The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-01

also several other innovations under
consideration, which will probably as
sumo shape and be given to the public
al later day. Mr.. Fenton says the
public will receive better treatment
than ever this year.
THE ARNOLD MOTOR.
"The Arnold Motor" is the name
ironically applied to the mules en-
ployed by the Street Car Company.
They have been frequently held up to
ridicule, and the statement has often been
made that they should be at once and
| forever barred from a city having any
claims to progression. No one, we be-
lieve, not even the genius who among
other bad habits has conceived dis
like for the 'zebras" and the bus com.
pany, q morbid taste for corpses. and a
fierce desire for fires, will say that New
! York is not q progressive place, or that
| the average mule is not the equal of the
western mustang. Within the last few
months the mustang has been taken to
New York in droyes, and at present, on
| the Third Avenue Surface Railway, at
! least, he outnumbers the eastern horse
in the ratio of nearly five to one. They
may be seen on most of the cars which
-un from the stables at Sixty-6fth Street
to the City Hall, scarcely larger than
good-sized pony, with rough coats
and an evident distrust of the elevated
railway trains which go laundering
along overhead. They have been tried
and unwiTtingly passed their trial sue
cessfullv. They eat less than a big
horse, they keep in better condition,
they are less subject to disorders, they
have much more endurance, aud after
they are once trained they work to-
gether with quito as much ease as their
more civilized brothers. But before
they are trained they are not inclined
to pee ce, and are so familiar with their
hostlers that the latter, in order to keep
whole clothing on their backs, are CON-
PEELED to endow their charges with
muzzes of the wrought iron order. The
mustangs are purchased in the west,
particularly in Texas, by the agents OF
the company. which no longer depends
upon the horse-trading talents of firms.
They are sent to New York in patches
of twenty and forty and are as wild as q
Manitoba blizzard. Their training is
done in the stable at Sixty.fifth Street.
but by and by, as driver describes it,
"they git so hungry that their insides
git sll knotted up and they
eat their stalls" AS this is
not particularly nutritious diet,
the mustangs begin 20 show longing
for hay, but what they really delight in
is bran. When this main difficulty of
eating is overcome the little horses are
harnessed to cars, with old. settled
down car horses as their mates, and,
with poles are driven around the stable.
They have particular fondness for
climbing posts and trying to get on the
top of the cars, but, by means of we'll
administered hints that such conduct
is not tolerated in civiiiz d communi-
ties, they manage 10 canter around
little. Two days are generally sufficient
to convince the mustangs that there
is point where obstinacy ceases
to become praiseworthy at
ribute. But there comes an
other difficulty. Despite their utter
detestation for all manner of tanned
horses. they are harnessed to old
stagers and beein tn ir trips down town.
At the appearance of every train they
endeavor to climb up the pillars, but
being restrained by the other horse and
the repeated evidences of dissa:isfac-
ton from their driver, they settle down
to endurance. Two weeks Of this sort
of thing and a set of tired drivers
generally brings q consignment OF
mustangs into an appreciation of the
dull realities of eastern life. After that
they are harnessed to one of their own
race. and pass their lives in exchanging
memories of the Texas plains and draw
ing the cars.