The sun., 1897-07-04
BIKECoP AND wILDHORSE.
ANoTHBR TERRIFIC RIDE AND
DARING FEAT BY CATANAGH

kicked Away Hls Machine ana HunG TO the
BridieIess Runnwny's Nnne and Noso Until
ne slowed 1t Down-Then was Thrown and
Fninted from Exhnustion-On tho Sick List
For the second time In two days Bicycle Police
man Cavanagh risked his life yesterday in the
attempt to stop runaway horses. On Friday, at
Sixty-seventh street and First avenue. he was
dragged on the ground, bruised, and covered
with mud and dirt from head TO foot Yester-
day he was carried five blocks, swinging at the
neck of q big bay horse; he was pounded into
unconsciousness and dropped into the street.
But in each case he accomplished his object-he
made tho horse stop.
Cavanagh's post is First avenue, from Forty
second street to Eighty.second street. 1t is q
long post, and keeps him moving. Yesterday
| afternoon he was on the avenue at Fifty-eighth
street, wheeling downtown at comfortable
speed. People on tho sidewalk on either side OF
him shouted and pointed toward Fifty.ninth
street.
"Hl, yi!" shouted n small boy. Runaway!
Runawayi"
Cavanagh whirlod about. He saw people
standing on the Fifty-ninth street corner look
ing toward the cast. There was cloud OF dust
| ut the crossing. A shirt-sleeved man went howl
| ing through It, waving his arms above his head.
| Quicker than 1t takes to tell the things that
| Cavanagh saw ho was whirng to Fiftynnth
| street and around the corner. AS he turned he
had glimpse of heavy wagon, drawn by n
gallopng gray horse turning north into
| Avenue from Fifty-nnth street. Tho police
man bent lower over his handle bars. Children
| who wero chasing tho runaway stopped rs he
| passed thcm and said. Gee! My!" and stood
| in their tracks until they saw him sweep around
| the corner of Avenue A, his wheel hecled over
until tho left pedal almost touched the roadway.
Avenue A runs down hill from Fifty.ninth
street to Sixty first street. 1t is badly graded.
and full of hollows and loose stones. When
! Cavanagh straiehtened ont his wheel after he
| had turned into the avenue the delivery wagon
he was chasing was bounding and swinging
| along In n cloud of dust almost Il block ahead
There wasa race to stir the most stolid alien
horse. horse big and l gray, with its nostrs OPP opened ned
wide .I,i and dilating With With. every snort; IT'S
and dirt to the curbstone.. There was no
bride, oyer its head; n few loose straps that
against % its forcless The big wngo,. was swing.
ing, sliding, and jumping. On the seat covered
thedriver, clutGhing the useless rcins in one hand
low dust cloud followed after Half a block be-
hind game the policeman; His back slo was i.
hSAv head was S sunk below W. his shoulders and nd
his eye was on the ,in 1%sYS wagon ni
trailed out with sound like the ripping of
heavy canvas. Behind all came the foot-patter
the saloon keepers and the delicatessen mer-
chants ran out to their front doors to see the
!
them let out whoop of exultatiOn and
joined the chase. Sometimes. as Cnvanngh's
wheel struck pebble and bounded. slipping to
one side in its course. the whole mob slowed up
and gasped. Them as he bent his back little
handle bar that made the bicycle seem to shoot
forward. they; too, lowered their heads and ran
Bsara b haf b n40r s
AT sixty-frst street there is an uphill grade
, big stone and his cap few Off. The crowd
divided and LEFT the foot policeman to pick it up
as ever. The uphill work did not seen TO reduce
its speed at all; But Cavanash was gaining
squirt, and at six,y;third street he was op-
Rqst'' Tst time inc he saw that the horses bride was
gone. He swept his wheel in toward the horses
that he was hurled forward and Up: He gave
against aga ms' the curbstone With one hand Cav
anagh grabbed for hold in the horses thick gray
om % the nostrils III He miss missed Ills right hand eassh
the collar, and he drew himself up until he had
was bounding along at the horse shoulder like
bag of meal on rope With one hand FREQ FREQ
he foSn% S Sr Sad 'hs fer hs hanss
began pulling the horses head around to turn 1t
into the curb The horse was ss wilder than % ever
his seat. yelling little hysterical yclps at ev-
cry jump. ,o,
r At Sixty seventh street the policeman got the
creature by the nose again. II sheer test
of strength. The horse began to so slower and
r | TO spend its energy in trying to toss Cavanagh
from lis head All the time the policeman was
bounding up and down. his side pounding
/, ! against the thills. AT Sixty.cighth street he
slipped to tho street. and. rolling over and over.
,, | landed in dusty heap against the curb
at tho corner. The crowd came up and
gathered around. No one pnid any atten'
2 | ton to the runaway after that. Police,
| man Peake who ran TO the corner Just
. as Cayauagh fell sent 10 Flower Hospital for an
$ ambulance. DR.. Storck, who answered the call
brought Cavanagh to his senses IN tcw
minutes. The doctor said that the policeman
: unConsciousncss caused by exhaustion and
r the shock OF repeated blows over the heart
|; from tho wagon thill. "
q When Cavanagh came out OF his faint he sal
$ up and rubbed his eyes.
Q Ibid stop that blamed horse I he asked.
y 1t was tho first thought that any one had nae
n of the runaway. The crowd looked up the ave
8 nue. and saw tho horse and wagon standing neal
]. the curb at Sevenlieth street. Tho driver wal
n patching up the bridle
). James Malon, street cleaner, went up anc
took his name. 1t was Henry Wagner. Inc
% wagon belonged to Schlacppi Bros., liquo
o dealers at 1856 Bleecker street. When Wagne
&c had repaired the harness he went his way. III
did not go back to thank Chvanagh.
e As for Cavanagh. he stood up, took lonI
n breath looked over his wheel which some on
It had brought to him. and. mounting. rode over y
II First avenue and to the station house, where n
70 was put on the sick list. But he said he'd b
! all right to-day.