The New York Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1872, Page 3

HIPPO NORE i Progress of the Pestilence and the Preventive Proceed- ings of the Philozooists. Bergh Interrupting Travel on the Third Avenue. STREET CARS STOPPED State of the Sick Steeds in All the Stables---Strange and Sad Scenes in the Streets. “WAIT FOR THE WAGON!” Harlem Residents Crowding the Downtown Corners Horseless and Homeless. The Epizootical Affliction All Over the Land. ‘The city was dull yesterday; but in a less degree ‘than it has been since the advent of the dread Bipporhinorrhea, Broadway presented a much livelier scene than on Saturday and Monday, and ‘the general aspect of animal life was more cheerful ‘and spirited. The stages were running quite fre- quently and the draymen were out in greater num- bere, with huge loads of merchandise upon their wehicles. But the sidewalks were more crowded than was the centre of the thoroughfares; @ com- mon humanity which makes the world akin had created evidently some feeling of pity as well as sympathy in cold and worldly Breasts, recalling thought from the absentness @f absorbing business anxiety or of petty troubles, and it seemed that Broadway had @wakened to a recognition of the noble duty ef self-sacrifice that seldom is fulfilled in its selfish annals. The history of Broadway is one of selfish- mess; the story of the steps of proud, heartless ‘women and of mean, powerfal men who have trod its pavement; who have floated along in uncon- scious companionship, in the affinity of vanity and arrogance. Those are the components of what has been known as the “Broadway style’—vulgarly, ‘the “leg drama” of the city, because of its appeal to ali the sensual traits of New Yorkers and their Jove for notoriety, popularity and admiration. But yesterday the sensuality, the arrogance and the vulgarity of Broadway were lost in the common stream of humanity that flowed with such mighty current along the noble but stony channel. The @istinctions of wealth and power and s0- cial position lost their acuteness, for al- though there were a few stages running, tne Joads that clung to them, composed of smartiy @ressed downtown clerks, prosperous cashicrs and fair women of lazy dispositions, were only a tithe e@fthe immense tide that at noonday rolled along the Minty street. On the sidewalk mixed all the @Osmopolitan types of humanity that arepresent mong us, and the widely spread hippo-malaria had brought low the pride of the great, so that a horse was no longer an easy acquisition for the purposes of case and pleasure, and they suffered the torture of being looked at, by those who are poor in pocket and ordinarily are compelled to Walk, as being no better than themsclves. Oh, what o fall was there! The princely merchants atrode along the pavement and had the pleasure of seeing some of their draymen on their carts or trucks driving past them at a vaulting pace while they laboriously crept through the crowa It was a remarkable fact that the draymen, who seem to have taken better care of their horses than the public lines of travel, and to have relieved them from labor earlier, were, yesterday, in quite nota- le numbers, able to drive them, although of course, quite slowly and tenderly ; and the exercise, 80 said she knowing ones, did not harm the animals in the feast, but quickened their step with fresh strength ‘and filled their eyes with the vim and liveliness of renewed spirit. Asa class these men seem to have shown the greatest humanity and consideration for their poor beasts, and not one death among them bas yet been related. On the contrary, many of the haek horses and the poor steeds that are used before the stages and ears seemed every hour losing their stubborn and almost heroic power of endurance, and disgusting sights were frequent of the most sickening symp- toms of the disease. It ts pleasing to remark the continued good con- ition and happy improvement of the fine horses Kept in the uptown livery and private stables, and the fact only proves what was said in the HERALD at first, that only carelessness and ignorance in the treatment of the typhoide laryngite leads to actual death. Very few of the “first class’ coaches could be hired yesterday; very few hacks with ‘well-bred and well-kept teams could be seen going aground the streets; but there were many of the miserably bony and emaciated steeds ‘whose drivers are the most importunate and tp- suiting of mortals, and always drive you mad when you step offa train at the Grand Central Depot with their kind inquiries respecting your intentions of Yiding or walking. These animals presented the most laughable spectacle ever seen in the streets of New York. Most of them were wrapped in blankets, @0 that they looked like feeble dowagers walking out for their health, and some were even bandaged at the throat from the head to the shoulders with huge circles of fannel, white or yellow, soaked in goose grease or sume other remedy for the myste- rious malady, and were not unlike certain guttcral- voiced and heavy-minde1 clergymen who sport those sort of things underneath their reverential china. The poor atecds looked out of their numer- ous wrappings bewildered and seemed to ask, iu Mute besecchment, whether they had been trans- Ported suddenly into the cold portion of Dante's purgatory. These teams, however, were not in 80 great de> man as might be supposed, the public seeming at Tast to be possessed of a little of the divine com- passion for the poor beasts and to have awakened out of their stapor of indifference, ‘The cars, however, were loaded to a degree of tortore excruciating for the horses, and especially ‘those }iues which run to the very northernmost limit of the island. The Third Avenue Railroad presented Guring the first part of the day the samo scenes of gaffering and cruelty as have been recounted before ; bat at two o'clock ir the afternoon, when the tide of travel had somewhat abated, lo! the great Bergh appeared upon the stage of events, looking exactly a8 he used to look and guarded by his body-guard Of detective agents. The following ietter had al- ready been circulated ‘among the _ news; aper oMoes to warn them of the coming exhinit of his plucked-up courage :— MR, BERGH ON THE HORSES, ‘To rue Eorron or tax Hunatn:— ‘The posiety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Ly obvious abstained trom interference wit hie vel ‘at this time, except in cases of I severity; but the condition of the suffering ‘aoe be get rd Joh cine the ing ie human onbiic, and. woke Monee indiicting on these re Shehtures the cruel labors of dragging them it the city; ai rospecttully, requests the irs of the cue bus and railroad lines to with- (or a thne their dying animais trom work. more severe re! on our boasted civilization furiished the torments endured by the stri to ar ay, vehi loaded | : See ea oft ctl MU aya saga Tied seater ge ren sin tae tide i, fibogh et Fe been uarmed by ihe, abominable loads which’ eo te 4 Chistian people, let ee Sod Walk Hp amish istburoane’ dice "moe set ‘rsons, having coh teen provign ulmi iin sant less liberate oxanhey, Sawsre. ‘the com- munity Sagentions needless out- mat gee yy a RGH, Preaident. Mr. Bergh stopped every car as it came along and sentit, with the team that was attached to it, back toward Harlem. At a later hour, however, when the travel of business men toward their homes was much greater, the cars were permitted to run, and were more heavily laden than ever before; and many of the poor horses became exhausted, and were taken out of the harnegs because they could not go a step further. The condition of most of the sales, car and stage stables is little changed, only that in those best conducted the improvement of the aMicted horses Palpably in strong contrast with those in which there is exhibited little humanity and less com- mon sense. The thoronghbred steeds of the uptown stables are constantly improving. Dan Mace's stock are all fresh and nearly recovered from their slight attacks, and the Bride of the Wind, a noted Ham- iitonian mare owned by Mr. Kenyon, which has made a good trotting record, has now all the signs of perfect health, althongh a day or two ago she was quite seriously afficted. Mr. Bonner’s nage are quite safe. The horses of the regular army are almost all affected, and im consequence the following order has been issued :— (Cireular.} i ys: ‘Heapavarrens Derarruenr oF tar East, Orrick Carer QuarteRrmasre: ‘Tho attention of offers and agents in sharge of public 6 a ree animals belonging to the Quartermaster's De) mt in partinel the Department of the East is called to the “epizootic catarrh,”* now _prevale! horses. They are directed to observe the following rules for the treatment of this disease, and to report results to this office at the end of the present month and every ten days thereafter, ‘until the diseaso disappears: Tt is assumed that mahies: are piers kept clean, ary and well ‘ventilated, with plenty of fresh air and sun- light when possible, 't is also assumed that the horsesare never overworked, but properly exercised at all times, whether sick or well, and that they are fed with w some forage, regularly ni irtermaster meri! Cnited States ariy,, hier Quarter: POR THE TREATMENT OF THE DISEASE. On the first ning prance of the disease give the rege | is is free and of a natural color, Then take leather, or. what is better. carbolic disinfectant, in grains like large sized cannon powder, pe it ina shallow pan and burn it where the horse will be obliged to breath it. poly frequentiy hot vinegar, fubbing Yt Wellin withthe ry went inegar, rubbin; nnd, fad wrap the in flannel “dipped in vinegar. ent ‘ith warm vinegar. it not ive plenty of tresh, clean bedding. me