Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-02
THE FUTURE OF THE HORSE.

/ Trade papers in reviewing the horse
market and trade in horse flesh for the
past year see no present signs of equine
disuse and ultimate extirpation but
/ find the future full of promise for the
horse breeding industry.
While pessimists may predict the EN-
/ tirpation of the horse. the advanced
| political economists are providing for
his perpetuation. The heads of govern-
ments, have made no arrangements IN
| industrial development to supplant the
! horse by mechanical vehicles. II is true
that much of the service that was for
merry done by horses is now performed
by steam and electric power. The rail-
yays, the cable and trolley cars have
lemancipated the horse from the burden
of mental serv!tude. but the noble AMI
NAL finds useful employment in other
branches OF Industrial progress. 1t has
been naif decade since the inventors
of The automobile predicted that their;
tincantion heralded the dawn of the
''horseless age" While many of the
horseiess vehicles have gone into COM
mission. they have not superseded the
horse for pleasure or commercial use.
Never in the history of pleasure driv-
ing We're there SO maIM magnificent
establishments with cSachmen and
footmen on the driveways and boule
wards of Chicago and other metropol-
itan cities as the past season. There
has been renaissance in the use Of
horses during the past decade. There
has been almost a revolution In the
general admiration of fine horses. New
er have wealthy fanciers been more
lavish in the expenditure of money
for beautiful equines that were cham
pions in their classes. Drivers with
faultless symmetry and commanding
action have sold on the block for
pleasure driving up TO $500. Dan
Patch commanded 100000 as the cham
pion PAGER. The champion Percheron
stallion Pour Quois Pas changed hands
after winning the championship at the
International Exposition at $1,000, the
highest price ever paid for draft stall
lion in America. In every particular
the horse has come into his inheritance
and is recognized as mans best
friend.
Never in the history of the equine
industry has the horse occupied public
attention more than during the pas.
ten years. Every city of the first CLASS
has organized gentleman's driving
club and incorporated a horse show as
ISOLATION. The latter event has become
the smart set in every municipality.
For week the horse is the center Of
admiration and poses in the glare of
electric lights habilitated in Fashionable
fastidions public. 1t is gorgeous
spectacle and Mas become a national
event. Heralded by music, the noble
equine poses for the admiration of fam
ciers performing his part in the sew
eral uses to which he is commissioned |
by the wealthy class as luxury ana
pastime.
There is an innate grandeur associ-
ated with the horse not featured in
any other member of the animal king |
DOM There Is pleasing and exhilarat- |
ing fascination In riding behind we'll
hammered roadster that creates spon |
taneous devotion to the noble animal |
The horse in action is the poetry Of |
motion and no recreation is more re-
juvenating than pleasure driving. The
aristocratlc horse becomes both SER I
want and a companion in the pleasing |
pastime of outdoor recreation. All the |
refined sentiments of humanity revolt |
at the representation OF a horseless
age. The horse was created for man
and fills vacuum in his innate af-
fections for members of the animal |
kingdom, and human nature and mod
ern industrial methods Will have to be |
revolutionized before horseless age
Will be possible.