New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-21
WORKED TO DEATH.
The Fate of Many Horses IN San
Francisco NO1C.
BY Rufus NJ. Steele.

~. borsa Is having his day in San Francisco as
te has never had it in history even though the
dav must inevitably close with his death. Inc c'S
Of the California metropolis to-day Is not LOT sym
pathy not for money. but for horses horse'-a"u
more horses
In two wears new San Francisco will he ready
for tho painters It's steel and concrete buildings
viii tower in way that the sIrqctHffs o viii III have
been set for the world Plans cains LOT tIu
have been realized. The money isn't the only COST
81 setting worlds record NetheT y ~ naS ,Is
significant item OF the price mo Ile ~ s,ar
OF the new city Is going the lifebood OF hIleen
thousand superb horses IN oIGe1 IN ,yyn vears
Deliberately fifteen thousand draft horses are DC
When the ashes were cold the railroads we're
ready with gangs to lay tracks thI2usn ne HALF
a dozen contrivances were invented and put INTO
neTatio for lifting brick and metal and ashes and
coniotves and electric engines haulea ~ troa4
lots where the shOveers were al work AND i stili
there remained several I mona neer be removed
excent as II was pitched into wagons and drawn on
by horses geiting dirt 10 the steep embankment
from the excavation for the steel Shoe Oh nv"
Oq Horsepower has found meaning in San
Francisco wagon lodo M IA p. - ~ Ie now the
every trip load Of two. There are more horses man
more titan half enough The loads must be drawn
and the horses 20 be had are me npTsfS 6 T'aI arr
must tug and heave and plunge until me lotSs O.
moved Removal OF debris and hauling 1i r ma
Tara
ali sorts of premiums for time saved The con
tractor reaps the premium by driving ms HORSES u
balf-hour's walk from Market and Kearny
s,Teets AZ any hour of the day viii lead you 10 a
dad borse-dead in the harness-woTked 70 ueatu'
mo vans that carry off carcasses are Dusier tdI,
fbe vans which carry drunken men 10 jail anu
sh men vvhose business il is 20 bring In new horses
IN replace those who go out IN the StFuBsIe ar
S,rovying more and more desperate The CaHI0thla
corrals and the Oregon and Nevada ranches nave
feen depleted OF their surplus and now the ranges
OF Montana and the states further east"atu ar
being called upon TO yield horses ana more horses.
There is no fine Quibbling over the price me
horses must be had. They are shipped 10 the pan
Francisco horse market which. after the arrival OF
q fresh consignment, looks like 4 bull day In wan
Street. ,,- $500 =. .ho
civ now which means that there are 1900 horses
engaged in hauling away the ashes, the broken
brick and the spoiled metal from the aggregate OF
ruins The 1900 horses are insufficient Tor the
task and II is believed that 1900 more teams Will
be added TO the force before summer comes.
ton Grain and hay are high. The teamsters must
paw s25 a for this feed, and alfalfa costs them
So Yet the owner Is growing rich. And this.
TOO in splte of the fact that the wet winter, the
mud the holes in the streets, have caused more
sickness and crippled three times as many horses
as IN any previous winter season. Under the
dtions say horsemen. two years hence will find
most of the horses at work in San Francisco to-
80 Amer horses for heavy work are seen in
sion through San Francisco streets to-day There
are not enough OF them. though. for the work In
hand and few may hope TO survive the work which
IS now theirs to do. IT is deliberate sacrifice OF
s. 100000 worth of horsehesh. But the rebuilderS
are not baking at big bis.-Harpers Weekly