rashes, with fi to one seece ct Rinotats. Ben tepid Water in the mau seed in je The hay and oats should be moistened with water— fe a reas will yield to the above e be very severe, accom- lerable tever and very sore throat, in- ‘ar, an embrocation of equal eet tincture of cantharides and harts- ° ine, ps pc pd vo asa drench, night and morning, the following — by Give asa Spirits of nitric ether. Laudanum. . Nitrate ‘Water. Mix. Should the horse refuse his feed, offer him frequentl thin gruel witha handful ot pulverized slippery elm bar! And licorice root stirred in it. ‘When convalescing exercise gently daily and stimulate the appetite with the following balti— Extract of gentian. Powdered ginger... ‘ x. A handful of wood ashes mixed with a Jittle salt thrown into the feed trough for the horse to liek up will be rel- ished by him and be beneficial. The police have reported the following places, at which deaths of horses occurred yesterday from the epizootic:— 190 West Fourth street, 517 Washington street, 8 Marion street, 129 Mulberey street, 806 Pearlostreet, No. 4 Riving: ton street, 159 ard strect, 14 Enst Twenty-seventh strect, 625 Bixth avenue, 129 West Twenty-seventh street, 181 West Tw ourth stroet, 140 Weil Fortieth street, street and Lexington avenue, § hth street, 1964 East Thirtieth srrect, S25 487 Second c, 4 drachms. 3 drachms. 1 pint, drachms. drachms, ent corner Thirty-second East Thirty-c! East Thi street, avenue, 206 Lexing- railroad stable, avenuc; cninth. street, 121 ‘Pitt street, % Pitt street, 17 East Eleventh strect, 46 Thi 16 Tenth event Be West Twenty-third street, 520 West Sixteenth street, 239 West Eighteenth sireet, 87 North Moore street, vomny mest, Caroline street, be- tween Jay and Duane; 24 ird avenue; Second ave- nue, between 127th and 128th streets; Dry Dock Kailroad Company's stable, 532 East Fitteenth sireet; 185 Second muc, 232 Kast Twenty-second street, East Twenty- Biied street, 4 East Twenty-fourth stzeet, 231 Bast Twen- nue, 439 Kast Twentict rect, 258 84 West Thirty-<l y-elg nfy-cighit strect, 205 West Forty-first fircet, 219 West Thirty-seventn street, 498, Cherry sireet, 56 Willett street, Mi ‘vhird ® 396 Went Fourth sireet, 06 Gansevoort street, 183 street, 109th street and Boulevard, The lines of cars which stopped running entirely yesterday were the Avenue Cand the Belt lines. Superintendent Bidgood, of the Sixth Avenue Rail- road, is anxious and willing to stop the working of their horses if only the Eighth and Seventh avenue companics wit do the same, and he is laboring with commendable humanity for this object. As was predicted the other day, it is probable, and more so, that Bergh is at length aroused from his lethargy; that the complete stoppage of all the means of travel will soon occur, ere the hyppo-ma- laria has ceased its baleful desolation. The downtown streets are little busier than they were on Monday. The piers are obstructed, the pavements, even near the water, are crowded with goods; the warchouses and stores are cram- med with their accumulation, and the merchanss and carmen wear long and downcast countenances. However, the splendid, sparkling weather in- spires new hope and spirit in both man and beast, and there is really a plausible reason to suppose that in general the horses are growing better of the malady. But the worst phases come before the bet- ter, and the end is not yet. The Car and Stage Lines. Areporter of the HERALD, as usual, visited all the stables of the various stage and car lines in the city. Taken asawhole there was a slight im- provement in the condition of the horses, and the officers of the companies agreed in saying that the horses fed better than they had done for some days. The change for the better was generally attributed to the favorable change in the weather. The Ninth avenue line had not yet resumed operations, while two more stopped completely, THIRD AVENUE LINE. At the depot of this principal line the condition of affairs is very bad. Mr. Birdsall, the Assistant Superintendent of Horses, said that he did not believe there was @ horse in the stable that was not affected by the plague, The condition of atfairs ‘was no worse than the day before. He found that, in fact, the horses took to their feed better than on the day before, The company was not working now for money, but for the accommodation of the public. This stood to reason, as it was certainly @ matter of greater gain to rest the horses than to run as they were doing now. If Mr. Bergh would de- cidedly order the line to stop he felt confident the officers of the road would be glad, only they did not ‘Wish to take so important a step upon their own shoulde: There was nO question, Mr. Birdsall said, that it was cruel to drive the sick horses. Eighty cars and 800 horses were at work out of 1,900 in the stadles. He thought it would be a matter of er economy