The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-12
DEAD HEAT IN VAIL STREET.
POLICEMAN'S MOUNT AND CAB
HORSE FINISH EVEN UP.

Con Chases q Runaway Through the Busy
District and 10000 Persons Drop work
70 See the Race-TruCk HATS Runaway
NE One Hurt-smAlI Damage Done.
Wall Street quit work right at the busiest
time yesterday to watch a horserAce. The
course lay down Broad street from Beaver
into Nassau, the inish being at Maiden
lane. The contestants were a n up
standing brown gelding, ridden by Police
man william T.. McGrail, and q lghtwaisted
bay attached TO a hanson cab.
The judges, Of whom there were several
thousand, couldn't separate 'eIn at the
finish, but all hands agreed IL was the live
lest sprint seen in the business district In
many a day. The dash was 90 impromptu an
affair that there wasn't any time TO make
a book. There was no money TO divide.
Il was sport for sports sake
George Elliott Of ass West Thirty-eighth
street lined up his hanson at Broad and
Beaver streete waiting for his usual after
noon load Of brokers. There were still
several minutes before the market closed
and Elliott climbed down to the sidewalk to
stretch his legs.
It Is supposed that the horse at this no
ment overheard two brokers from tho
Produce Exchange remsrking that oats
had gone down. At any rate he reared
suddenly and started up Broad street at a
canter that became q gallop before he had
gone half a block.
Mounted Cop Mcqrail was at William
street and, Exchange place when he saw
the cab fash past the end OF che latter
thoroughfare. He put spurs TO his mount
nj onea and the DurauiSt began.
Police Captain Dillon Of the Old Slip
station, according TO his won't at this hour
OF the day, was standing In front Of the
Stock Exchange watching the shorts emerge.
He ran out and lunged for the runaway's
bride, but all he grasped was air. With
several hundred clerks and messengers in
pursuit the cab horse dashed across Wall
street and up Nassau.
BY this time the mounted cop had turned
into Broad street and was urging his horse
10 the limit Of it's speed. Up the hill he
raced. missing several pedestrians by the
narrowest Of margins and gaining on the
runaway at every bound. Opposite the
Mutual Life Building the cab horse almost
bowled over a group OF men who were
carelessly crossing the street.
1t is supposed that they were policy
holders who had just dropped In to assure
President Peabody that they had the ut
most confidence in his management OF the
They escaped and the mad
dash continued down the hill on the other
side.
Mounted Cop McGraiI was only a few
Jumps behind when, just south OF Maiden
lane, the driver OF a heavily loaded truck
belonging 10 Fishbom Bros. Of 20 Maiden
Jane, started to turn around. He didn't
see the runaway. His truck completely
blocked the street.
The runaway had 10 choose between the
truck in the middle, a tailor's shop on one
side and a fruit stand on the other. He
picked the truck The cab hit the rear end
Of the truck and stopped. The horse went
right on, doing a ca It wheel down the gutter.
McGrail leaped from his horse and before
the cab animal could get 20 its feet the cop
seized il by what was left OF the bride.
Marvellous to relate, nobody was hurt. The
truck was unchanged and the cab suffered
little injury.
The cab horse was badly cut, however,
and created several small panics among the
~bystanders as he plunged frantically about
trying TO get free. Probably 10000 persons
saw the finish of the race from doors, side
walks and the windows OF a score Of sky
scrapers.
After It wa all over the reserves Of the
Old Slip station arrived, t~houghtfully
turned out by telephone by Capt. Dillon.