The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-26
OLD HORSE CARS, SO EACH
Great Bargains For People Who
Can Use Them.

Great Bargains For People Who
Can Use Them.
In one of the side streets near the
North river is a curious collection of
relics, says the New York Sun. They
are for sale, although it is doubtful if
the umbe Of buyers who find their
way thither is very large. Relics of 9TH
er kinds are liable to attract purchas-
ers, and they need not be valuable to
accomplish that. Two great ~storehouses
in another part of the city cover nearly
a block, and are filled with household,
hotel, n barroom appliances, ranging
from a mantel to a set Of beer spigots
and a cash register. These places man
age to find purchasers for their second
hand wares, and the demand for the
woodwork out of the DID fashioned
hotels down town is enough to bring
good prices nearly always. The DID
fashioned mahogany doors and the
case is otherwise with the objects
stored in the west side lumber yard.
They find few purchasers, and the
prices for them are low.
The four fences Of this plot inclose a
collection of street cars which have
tired. They have been gathered from
nearly every street car line that former
ly existed in the city, and one can read
in their inscriptions the history of a pc
Rod in this city which seems remote
enough today, although measured by
years it is comparatively recent. There
are ever specimens of the despised bob
tail genus among these derelicts which
are ending long and honorable careers
in an oblivion so complete that persons
can scarcely be persuaded to buy them
at any price. The price which they have
reached is the humiliatingly low one of
81. For the price Of forty rides one can
become the owner of a street car in fair
preservation.
ITS hard to get rid Of them in any
way said the man who watches them,
land the price gets less the longer they
stay here. Practically the only persons
who ever do buy them are farmers.
They want them for use on their farms.
One man who raised chickens took three
Of them, and said they made better
chicken house than any that could be
built for the purpose. They are also
bought for outhouses in which to store
crops temporarily, some Of them were
sent down south to be used as cabins
for negroes, but the cost of carriage
makes thai use rare. Plenty of southern
towns have cars of their own for sale
INC they are to be had just as cheap.
There used to be a time when other
cities bought the street cars that had
been discarded in New York. But this
city turned out to be one of the last that
adopted the cable and trolley systems.
Other towns had solo all of their old
cars before New York was ready to. So
the country was full of them when New
York began to put hers on the market.
Zone man came here last summer
and said he wanted to buy one Of the
cars for a house boat. HI said that
some of his friends would come to get
more Of them for the same purpose if
his was a, success. 1 guess it was not, as
he never came back. Some of the cars
have been sent to railroads and used as
stations, where alterations are being
made or a station has not yet beer
built. But most of them are lying about
here today in just the place they were
put in when they arrived first"
Some of these cars nave long been alb
sent from the streets and bear the
names Of streets through which no cars
run today. Others pea evidences Of the
gradual decline through which they
passed before reaching their final har-
Dor. But completely obliterated is the
name of a fashionable street. Painted
family over this are the names of
streets of a different character. Both
inscriptions are fading out under the
stress of weather. Towering among the
cars is one old fashioned stage that
seems to stand guard over the rest. But
they are really in danger from nothing,
save the elements.