The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-16
BRONCO PEEPS IN AT WALDORF
CORRALLED AT CITY CLUB AFTER
A RUN OVER THE TOWN.
Knocked Down . Dozen Men or So and
Was Pursued by Horse Car, by Bicycle. by
Cab and on Foot-Career Began Down
In Eldridge street, or Whereabouts.

Was Pursued by Horse Car, by Bicycle. by
Cab and on Foot-Career Began Down
In Eldridge street, or ThereabOuts.
A brown, shaggy-haired bronco. whose
hoofs never wore shoes, saw a great deal
OF this city yesterday afternoon without
his owners consent.
He left the lower East Side and travelled
to the West Side, encircling many blocks.
before taking a peep into the Waldorf
Astoria and trying to break into clubdom
by way of the City Club. That led to his
undoing and his capture. As a result Of
his long run fully dozen men will be nurs-
ing bruises to-day which will serve to
remind them that bronco out for an airing
doesn't want TO be bothered.
The bronco started from the neighborhood
OF Eldridge street. accor ding to the best
information obtainable, about 2 o'clock.
His owner, an East Side pedler. was showing
of the horse TO circle Of admiring friends
when the animal threw his head in the air,
snorted and jerked the halter rope from
his owners hand. The pedler yelled whoa,
whoa!' a dozen times before it dawned
on him that the horse was really going away.
Then the pedler and his friends started after
him and they were joined by a crowd Of
small boys.
The bronco swung into q lope. The
owner and the others in the chase increased
their gait and also their cries. On one
block two men tried TO stop the runaway.
One man managed to get hold Of the hang
ing halter. He was jerked from his feet
and III falling he bowled over the second
man. There were now hundred chasing
the horse. The animal shook most Of
haD Of wi ha hs4n A
persons who kept on at that pace were the
owner and his friends.
The bronco travelled many East Side
streets before he struck the Bowery. He
owner and the faithful friends following
on Third avenue car. At Cooper Union
ran north as far as fwenty-second street,
where he turned west. The owner had
to leave the car and continue the chase on
foot. The horse turned up Eighth avenue.
The asphalt pavement was TO his liking
and he pranced about the roadway like a
circus horse. When any one approached
he dashed out and danced away. He stuck
to the avenue as far as Twenty-ninth street,
went east to Seventh avenue and up block
and then turned back toward Eighth
avenue. He went so fast through Thir-
teenth street that he shook on his owner.
Into Eighth avenue he turned just in
time 10 get abreast OF a north. going electric
car He ran a race of four blocks with the
car and in that distance knocked down
four men. When the car reached Thirty
fourth street the bronco was half a block
behind, and when he got to the corner he
turned east.
Running at top speed he soon reached
Broadway, but from Eighth avenue a score
OF bicycle riders and two cabs had given
chase and the yells of the pursuers at
tracted much attention. The cabmen around
the Waldorf heard the cries and saw the
cause of them. The cabmen joined hands
and spread across Thirty-fourth street
about at the main entrance of the hotel.
The horse jumped on the sidewalk in front
of the hotel near the western entrance
For a minute he looked at the revolving
door as il he were going in. Some men
coming out scared him away and he started
back toward Broadway again. Coming
up the block from Broadway was the pur-
suing army Of bicycle riders.
The street was closed In both directions,
and the only open place the horse could 80
was the runway at the side OF the City Club.
Into the runway he went, and the gate was
closed behind him. He was kept q pris-
oner there for twenty minutes. By that
time his owner had caught up with him.
The Tenderloin police did not get the own
err name.