New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-03

Old Bill Maloney nipped at fresh tui'
Of the sweet green grass, fiicked his stump
OF a tail thoughtfully, and wondered, IKE
the little old woman in the nursery rhyme
"Can ] be 70" Bill Maloney loafing In
pasture appeared such novelty to himseii
that he couldn't get used TO 1t. True ne
had a dim, a very dim, recollection OF being
nv his mothers side in pasture IKE th's
ono. with a shady pool where they s'oou
when the sun was hot: but that was many
wears ago. and Bills old cracked hoois hao
known nothing but hard city pavemehts
so long that he never expected them 10
lnov, ANYTHING else. And here he was
snendinC his days in a New Jersey pasture
with q roomy red barn TO sleep in at night!
Ri. could almost have blessed his master
the rags-and-bottles man whose cart ne
dragged around New York streets for
giving him that cash over the eye which.
together with his lame leg and his starved
condition made the veterinary at Tue
Horse Aid Society's model stable, IN East
E3d street prescribe stay at the society
Rest Farm for Horses for him. (BllIs mas
ter told the veterinary that the old horse
fell and gashed his eye in ft. but BIZ
knew better)
Bill wasn't alone IL the pasture by any
means. Ten equine down-and-outs were
there. all sent from New York by the
Horse Aid Society, and Mrs. Jacob Ehrhch'
president Of the society, says they nope
nv and by 10 have many more. 1t Is
question. she says, of getting small pedlers
and other poor horse owners 70 understand
tho advantage Of rest, with good care III
the country. for wornout horses.
II isn't difficult to find the Rest Farm
for Horses after you reach Bogota, on the
edge Of which town it lies. You leave the
trolley car at River Road and walk norm
unless Mrs Ehrlch knows you are COM
irg and then she sends one or the TWO
orpban boys from the Bergen County Chll-
6reu's Home whom she is taking care OF.
along with the horses. 10 meet you with d
conveyance. You pursue the River Road
until Won come 10 shady pasture running
down 10 the Hackensack River with old
+orsoe cronpinc, the grass, or standing in
one Of the pools, or wading in the edge OF
The stream below. Beyond the pasture is a
roo,nv old house, with big outlying red
,ar,e There is an immense front yard,
tho chief features of which are swing
and a tent for the orphan boys ana uos
trorey-a length of stout wire stretched
between two trees. with a shaggy do5'
rescued from homeless wanderings IN Ne"
York streets romping up and down on
sliding tether attached TO the wire OtheF
dogs Of similar origin pervade the yaru,
some tied 10 posts and some, the TRUSTEES
,,v,,riatine I'm freedom If Mrs. Enrich Is
AT home she comes to meet you, but more
often than not she is in New YORK. look
inc after some neglected horse.
..Tbis is the first day I've spent here IN
TWO weeks" she said to the Tribune re-
porter. coming out on the porch.
.,yye hone to make the Rest Farm per-
,,,anent thing" she went on. This farm
&c merely leased for the summer. but there
couldn't be a better pasture for horses than
the one YOU see. It's so shady. and there
are the pools for them TO cool their fee'
IN. and the river that they can get rlgh'
at And l never saw grass grow as i
does there; 1t never looks dry or burnt
The pasture has so many shady spots tha'
we leave the horses there all day. only
putting them in the barn at night.
ct would make your heart bleed to see
some Of the horses brought out here-poor
old. uuderfed, overworked creatures, many
of them with some form Of lameness Bu'
it's wonderful to see how quickly they pici
up here Horses respond very quickly t(
good treatment.
zone 81 the difficulties Of getting pooi
iunkmon and pedlers and hucksters to senC
their worn-out horses away for rest, ever
though its free 10 them, is that they thinl
they can't spare the animal" Mrs. Ehrlci
continued. Their instinct is TO work tn
moor thing till he drops. But in many case
they can manage some way, If they onl
think So, to do without their four-foote
HELPERS for "a time Why. it's to their ad
vantage 10 have the horse rested up.
suppose that would appeal to many Of ther
more than the point Of the horses rights.
Mrs Enrich plans TO organize horS
aid society in Bogota and Hackensack' tn
two towns being close neighbors, as jersey
ties know. and she is in constant touc
With the local Society for the Prevention c
Cruelty 10 Animals.
you may think that in quiet, placi
place like this a humane society ism
needed" she observed But dreadful
things are found among the farmers some
times. There was man here who pulle
out his horses tongue. The animal balkec
and he fastened a strap to its tongue an
had another horse pull on il. There wa
another man who pulled dying horse
tail out. trying 10 drag II from the staI
where IT lay. What are men like that mad
Of? They ought TO be put into jail am
starved slowly TO death.
I'VE hear IT farmers who never tax
the harness off their horses. Think OF
tired workhorse lying down with IN