New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-19
Gf III ENgOREAL DAY H
sf WILL WITNESS AN EQUINE
III lINNOVAT70N In New YORK. OB

More than a thousand working had
been booked when the entries closed yesterday
for the first annual parade OF the New York
Horse Parade Association. which will be held
on Memorial Day. When the parade lines up at
Washington Square for its march to the head
quarters Of the American Society for the Pre-
vention Of Cruelty to Animals on that forenoon
there will be few classes Of delivery or draft
horses that will not be represented. No dock
tailed horses will be allowed in line, and the
places of honor will be given TO the horses
longest in service best cared for and most con-
sderately handled.
While the classes of work horses TO be ex-
hibited viii be principally divided according to
the occupation Of their owners. there are to be
several divisions on the basis Of age and ser
vice alone. The old horse" class is expected to
be most interesting of all of these. Veteran
work horses that have been faithfully active in
service for long terms OF years viii be judged
in competition according to the care and atten-
( tion which their condition shows on the part of
( their drivers. Old No y. from the Koeaer
brewery. is expected 40 carry off high honors in
this class. This big dapple gray has served be-
fore the beer cart, week in and week out, for
fourteen years. So perennial does his youth
appear that in recent years he has been re-
peatedly examined by veterinary surgeons and
mistakenly pronounced between six and eight
years old.
Charlie and Dick, the star team of ten
that have been entered by Ninth avenue ice
dealer, are expected by every iceman the
lower West Side to win a prize in the ice wagon
class. The coal drivers are looking to the crack
f1ve-horse team of the Curtis BlaisdeIl Company
{ TO win medal in their class. This heavy group
of grays has been picked from some hun
dred draft horses in their stable, and long
ewinters of the slippery struggle icy streets
: do net appear have impaired their splendid
form and stamina One of the most slightly
three abreast" teams that have been entered in
the grocers' division is composed of Nos H. rs
and 79 from the stable of Seeman Bros.
AS is the case in many instances, these horses
are known only by number and are named only
unomcially by the driver. who has driven them
for years.
In addition to the drivers Of every variety of
work horses, except docktailed and cab animals,
sswllo have been invited enter their charges
free of cost in the parade. an opportunity will
1be given for the men OF the city departments
xto compete with the most faithful and best
cared for Of the horses in the citys service.
S-NIne handsome medals have been offered to the
winners in eight divisions Of city department
horses by Mrs. James Speyer, treasurer of the
Wcmans Auxiliary of the American Society for
the Prevention OF Cruelty TO Animals, who has
been largely instrumental in instituting the
parade Horses in the service of the Police Fire,
Street Cleaning, Health. Correction. Park and
Charities departments and the city hospitals will
compete for these medals. Two of these medals
have been offered to the Police Department, one
| Tor the mounted force and another for patrol
wagon and traffic squad horses Irish Lad. a
handsome dark bay ridden by a policeman
named WILDER, is a prominent candidate for
noifofs IN the first class. II is intended that
these Speyer medals Shall be made A regular
feature for the faithful horses in the city's SER