Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-12
RARE HORSESHOES.
COLLECTION ILLUSTRATING
YEARS HISTORY.
Samples OF Queer Footwear-Some Weigh
Five Pounds, Others Few Ounces
One L. Fastened by Straps - One
Buried In a Tree.

Hanging from nails driven into the
walls OF little room in the building at
So West Lake street, Chicago, are at
least 800 horseshOes of all sizes and
shapes. Some of them are eaten with
rust and others shine like a new silver
dollar, yet all are highly valued by the
owner and each has its history This
strange collection of curiOS pertaining
to the art of farriery is the property of
w. G. Newbury, and is said to be the
largest and most interesting of its kind
in the world. Years ago. when Mr..
Newbury was working at his trade as
farrier he began collecting different
varieties of horseshoes, and today he
Is not only the pOSSesSOr Of shoes worn
by the fastest racers the world ever
knew, but has in his collection produc-
tions from the forges of the old-time
shoers who had but the crudest facili-
ties for making them Mr.. Newbury
takes delight in exhibiting mis- curiosi-
ties TO his friends and there is scarcely
day but the little room is not visited
by farriers and others interested in
horses One of the most interesting
shoes in the collection is one made 15G
years ago. This shoe was nodded in
America. and its owner has documents
to prove that the time of its manufac-
ture is correctly stated The shoe is
shaped not unlike the ones now used
for draft horses. but it is deeply pittej
and SCARED with rust. Another speci-
men Of value is bar shoe eight inches
in width and weighing five pounds.
This shoe was made in Liverpool, En-
gland. in 1890 and proves beyond
doubt that the bar shoe of today is not
a recent invention One large open
heeled shoe was picked out of load
OF scrap iron in Ireland fifty years ago.
1t weighs four and a quarter pounds
and has two nails in the toe directly
in front of the calk One relic which
attracts much attention from Mr.. New
bury's visitors is a chunk of an oak
tree over 100 years old. with horse
shoe buried in its heart. This came
/ from Virginia and according to its
owner, the shoe was hung over the
limb. which in time grew to such pro-
portions that the iron became firmly
| imbedded in the wood On the part OF
| the shoe which is visible is scar
made by an ak. showing the manner in
| which the strange position Of the shoe
vas discovered There is also nall
less shoe which was made in Cordova,
| H.. ami was fastened to the hOof with
| a strap: shoe with calks at least two
inches in length. used by horses draw
| ing logs up the snow-covered slopes in
! Minnesota. and also shoe taken from
one OF the Arabian horses at the
/ World Fair. This shoe is heart
| shaped with three nail holes on a side
and two bluntlike projections in the
| center Among the shoes worn by
| famous horses is one taken from the
! foot OF Phil Sheridans Winchester
| charger. This animal IS now mounted
| and is in the war museum al Wash
| ingt0n. The shoe was presented to Mr..
| 26th street. who was Gen. Sheridan 5
! farrier both before aud after the war.
| In a separate bunch are shoes worn
en- the track by the four fastest PAGERS
in the world Star Pointer, Joe Patch
| en-. John X. Gentry and Directly.
| There is also a rusty old shoe once
| worn by the famous Maud s., one worn
! by Lena ~. the fastest pacing mare,
| and also the footwear once nailed to
the hoof of Marion Mills, the driver
less racer. Some of the other names
! of fast ones on the little labels attach
ed 10 the pieces of iron are: Frank
! Bogash. Anaconda, Searchlight, Bessie
| Bonehill, Ananias, Giles NOyes, Nut
wood. Indiana. Planet, King OF Dia-
monds and a hundred others. Mr..
| Newbury is now trying to get shoe
worn by Charley Ford, the horse on
| which Jerry" Monroe. the old-time
| Chicago sporting man, is said TO have
lost fortune, when he ran his last
race out at the old Garfield park track