New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-17
CAR CARRIES THE HORSE.
He Draes the Vehicle Up Grade and
Rides Dozen.

Denver. April 10 (SpeciaD There Is a horsecar
line in Denver operated differently from most
others. The horse pulls the car part Of the way
and rides the remainder Jim Blaine is the
name OF the favored animal that for twelve years
has dragged the four wheeled up steep in
cline from West Denver 10 green lawns and fash
ionahc country residences two miles away. Jim
Blaine has a good job and he knows IT,
BY quick side movement Jim unhitches him
self at the out-of-town terminus Of the road and.
without coaxing or Invitation. mounts the rear
platform. gives signal by series o: whinnies,
and away goes the old down hill
The car runs on the Cherrelyn Railway. which
has the grades carefully arranged so that the car
will by it's own weight. TO its city destination
without gaining at any time n dangerous mOmen-
tum. The is the origlna! No. Of the Denver
Tramway Company, and sold TO the Ign
Railway Corporation many years ago. Whatever
intentions the company may have had at the out
set TO keep it's rolling stock I'm good repair
and its roadbed in passable condition 1t may
be well to mention the benefit Of Eastern capt.
tasts who contemplate purchasing stock in the
line that Cherreyn No. 3. which. by the way. is
the only car possessed by the company. has never
been in the shops since its initial trip the
road. and the rails over which the car is are
OF the toy variety, now used by milliCnaires sons
In constructing railroads in the gardens OF their
homes. and never spike has been removed since
they laid in position the miniature ties
twenty years ago.
The seeming neglect the part OF the manage
ment in allowing the to go wreck may
probably be attributed the souvenir fend from
the East The cushions have been completely cut
away, pieces of wood have been cut from the body
OF the car. nails and tasts have been pulled from
their places and in fact all parts OF the ancient
vehicle have suffered loss of timber or metal
through the perniclous fad for getting possession
of something out of the ordinary.
AS directory the old Cherrelyn car has in the
thousands. Of names. printed. written or carved
Names
and Congressman from many States are closely as
ISOLATED with those OF gamblers and urchins
The names of five former Governors of Colorado
&aTrn fr the cen sf OF me car The all ne
Red and IN. o. Brock" have done their share
certain dates and assisted in making up the list
Of representative citizens who have been aboard
The windows of the car. which. except two. are
the same which Wee 3rlsnally fitted into the
mond rings have been made to trace the names OF
people actors and actresses Wnrd PTeressonal
alike scrubbed their initials into the
contain pins head without its touching some
window panes reflect ample light II is impossb HE
70 identify a person through them, even at a dis
During the summer months the road does a
thriving business not because it will take to
Blaine do the act" The old horse seems to know
with the fact. Neighboring fruit stands at the Den
yer end Of the lire sell bushels Of apples candy
dumped into his feed box or fed to him from the
exactly what n greedy and cunning elephant is in
n circus. "a poor. dear old beggar." Jim has now
been with the company about ten years He is a
coal black and we'll formed horse. He does his
work faithfully. and is rewarded with album
dance of good food. The faithful old fellow got
his name from his conductor. who originally
from Maine. and great admirer of James G.
Blaine.
The company has been offered large prices for the
and horse by persons who wish to exhibit them
Mt the ST. Louis Exposition. The manager says
$1,000 would not buy the car, and that Jim
Blaine has fortune laid up for him in the shape
OF forty-acre, green pasture, into which he Will
be turned in another year.