The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-30
TIE HORSE AND CARRIAGE TRADE.
Tho Horse Market Beginning to Feel the
Summer Dulness.

Tho Horse Market Beginning to Feel the
Summer Dulness.
The horse market has begun to feel the
regular summer dulness ut last and from now
until October dealers do not expect to do any
great amount OF business, although there are
certain grades Of horses that invariably bring
good prices and command q ready sale at all
seasons OF the year.
These are carriage and saddle horses OF the
highest quality. and when specimens Of tho
highest tyre can be found they are worth al
most any price In reason. During the present
week notable sale OF horses will be held on
Wednesday. at IL o'clock. ut the American
Horse Exchange, Fiftieth street and Broad
way. the thoroughbreds Saxony. Sandy.
and tho Raven being among very fine
lot that will come under the hammer Sax
ony Is by Saxon, out OF EnQuiress. by En-
Guirer and few horses have had more
brilliant turf career He WAS one OF the
specdest horses on the turf three years ago.
and bent nearly every high-class performer at
his favorite distance. He should make spen-
did sire. Mr.. J. B, HaRRin once offered $4,000
for him. intending to send him TO the Rancho
del Paso stud. Both Sandy and tho Raven are
well bred. The regular weekly auction sales
at Van Tassell & Kearney's depository In East
Thirteenth street drew large crowds on Tues
day aud Friday OF last week.
Tho carriage trade is active, and John Moore.
So Warren street. reports very good business
in natural wood surreys, buckhoards carts.
&C.. rs well as In painted traps He has q bran
new novelty in tho share Of iEilied ana IL tas s.
the uprigh's OF any canory top. 1t Is surely a
great convenience this hot weather, Trade In
the harness department has been brisk. with
especially largo demand for russell harness to
match the natural wood carts.
W. II. Gray. % Wooster street, has some very
neat game wagons and waRonettes IN Guartered
oak with trimmings OF Bedford cord or pig
skin, A very pretty thing In his show room Is
runabout in curly maple with nickel mount
ingS and corduroy trimmings;
Manager Smith of tho Racine Wagon Com
pnny has been so overworked Of late that he
has been Obliged to give MP business for a little
while and take much needed rest at his home
in Hollis. l.. ]: Meanwhile the business is go,
South Fifth avenue.
our business has boon very fair and is CON
f eock IN D The
BaGcock and Havemoyer buckboards. We arc
painting them IN fancy colors now. orange and
vermiion. and they seem to strike the nublic'
The Babcock Company has Just received some
very elegant, light victorias with shifting driy-
j. F. Goodrich. 63i broadway shows II natty
little game cart. painted black with line yellow
e6r Toff Ho ia @ame OF
his triple surrey built on the Same principle rs
his patent triple blackboard. which If so largely
oak with II canopy top. and Is ms neat rs It Is
comfortable. Sir. Goodrich says no builds
every llnS from u lFDItlnE Sulk y 10 ueHTbe.
In the BrOOme street repository OF the FIan-
drRu Company there are oil so!tS OF pretty
things. Among them Is n dos-n-dos OF rose
wood, with nickel mountings and corduroy
trimmings. The wheels and gearing are vor-
million, with black stripes. Another Is a 81 IAN
hope phaeton, with ten-colored gearing: but
the oldest as well ms one OF the pret,iest, Is a
special victoria. The ,gearinR AMI wheels are
primrose yellow. with black stripes IT is hung
on six srrings. black. with yellow stripes, AMI
the pnnols are all ye low 1t Is tho most strik--
ing combination yet effected. and will attract
many II second glance as 1t rolls down the Park.
The constantly increasing business Of tho
New York Wagon Company. 5s5 Hudson street.
has compelled them 10 make quit" extensive
alterations and engagements in their factory.
This deserving concern builds some OF tho
best business and light driving WAGONS 10 be
found anywhere, ma the results OF their good
work ARC very satisfactory
William II. bradley. l.i90 Broadway, hhs n
worry noHt limo OF Blu sCieS, carts, &c. MIR. Brad
10y Is ono o. tho oldest carriage builders In
New York. and what he does not know about
carringe building and the trade generally ID
hardly worth any ones effort to learn.
Tn" United states Wagon Company. Mt Third
avenue and FOriy-ninth street, make RDe-
cialty 81 building express and business wagons.
and have some very fine slecimens OF their
WORK. In the showrOomS They report q very
satisfactory trade.
Edward Callanan's Son. 81 West Forty fourth
street Is worry busy now taking care of the spe-
cinl work which he makes feature'of his bust
ness. He builds to order anything that will
run on wheels and carry riders thut finds It's
motive power in horseiiesh.