New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-11
Model Ter7er1erlfs for Horses
Horse Aid Society Plans Chain of Comfortable Stables
for Poor OF tine Equine Kind.

: either poor owners Of horses IT q price they
could afford.
IN most OF these miserable New York
! stables, I've described pedlers are charged
! s. ar s. a month for a STALL Mrs. Ehrlich
told The Tribune reporter. we figure we
can give good accommodations for that
price and have the stables self-suppoTt-
! ing or nearly SO. I shall build the first
stable myself, probably, leased land IN
some place central for the men we want 10
reach. That's to be built this fall. But the
other incorporators mean 10 help, and since
the society was formed I've had scores oil
/ letters offering aid, financial and otherwise
so | hope it won't be long before there's
Chain of model stables. One business man
has promised TO furnish us horse iced al
| cost"
The stables are going to be centres Tor
the instruction of drivers, too. There VIII
be literature on the proper care OF horses
to give ont, and lectures If 1t $ practcapie
10 bring the men together. Also, the Soci-
ETY. will send out inspectors as its means
| permit to watch for cases OF cruelty
! And Wen pay Them" Mrs. Ehrhch SAID
with a nod. enough so they won't be
tempted to accept graft 10 exc out their
salaries More than one man sent out to
I humane NOTk has NNNtfbSb IL ~ vi -"
bride 10 neglect making a deserved arrest,
and where their salaries are very small II s
A temptation. But the poor horses,-they
do suffer from human greed. You'd be sur
p1-;sed TO know how many drivers will sell
for A drink the horses allowance of oats
with which their employers send them out.
Cab drivers. when they are tired, so inside
thej< cabs and sleep, leaving their horses
| to stand on their legs, Heaven knows how
! long, / founl one that had been in the
traces thirty-six hours till il dropped With
| fatigue.
| but often it's ignorance that makes men
n1istreat horses That's why want 10
educate drivers. And a driver that's kind
to his horses will be kind to his ID aily, for
I hold that u man who beats his horses IS
likely to go homo and beat his wife and
children Toe Making men good to animals
makes them better mon oil around.
But one thing l want to eInphs size" aud
she waved an energetic forefnger, firing
A man for cruelty does little good. And
it's nard OH those that depend on him y
s. fine ont of a poor pedlers or drivers
pocket means bread out of his family's
mouths and oats out Of his horses mouth.
Don't sou agree with me. Nelly?'
And Nelly, with a loud zap, signified that
she agreed TO anything her mistress might
choose 10 say. Mrs. Enrich doesn't pro-
fcss 10 know what Nelly's breed is. but
everything about Nelly, from herr broad,
shiny little black back to her prominent
and friendly eyes. shows that she Is a
thoroughly good sort. Nelly is d great
traveller. having journeyed nearly twenty
thousand miles by railway with her mis-
tress besides going nobody knows how
many miles in the peregrinationS in the
gray automobile. Nelly is quite at home on
the East Side, for she is a Bowery girl.
having been born on that historic thor
oughfare-
| Nelly isn't the only dog in the Ehrlich
! home. Putting ones head oft of the back
parlor windows one sees ten dogs-not
counting two little creatures Of the hairless
! Mexican vaTieIy-sunning themselves in
/ the yard.
Il picked them all up-homeiess dogs on
I the street." Mrs. Enrich said. See that
handsome curly black fellow. With the
white breast and paws? 1 wish L could
find his owner. for I'm sure he is
pet, but I've looked in the lost dog col
umns OF the papers. and he isn't adver-
tised.
That brown dog mothers the little Next
cans as if they We're puppies Of hers.
! took her from gang Of dog thieves that
/ We're offering her for sale on the street.
/ I'm trying 10 DO all I can to break up
| these gangs Of thieves that operate on the
/ upper West Side. Do you know they even
haunt The parks and offer nursemaidS who
/ take valuable dogs out for an airing s. or
| SO for a dog-and get them. too, some
times
II have more dogs on my place at
Queens. Long Island" Mrs. Enrich went
on. I've twelve acres there. and we mean
TO turn il into a rest farm for horses, like
Red Acre Farm, near Boston. II will be
in connection with the model stables, and
when q poor mans horse gets sick or run
down Wei say TO him: For very, very
small sum weekly Wen rent you u strong
we'll horse that yours may go to our farm
. and have rest and green pastuTaSe