Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-05
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Especial Correspondence
r--> ARTS, May 26.--Some one with a
fondness for broad generaliza-
lions once coined the phrase:
Paris is a heaven for pleasure
seekers, hut a hell for llorses!" In
other European capitals strangers may
see cases of cruelty to animals, but no.
where, with the exception Of the Italian
towns perhaps, is bnrhaTty so SYSTEM
attic and ulrcstrained as here III Paris.
I 1t is not an occasional but an hourly
occurrence to see hulf-starved animals
bringing under the lash of the cahby's
whip. Dying horses are left writing
ON the streets until the veterinary sur
Eeon and police cominssary duly cer-
tify that the case is hopeless. Then.
and only then, can the horses be re-
moved to a special yard where the
killing Is done.
A man from Ohio once created a mild
sensation and incidentally got himself
into trouble by championing the cause
of the down tlpdden horse too vgor-
ously. He was seated on the top OF
an omnibus when he noticed the hoy
in charge of a passing milk cart beat
ing his horse numerically. The Amer
Jean rose from his seat and ordered the
boy to stop and When he refused the
man from Ohio produced a revolver
II and fred There was no serious dam
age done. but, needless to say. the
b heiligercnt stranger WAS marched to the
police station and fined for his excessive
zeal. And, alas! the boy, though prob-
ably chastened for the day, resumed his
boating OH the morrow
Another time an American woman
cav u street car conductor striking q
s horse on the head with lead pipe. She
called a policeman and made him draw
up u warrant for the mans arrest. a.
few days later she WAS summoned 10
a down town police station. After
waiting several hours in room with
drunken Wretches and rowdies who en-
nuired what she was UP for" she was
asked by the presiding magistrate
what she had against the conductor"
and sneeringly invited to dictate what
manner OF torture she wished him to
undergo
STARVED AND oVERWoRKED.
Most of the Paris horses come from
the plains of Hungary and, though
naturally not of the best breeds, they
are. young and in good condition. The
average price is 500 Half starved and
forced each day to work far beyond
their strength, they seldom last more
than three or four years. When they
become too unpresentable during the
daytime, they are reserved for night
duty. Then when they are too worn
out and disabled for any service at all,
they are sold to suburban rag-pickers.
or are led to the horse market AMI
"knocked down, to the highest bidding
butcher, who retails horse steaks at *
cents per pound! IF the stable Groonis
fin1 that a horse is injured or ailing,
they purposely neglect 1t, forget to
dress its wounds or give it proper ra-
tiors, because they get a certain per
cent on each horse sold.
Tho cabby, who. in order to make
hare living, must exact the utmost
from his beast, often resorts to htdeous
devices, Some carry long canes with
spikes at the end. With these the
faded horses are forced to make a SUI
prene effort. Sores and undressed
wounds are hidden from the eys of the
compassionate traveller under the heavy
iron plate collars which the horses
wear, more comfortable collars are
deemed an extravaganza by the COM
I,anies.
HUMANE! CABBIES.
III Naturally only q small per cent OF the
cabbies practise such fepdlsh brutali-
ties. Many of them, realizing how in
sufficiently fed their horses are. spend
s. ~ cents a day out of their own earnings
for extra supplies of oats. This kind
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