New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-18
FIREHORSE'SFAREWELL
HIS Il HERDS PASSING.
Old Scared Harry Lc00es Comrades
of Engine IS.

They do not Yet provide old age pensions
for horses in the Fire Department Consequent
~. Harry, despite the scars which he still car
hes as q reminder of his part in one Of the
most disastrous fires the department history re-
cords. had 10 retire yesterday because he is no
longer fit for the service of the department"
The fremen attached to Engine 1S. in West
10th street were sorry yesterday when they
read in the newspapers that No. $50 was out
OF it, with eight other horses that had yielded
70 the press of passing time. Ordinarily they
don't pay much attention to numbers in the de-
partment but they knew Harrys at Engine 10
"a name seems TO at horse in the department
better than a number, If the bearer has tho
hight spirit. and so the willing gray was never
anything else but Harry 10 the boys in West
10Th street.
IL was under that name, too, that he got the
scars 10 which Foreman Burns and Fireman
PADDY" Smith pointed with pride yesterday
when The horse was LED forth to be sold at the
training stables OF the department, in West
Goth street. Burns and Smith have all the fire
mans affection for a good fellow" like Harry,
and never thought that the marks which showed
the gray's quality a fire fighter might not
enhance his value TO the dealer looking for bar
gains They only thought of the bitter cold
night six years ago when Harry, with number
of other good fellows We're on the job and STUCK
plosion in the box factory of the Woke COM
pany, at 31st street and First avenue, caused
great loss Of life and havoc 10 property.
The explosion occurred late on the night or
January 81, 1901. and the blaze. famed by an
3cy blast from the west, soon had the nelghpor-
hood in q panic Engine IS was one of the
first companies to get to the scene Of the fire.
and took its stand IN 31st street, just south of
the burning building. So terrific was the heat
that Harry and his teammates were badly
scorched but never a hoof did they move until
the orders were given; Harry got a short leave
Il absence then at the hospital, but he didn [
seem like himself until the veterinary sent MN
Nack to Engine is. There he has been for six
G ears always with his ears ready for the SOUND
the alarm, and never a KICK out OF MN, no
latter what amount of work they called on him
: 90 do When he came to be tWenty-one years
old. however, they thought he getting too
aged and retired him for a youngster who may
stand the strain Of fire fighting better but VIII
never, they say in West 10th street, have more
real gilt and willingness TO work.
The last two OF Harrys fellow discards on
the auctioneer's list, a chestnut from Engine 81
at Wakefield, and a gray from Engine 46, in The
Bronx. had Just been disposed of when golden
haired young man came running wildly INTO
; the training stables He was crestfauen when
told that the sale was all over, and Immediately
! began 10 importune the buyers who hadn't got
off with their purchases. The young man de-
clared that It was imperative that he secure
some of the animals, as their lack would mean
the thwarting Of a great educational enterprise
He finally made a decker for the gray and
chestnut with the purchaser, but declined TO say
whom he represented or what was the nature
Of the educational enterprise in which he was
warmly interested Last nlgnt, however
with the green of the mimeograph still steaming,
! came foolscap from Press Agent Eduardo Broker
at Dreamland. bringing the news that the man
sgement would show 10 those who pay the reg
ular admission next Saturday and every day
thereafter during the summer. that splendid life
size bit OF realism, Fighting the Flames" For
this purpose concluded the dispatch. I'VE have
to-day purchased from the city's Fire Depart
1nent two OF their finest animals at a cost Of
$1,000" "Stung again." said Auctioneer Dobliin
last night, when he showed the sale list of the
nine animals totalling Sis.
Kitty. the only lady in the nine who used
TO draw Deputy Chief Callahan over the roads
of Staten Island. went for sS5. Brian @. Hughes
paid SIS real money for Bonnie, gray geldngi
who ran with Truck 49, The perennial prank
player said ne would send his purchase to the
farm in the Catskills