The Washington times., 1901-10-13
serves both as a guarantee and an identi-

serves both as guarantee and an identi-
| ficationJ Is issued for each. Abroad nc
| American trotter has any standing with
| out such certihcate and cannot be ad-
| mitted to the representative tracks.
| There are few more picturesque and en-
| tertaining processes in all of modern trade
| and commerce than the forwarding OF
these horses-cOach, load. cavalry, and
| saddle-from the Western centres, by rail
| and then by steamer. into the port OF
| London. 1t is London, as has been SAID,
| that gets the largest share of them now.
Those that go elsewhere are scattering.
{ So, too, is New York by far the greatest
| shipping point of this country, though
| when there came the great drafts of cav
| airy mounts for the South African war
/ the horses were for the most part de-
( spatched by way of New Orleans.
/ But 1t is at New York that the actua!
exporting trade of horses for this coun-
try centres. One railroad has now the
cream of the transporting across land. A
few years ago another railroad had 1t,
rounded up" from the trains, in the old
cattle yards at Hoboken. But by putting
on an export horse train twice week
that made the trip from Chicago to New
York in forty-two hours always on sched-
ule time. with almost passenger service
and the right OF way" all along the line.
the second roac turned the traffic to it
self
There are two steamers a week to be
: caught. from 400 to 500 horses that must
be brought on from Chicago as quickly
and as comfortably as possible. 1t means
the difference between proft and loss
: land neither smalD when they are sold
abroad how these horses are handled by
train and boat.
sumo entire charge of the horses. provid-
ing them with stalls, feeding, bedding,
doctoring them, insuring them, even de-
livering them TO the consignees in the
foreign port. In that case they have their
own expert men On each liner" and al
low one Of the shippers people to cross
over. Other companies provide the stalls
only, and the shipper sends man for
each twenty horses, a foreman" and
assistant foreman These pick up a
stir or two IAN inexperienced man who
will work his passage over in New York,
to help. Then the shipper provides food.
bedding, etc. The opinions of shippers
are about equally divided as to which of
these is the better plan.
A United States Government inspector
ifrom the Department Of Agrculture) ex-
amines each horse as he is shipped from
Chicago for signs of farcy and glanderS
and general health. If he approves he
clamps in the horses name a linen tag
that gives the horse number In New
York another inspector makes another
examination, more to check the first than
anything else. The trains number twelve
to twenty cars, each containing twenty
to twenty-five head. This horse train
leaves Chicago at $50 Tuesday afternoon,
arrives at Buffalo Wednesday night.
reaches New York at 2:45 Thursday after
noon, seldom as much as five minutes
late These horses are rested over Fri
day and shipped early Saturday morning.
The second train leave Chicago on Friday
afternoon and arrives at New York on
Sunday, the horses on this being shipped
Tuesday Half way the cars are stopped
at a great horse yard, the car doors
opened. and each carload turned into
pens to water, while fresh straw is put
in the train.
Thus this army of horses for abroad
that streams into New York each week
arrives in the pink of condition, with
seldom case of sickness. The train pulls
up at a long platform In the railroad
yards at the foot of East Thirty-sixth
Street New York. The export stables
staff of six men handles each car sep
arately. Opening the door, they slide the
brow in front of II Ga gangplank with
in twos.
This export stable is an extraordinary
structure of the metropolis. A one-story
building, its roof arched and spacious, 1t
is $40 feet long and wide enough for two
double rows OF stalls. Six hundred horses
and more on a pinch can be made COM
Portable here. There are box stalls for
distinguished travellers and those who are
suddenly taken sick ordinary STALLS and
swinging bar stalls, the latter for emer-
gency and capable of being made any
size that may he wanted.
1t is all In all, a fine set of horses
that are gathered here. For this export
trade all must he of the best of their kind.
Many thousands OF dollars of horseftesh
are at all times under this long roof.
Here there are sturdy ''gunners tarul-
lery horses for Europe). "bussers' OF the