New-York tribune., 1911-03-12
Model Hotel for Horses
Hostlerv for Down-and-Outs of Equine ooc'e'y
Opened by the Horse Aid Society.

Chrlich said. emphaticaliy ""'n Sou P"'
a man or "A boy on his honor he rarely
play YOU false
"Nc have n rest farm al huntington
Long Island" she went on, and when
case calls for laying tho horse on lor SOME
time or when. II it's summer. ~ seems pes'
In turn him out TO pasture q Wh,ie. We u
inst send him down thcre-al"aEs eupPi!- :
ing the owner with a substitute Inc oi''c
herc at Horse Aid Stable 4 Is Furnished
With medicines. etc, for the treatment o'
sick horses. and | have veterinary ana
Mr. Wicr too, knows about all there Is 10
know about horses. But what these poor
old fellows need that arc dragging pedier
carts and one-horse express wagons anu
little businesses of that kind Is good 1000
and comfortable stables, not medicines
What does medicine do 10 an empty
stomach but burn Il out? What good does
medicine do 20 horses kept freezing and
shiverinc winter nights in stables like that
and that?"
Mrs. Ehrl!ch had led the way into tne
office. and as she spoke she ponted 10
some pictures on the wall showing condi-
tions i'm some of the crazy. sunken sneds
called stables I'm New York CITY. One
photograph showed horse standing In an
open yard IN the rear of Rivington street
tenement. 4 broken fence was his shelter
on one side: on the other there was noth-
ing
"IIe had stood there all winter. every
night, in the snow and rain. Mrs Ehrhcn
said "a Greek frui. pedler's horse ont
a fine rarrjsg &c horse once: sec his GocKeo
tail and his slender legs.
These poor pedlers aren't so much 10
be blamed for Ill treating their horses "
Is ignorance on their part and poverty.
man Of this sort looks on his horse as a
machine the machine he earns his living
by. and he drives the horse Oh till IL drops
in It's tracks Take almost any man, and
if his wife Is living sick at home or his
children are crying for bread he'll buy
what his wife and children need before
he'll buy oats for his horse. Many Of those
pedlers are too ignorant 10 look ahead and
consider that the horse Is the stock IN
trade. that Il he drops the business drops.
" hat the Horse Aid Society intends 10 DO
Is first 20 help these rner and protect the
horses bv maintaining places where good
accommoda tons will he furnished for the
same prices charged for the wretched sta
second. 20 educate these men through the
stables: third, TO secure the passage of
laws preventing or at least regulating the
trafic in broken down horses.
Do YOU expect your stables - be self
supporting
Not for long time prchahl- By 'he
success of hotels for working people. c.
model tenements and like enterprises am
encouraged 70 hope that this thing may
/ some time ray for itself Eut SC will never
. turn away horse that needs shelter. ana
we'll never charge more than ths ovne-
/ can afford 70 pay. II he can't paw any
, thing. all right 7 shall make II my bust
ness to visit the homes Of mon who bring
/ their horses 20 VS.. 10 try 10 get into per
-onal relations with their families, to see
how much, if anything. "e ought 20
charge them. Maybe when our society has
moro money We can help the families. You
! see. it's farreachins charity"
The society. which was incorporated last
( fall. will give it's first benefit entertainments
/ next Tuesday. at the Plaza Hotel, in thc
I evening when Homer Davenport Will de-
/ liver an illustrated lecture on horses III
Arabia. and Bedouin boy from the desert
( will play some Of the music Of his land.
! The corporators of the Horse Aid So
ciety are besides Mrs. Enrich. Mrs. Jo-
sephlnc Reddins, William II. Powell, Dr.
Sidney $ Graber Mrs. Gertrude T. Har-
rison. Eugene Christian and Miss Chris
tine S. Foster. Mrs. Russell Sage is one OF
its latest helpers. The society is quite in
dependent but will cooperate with other
humane societies whenever and wherever
I there is opportunity.