The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-04-27
HUNDREDS OF HORSES
Some Little Idea of Their
Number in Jersey
City.
How AND WHERE TaEY ABE SEPT.
A Few Of the Biggest Stables and the
Number Of Quadrepeds They
Accommodate,

any other.
Now some people, generally millionaires
and Freeholders, prefer the trctter TO any
other class Of horses, but that may be be
cause no one else can afford the luxury.
Look at Freebooter Kimmerlg as he ex-
ercises his 2:s4 bay mare, or Freebooter
Tierney with his git there nag, or Free
holder Nelson with his stopper. or Clerk
John Boyd, who beats them all but old
Joe Donohue.
It requires a large amount of money &c
care for trotters Stable board is $50 a
month, S. in change for hitching up
oysters and champagne while on the road
and other incidentals, which are nunler-
Gus. Beyond question it is very neees-
sary TO be millionaire or a Freebooter
to enjoy this luxury.
]. c. & BERGEN's STABLES.
But in regard TO the number OF horses
and the manner in which they are cared
for. Take for an example the Jersey
City & Bergen Railroad Company
They had on February IS, 1890, 1856
horses, and at the end OF this month will
have 500 In 1882 the number of animals
owned by the company was but 800. This
comparison of figures shows the enor-
nous increase in the business of the COM
community While talking to President
ghurston one day this week. he gave me
these figures. ana in reply to other ques-
lions said that no road exceeded the Jer-
sey City and Bergen in the excellence OF
their horses. Dealers, who make BUSH
ness OF 1t, purchase them IN Indiana,
Ohio and Pennsylvania and by a special
arrangement the company has choice
before the horses leave the car.
Il believe in buying good sJock," said
Mr.. Thurston because it is cheaper in
the end. 1t costs just as much to feed
and care for cheap horse as for good
one. Frequently the horses we purchase
die before we use them, for every West
ern horse must be acclimated, and we
never use them until they have been with
us at least two months. The Western
horse is at his best when he has been here
about six months
Mr.. Thurston said that the company
paid DR.. William H. Arrowsmith yearly
salary for services as veterinary surgeon.
and that the doctor visited the Montgom-
cry street stable, where there are 400
horses, every Gay, and the Greenville
stable, l64 horses, Jersey City stable, l56
horses and bergen Point stable, which
contains IS mules, on telephone call
A fifth stable is about to be erected on
Grand and Bishop streets.
The horses are unusually healthy he
said, because Of the cleanliness OF the
stables and the care taken of them. Fore
man Patrick Carroll every day makes an
examination of them and takes their
temperature, which if not up TO the
standard means medical treatment at
once
ADAMS EXPRESS
The haudsOmest and most perfect sta
Bile is that of the Adams Express Com
pany on Montgomery and Henderson
streets. Assistant superintendent Har-
vey Marsh, Jr.. said to me that it con.
tanned $50 horses.
The company uses but 1876 each day and
the arrangements are so regulated that
there are three changes of horses to each
wagon. The hostlers have charge OF but
six horses each, and their constant care
is devoted to them when the days work
is over.
On the second floor of the building
there are lSS stalls, and nine box stalls
are on the first floor. In addition to this
is an annex stable, which accommodates
the balance The horses are all of the
Normandy and Percheron breeds, and in
color preference is given to gray, for they
have been found 10 be tougher. They
are purchased from a dealer in PhiladeI-
phia and one in Baltimore.
The average price paid is $3.50 for each
horse. They last the company about six
years on an average. and then they are
sold to dealers, generally for farm work.
The company feeds the horses eight
quarts of pats and corn morning and
night, and at noon four quarts of oats
plain. At night nine pounds of hay is
also supplied each beast Harvey Marsh,
Sr., the superintendent of the stables, has
been in the employ of the company for
twenty years. IL was on his suggestion
that the company does its own horse
shoeing and wagon repairing.
AT Eighth aud Henderson streets Is
fraau ff4A = 70 oh Exfa
pany's stable, which contains three hun
bred horses. They are stabbed on the sec
ond and third floors and are in charge of
veterinary surgeon and superintendent
Peterson.
NORTH HUDSON HORSES.
The North HUDSON County Railway
Company, which controls all the surface
lines in and leading to the northern part
of the county, uses GOO horses.
The animals used by the company are
worthy of special mention and compare
favoFably with those OF any road in the
country. Their sickness and build is
the best evidence of the good treatment
they receive. On no line of this company
can be seen what Is termed a nag.
The principal stables of the company
are located in West Hoboken, where
about four hundred of the horses are
cared for. This stable IS under the inns
mediate supervision of Foreman Albert
about the care Of horses than any other
man in the county. Prior 70 his being
forman OF the stables a veterinary sur
geon was specially engaged to attend any
Of the animals during sickness, but when
Saillat was hired as foreman the position
of veterinary surgeon in the West Hobo
ken stables was abolished and ia Mr..
Sailiat was vested tile dual position of
foreman and veterinary surgeon.
At the West Hoboken stables about
thirty stablemen are employed. Each
man is supposed to clean, feed and take
general care Of fourteen horses When
the horses are led ia after trip they are
washed, watered and fed and the best Of
care taken of them. At the Hoboken sta
ble5 the remainder OF the companY's
horses are housed. The same thorough
system which regulates the West Hobo
ken stables is in vogue here. Mr.. Goetz,
a brother to General Superintendent
Goetz. is foreman. Unlike Mr.. Saillet
however, Mr.. Goetz has not the confidence
in himself to attempt a treatment of any
of the sick animals, and Dr. Dixon, one Of
the best known veterinary surgeons in
the county, is paid q yearly sum for treat
ing the animals in this stable.
On the Jersey City line, which was
from the Hoboken ferry to the Newark
avenue ferry, the horse make four round
trips, which occupies little over four
hours. This is days work, and it is
easy from this TO see why the horses make
SUCH fine appearance.
On the Union Hill route, which is a
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