New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-11

Have voa heard Ire news wl'innied
Jim. TIC rag picber's horse, 10 Zones. wh"
ns uied the crazy ola cart belonging 20
Tony the ha.3ana, man
Bones shook his head ~ q spiTitless way,
Can't he good news If it's anything 10 90
Wit. u.s. ihe Hheezed, H-incins a. i SadfN
lighted on d sore on his of thigh which
-. couldn't reach with his tail, FOR Bones
had been a :iae carriage horse in his day
and his tail MAS docked.
--Eut It is insisted Jim Jim was a race
horse once and still showed glimrerlngs OF
his oldtine lively disposition. The lady OF
The gray awomobile-you know, the one lla'
had my master arrested for beating me III
J feiI-is going 10 huilG a model stable loF
poor horses and then she's going 10 coax
people TO build more. a whole chaih OF
them Think of it. Bones. Clean, dry
stalls 10 lie down in. walls tilat keep out
The cold. and q good measure Of oats every
night; That's what The lady OF the gray
automobile intends US TO have. No more
stalls in old shacks, with the snow. drifting
in winter nights. and our legs knee deep in
water sometimes
1t sounds too good 10 be true, wheezed
Bones. sadly.
AIa1l,e this wasn't what Jim and Bones
sai6 to each other when their masters
halted them for d minute side by side IN
Rjvincton street the other day, but they
rubbed their lean heads together as if they
were talking and If Jim had said all that
he would have said only what is the truth
For chain Of model sta bles is the main
though not the only purpose Of the Horse
Aid Society just formed by Mrs j NJ
Enrich at whose home, No $40 West l4sth
street. she and her co-incorpoTatorS- MIS-
Iosepbire Reddiug, Eugene Christian. Will
lam II. Powell. Dr. sydney 8 Gruber, Mrs.
Gertrude T. Harrison and Mrs. Christine
s. Foster. held the first meeting of the
society on Wednesday night.
F7or seven years Mrs. Ehrlich who Is
tiny IL form but great III determinations
and who brings deep love Of horses from
her Kentucky home, has been haunting
New York streets in her gray automobile
watching out for abused horses, protesting
% their drivers and securing arrests where
il seemed necessary. Ore she jumped from
her automobile and chung 10 the head of y
1in77,jnr- horse for more than A block before
the driver stopped Once she Swallowed
stable for hours TO prevent the spiritt1lg
away of 2 sick horse, which later, through
her complaint. was shot.
The poor old thing Mrs. Enrich said
90 Tribune reporter. was 50 sore that
II sf1rank when I ran my hand over lis
sides
I know horses so we'll sh" Won't on,
that generally Just by looking al them and
iorching them ] can tell what ais them
But this work Of helping horses is so big
that I made up my mind / couldn't go on
alone a1o the Horse Aid Society Is the re
suit Nv Investigations among stables kept
by men who rent out stalls TO poor pedlers
made me see the necessity of stables which
should correspond TO the model tenements
built for people often. accompanied by
detective ] have raided stables at night,
and You wouldn't believe the conditions
have found IN some Of them. Many Of them
are old shacks up back alleyways, half tunl-
bling down. incredibly filthy. 1 have found
1uts So deep measuring up to her elbow,
in the earJheu doors. and the horses
stardig almost up TO their knees in icy
avate.. 1 round one old horse lying with its
head strained up by rope: the driver.
,il7 NIX perhaps, had tied il short il
couldn'' lie down, but il was so weak il had
fallen down.
And think. many OF these horses we're
used 10 different treatment once. Auto
mobiles are putting many good horse
down 10 the hard luck plane. Lots Of
vtll-to-lo people are selling their horses
a.9G buying cars The stables OF even the
very rich are not half as large as they
used II be And while here and there IS a
oerson who would put q horse Incredibly
TO death rather than sell il 10 he doesn't
know what fate, the majority don't care.
and that's how. many a once petted carriage
horse is now Whipping in Z pedler's cart,
brought down 10 hard fare when i is cd
and nre0S the best.
The plans Of the Horse Aid Society are
NeTy practical. The model stable plan has
already been tried and has succeeded in
Boston, Cleveland and Evansville, Ind. IN
Evansville one man, \. Meier. began it by
snlarging his private stable 10 acconlmO-
dale fifty horses, and renting out the big.
comfortable. clean stalls to hucksters and