New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-23
HELLO OF OLD NEW-YORK
Horse Market Undisturbed bu
Progress.
Progress.

candiestick makers-each line has q district n
itself Many Of the districts one can identify
win the eyes shut, without even peeping at
me street signs They be distinguished he
Sohu shadow of doubt by the odors which fill
the air
Notice it some time as Won ride IN South Ee-,
on The elevated. From the Brooklyn Bridge
GOWN theTe Is a succession Of doors First there
- me smell OF hides, rancid and musty-the
-A'-'ei uisIrlct Then with a bend in the road
'le air Is lmDregnated with perfume suggestive
u H0"efs-Nlolets mignonette white iris car
''~''o" Fose' all IN one-undoubtedly the drug
uiSIicL And then in quick succession come
'i-e lhsidlous door of tea. the bracing aroma of
c"Iiee, the flavor OF tobacco. For blocks along
broadway one can smell print cloths and drv-
goods. BY the East River uptown the smell of
hops and malt combine. SO 1t goes all oyer the
city.
me smell Of the horse prevails in the quarter
between Lexington and Second aves in Twen-
'y-iouFth Twenty-fifth ard Twenty-sixth SIS
tsS - ne Ditttr reek of the beasts perspira-
toh the scent of leather. the aroma of straw
IL Is the horse market of New-Yor. this die
Hie' ana there are few places in the city more
interesting.
The district OF the horse dealing clan has tho
dignity Of age. 1t has been a horse market for
hity years, as many Of the stables standing TO-
Gay testify with their date stones 1t was =
horse market before that, even, when regular
stages connected it with the city below. 1t was
cattle market before that and pens were there
instead Of stables. The city built up to the
morse market. built around il and beyond II
has spread for miles toward the north ia tho
very end OF the island and into The Bronx
Yet the horse market stands where it did sixty
ana seventy years ago. The value and volume
Oh business has so increased with the increase
III property value that the horse traders can at
iord to stable their ever changing stock on
property which might hold skyscrapers.
T|enty-fourth-st. is the busiest and most in
teTesting street For two blocks between the
avenue boundaries of the district it is almost
entirely given over to stables and auction
rooms. The street IS the sa esroon for the deal
ers who belong there, and up and down the
rough asphalt the horses are put through their
PAGES. Horsemen in shirt sleeves collars off
cCiIs rolled back, long snap whips in hand
stand on the curb, admire, crticse hold tr.rir
tongues while the stock is exhibited to pros
pecuye buyers 1t may be a team Of heavy
Norinans or Percherons trundling a heavy dray
for the benefit Of contractor or brewer Pos
sbly il is pair Of high stepping coach horses
that are being shown to some country gentle
man. Then again, it may be a secondhand horse
good for q grocery delivery wagon. and the
grocery man knows where go to find him
The korsemen themselves are interesting
They well dressed, and beyond their whips
and fondness for diamonds there is little that
Is hoTsey about them. They different from
the Oldtime horsemen, all except a few who
have been handed down from the days of forty
years ago. like 'IIy' Hayman or George Logue. |
The business is conducted on legitimate lines in
these days, there is less snap trading, and no
fixing up Of bad horses 4 guarantee backed
with no end Of capital and all sorts Of business
reputation goes with the horses which are sold
in market nowadays and the who used to
devote their energies to making broken down
stock look fit" are engaged in training sound !
animals that their future owners may get the
most possible good of them.
Walk through this street of horse stables and
shoeing shops, with their hand hewed rafters
strung with shoes of different sizes, and you
come to the old Bulls Head Hotel relic of a
tavern Of the same name which stood on the very
sDot-Third-aYe. and Twenty fOurth-st.-as early
as 1890. 1t is still the headquarters for the
borsemen of the market, il has been for
Years on its walls are oldtime cuts, one of
which shows Washington reviewing his troops
in front Of the tavern. Another shows the fire
which destroyed the original building in 1871
DESPITE the valiant efforts of the Relief Fire
Company.
4 prized relic is copy of THE New-York
e;uectator,' of May 5, 1875, which printed this
advertisement: