New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-10
WORK OVER A VICTIM.

WORK ON FIX a ' II IN
While busy pedestrians crowd UP and down
Broadway. with open waistcoats and wilted collars
mopping persplring brows in the intervals between
cooling drinks more than one poor brute lies kick
ing frantcally on a cross-street sidewalk with
anxious friends kneeling comfortably on his head
and splashing his heaving sides with buckets OF
cold water
A Tribune reporter found big gray horse in this
Might in East Twenty-second-st. yesterday after
noon. The animal had been dragging Long Branch
express wagon pretty steadily through me DAY Win
~ aiJ of his mate which stood by with dropping
detected head sweating profusey. and TOO sick him
self 10 take much interest in this worlds aHars Two
ALLEN horse and when his big legs shot out in his
Wild enieavor 10 struggle his feet the surrounding
crowd would retire 10 a respectful distance.
After a veterinary surgeon had strolled ieisureIy
upon the scene injected a watery dose into the
mo%h rom @np the fr s@be S Of M the s p g A.
came down the street. The sick horse had given r,
head against the Sidewalk when ne got II freS 6 ,nt nt
had plenty Of fight in him SUI HoWeVer, & Dy ronnr TIfr
angle and tying his feet to defeat his efforts; the
born trne Se H wns lied down securely and he
was lifted into the wagon
RESULTS OF PROPER CARE
There were Il number OF similar cases in the
course Of the day. one man alone asserted that he
had witnessed seven The prostratons are largely
due in the opinion Of an official Of the protection
society to the hard driving which the animals have
to endure. Many horses are being worked as II
the weather ought not to be considered In regard
TO them. The only safe treatment is TO give them
a rest In the shade at frequent intervals but this
would take more time than most drivers are will
Ing allow The streetcar companies do give their
horses such breathing spells. and the good result
has been evident At the Forty-second-st. stables
the death report Of horses attacked by sunstroke
IS unusually low. The superintendent. Thomas w
Paddock said yesterday that he had lost only nine
horses In the entire summer.
TREATMENT OF THE SUNSTRUCK ANIMALS
I'VE have 16i5 Of them" he said "and in most
years our loss from sunstroke will average three a
week In the hot season. We have been lucky 80
far this year However. | lost horse to-day and
two yesterday. and six have been laid on by the
heat IN the last few days. When a horse is knocked
out by the sun We give him cooling drench, con-
taning ether chl0roform. brandy and acOnte, about
a half-pnt OF II. Then We blthe his head with cold
water 20 keep the blood from II. for in these
the rush OF blood 20 the head set the horses
fairy crazy. We give them physic afterward Our
horses are working two hours and twenty minutes
daily now. and they get an hour and halfs rest
In between"
a FORTUNATE CAR LINE.
The Madison-ave. line has been still more fortu-
nate. = II has not lost horse from the heat TINS
year Some OF the men at the Thirty -secondst
stables. where the company has about six hundred
horses. say they never knew OF such record there
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