The evening world., 1893-12-01
The DEAL IN
CITY HORSES.
FirSt-CldSS ASh.Cart Horses
Worth Only a Hundred
Dollars Each.
BRENNAN'S EXTRAVAGANCE.
Private Sales Were Private Snaps
for Those Who Worked
the Scheme.
INTERVIEWS WITH HORSEMER.
Contractors Give Prices to
Show How the City Has
Been Swindled.
WITH HORSEMER.

If Mr.. Coles, of Newark. is DESTROYS of
buying ash-cart horses he can obtain
them here in New York for 500 each
At these figures he can purchase not
only a score of frst-class animals but
800 or 1909 Of them. He will not be
compelled to pay $3.50 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. as STRENGTHENING Commissioner, is
bringing before the pub many inter-
esting facts of vital interest to the tax
payers of New York, and The Evening
World' is being congratulated and COM
merded for its timely investigation OF
Brennan's methods.
Although yesterday was holiday, there
We're groups of prominent horse dealers,
and others in the uptown sales stables
talking about The Evening Worlds"
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 ais
very few horses in the Department weigh
ing over lao pounds. There are more
than there are l.5O0-pound horses. and for
every l,6G0-pound horse in the Street.
Cleaning Department. one can find two
l,2DO-pound horses.
There is neither excuse for, nor ex-
PLANTATION of the now well-established
fact that the public treasury, has been
TO 10000 on this "xtravagant purchase
of 423 ash-Cart horses at $50 each.
In making a tour of the leading. up
town horse stables Yesterday. an Even
dealers generally consider that the city
has been badly swindled in the recent
deal whereby slO5,54o was expended for
ash-cart horses.
Moses q. Byers. contractor and dealer
in horses, Il to 81 West Sixty-secont
street, is one of the leading horsemen Of
New York. AS Il dealer he has bought
and sold horses of all classes for many
years. As contractor he is the owner
of numerous street-sprinkling carts. and
has contract with private iirnas. on
upper broadway for keeping that thor
oughfare cleaner than it would be kept
by the city STRENGTHENING Department.
The horses used by Contractor Byers for
this work are fully up to the standard OF
Commissioner Brennans 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 street-sprnkling and
Street-SWpeplnP contractor.
81 have here in my stables a beautiful
black, Percheron horse, weighing 1000
pounds fun. This animal is five or sis
years old, and as active as coach
horse.
Now, no man in New York has G.
better animal than this one, Will sell
this and other horses of similar style
and buiii for $50 each, or in large lots
at $50 each
AZ these prices l am s alowins mysel,
III
Street, Cleaning Department weigh less
than 1850 pounds, while here in my
perfect condition which | will sell for,
SIS. Here are two horses, a matched
pair. weighing 900 pounds. or 1900
pounds each. which | will sell for so
for the pair, or $40 for each horse,
These are horses which have been
worked hard in my own strret-sprinkling
contract work. and are fuzzy up to the
standard of the City's aSh-Cart horses
Some of the horses in the city street.
Cleaning Department are regular
skates, and worth only SIS or $50, in
stead of $3.50 the price paid by the city
J. Garner West, of Havcrstraw, nHE,
who is proprietor of the Rocklahd
horses, of all kinds. was in the city
yesterday. He is In town much of his
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,
;bo for about 81 and $50 eaGh
tirst-class stock, weighing an average or
400 pounds each.
| do not think It is true that the
partment of New York City weigh 1,450
pounds each. The 1.iO)-pound horses
among the ash-cart horses Of New York
are the exception rather than the rule:
There is no doubt that there are lot
OF poor horses in the Department, and
some Of them will weigh only LOO and
~ consider $3.50 entirely too high a
horses, and am willing to furnish any
coach-horses. strong. best-actng ami
mais. for $3.50 each. a fair price for
ash-cart horses would be from $50 to
''G In from front Of John McGulre's boarding
and sale stables, lat POP West Fiftieth
street, yesterday, were several carts pc
longing to the Board Of Public Works.
inside the stables were four large horses
which Mr.. Mcclure said had been at
work with the carts for the city cor
DO YOU care to sell these horses ?,
asked an " Evening World' reporter OF
Mr.. Mcclure, 49,
YES" replied the proprietor OF III,
stables; I'D like to sell the four OF
end either pair Of them WIN Gnil n four 6 S5
five tons one is black, weighing iwD
pounds; another black horse weighs
$50 pounds, and the two bays VII
weigh $50 and l,45O pounds. respectively.
III sell YOU the four horses for $500
Here are four strong cart horses, tnllg
as heavy If not heavier than those usrd
In the Citv Street cleaning Department,
which can he purchased for 800 each.
as against $50 each, the price paid fGr
ash cart horses by the city OF New 1or'
during the Tast two years.
This Is another item Of evidence snow,
ing that n private sale to the city OF
Heavy horses, young and sound. suit
able for drayage work coal wagons, Ice
wagons, nsh carts and the like can ne
the thousand In New York ut from
$50 TO $3.50. However. city officials prefer
10 pay $3.50 for them.