New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-16

1.-THE BULLS HEAD MART.
NETWORKS GREAT MARKET FOR ALL
SORTS OF HoRsEFLEsH.
~ .vc,rur GATHERING PLACE FOR HoRs;-
MEN-DIFFERENT KINDS OF ANIMALS
THAT CAN BE BOUGHT THERE

THAT CAN BE BOOhiil iHbNFr
p,,us Head is located at Third-ave. and
Twenty fourth st. on grounds owned Dy pierre
yorillard. and has been the centre OF uade
a. borses for upward OF sixty years. In
.be bvgone DAYS OF the stage coach the BUTTS
xYood Tavern was one Of the leading hotels In
NewYork The stages that went out or came
into the city over the old Boston Road stopped
at the Bulls Head to take up or leave passel-
gers Horse dealers from Vermont. Maine ana
what was then known as Down East maze
tho Bulls Head their headquarters butchers
- arove,s also met at the Bulls Head. The
city hay scales were located where the Cooper
rns,itute now stands. and farmers from Har-
lem and Long Island made it gathering place
for trade and barter Of all KINDS.
Thus II will be easily discerned that no be-
tor Mace could have been selected for horse
breeders and dealers to meet the men whose
business required horses Of every grade, class
"a deecriution There have been but few
changes in the Bulls Head Tavern and the
buildings in Twenty-fourth-st where the sac
ord evchange stables are located. The build
inps are old. ramshackle affairs many Of them
hint a single story high. A few adventurous
Ieesees Of the property have venturcd 70 erect
structures of two stories. and in fe" rare
instances a building has attained the dignity
Of three stories Although not many changes
have been made in the street" as Twenty
fourth-st is known among horsemen, many
changes have taken place in the class OF the
horses that have been in demand for the pur-
poses of pleasure and industry since the horse
market was established.
THE "sTAGER" OF BYGoNE DAYS
Perhaps the "stager" or horse required for
tho ctaqecoach was the first type Of horse feat
ured in the general market. According to the
oldtinners who carry their eighty-odG years
and an abundance Of "reminiscences into the
Bulls Head Tavern, where they exchange the
latter for inspiration the "stageP' was a horse
OF much character and far superior to any OF
the horses in use nowadays. As rule n
came from Vermont compact. smoothly
gated weighing in the neighbOrhood OF twelve
hundred pounds and was capable OF stepping
il off at ten mile an hour gait. w hill and
down. on any of the stages between New-fork
and Boston. The ancicats will tell you that
these horses were worth 500 in them good old
DAYS. when you could get a glass Of good old
Medford rum fer three cents
Steam soon superseded the stagecoach. so
that 'stagers" disappeared from view. but once
more came into favor when the express com
panies were formed 70 facilitate the growing
business Of the merchants and traders IN the
cities species Of horse known as the Ca
Mailer" was also feature of the market in the
early forties The building of surface roads So
tablished a distinct type Of horse known a. me
"streeter" that helped materially IN incr' as *
the revenue Of the farmers of Pennsylvania
Ohio and the Middle West. These horses aver
aged the farmer S105 each. Tho farmer
rule broke them at three years old. and worked