The evening world., 1893-12-16
FANCY PRICES PAID
More Proof of Waste in Feed fo
City Ash-Cart Horses,
Brewery, Coal, Express and 10
Horses Bigger and Stronger.
Fed on the Fat of the Land Niue,
Cheaper than the Clty's Steeds.

Every taxpayer in New York is inter
ested In the STRENGTHENING Department
He Is interested not only because N
pays money into the city treasury. 10 1
afterwards used in the expenses NJ AL
STRENGTHENING Department, but bocan.
as citizen and householder he ia i,,ar
ested In having the streets kent c,o,I
and the city ashes and garbage p]ron,ptlJ
removed.
The previous articles printed in ..rhl
Evening World showing the extrav.
CANT expenditures and waste of mons,
in the STRENGTHENING Department A.,
plain, perhaps, the reasons why ther.
have been SO many complaints fro,,
citizens about the poor service render~a|
by the Department.. when millions -
dollars have been appropriated in orde,
that the streets might be kept clean.
With a waste Of $4,000 Of public monsJ
IN the purchase of ash-cart horses. AMI
d waste Of over s119. 900 on horse feed|
making a total waste of nearly s2oO .0
In two years. Is it to be wondered \
that there has been a scarcity Of mons,
with which to keep the streets clean,
Business men, manufacturers, contrac
tors and others who know the value y
horses and who can appreciate the con-
OF horse-feed per year, were deeply ipl
terestcd In the array of figures and fact
presented In THE Evening World' veal
terGay. showing that the city stree,I
Cleaning Department during the BrepI
nan administration had paid nearly twicl
as much for horse-feed as the stretI
railway companies OF New York.
Surprising the Third Avenue Elevate
Railroad charged 10 cents fare from IND
City Hall TO Forty-second street, whill
the Second avenue line charged only avl
cents for the same distance. Would \
w~orkingman. or any other man, for thaN
matter, to ride OH the Third avenue lineX
Why should the city Of New York 'ps1|
out ~ for horse-feed when another I'M
tainly must be a dividend OF the extraI
dollar, and there must exist persons whd
participate in such a ."divvy."
IT may be claimed by the defenders d
the extravagant Street-C Cleaning DepartJ
ment that street-car horses are poori]|
fed. and that Il is not fair to compara
the cost Of feed for the street-car horse1
with that fed to the ash-cart horses M
iohbihS W liz city. |
The street car companies declare m,
they reed their horses the best provende2
In the market and plenty Of 1t. "ThI
Evening World" yesterday showed It'd
year in the stables Of New York's seys
leading street car companies was sos
a year. or $.76 per month, and the cd
IN The STRENGTHENING Department w3
slSI,SO per year or $3.50 per month.
How about the express companies, III
coal barons, the ice kings and the brev,
ers? They employ men and horses n
the thousand-big horses. too. big-bone4
heavier tina the horses in the Stirred
Cleaning Department. What does 1t cod
to feed these big draught horses, whicS
pull heavier trucks n larger wagonl
:" curtis q. Z B Hi,k n%sh the biz nS eoai dealer
OF East Fffty-sixth street, employ LARD
numbers Of horses, which they own and
horses repsated 'S Nj. b Bla iS lfea to G !
Evening World" reporter yesterday
well. some years 1t costs US a triie mor|
than others owing to the price Of feed
horse per month. and for 1892 the COD
for feeding each horse In our servid
amounted to $3.50 per month. or s102 pd
year:
1920 a year. Dur horses are ali fat an
well fed, and are in better condition tina
the animals used in the street-Cleanini
Department"
supt. Miller; of the Adams E1
cost his company to feed the horsd
He said:
ure at the very highest at forty cent
per day for each horse, but. in reality
for the past month 1t has cost US jus|
IS l.? cents per day, which is 1905 RI
horses have the best in the market, and
America"
DR.. Edwin A. Parsons. the veterlnar
surgeon, of 1874 West Thirty-ninth street
said to an Evening World reported
when asked what 1t cost to feed a WORT
II costs from IS to SIS per month !
in the Street Cleaning Departmena
month, The largest and heaviest AMI
mails in New York perhaps are W
feed them well per month"
Supt. Goudy, of the American Express
Company. IN reply to a reporters III
Last year, for feeding and beddn(
the horses used by the American Ek1
press Company. It cost us exactly SLY
per month for each horse. or $132.S III
year. They are all well fed, too, muej
draught horses
So 1t appears that 1t costs more moneY
each year to feed an ash-cart horse J
the city of New York than II does !
street car horse, a coalman's horse NJ
express company's horse, or. In fae4
any other kind Of n work horse.
Does the average taxpayer think "
one m that II really costs VIZ
a year to feed a horse belonging 10 !"
! Street Cleaning DEPARTMENT?