to buy 300 more horses to relieve those which were wor! at present. He was afraid that the gianders would follow the resent disease with the exhausted horses, and Eien they would all die. Nine horses had died from the malady. Rest was what the horses needed at present more than all else. The reporter learned from other sources that in all probability there would be a complete stoppage of trafic on the tine to-day, and that no cars would run at all, SECOND AVENUE LINE. Here out 900 horses there were only thirty-seven horses taken compietely of, making thirty trips oif in the day. There been only one death since the beginning of the disease. Of the ninety-two cara which were usually run about balf were o7, as the horses able to work on an average only did half their regular work. It was absurd, the Super- intendent said, to talk of dummies, as it would take at Jeast thirty bg to get gol Mr, W, , Said that in case the Third avenue they would have to stop too, as their cars would be swamped, As it was, one car was smashed by the multitude of people which had got on board. He had strong vie that the disease was dq grord away, the sick horses were feeling much better and were eager for their feed. arpenter, the Superintendent of this 1 Mr. Carpenter, the Superinten ine, said that, thirty horses had been sent down from the Third avenue stables to help them out. There were no new cases of disease, and the horses which had it were rapidly iprering he They had adopted the pian pg the horses every trip, 80 as to give them a rest each trip of an hour and a half. ni seemed to do them much good. They were running the same number of trips as usual, and got along very well. Mr. Carpen- ter was not in favor aye ge the cars, a8 he con- sidered it a greater trial to starve human beings, who could not possibly go ten miles to their work, than even to punish the horses by using them when sick, All he used was tar balls ag a remedy, and he found it work well with the horses, TUE FOURTH AVENUE LINE, The Superintendent here said that he was at yas only sents: ten — ro the road, — ese Were Buch as Were absolut necessary the connection with the railroad. “ine cars were running seven and eight trips each. Out of the 700 horses employed on the only eighty were now running. “I consider this the best plan,” said the Superintendent; ‘but you'll see us getting to work when the other lines are all laid up.” condi- tion of the horses was about the same as formerly; there was no notable change. The line would con- tinue to run the ten cars as usual, as the horses which were omplored were entirely free from the disease. Since it broke out im the stables there had been only one death. foe SIXTH AVENUR LINE, Here the disease ara to have made no fur- ther ravages, Mr. ood, the Superintendent, sald that at twelve o'clock the horses all fed very = — ared to be better than the day be- fore. In 01 aia At ge horses, which make ali At present ony 342 horeés were employed, ma! 160 trips, as, of course, even those at work coul. not de ike Bee which they did when completely , Bidgood did not believe that there was resent a comparatively healthy horse in any car or si line st Une, he said, they were all more or less affected, If he had his own way he would completely close up the line. He did not like to do that, however, un- less the other lines did it also. He had been in consultation with Mr. basen of the Broadway and Seventh Avenue line, and Mr. Wilson, of the Eighth Avenue line, and had urged upon them the policy of stopping the cars altogether. Mr. Wilson Was very much in favor of it, he said, but that the President did not seem so inclined to stop alto- Dag at present. He (Mr. Bidgood) did not be- eve that the horses would ever get well until they were given complete rest, and he thought the pub- lic. could better afford to walk than to ride betind sick horses, hardly able’ to them. As it was, 340 horses were doing the work of 160, and even then it was too much, He had received a letter from the President of the College of Veterinery Sur- geons of Montreal, who said that the disease lasted twenty days with each horse before being pletely eradicated, and then the horses needed rest. So that there was no doubt it would bea long time before the disease disappeared. Only three night cars would be run for the present. TRE BROADWAY AND SEVENTH AVENUE LINE. At present there are forty cars running on the Broadway line to Barclay street and twenty on the Seventh Avenue line. The cars to Broome street were stopped completcly. If the disease increases to any extent the cars on this line will also be stopped altogether. As it is no night cars are run. EIGHTH AVENUE LINK, These cars are running half their accustomed number of trips. All the horses are sick, and those which do the work are unequa! toit. The loads the cars carry are terrible. It is likely that