The evening world., 1893-12-05

IDLE HORSES.
Condition Of Stock in the
City Street, Cleaning
Department.
SIXTEEN FOR CARRIAGE USE.
Sixty-three Horses Not Working
and Twenty-six Are in
the Hospital.
AN ASH CART HORSES AVERAGE
The Animal Weighs About
1880 Pounds and Is Worth
Not Over $l3S.
AN ASH CART HORSES AVERAGE

The city Street-CleaninS Department
stable, at Seventeenth street and Avenue
c, where big Tom Brennan's aGgre-
cation Of $3.50 horses are mostly kept.
was visited by an Evening World" re-
porter yesterday.
There are eight other smaller or branch
stables .cated respectively on Twelfth
street. Forty-eighth street. Fifty-second
street. Eigrtieth street. One Hundred
and Sixte Arth street. one Hundred and
Twenty-third street. One Hundred and
Fifty-second street and Hamilton street.
The Seventeenth street stable Is the
cid original one, and there is where
SuperintenG' mt of Stables Michael Ken
nedy and his assistants make their head
quarters. There is where all newly
purchased stock is delivered, and where
the street-sweeping machines and the
water carts are housed and repaired.
The visitor upon entering the Seven
tenth street stable will readily see that
the place looks like a political head
qcarte -.
Upon the walls of the office are an
nouncements of the forthcoming annual
ball or Jan. 81 of the Michael Kennedy
Association, to be held in the Germania
Assembly Rooms.
1t must be remembered that Superin-
tendent of Stables Michael Kennedy Ia
a politician. and not a horseman or
stablemGn at all, for n few days since
Veterinary Surgeon DR.. James Hamill
said to an Evening World" reporter:
"kenneiy told me that HI did not
know anything about horses"
For many years Mr.. Kennedy. who Is
a politician of more or less renown in
his district, was connected with the
St~reet-Cleaning Department as n District
Superintendent. He became Superinten-
dent of Stables in August. 1850, under
Commissioner Beattie, and has held the
office continuously ever since.
The visitor at the Seventeenth street
stable yesterday would have discovered
about s~eventy-tve horses. including six
mules. in the stalls. doing nothing but
eating city horse feed. He would have
found upon examination that about if-
teen of the horses were light. small
animals, unfit for city street work.
When the assistant superintendent Of
were doing idle, he replied that they were
animals which had been out all night with
the. night gang and were now taking
their daily rest.
When asked what the fifteen or more
small, lightweight animals were used
for, the assistant replied that they We're
carriage horses driven by the District
Superintcndcnts and other officers of the
department.
1t was learned that in each OF the
stables there were numbers of idle horses,
and to ascertain the exact status of the
city street-cleaninR stables an Evening
World" reporter called upon Commits
sioner Andrews. who, upon request, fur
nished the following statement regarding
the horses and stables in his department:
~A.-sTABLEs EAST SEVENTEENTH STREET
AND AVENUE Z.
Horses In the stables. 1872
Sweeping machine horses .................... 55
DRIVING horses ................ ...........,..... I
ENp'.Ss hoisCs''''''''' '''.. .''''''''''''''''. y
iruck horses'''..''.....' ...'.'.'''''''',''.' ~
ilL nc Ses .. '.''''''''''' .
Horses In hospital, 6
Horses not working. Il
B~.-sTADLEs. F~IFTY-sECoND STREET. NEAR
ELEVENTH AVENUE.
Horses IN inc stables ~
Ash-cart hoises' ''''.''"'''.'. ..'.'"..'. .:
Horses in the hospital. 4
Horses not working. 5
~C.-sTABLEs. WEST ONE HUNDRED y
T~WENTY-THlRD STREET. NEAR EIGHTH
AVENUE.
Horses In the stables, q
Ash-cart horses. ............... ........"..... tS
Driving horse ...' '''..' .'"''"'."".','.'' !
49,, a., h,s,,ai q
D~.-sTABLEs. ONE HUNDRED y sIX-
TEENTH STREET.
Horses in The stable 81
nn III "o'' y
Horses in hospitnl... 3
Horses not working..... Observation-Disclosures. IL
E'-slABLEs ELr ~ siiEEi' "EHi'
NHHh'N"i'H'
Horses IN tn stables y
Ash cart horses. . ,...... ~
Driving hers.
Hill horses ...... !
Horse IN hospital.
Horses not "otSihs .....''....,.,
F.-sTAbLES EAST ElHhIlElh sIhEEl'
Horses in stables g
Ash-cart horses ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" 3:
Express horse u
Horses not "ork'hs $3.50. ,,.',,.,,....,' ~
STABLES, HAMILTON STREET