The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-10-06
SIXTY HORSES TOO EXHAUSTED
TO STAND.
Sufferings of Those Brought on Trans
ports-The CentenniaIs Excellent
Record for Health.

Uncle Sam is guilty of cruelty to
animals and on big scale. If any
private individual were to treat one
horse as the United States Government
is treating thousands he would be
thrown into prison. The transport Cen
tennial arrived in port last night with
three hundred horses on board, sixty
of them hanging in sings and ready
to die from simple exhaustion. Two
of them died after reaching port one
breathing it's last on the dock and the
other in its sling on the middle deck.
The horses had been at sea for eight
days, each one fastened in a stall just
wide enough and just long enough for
it's body. For eight days the suffering
animals had no sleep no rest what
ever. They stood and kept balance
with the rolling of the ship. A few
days more and many deaths from ex-
haustion could not have been avoided.
The horses started as fresh, spirited
animals, brought from Nevada and
Oregon. They arrive thin and jaded,
a large proportion of them only kept
alive by stimulants. About twenty
gallons of alcohol We're given to the
horses during the CentenniaPs trip.
The Centennial brought the largest
load of horses for her size of any trans
| port that has come here, but as re-
CARDS sickness and losses she has the
best record, a fact of which the veteri-
nary surgeon in charge, DR.. F. A. Nief
has reason to be proud. DR.. Nef at
| tended the animals night and day and
| he reached port about as exhausted as
! they were on arrival
The horses on the Centennial were
| on three decks, one being down in the
| hold Throughout the trip the heat in
| the two lower decks was most intense
| it being necessary to keep the port
| Of hn
| suffering of the animals standing with
! out sleep in the heat and constantly
| compelled to use efforts to keep thetI
balance, for eight days and nine nights
may be imagined. The Centennial
docked at once on arriving and begar
to unload, keeping up the work in the
| dark till every horse was on shore ex.
cept the one that hangs in a sling, with
it's head dropping over the feed box.
| The transportation of horses has sci.
| dom in the history of the world beer
| carried on on so large a scale for q
distance of 1000 miles as during the
present time by the United States
| army. The right kind of transports
| however, are lacking and this, with the
necessity of haste in getting animal:
| to Manila, is responsible for the exist
| ing conditions.
THE troubles of a horse at sea are
usually only exhaustion" said DR.. Me
| when asked regarding the effect OF
ocean travelling upon horses. THE
equine stomach is so constituted thai
| the seasickness that effects human be
ings is not possible, but the animals
sometimes feel dizzy. Those that be
come very tired get dizzy and ther
they refuse to eat. The result is a sink
ing that soon causes death if oppor
tunities for rest are not afforded
Stimulents such as alcohol and quinn,
will often keep a horse alive till tn,
end of it's journey, when little res
on shore will soon make it all right.
The Centennial brought forty priv
ate horses, for officers of the 26th, 9th
30th and 32nd regiments. Unlike mos
of the transports she has gang plank
up and down which the horse cal
walk so that only those unable t,
stand need be hoisted. The Centen
malls horses will stay here till she goe
to San Francisco and back for anothe
load.