Mr. Wilson will soon prevail and stop the cars running sitogaiher, and then begin to recuperate the orees, THE BELT LINE. This important line ceased running yesterday altogether, and a determined effort is to be made to cure the horses by giving them rest, THE AVENUE C LINE. The line which runs through avenues ©, A and B stopped running yesterday. THE DRY DOCK. This line is running about one-quarter of its usual number of cars. OTTER LINES, The Forty-second street route from Grand street Was still running yesterday about half their usual namber of cars. The horses appeared to be in pretty good condition, ‘The Cortlandt street line was running a few cars, as was also the East Broadway and Dry Dock line, but they were hauled off at night. THE STAGE LINES. At the Fourth avenue stage line stables the fore- mau reported that each seas Tan two trips less than usual, making six each, The horses were generally getting better, and of 830 horses in the stables only thirty were entirely taken off. The horses were generally hi eae The Madison ayenue line reports that out of 430 horses usually employed only twenty had beer taken off their work, ‘The stages only made six trips each. Many of the working horses the re- porter noticed were severely diseased. The Filth avenue line were running thirty stages yesterday—six more than the day before— and would probably run thirty-tive lay. This was out of sixty run under ordinary circumstances. They were working three-quarters of their horses, The Twenty-third street line of stages, which suspended operations completely last ‘Tuesday, a day after the Giscase appeared, and gave all their horses complete rest, resumed operations yester- day. They report all their horses, with few excep- pan AES well, This proves that rest is what needed, Bergh to the Rescue. The man would be incurably insane who could rise to remark that the well-known misanthropist and philozooist, Henry Bergh, to wit, was not by far the happiest man in New York, yes- terday. Men might moan in misery, women might wail and weep as they went their wofal way, ducks might die of drought, chickens might choke for change of air, cats might cry in anguish, dogs might devour one another and all creation animate and inanimate might join in one perpetual and uni- versal howl of wretchedness; but Bergh, the mild and merciful, was in the seventh heaven of beati- tude. For several days past he had been CHUCKLING CHEERYULLY within himself while watching his bountiful harvest grow and ripen, and day after day he felt himself losing the power to restrain his eager hands from grasping the crop in its green uselessness, A wholesome dread of public opinion alone withheld him from doing what he feared might only prove a serious injury to the public and its business; but at last the HERALD sounded the onset and Henry came down on the “hipporhinorhwa” “like a woif on the fold,’” Yesterday morning Henry sallied forth bright and early to perform bis part of that TARDY JUSTICE to the suffering beasts of burden which the HERALD felt compelied to call for, He was absent from his oftice on Fourth street and Broadway during the entire my He spread himsclf and his command all ever the city, and suffering horses innumerable were relieved from torturing toil by the influence of his brute-loving guard, but whether he really eifected more good tuan harm still remains, of course, an Open question. Walking up Broadway in search of the amiablo President of THE SOCIETY WITH THE LONG NAME ending with “animals,” a HERALD reporter saw a horse seized by one of Rergh’s men. It was owned by & poor carter who looked every whit as wretched as the beast, and was engaged ina horrible en- deavor to draw a heavy load of household furniture. It was truly a sorry-looking creature, bee perf afflicted with the prevalent malady. berg! ‘8 ofti- cer compelled its owner to proceed to the corner of Fourth street and Broadway, where the wagon was drawn up before the door of the society's oilice, Here THE SUFFERING ANIMAL was compelled to stand with its burden while the unfortunate owner went to procure another horse to do duty for the disabled one. After a consider- able time he found one for whose services he had to pay four dollars; returned with it to the office, aud. drove it off with its loud, followed by his own brute, the latter, it should be remarked, being a very Tittle, if it all, worse conditioned animal than its substitute, Of course that made no diiference ; Bergh’s man had done something TO SHOW HIS EFFICIENCY, and that was all that was deemed necessary, “I don’t know,” said the unfortunate driver of the wagon to a sympathizing bystander, “I don’t know what good they done by this, The poor baste has come farther than he’d have to goiff was let alone, and his standing here in the cowld for the last hour has done him more harm than if he was working. The horse I got is worse than the other, and a they’e let me use him.’ And so he drove of, very jair example of such cases as Mr. Bergh’s men provided for yesterday. Stopping of the Third Avenue Line by Mr. Bergh. There can be no doubt, of course, that the epizo- otic has been seriously detrimental to tie progress of business, bat there is just as little doubt that the streets of the city present a lar livelier appearance now than they have done within “the memory of the oldest inhabitant.” The sidewaiks were crowded yesterday with people of all ages and both sexes, who were formeriy wont to roll along in the street cars. Some of them groaned piteously over their compulsory and unusual exertion; some coolly accepted the situation and moved along ag though they had never been doing anything else all their lives, and some jolly-faced victims skipped away on their long jourgeys jaughing at the whole thing as an approach to the finest joke of the seas son. THE ONLY REAL EXCITEMENT of yesterday was witnessed near the junction of Third and Fourth avenucs. Here, on the Third avenue line, there is a switch enabling the cars to Pass from the up to the down track and vice versa, and here Mr. Bergh stationed himself about two o’clock with Mr. Hatfleld, Superintendent of the society, Dr. Crane, 8. 8. Field, @ society's officer, and two or three metropolitan policemen, Along came a Third avenue car. Whon it passed the Mr. Bergh and the officers BB od them- in front and brought it to a stop. pe ay “Pull your ”’ said Field to the driver, “what tor ” asked Jehu. ileaiat Mr. Bergh pointed to the YELLOW-LOOKING NOBES OF THE MORSRS, apd said. “These animals are too agk 19 work, Take the other track and go back to the stabies, 4 with you,” driver at first appeared inclined to sulk, but a@ glance at the 8 persuaded him grimly “pulled his pin” shouted conductor. The passengers looked incredulous and hesitated ; but on iry convinced that the car was really returning up town they rose and poured themselves out upon the street to wait for another vebicle. horses were yoked to the other end of the car and started off on the back track for mn cocemnanie? by Mesere. Bergh & 10 left the other two officers with the potoomen, Ci 1d to turn back every car on the line ag fast as it approached, while they proceeded to the compauy’s depot at Sixty-sixth street to atop the st! of cara at its source, WHEN THE NEXT CAR ARRIVED it was promptly sent after ite predecessor, and 80 with the others, The delay occasioned by ch from one track to the other soon caused a long line of cars to be visible close together, extending up & dozen blocks or go; the de; of load after load of passengers; the assembling of numbers of per- sons who walked so far up town to get a car; the approgch of others who wanted ye] ores ‘ Sond, not gasily be convinced that they must walk or hot go al ‘and the increase to the crowa formed by the disinterested ra by who came to see the cause—all created a rather lively and unusual scene of excitement, THE EXIT OF TASSENG IED, frora the cars was more thap Smusing. On one side was @ group Geeuninelg ir. Bergh in hearty terms. Near by wasa stout old woman, calling loudly to each conductor to return her ener, “the thieves of the world,” and not commit high- way robbery on her in that airy Bre. She and her friend had only travelled one block and had to pay ten cents/or it, “Ill never be home ia time,” said another, “to get the ould man and the childer their pper. “Will you take me to the City Hall?’ asked one irate gentleman of the conductor. “I can’t; they won't let me.” “Well, then, give me my money.” “Oh, I couldn't do that.” “Then, by you'll have to take me back!” and he stayed where he was. “Must I return?” asked a sulky driver. “Yee,"? answered Fields, firmly; “pull up your in. “Then by ——’—an ugly oath—‘I’ll promote some of you some day!” and he BRANDISHED HIS QAR-HOOR menacingly; but he went back for all that, thanks, perhaps, to the few good-humored policemen who were keeping the crowd back, Ashe drove off he foe “All right; ‘tis Vanderbilt is doing all Just then a couple of spicy-looking chaps, dressed to kill, approached the Teportery and one whis- t fellow”—pointing to Bergh’s assist- is it up all this job. He is a discl conductor from this line.’