New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-05

| whole, have not only not become cheaper,
but have actually become much costlier.
Three years ago a brewery in town,
which used only the best Of draft ami
mails. paid 500 for team of these; two
years ago IT paid $780, one year ago it
paid $1,000
/ There are three classes of horse in use
/ in New York City-wagon, carriage and
riding animals. The wagon horses come
chiefly from Kansas and Central and
! Northern Ohio, the others from Kentucky
! and the Virginias. Breeders of carriage
and riding horses have been badly bit OF
late. Half of them have been put out OF
/ business entirely, and amateur breeders
have had to quit. The price OF carriage
horses has dropped more than so per cent
during the last ten years. The draft
horse demand is as great as ever. appar-
emily, and prices have gone up at least
25 per cent during the last decade. Tho
finest light draft animals brought to tho
city, employed by the Fire Department,
cost anywhere from $500 apiece to 1900.
and even $1,000 for team OF three.
A HORSE DEALERS VIEWPOINT.
"The point on which we build our
hopes" ] was told by an official OF the
biggest horse dealing establishment in
Manhattan, lis the unsuitability of auto
trucks for short city runs. We grant that
they seem TO make good on long dis
lance runs, but that business is only a
small percentage of wagon work. The
terrific Earring of machinery entailed in
clapping on the brakes scores Of times q
day and bringing load Of five or ten
tons in rapid motion to an abrupt halt is
a serious obstacle TO the auto trucks
success. / was talking the other day
with man who had just given UP his
five five-ton auto trucks. He told me he
had bought them for furniture removals.
but that, fast as they were, they had
mistaken their vocation and were remov-
ing his bank surplus a long sight faster
They ran him up a $4,000 bill of repairs
last year. and his tire bill for one month
was 5000 / wouldn't like to tell you
what destination he consigned progress
TO. and now he reckons good old four
legged animals can look after his bust
ness all right Moreover. you can't al
ways take an auto truck where you can
piers on the riverfront absolutely forbid
their entrance, on account OF fire risk"
The working life of a horse on the
streets of New York varies, of course. ac-
cording to his job. However, as a gen.
eral rule. 1t cannot stand many years OF
consecutive labor, and every week one
firm alone in this city auctions more than
a thousand draft horses, the majority Of
them unable TO stand the racket In Man.
haitian any longer. These animals are far
from decrepit, though. Most OF them are
bought by out-of-town farmers and shop
keepers, who get years Of good service
from them after putting them out to
grass for few weeks.
When a New York horse Is unfit for
further work OF any kind IL is taken to
the "offal dock" the municipal pound. at
seth street and the North River. TO be
destroyed. In consideration of the hide
and the value of by-products the pound
paws 81 80 for each horse delivered 20 II.
Should the beast die or have TO be killed
on the streets. entailing a special van
being sent by the pound to fetch It, this
payment Is not made. Glue Is made or
the bones and hoofs; even the shoe nails
are detached from the hoofs and solo,
and from the bones come numberless
articles made out of ivory substitute
II is said that not a single part OF the
carcass is wasted.