The Detroit times., 1909-12-30
little BLUE LADY
CHAMPIONS HORSE
Makes Driver Of Broken Down Nag
Stop in Street and Harangues
Crowd on Care Of Animals.

A plump and rather pretty woman
OF about 40. dressed in blue from hat
to shoes. held up traffic al Woodward
and Grand River-ave. east; threatened
to have mounted Patrolman Mark
Baker fired from the force; threatened
the arrest of a shivering young team
ster for Dave Matthews. truckman
at No. 9S Woodbridge-st, gathered
hundreds of pedestrians around her.
and mounted guard over a broken
down horse and heavily loaded wag-
on, from 1890 until 1890 o'clock,
Wednesday.
She would not tell her name. but
she put the grand kibosh on every
thing around the Newcomb- Endicott
Co. corner for two hours. That Is.
everything but conversation. The
zero temperature thinned out The
squads Of attentive listeners who came
to hear her haransue about New York.
st. Paul, and other cities which use
horses-but II had no effect whatever
on her talk pipes.
The hypothetical question in the
Thaw case would have doubled up and
collapsed had IL come within the
range of the Little Blue Lady's ora
tory.
The Little Blue Lady. without a
word OF warning. stepped out into
Woodward-ave. and ordered Dave
Matthews luckless teamster TO stop
right where he was-in the middle
OF the avenue-and not to dare at
tempt to haul his heavy truck OF
iron drain pipes an inch farther, with
the weak looking horse as the motive
power
The teamster was not inclined 10
obey her orders, and she then went
10 Officer Baker, and insisted that he
do his duty. To avoid blocking tras-
fic. Baker ordered the teamster to
drive around the corner. to Grand
River-ave. east. The Little Blue Lady
loudly declared, when she saw Baker
allowing the wagon to move, that
she would have his buttons.
Finally, Baker made the teamster
unhitch the horse. Another stronger
horse was attached to the load. but
the lduy lTOIn NEW
wouldn't let that go on, either.
They'll never move that load with
one horse, if have to stay here all
day" she said
Then. to the crowd which collected
around her, she stated that she had
paid So year. and was member OF
the New York Volunteer Humane
society. She said that she was very
apt. in New York, to walk out into
the street and stop any horse that
didn't look strong, or had boils or
sores, or that she decided wasn't fl.
for the job it happened to be doing
at the time.
"The men. BAH" said the Little
Blue Lady. The women can do
hundreds of times as well as the men.
We women in New York do not let
them abuse horses like this. This Is
a bad town for horses. Almost as
bad as ST. Paul. Why. in ST. Paul
they have n Humane society. but they
have n president and secretary that
get salaries that eat up all of the con-
tributions. Members contribute So
each but the officers get IL all. Now
I'm New York. there are hundreds OF
women members. have four wealthy
women friends. and we five are doing
our best to fight for the poor horse.
But even the government is against
us. In New York, the government
claims all dead horses in the streets.
The owners cannot even take on n
dead horses shoes. The government
gets the profit from the hides and
hair and hoofs Of the dead horses.
Why doesn't the government protect
the live, working horses?
'In New York We have grand
system. Several wealthy women have
transfers parades every May. They
give cups for prizes to transfers who
have the best looking horses. after
they have driven the horses for five
years.
mo, will not tell my name. My
husband Is in Detroit on business, and
it might hurt his business"
The Little Blue Lady carried a
handbag with the monogram 81. A.
s." She had diamonds In her ears.
and was we'll dressed.
The horse and horseless wagon
were still blocking Grand River-ave.,
and the Little Blue Lady. was still
talking, long after noon.