The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1893-12-01
Private Sales Were Private Snaps
for Those Who Worked
the Scheme.
INTERVIEWS WITH HORSEMEN.
Contractors Give Prices to
Show How the City Has
Been Swindled.

II Mr.. Coles. OF Newark. is DESTROYS Of
buying ash-cart horses he can obtain
them here in New York for SOD each.
AT these figures he can purchase not
only score OF frst-class animals, but
500 or LOCO of them. He will not be
compelled to nay S142.50 each for them.
or $3.50 each. the price paid by the Street.
Cleaning Department of the city of New
York.
The expose OF the reckless deal in ash
cart horses purchased BY the city during
the administration of Big Tom Bren-
nan. STRENGTHENING Commissioner, In
bringing before the public many inter-
esting facts Of vital interest to the tax
payers of New York. and THE Evening
World Is being congratulated and COM
mended for its timely investigation Of
Brennan's methods.
Although yesterday was a holiday, there
were groups of prominent horse-dealers
and others in the uptown sales stables
talking about THE Evening Word's'
expose, and discussing the relative value
Of heavy horses for use on ash-carts.
While the claim Is made by the Journal
istic allies and friends of certain city
officials that the horses in the Street
Cleaning Department weigh l,45O pounds
and over, the real facts are that there are
very few horses in the Department weigh
ins o oys LOO pounds There ere are more
than there are l,5OO-pound horses. ana Tor
every l,6oo-pound horse in the, Street
Cleaning Department. one can find two
There is neither excuse for. NOR ex;
PLANTATION of the now weli-est ablished
fact that, the public treasury has been
swindled by some one out of from 100000
to $4,000 on this extravagant purchase
OF 423 ash-cart horses at $3.50 EACH:
town w m horse gstabl tsut yesterdsy an
! ing World" reporter found that the horse
dealers generally consider that the city
been badly 5 was In ne fo
! ash-cart horses.
Moses G. Byers, contractor and dealer
in horses, II to p West S sn 40
New York. AS dealer he has bought
and sold horses of all classes for many
years. AS contractor he Is the owner
of numerous street-sprinkling carts, ana
has contract with private frms on
upper Broadway for keeping that thor.
oughfare cleaner than IT would be kept
by the city Street-Cle aiming Department.
The horses used by Contractor Byers for
this work are fully up to the standard OF
Commissioner Brennan's horses.
When an Evening World reporter
called upon Mr.. Byers yesterday he said
frankly:
You can quote me both as dealer
in horses and as a street-sprinklinS ana
Il have here in my stables beautiful
black Percheron horse. weighing l6oo
pounds full. This animal Is five or six
years old. and as active as coach
horse.
Now, no man in New York has a
better animal than this one 1 VIII sell
this and other horses of simi lar style
and build for $50 each. or in large lots
at $3.50 each.
a profit of $40 on each horse, even after
the feight and other expenses are paid,
~ Many of the horses in the city
Street leaning Department weigh less
stables l have l,25o-pound horse In
perfect condition which l will sell for
SIS, Here are two horses, a matGh ed
pounds each, which | will sell for $40
for the pair, or so for each horse.
These are horses which have LAVE !, been ,,sl .,
standard of the city's ash cart horses.
Some of the horses in the city Street
e skaes and Torn only ST. Ere or
stead Of $50. the price paid By the city
who Is proprietor Of the RoGkland
Stock Farm, and a leading dealer IN
horses OF all kinds, was In the city
YESTERDAY, He is in town much OF his us
time. and sells thousands of horses In
the New York market every year.
You can buy all the ash-cart horses
you want at auction here In New York;.
said Mr.. Vest to an Evening World,
reporter, "for about $75 and $50 each. 1
quote these prices for heavy, strong;
first class stock; weighing an average OF
, '" do not think IT Is true that the
horses used II the sireet,Cle1n nSS p ,so
among the ash-cart horses of New York
are the exception rather than the rule.
There is no doubt that there are ioi
some of them will weigh only LOO and
II consider $3.50 entirely too high I,
price for The city u pay 70 t frnsh any
, number of the finest and best high-class
coach-horses: strong bestiact Ing AMI nj,
mails for SEQ each fair Fro priGsss $50 ff ~
500 each for good, strong animals.
, In front Of John McGuire's boarding
and sale stables, at 2o2 West Fiftieet Ell,
street Yesterday, We're several carts pc
n longing to the BOARD Of Public Works
= Inside the stables were four large horses
. which Mr.. Mcclure said l had been oo a.
= work with the carts for the city cor
5 Do you care to sell these horses ?,
- asked an g Evening WORLD reporter OIL
replied the ps so sSs four OF 'e 81
II them. They nre strong young horse -,
e 1--WE tons. One is LACK. weighing ~ ~
a pounds; another black horse weigh,
~ $50 pounds, and the two bays s,, WV,
weigh 1850 and l,45O pounds, respectlVeS'
III sell you the four horses for $500 M,
Here are four strong cart horses, tunS
J. as heavy II not heavier than these ussa
', in the City STRENGTHENING. Department,
!. which can be purchased for 500 eacn
ID as against $3.50 each, the price pel1 ~;
ash cart horses by the city OF New io''
during the rasi two years. .,,
:. This Is another item of evidence sho"
ing that a private sale 10 the city "
l. New York Is private SNAP. ,,t,.
u Heavy horses. young ana sounu, Hu, ~
, able for drayage work. coal wagons. H. H.
!, wagons. ash carts and the Ike can nv nv
y bought by the hundred, ana ever In ~
>, | ha In York nj IIUN