The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1893-10-18
SHIPPING HORSES.
A BUSINESS OF GREAT GROWTH
IN RECENT YEARS.
Gcnding Thoroughbreds From tho
South and wcstto the East I'm Com
Portable Palace Cars--How
Kicking Is Prevented.

at Cincinnati, but who has been in
this city for few days, "has grown
greatfsr.in recent yau4 It was, .:E
iginated by A, j. Cassatt, of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, who, when he be.
gan breeding horses in Kentucky and
racing them in the East, saw the ad.
vantage TO the horses of quick Jour
neys. Before the facilities for ship
ping fine horses speedily to places
where sales were to be held and with
the comfort to which their aristocratic
lineage entitled than had begun to be
improved, Mahomet, so to speak, went
10 the mountain. Eastern horsemen
went to Kentucky to buy stock. Now
that has changed. The mountain goes
to Mahomet. The Western horses are
sent to the East and sold there. That,
OF course, is due in part to tho natural
increase of interest in fine horses
which the increase of wealth in the
Enst has permitted, but in q largo
measure ii is because of the present
comparative ease and comfort and as
sured safety with which horses in large
numbers may be transported. The
horses are always IN charge of their
owners or those who represent them.
transportation companies furnish only
the cars and the motive power. The
crew of q car in which is a racing
stable or n portion of one is usually
made up of trainer, a rubber for
each horse, 2 stableman for each four
horses and cook. The horse cars
may be attached to passenger trains,
except limited expresses
"Are the companies responsible for
loss or irjury?'
''No. They travel at the owners
risk. This company, however, paid
General jackson SO, 600 by order of
court fow years ago. We were
twenty-four hours late in getting some
yearlings of the General to this CITY.
where they were TO he sold II was
because of the Johnstown food. and
the best he could do nj one stage was
TO attach the horse cars TO freight
train. The Judge held, however. that
the elements had nothing to do with
the case. The horses were too late for
the sale they were intended for, but
they were sold aftcrward."
''How many horses are shipped to
the East from Kentucky and Tonnes.
see for sale in the spring9'
III should say fifty carloads; but,
then, the young horses, after boine
bought in the East, are generally re-
turned TO Kentucky and Tennessee to
get the blue grass air to which thew
have been accustomed. That couldn't
have been satisfactorily done a few
years ago.
'How do these spirited horses stan d
traveling?"
cob, they stand it we'll Fast trains
sway comparatively little. or course,
n nervous horse may get restless, but
tho great majority are easily man.
n8ed.
care the stalls padded in the fine
cars?'
mot to any extent. There arc
some pads on the corners IN the car
Ben Ali, but they A.. not considered
necessary"
"Are the patent palace cars for
horses much used?'
"Oh. yes. But they are sort OF
luxury affected chiefly by amateur
horsemen with long purses. The old
stagers' in racing and breeding don't
care much for luxuries. All they want
is that their horses shall bo conveyed
rapidly and that they will rile in Sc
curity and comfort"
The ordinary cars usei carry six
teen or eighteen horses, AM r.ry good
horses, too. OF course, The heavy
sw lis in horsedom have the whole car.
OF one end of it, to themselves, m !
can lie down or stand up IA they
please, which cannot be dune when
sixteen or eighteen horses are in car.
In cars that carry eighteen tb
horses stand with their hea IS towm
the car side. In the sixteen horse car
those in the 6rst half face the engin,
md those i'll the second half face the
rear Of the train.
IL ~ claimed by one OF the horae car
companies that horses tuFne loose in
car will, OF their own accord, take
positions squarely crosswisc of the car
j.. f. Whitbeck, agent OF tho Ne,
York Central freight Gtation, n,
Thirty third street and Eleventh ave
me, where many horses arc shipped,
said, however, that he had nevel
noticed partisiity on the part of horses