The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-18
HORSES ABROAD.
Their Varying Treatment In London
and Paris.

Detroit Free PreSs.l
The treatment meted out TO dlm5sf,
animals in London is one of the NOS
a agreeable Of the English drivers traits
You never see a horse beaten with
the tongue Of the wagon, nor yet STRUCK
a singing blow with a whip. The ami.
mails hitched to the fore Of the buses
are sleek. fat, happy-Iooking horses in
striking contract to the poor, decre7t
old saW-bOnes attached TO the cars IN
the streets Of some American cities
On hot days of summer these bus
horses work just two hours and h5.s
out Of the twenty-fOUr. Ten times mon
consideration is paid 10 them than
paid the drivers sitting up ou Their
perches, beneath the direct rays of
burning sun. 1t is amusing 10 zee
man run out of a building at either
end Of a bus line and wash the horses
faces with a big sponge. This summT
hats for the horses were introduced fr
the first time London having laauE
Of this protection for New York. which
city was the first to inaUgurate IT,
And the cab horses Of London are
as sleek as those whose lives are spent
dragging the BUSES. A lot of then
are old racers, and III their gait today
there is a suggestion of the paddock
and the track. When let out they can
go like the wind. but their usual speed
does not pass a little jog trOt. that
while it strikes a foreigner as slow is
amazingly sure
I have never seen a horse struck with
a whip in London, and the following
incident illustrates the consideration T
which the animals are held better than
any statement of generalities.
While driving down Northumbsrlalt
avenue in a hanson one day. ON his
way to the National Liberal club
where we had an appointment for
which he was already two minutes late
a man in a cab felt himself thrown
forward suddenly. and before he could
lay hold Of anything, he tUmbied OUT
into the mud Of the street. The cause
of the accident was the slipping TO his
knees Of the horse attached TO the cab
"Cabby'' was down from his seat. b--
hind, in no time. He ran around 90 55s
about his horse. Look here" yelled
the man, see the shape I'm i'm. And
you have made me miss my appoint
ment." And he tried to brush off the
sticky mud.
The cabby gave him one look. "W at
dye s'pOse I cares about yOU?" he said.
Took at tn skinned knees O. my 'GTSa
1t is very different, the treatment e.
domestic animals in Paris. There q
you live in a hotel on one Of the narrow
street Of the Latin quarter. you viii
be kept awake all night Ions by the
never-ending CT 4cking Of the whips
and the whitening cuts, as they are laid
hard and singing over the backs o.
the limping half-starved horses that
I drew the voitures and fiacres.
II a cab horse stumbIes and falls %
/ his knees in Paris. the driver does nor
run to the nearest apOthecaTy's for .
/ centimes worth Of liniment to battle The
scratched knees, as the London eabE
does for tuppence worth. He simply
/ gets down from his seat, and, taking
the butt end Of his whip. beats The
! horse over the head until he c.amb5S
to his feet, then, after administers
q couple of kicks from a number -h--
| teen hOb-nailed boot, he mounts bis
box and drives along
The tram horses are constantly De-
/ labOTed with a whip, and Sworn al ID
/ the aTgOt of Paris. and the rrsl-
/ strange as it may seem, IS. that .
{ takes you longer to go a mile in flc7
in PaTs, with the horses being whip
ped all the time. than it does the SAM
/ distance in London when D1. 1l
/ during the drive Will the animal i5-
I the touch of the lash.