The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-12-19
r1nE MomEs FOR HORsEs.

or than ordinary horses used for heavy
drought purposes, yet the loads they
null Will agerage more1h weight than
those pulled by truck horses Of any other
business, The horses are nearly all OF
American stock, and are worth from
$500 to $500 piece. Sometimes as high
AZ S700 and 5000 is paid for exceptionally
fine stock. The stock is the biggesttt
of, expense the express companies have,
and the care of it is matter OF much
consideration with them. Old-fashlOn'
ed, badly ventilated and badly drained
buildings for stable purposes are seldom
found! 1Uommodious buildings, where
the sanitary laws are strictly observed
and proper ventilation without draughts
mas been made matter of science, are
used.
The Adams was the first of the express
companies to put up structure OF mou'
ern architecture, 1t was bullt I'D Jersey
City in 1885 and is to-day, perhaTs the
best stable in the country. ABOUT GOV
horses are cared for there nights Inc
building is one of the show places OF Ihe
CITY, and everybody who asks Jersey
CITY man to show him the sights OF the
town sees the stable among the hrst'
It's rather imposing looking structure
from the outside, three stories hlgh WIN
A gable roof, 1t is built entirely OF DITCH
It occupies an entire block in Henderson
street and about 200 feet in Montgomery
and in York streets. The entrances are
on the latter streets, and over each, high
mn near the roof, is large guided
horses head carved out Of wood. ,
The office at the Montgomery and
Henderson street corner of the buildings
IL finished in polished walnut, and is fur
nished more like a rich man 8 parlor
than a business office in stable The
floor is covered with Wilton velvet car
NET oyerlaid with Persian rugs. The
room is papered with heavy linen paper,
and a dozen or more richly framed pic
lures hang from the walls, A life-s r.
orayon of w, B. Dinsmore, the first Presl-
dent of the company, stands on an easel
facing the door. Besides the ordinary
office furniture, there are easy chairs and
diyans, In the same room, separated
from the office by railing, there is a
veterinary drug shop. All the drugs
that are ever used in the treatment OF
horse diseases are on hand with the ap-
pliances for using them. A veterinary
surgeon sleeps in the office.
Ont side the office the entire first tiotr.
with the exception of one-story annex
TO the main building, is used as awagon
room. There is space to storea hundred
double wagons such as are used down
town in this city, and forty of the single
wagons. The floor is asphaltum. Every
wagon that is stored in the building al
might is washed before it is backed into
its place, and for this purpose there Is a
washstand at either entrance, built IN
the floor, The largest room in the annex
buildinp is used as blacksmith shop.
Six blacksmiths are kept busy, and they
shoe from thirty to thirty-hve- horseE
every day. Twenty different sizes and
shapes of manufactured shoes are used
besides the ice creepers. The boiler room
is lust off the blacksmith shop. A 20
horse power Compbell boiler furnishes
heat for the entire building. One end
of the boiler room is used as shoe black
ing room, and every driver and helper
is obliged to go to that room and oiacken
his boots or shoes every morning oeIort
he begins his days work. there IS room
for thirty men to blacken their SHOES az
one time. The engine room Is next 70
the boiler room. A 1O-horse power gas
engine runs the elevators. The rest OF
the annex is used as stall room. Inere
are seventeen ordinary and nine boz
stalls there. -
Nearly all the horses are kept on the
second floor, and the entire floor given
up to them, They walk up an inclined
roadway fifty feet long to get to IL
There IS one of these roadways on eacf
side of the building, and in case OF tirt
the horses could be got out OF the bulId
ing in a few minutes. There are 2O'
stalls on the floor and six box stalls
Each stall is ten feet long and five fee
wide. The partitions between them arr
eight feet high. These are made D
wood up to FIVE feet from the floor anC
the rest is braided wire, Straw beddihi
ia used. 1t is five or six inches deep u
each stall, and braided straw mattlnI
extends foot out from the stalls. In
bedding is changed every day, A quite
runs back of each row of stalls and emf
ties into drain pipes connecting directl
with the street sewer. The drains ar
flushed every morning with soap sud
and then with clear water, and the gu
tiers are scrubbed with carbolic soap an
disinfected. That does away with u
ordinary smell of stable. The room
ventilated by means of air shafts to II
roof, and patent ventilators in the VIII
dows, When the horses come in
night they are rubbed down with rata
shavlngs until thoroughly dry. If it h
been raining their legs are bathed Wi
carbolic soap and whiskey. That pr
vents stiffness. After that their hoo
are washed at the washstand at eth
end of the floor and then oiled, II
shoes are tested every night. Twice
week every horse has bath, is rubb
dry and has its tail banged. The b.
stalls are kind of luxury for the horse
They are IA feet squire and give plen
of room to move around in. Each hor
il numbered, and each has its turn wi
an accompanying day off in a box sta
The feed box in all the stalls Is IN fror
and the feed is passed IN through
opening in the grating, 80 that it is new
necessary for any one to enter the ST.
after the horse is put in it. and kicke
don't get a chance to show their abilil
The whole floor of the stable is scrubb
with carbolic soap three times wee
1t is scrupulously clean all the time.
The hay and feed loft is in the ma
room of the third floor of the big bui
ing, Only fifty bales Of hay are kept
hand, the stock being replenishtd twl
week. The feed bins hold ,6OO'bus
els of oats. Patent oat screens are
the bottom of each, and the oats are
livered to the floors below through the
screens, The harness room, where
the harness is kept over night, ii
model, Wooden racks hang from
ceiling the whole length of the roo
and the harness pegs are on these Eve
peg is numbered to correspond with
number of the horse. The harness
brought up from the first floor below
two padded elevators used exclusive
for that purpose and every set Is clean
and oiled daily. The harness Iep
shop is just across the main room, a
breaks are repaired at once. the repi
shop is the best furnished and neat
room in the building except the oth
There is drying room back of the hi
ness room, where all the wet blank
and canvas covers used on the wage
in rainy weather are dried, The blar
cts hang In rows from the ceiling. I
temperature is kept at about 100 degre
and 100 Of the big covers and blank,
can be dried in a night. The storerot
is on the opposite side of the buildir
and the hundreds of new blankets stor
there are packed in camphor to prott
them from moths. A carpenter She
where minor repairs to wagons ARENA
is next to the storeroom, and back
that is a paint shop, where tbewago
are painted, Every room, from top
bottom of the building, has a wardfo
for the use of men who work there.
The building is lighted throughout,t
cept on the second floor, with elect
Iiehts. The men in the building are {
ganized into a fire company, and 4
alarms are on every floor, connect
with gong that can be heard all oN
the building. A force Of sixty men c
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