The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05
A BuckINe eRoNco's DAY OFF.
After Five-MiIe Dash He Took a
 Peep in the Waldorf.

From the New York Herald.
 A brown, shaggy haired bronco, whose hoofs never wore shoes saw a great deal of this city Sunday afternoon without his owners consent.
 He left the lower East side and trav- eled to the West sIda 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 five-mile run fully dozen men will be nursing bruises today which will serve to remind them that a bronco out for an airing doesn't want to be bolnered
 The bronco started from the neighbor- hood of Eldrldge street, according to the best information obtainable, about ? o'clock. His owner, an east side peddler, was showing off the horse to circle of admring friends, when the animal threw his head in the air, snorted and jerked the halter rope from his owners hand. The peddler yelled Whoa, whoa" a dozen times before it dawned on him that the horse was really going away. Then the peddler and his friends started after him, and they were joined by crowd of small boys.
 The bronco swung into a lope. The owner and the others in the chase in- creased their gait and also their cries. On one block two men tried to stop the runaway. One man managed to get hold of the hanging halter. He was jerked from his feet and, in falling, he bowled over the second man. There were now a hundred chasing the horse The animal shook most of them off when he began to run. The only 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 ran north on this thoroughfare with his owner and the faithful friends following on Third avenue car. At Cooper Union the bronco started up Third avenue. He ran north as far as Twenty-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 lik- ing, and he pranced about the roadway like a circus horse. When any one ap- preached he lashed out and danced away. He stuck to the avenue as far as Twen- ty-ninth street, went east to Seventh avenue and up block and then turned back toward Eighth avenue. He went so fast through Thirteenth street that
 
 Into Eighth avenue he turned just in time to get abreast of a north going elec- tric car. He ran a race of four blocks with the car, and in that distance knock ed down four men. When the car reach ed 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, and from Eighth avenue a score of bicycle riders and two cabs had given chase and the yells of the pursuers attracted 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 look ed at the revolving door as If he were going in. Some men coming out scared him away and he started back towards Broadway again. Coming up the block from Broadway was the pursuing army of bicycle riders.
 The street was closed in both drec- tions, and the only open place the horse could see 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 a prisoner there twenty min utes. By that time his owner had caught up with him.