Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
THE HONEST CAR HORSE.
Some Give Out IN rhre~ Monsh~, Whus
Last for NearS-

Some Give Out IN Thr~~ Month>,W " nv 49,
Lest for Near~-
CHOW LONG DOES q car horse usually
III isst2" asked STAR man Of driver On
the 18th street line the other night
well that depends on the horse" 80 -
reply. ''Some horses won't last bat three
months and then We have horses that have bsrp
on the road for thirteen wears. That ought 70
be long enough To satisfy any one. oughtaf
it,"
THr STAR man said yes. and then asked Wat
made some horses 60 TO pieces in 30 short
space Of time.
We'll, you see" said the driver. Its their
nerves. IL isn't the amount OF travel thss .
horse does in a day. but its the frequent stop
ping and starting again. That's what Jars Q
horse. Every time he starts it's a sudden jerk,
and some constitutions can't stand H. Nov,vs
goi lot OF horses when the knights Templas
had their conclaye here q year ago, and somo
Of them didn't last three weeks They went n
10 pieces anu were utterly worthless. Nov, Q
horse on this line has Co travel about twenty
miles day. That distance isn't much. and
he eould 40 Il all NJ once he would finish ~
task in three or four hours; hut he don't He
goes two trips aud then he lays Of couple q
hours: Their he is put on hgFin. As said il
the constant stopping and sudden starting ~
ruins the horses. Still. some Of them get ussA
to 1t and l1st good while, Its awful hsA
on Snowy days. Now. didn't ga
stalled at all on Monday. when il xas 80 hsd.
but one car was thirty minutes going from l6ah
street To the boundary. The horses appnx-
emily got stalled four or five times at least -
passengers thought 80. But they were ~
teain. ana every little while, when she -
stopped. she wouldn't start. She got nervogp
and couldn't or wouldn't pull. Perhaps -
thought she had pulled enough for that day,
ANYWAY. Horses do think. you know. Thsy
reason. too. sometimes. Just like human boine
and they have wonderful memories 1 does
believe horse ever forgcts anything he 10 ooos
taught Why. those horses know what nv -
them rs well AZ YOU do They know when ehey
are on Their last trip at night too and ssey
going TO the stable for the night"
As ne said that the nigh horse pricked op
l,s ears and beean to quicken ne sros;
and the driver said: Don't Won ase,
That old girl knows what I'm saying and -
knows she = gong 10 the stable. too. Wh9S
do We get oar horses? oh. from everywhsre;
mostly. however, from Virginia and MsrylanA.
or course we get good stock; il wouldn't py
10 do otherwise. Ii would be money w19toa-
There lot Of fun made Of the car horse boz
he don deserve il. He is taken good care q:
he is well fed: he has careful drivers and -
performs his duty well. He deserves con-
mendation rather than ridicule, and il thsre -
horse heaven you can bet your life the ear
morse oeserNet 70 80 tntre when BIS Work nDeo
is over
Talking about the memory OF horses." "a
gentleman who was standing on the platform,
II remember that when was a boy my father
bought a horse that was old and didn't seem 10
have any life in him. Still. he served us as vali
Tor what we wanted him or the farm n better
animal, and we all became very much attached
TO him. Ne was an intelligent brute and would
follow ms boys all around the place. One day
circus came to town and the procession passed
by cur place. Old Whitley that's what Ne
called him. because he wss a white horse-u1s
IN the field and when he heard the muaie he
pricked up his ears and trolted down 20 the
fence that bordered the road with more spirit
than We lad ever known him 70 diaplay
When the band wagon came in sight the old
horse got awfully excited and all az once he
made a leap over the fence and broke into ths
procession, taking hs Place just behind the
band wagon. We boys called him. but be paid
no attention to us. and then we followed along
until we reached the place where the tents bad
been pitched. There we found that the old
horse had formerly belonged 20 this circus end
that the position he had taken that day was the
one he had occupied during the parade when
he was a circus horse. Well. do YOU know ~
had the hardest kind of q time 10 get him beck
TO the pasture? He seemed 10 he a. lively - Q
two-year-old and didn't want 20 leave the
circus. We finally did get him home, bat I
honestly believe that il the hand had played
when the circus left town he would have
skipped OF and We would have lost him CO.
tirely-n