
man happens t. pass close TO their heels with
a box Of feel Then they sometimes attempt
to Lsfsh There X ffta ~, the - lila who
had his head almost kicked OH last year.
Two horses were fighting. One made ter
rIble kick with his hind feet just the man
WAS raising One Of the feet struck him in
the face AMI dashed him up against a stall.
NJ, the queerest part Of the business was
that he didn't die.
TEE stable &C upies three stories of the
huge building. which covers square The
descent to the floor below the grade Of the
street is deep n the ascen; Ia the floor
above the ground, bat the horses manage 20
make the trips without accident. Each
horse, or rather each pair Of horse, for
every horse has n mate, Is expected e. work
three hours per day. \ team which starts
from Harlem makes one round trip. daily.
II an acct lent happen, to a horSs while on
duty the driver informs the foreman Of 1t,
with the attendant circumstance. II
driver fails 10 do this and the negligence l.
discovered. tie company has no further use
for HIM. The hes; possible care is taken o:
the stock for obvious reasons
Car horses are injured in a variety Of
Ways They run the greatest ri a during the
hotties; part 81 the summerani the coolest %
winter. These two periods aggregate about
four and a half months The month Of Sep
tember was the hardest month Of this wear
for car horses. An intensely warm term
came ON the heels % cool period, ami the
result was the prosiration Of large number
Of car-horses in this city a. well a. IN many
other parts Of the country Leaving in
tensely hot AMI cold weather out a. the quss-
ton the most perilous season for the car
horse is dry, windy weather Tie cobhls
stones over which he travels are then as
smooth As polished glass Not a particle ~
any foreign substance can get u fooihnli on
them, and the sEarply-Shoi boot Will slip
from them with the same ease
rs tie human foot will sliis II
the smooth side Il banana skin
Some ~ the roadbeds offer even more
than the usual facilities for accidents Of tbs
nature, They are constructed on The SHAPE
OF watershed siop.ns from the center q
the irscSS. ori these the car aIrss has
hand time indeed in wintry and windy
weather. COmiai a:ively few aociden.s lap
pen in wet weaJh.. Unless they happen &c
break a LINT. only small uercentsre Of