The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-24
SHORT HORNS IN THE RIVER
MAR y STEER LEADS A REVOLT
AGAINST DRESSED BEEF.
Two Dock In Hoboken or beyond and
Two, After Various Adventures. Arc
ANONYMOUSLY Cut Down by Butchers
An Jproar AH0at and Ashore.

An uproar Anoat and Ashore
Four high power short horned steers
from Colorado started out yesterday
afternoon to navigate the waters Of the
North River without pilots licenses
Two Of them were locked in Hoboken
one Of them surrendered in midstreau
after having been boarded by a butcher
and one, setting his course hack to land
took an overland route along Twelfth
avenue and Wost Thirty-third street thai
was not ended until all that part Of Man.
haitian was in an uproar and twenty-five
ullce bullets had been fired broadside
into his hulk.
The steers were part of a consignment
Of 10 that had been shipped from thu
sandy plains OF southern Colorado to the
New York Dressed Beef Company. whose
wards and abattoirs are at the corner OF
Nest T~hirty-ninth street and Eleventh
avenue. They all came over from the
Jersey shore in cattle cars. mounted on
floats. and shortly after 1 o'clock yester-
day afternoon a squad Of tail twistsrs OF
the beef company started to drive the
steers Va to the company's yards.
\ very husky steer. whose flank bore
the brand Bar y" INC whose early youth
had been spent among the Joshua trees
and cottonwoods of the Las Vegas coun-
try. determined that his stars had not
ordained that he should ever be dressed
beef in New York. This Bar \ steer made
UP his mind on this point with remarka-
lie suddenn~ss. Just before he turned
into the gates where hope is left behind
he wheeled and boltsd down the street in
the direction of the pier at the foot Of the
street.
Three other fatalists of Independent
mind caught the spirit of rebellion and
jumped from the herd with a tossing Of
horns and switching Of tails. With their
leader from the Bar Y they Numbered
down the street.
With some Of the tail twisters following
close astorn the four steers made q
straight course for the river and took
tho plunge almost as n Once in the
river, each signalled his hind legs full
speed ahead and breasted the tide with
q fine frill of foam about his nozzle.
The tail twiste-s debouched along the
Manhattan shore, hunting for everything
tAat would float and couid be propelled.
From brick COWS, f1athoats and tugs
they requisitioned skiifs and dories. But
the four Colorado cruisers were far out
in the stream before q boat put out 10
turn them.
The Delaware and L~ackawanna Rail-
road tug Ripehart happened to be loaf
ing down the I'VE without a TOW Just at
tho time that the most northerly Of the
steers was pushing under forced draught
for W~eehawken.
The Rinehsrt ran alongside. The first
officer and the purser stood ready with a
looped line.
tain. They heaved. Sand ready TO
hitch around the aft towing blocks!''
commanded the captain: Ihe{ stood
tain commanded through the engine
loom pipe. They backed.
And so the tug Rinehart brought the
first OF the four cruising steers to a cement
barge lying at the foot Of Thirty-eighth
street. SoIre Of the longshoremen there
took hold Of the towing rope that was
cast them and pulled the Rinehart's tow
aboard the cement barge.
While the Rlnehart was bring ing her
tow to the cement scow other things
we're transporting out on the flood A
boat with two tail twisters and one
butcher OF the New York Dressed Beef
eeagoing tenderloins until a rope could
be thrown about his horns. Then the
boat started to tow back to Manhattan.
but il didn't 60 far. The steer backed
water, hinged at the stern Of the rowboat
with his stump horns and otherwise
cut UP didoes until it came to a point
where it was either u dead steer or three
drowning workmen. The butcher drew
his knife swiftly across the throat OF tine
steer and il was as undressed beef that
lie continued his voyage TO the Manhattan
shore.
AL- t,-@ 1.,.tto TNtn-
raGo aquatic reeves pursued their way
across the river. There are conflicting
reports as to taeir final bourne. Some
&c. that the we're captured at the Ho-
boSen wharves and Drought back to
Al,nnattdn in hacks, Another rlinor
h.s it That they were seen passing Little
/. lis and Hohokus late last night with
OFT lights and Keeling of the knots to beat
tie Sacramento night boat.
GLt as to that one which was brought
hTch to Manhattan alive; he made history
t:ter t!Iat.
nee removed from the cement scow
81 the foot OF West r~hirty-eighth strcet.
rnis ins Urgent stser--and ne Was the
Be- y individual tnlt started all the
trouble - fouau himself bound to a ve-
nj. !e which tney call a sleigh along the
NJ. nhlitln shore. Bar X had never Q
on i Il Ugh out in Colorado, SO he promptly
b!oAe tie binding ropes and got OF.
s-ONH I"tHtu dNeiiuc Hc toic' III
~ I let or hindrance To be sure the tail
II i-t.is hso tried 20 stand in his way and
~IIe their coats, but a lowered head and
a snort sent tGein Thing.
RI \ coGt.hleo on down the avenue,
psf the citing tenemcnts, to Thirty
tEud street. IneTe after tipping over
10 Il Pdppas's EaIlana stand and tramp
ling p..ls dog Theophoros he turned
ca twGld into the cross street. The
street was crowded with children.
Mothers poured from tenements to snatch
Up babies and fathers of families yelled
m'diy Tor the police.
Eair vel. we're heard by Policeman
hletls klelnir,yer on post at the corner
ol %Inr,y-third street and Tenth venue
Ii: /, r...a down tho long block TO seek
TIC cause OF the trouble and was nearly
run dow by the cause itself. Klein
Es,.r seed up the situation accurately.
r u.nnLsred his artillery and began to
pump IS ciiibre bullets into the rcd and
white hide OF the snortlng terror.
.Gs shots wers heard by Policemen
Ov IN smith and Charles Thon. Th.y
came charging down from convergins
Ell .eis and Joined Klsinmeyer In the task
o. .ncreasing the bal st Of Bar \.
ia: siesr ran up ihirty-third street as
tsi as y nth avenue. with the three police
n u aIu a mob OF boys and mon in stray
6 z pursuit. At the corner OF Ninth
I, .Is Bir X turned and charged back
O. nMs pursuors. Then Policeman Smith
sld mon began to let loose at him as he
came, head down. Near Tenth avenue
u! sic,y ,ank 10 his knees and seemed
a 'pl T. lady to become dressed becf.