Catoctin clarion., 1889-10-24
THEY LUNCH IN PUBLIC.
HORSES TAKE THEIR MIDDAY MEAL
ON THE CITY eTREETs.

Sights Familiar tO Villages Duplicated on
metropolitan Observation-Disclosures
Ton nusy to Send Their Eq"ines TO Their
Stables.
1t Is common saying that Chicago's great
ambition Is fully eQualed by her energy. The
Youngest mother Of million souls In all the
earth, she amazcs sister cities BY the audacity
with which she converts the sesningly inn
possible into verify.
30 very young, It would be passing strange
II she had cast aside all the giddiness Of teen
hood There yet clings about her reminders
OF the days when II single Inn could well caro-
for all her visitors, and when farmers on
court days fed their horses in the street.
There Is nothing small about Chicago, and
st,s is 80 sturdily independent that her sons
nave caugh. her spirit and do as they please
II the fancy suits them, and while rejoicing
In Innovations, they do not scruple to cling
tenaciously TO practice that Is convenient
and time and labor saving. even though it
have about It the mir Of antiquity.
CCRBsToNE SPREADS.
The stranger that Is within her gates, as
we'll as those native and to tho manner born,
Porridgeville whose no souls live in lively
expectancy of cclpsing New York in popula-
tiom and London in wealth, will not do for
Chicago This practice which has clung per-
tinnctusly In all tho mutations Of time Is
nothing more or loss than the feeding OF
horses on the public highway. Go where one
will between the hours Of II and 8 and he
may see horses of all ages and conditions
4, ~s&,,p i'll hoy
bags m,lzaling their jaws; others are contontr
edly eating from soap boxes, and still there
are more which modestly gather theirs In
from, the stones OF the street.
Non must it for a moment be supposed that
this great crowd Of feeders is owned by un.
fashionables from the rural districts, who
with economic forethought bring In tho
grain from their own bins Contrariwise
tho animals arc city owned. many Of whose
masters are owners of great warehouses;;
others are the property of cab and hack com
panies; others yet are humble drawers of ex-
press wagons. Ono may sec the massive Per-
cheron, the pon.lerots Cly.lesdale and the
handsome Morgan, us well as the infinite va.
riety of scrub stock thick skinned and inert.
Scattered among the fat and sleek are the
lame, the halt and the blind but all possessed
Of vigorous appcAt~ and apparently indif-
ferent to the fact that, like Louis XIV OF
France on stated occasions, they are dining
in sight of oil the people
Nor is any street too sacred or too crowded
for this outdoor dining. Not only are tho
dray horses Of Franklin and Market streets
fed OH those busy thoroughfares but also
along stad La Sale, fast developing Dear
born, fashion gathering State, crowded and
tl,, Il
hustling Fifth avenus-on each and every
one Of these may be soen daily, as well as
upon others not named, lines of horses tun,-
bling to their oats and oats only; for "long"
feed iy denied the faithful animals at their
mAiday rc,mst Incidentally, it may 10 said
that horses in the British army are "cdu-
catel" to rejection Of all kinds OF fodder,
living upon Nh exclusive diet of grain. The
stomachs Of these animals, by that fclicitous
faculty of adaptation Of ones self to changed
conditions, becon,e very much contracted,
and If any pass into the hands of farmers
they must again lie educated" by slow de-
gress to acceptance OF hay.
This fact il thrown out IN order to empha-
size statement made by a man well up In
horse knowledge to II reporter, to the effect
that horses accustomed to hay arc not bener
Atrd by meal Of grain only, that Just as the
goose and the ostrich must have gravel as
aids to digestion, 80 the enormous stomach Of
tho equine demands hay or some other "0ll-
Ing" substance to 20 along with the grain.
lie declares he never, under any circunl-
stances, gives oats alone to his many horses.
"Its against nature, and too trying on their
digestive apparatus" he declared
Aprops to long feed, It may not he gener.
nlly known that IN some parts OF England
and OF this country sawdust is used as q SUBJ
stitute for bay Horses are really brought
u this diet by the help of salt, their fondness
for which will lead them to swallow the
requisite quantity of sawdust II 1t have
sprinkling of salt In It, 1t Is claimed by
high authorities that there is more nutrition
in s,,wdust than in hay, and that animals
actually thrive better under a diet OF the
former than Of the latter
"Ho SIXTEEN COURSE DINNER"
Why this feeding Of horses on the street,
this practice 50 common in villages, but cast
aside usually as soon as young cityhood Is
first reaclledi This query was prolounded to
n drayman m Franklin street as he stood
with folded arms regarding his team Of giant
horses at their luncheon.
YOU'D oughter know y'rself. The man
what gifts ahead in this yer citys got to hustle
Ter it, Us fcllers don't have no sixteen course
dinners, m We don't have ter take couple
NV hours fer our wine. The business afore
US is hauin' He's the best feller that gifts in
the most time m loads That's the size Nv it
Its economy. S'poSin' one druv two ur
three ur five Ut six milo to his barn m back,
he'd be losin' half his day fur nawthin'.
Horses bcant over nice about eatin'. Man n
boy, I've been drivin' team twenty year,
u my experience is that II horses taste lays
altogether in tho amount OF feed N not In
how it's give to him. A pine box is just as
sweet to him "a mahogany trough. Scnce
bis fcelin's amt hurt by eatin' outdoors
cant SEQ no uso NV other folks complainin'."
No greater anomaly, no stranger thing In
all this big city of curiosties, Is presented
tllnn that OF these thousands Of harnessed
horses leisurely eating their oats, with mir as
independent as though thcy owned all they
saw. Probably they do, as their eyes rarely
get beyond their grain. Youth Is as stolcul
as are. tho colt of four summers being rs
staid, sclute and as settled down to business
as the old mare Of twenty. They may net be
e,1i'urean in their tastes, but they are hearty.
They may not exactly understand why they
should have their dining halls along the
streets but such lack Of knowledge does not
give them indigestion.
III silence they ent what is laid before them,
and, like tho thrifty and economical farmer
OF Paw wtunk, leave nothing upon their plates.
One old fellow, which feeds near the corner
OF Fifth avenue and Lake streets, has cry
ing sort of face, one that hints at great mem
orles, and he really does look as though be
had l,een here ever since the 'forties, had
see, the entire growth OF the city, mourned
the death Of thousands, and was infinitely
Inundated because be must needs expose the