The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-24
Fleet Ambulance Mare Has
Answered $4,000 Hurry
Calls in Ten Years.
DEARLY LOVES SWEETS.
But Surgeons Are Scared of
Her and She Is For
Sale.

Are you an ardent admirer OF equine
sxcellences And have you steady old
plodder you'd like to exchange for an
almost genuine also RAM"
lust 60 up to the Flower Hospital at
! Avenue A and Sixty-fourth street, and
take a look at the prize winner am
bulance racer. Baby, whose sole faul,
Is her speed-speed which has saved
many life.
small. iong-limbed. white mare
Baby is. with a sweet tooth and an al
most human intelligence. For ten years
she has flied her place In tie hospital
corps, answering in that time nearly
$1,000 calls, and now she is to be sold
or exchanged
We'll. you don't want her." you say
to yourself Ten years in the hospital
service!" That means they're trying 20
sell you broken-down wreck. and
aloud you ask her ase
You are told seventeen! You laugh
bo!sterously at the idea of your buying
horse who Is on its last weakened
legs. but you consent to a short ride
| behind her. You notice the clean,
youthful action of her limbs as she
swings out of the stable. las the only
chance YOU get to observe 1t. for once
in the street she is OF. like a flash, with
/ the ambulance bell changing warningly
| behind you. Sure It's runaway, you
are, but the drivers face Is calm and
the swift but steady movement con-
vinces you that Baby is going her
regular gait.
Narfa iF,lt IL, . 10 h. ~,
to resist such a bargain. and as you
are only human. the exchange will be
quickly made and you will depart re-
joicing in your newly acquired treasure
all unknown of the history which lies
behind her and the explanation or, her
speed.
When an Evening World reporter
called on Baby n her stall to-day the
little mare told the whole story with the
aid OF the head driver. John Myers, as
Interpreter. Myers has driven her for
| two years and knows her every pace
She posen't Know Her Fate.
The little girl doesn't understand yet
that she's to be exchanged or sold" ex-
planned the driver In loud aside.
Shes the finest little mare that I've
ever driven-that's a fact-and I've been
holding the reins for ten years In dif-
ferent places. I've never yet sat be-
hind a horse that could equal her In
speed. anc that's the surest thing you
know. And such intelligence! Just
look at herr
Baby's nose was buried deep in the
drivers pocket. She seemed to be find
ing II difficult to eXtricate herself until
Myers helped he out. patting the long
velvety nose as he talked.
She's always like that. nosing around
for sugar Such a sweet tooth as she's
got Well, you just want to ask Mr.
Shulty. the grocer around the corner
l leave 1t to him. Well. what was IL
I started to talk about?-er-oh. yes
her speed.
Baby was Just seven years old when
she came here. For seven years she
was nothing but an intelligent. steady
ambulance horse. And all Of a sudden
she seemed to take II into her head that
the autos were beginning TO nh her
place and she started to running and
she's never let UP. AS the speed mania
seemed to seize the auto chaps, so the
same mania seized her. The faster
they'd go the faster she'd follow, un-
til now. Well. as / say, don't
think there's faster horse In New
York. AT her age. too 1t seems to me
the older she grows the swifter she
goes. Why. the other day. we went
from here to the Grand Central and
back in twelve minutes on a hurry
call.
Baby was whispering gently into his
ear just then and he turned hastily
10 his assistant.
Hey, Richie. got some sugar for
Baby. She's teasing awfully."
But. why" asked the reporter why
do you wish to get rid Of her IL she's
such a paragon"
Surgeons Afraid Of Her s,eod.
Myers's face fell. suddenly.
She's too fast. there's tho whole
trouble, The surgeons are. every one
| OF them, afraid to ride behind her The
other night We had n hurry call
rushed Babe here into harness and hur.
! ried there in no time. Coming back.
the surgeon thought she was running
away and made a dive for the door to
get away. II was all l could do to re-
assure him. OF course. we keep no.