The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-14
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THE OLD HoRsE-MARKET.

The Same Business Done in the Same
 District for at Least Thirty five Years
 Old Cattle-Marke Times and the
 Bulls Head Hotel-Reminisceic of
 Sport and Trade.
 The number of business districts or other neighborhoods in New York which have maintained distinctive character for more than 8 generation is yearly growing fewer, with the constant move ment of population and the gradual shifting of trade centers. Among those which still remain is the old horse-mar- ket in East Twenty street, near ly filling the block between Third and Lexington avenues on both sides of the way, and also occupying a good part of the block between Second and Third avenues. The street is lined with sales stables, built of brick, and chiefly two stories in height. Groups of men, most of whom are in their shirt-sleeves in warm weather, lounge before the open doors, some of them grooms and stable-helpers, others, usually with long whips in their hands, being owners or drivers, but all bearing the unmistaka- ble "horsey" stamp. Horses are being led in and out, or, critically watched,
 
 various paces. The casual passer-by, if he appears like a possible purchaser of horseflesh, is occasionally hailed with an inquiry if he is looking for good animal. Few bicycles pass over the pavement, and it is probable that the habitual frequenters of the locality en- tertaln no deep affection for wheelmen, while they regard the cable-cars. which fo with anything but satisfaction.
 For from thirty-five to thirty-nine years, according to the somewhat di- verse recollections of "old-timers." the horse-p1arlSet has existed in the same district, or ever since the old cattle market was moved up to Forty-fourth street and Fifth avenue. whence it has been removed to the neighborhood of Sixtieth street and Tenth and Eleventh avenues The history of both markets is closely connected with that of the Bulls Head Hotel, on tine northwest corner of Third avenue and Twenty fourth street, which was built in 1925 and is still standing, though once darn- aged by fire. It is yet occupied for ho- tel purposes. and bears it's old name, though its character has largely changed since it was the headquarters of drovers and cattlemen generally, and also since the earlier days of the horse market. For many years the Bulls Head Bank. now defunct, also recalled the business which once flourished in it's neighborhood. Its building, on the : northwest corner of Third avenue and Twenty-fffth street, is now occupied by the Equitable Gaslight Co.
 A man who was long connected with the old tavern, and remembers it's sur roundings half century ago, may be found to-day ill 6 real-estate office within few blocks Of the place. From ] his appearance and activity he might S easily pass for man of siXty-five and a stranger to him finds it hard to be- lieve that his real age is eighty-five years. When asked for some reminis- cences the other day. he said:
 ''In 1884 I left New York and went out \ west, where opened grocery store The hard times of 1886 and 1887 killed s my business, so I came back east anG bought farm in New Jersey. Farming did not pay either, and l gave it up Then returned to this city and went tc ] work for Simonson, who kept fare bank and barroom in Twenty-fourtf street. between Third and Lexington avenues. There were number Of gam