? \ ert The reporter knowing better, however, said, “How do you know? Who are you??? i : “We are cofductors on this line,” answered the whisperer, The reporter surveyed the crane set from head to foot, wondered where men with such small pay could ESS such fine clothes and loud jewelry, formed his opinion rapidly and turned gadly away. Interview with Mr. Bergh. When Mr. Bergh arrived meanwhile at the depot of the Third Avenue line, at Sixty-sixth street, his appearance was greeted with a great deal of sur- prise and anger. The President, Superintendent and others were inveighing loudly against him and against his efforts to ruin the line, when suddenly Bergh appeared in the body and took the citadel, as it were, by strategy. When MR. BERGH ENTERED THE OFFIOR of the President the door was immediately closed, and all except the officers of the company were ex- cluded. The interview between these and Mr. Bergh lasted about one hour, when the door opened, and he (Mr, Bergh), having hold of the door, said dictatingly to the President :— Mr. Bercu—It is agreed, then, that you shall run no sick horses on the road? The PresipENT—Very well. But I beg of you to allow the cars to run to-day. Do not impede them, and to-morrow I shall not run asingle sick horse on the road, But, you see, to take them off at present would cause a great deal of trouble to the public, Turping to the Superintendent the President said :— “Do not allow any emaciated horses to leave the stable. Be careful that those which go out are the best that can be got in the stable. Be very careful to do this."? MR. BERGH, HAVING ACCOMPLISHED 1118 OBJECT, walked out Of the room, when the reporter of the HERALD addressed him :— “What have you arranged with these people, Mr. Bergh 9” “I have ‘simply done,’ answered Mr. Bergh, “what Le@hceive to be my duty, 1 was obliged to send home, down there at the Cooper Institute, sixty teams, which were unfit to do any work. All of them were running at the nostrils, and some were too weak to be of the slightest.service.” Mr Bergh and the reporter were walking down the staircase, and, passing out of the door, reached the sidewalk on Third avenue, A HUNDRED SCOWLING FACES a soe — - bem rich wheye man avored to get up a hoo! jainst the great rr. arn le depot, and, pointing u) atit,he said solemnly, “Look at that Mayuitteny depot, Think of the fine brown stone fronts that these people live in, all made by the toil of these poor auimals. But they are not satisfied with all Bosan must even work the horses which give them their fortune when the poor brutes are unable to put one oe before another. Now, mind me. I don’t wish INCOMMODE THE PUBLIC, but can they expect to be hauled by horses which are ready to drop dead? 1 am the servant of the public, am pound, as far as it is in me, to pre- vent cruelty to animals. ‘There isa law passed to this effect. Can I, then, conscientiously permit that diseased horses shall be allowed to do this hard work? The HeRaLp said some hard things about me a day or two since because I did not stop all the horses from working. ‘This I don’t wish to do, Istand midway between the public and these men, and act asf CONCEIVE TO BE MY DUTY towards both. I on wish to be too hard on the railroads, but I shail certainly stop them when they use meee Hovyypnot ui e company says, Mr. Bergh, that the: only run to accommodate the public, not for the money.” , sir. With their great love for the pub- “Humbt lic would they ever let the public ride for nothing, no Matter how poor the public? They never forget to exact their fares, so that we may reasonably suppose it 1s for their own beneft.” “Then, what arrangement have you come to?” “Simply that they shall ran no more diseased horses. They asked to be allowed a day’s grace, and, in the meantime, have a meeting of the rd of Directors to-night, at which they will decide not Oar Bete i the ie deserted. huohi; ir, Berg en depar' on more philo! ic enterprises. = DID THE CARS STOP? Meantime the society’s oMgers at the Cooper In- stitute rept sending back the cars as fast as they artived. For two hours they came and went withi- out cessation, giving the reporter @ very clear sus- ie that as fast as the returned cars arrived at he ba they must have wheeled round again and come back as bold as ever. Indeed he noticed more than one conductor whom he had seen driving back previously with his vehicle. The shades of night had fallen, as the novelists say, when Mr. Bergh returned to Fifth street and the Bowery, in- formed his oMfcers of the result of his tuterview at the depot and withdrew them, aiter which the cars of the Third avenue line were permitted to pursue the uneven tenor of their way for the remainder of the evening. THE RUMORS OF THE DAY, as well as its embarrassments, were considerably increased in the afternoon, when the uptown dwellers who do business in the lower part of the city quitted their offices, stores and shops to return home, The infirm, lame and lazy members of up- town-dom were in agony at the long and weary prospect before them; the light-hearted laughed and footed it bravely, and the sour-tempered and sore-headed—a very large party—who woulda have sneered at Mr. Bergh had he neglected his self-im- osed duty, now growled at him for a meddiin, hee’ and swore much more vehemently an bt oy ly than even their fancied calamities war- ral The “Dummy” Engine Project. In consequence of the action taken by the Board of Aldermen on Monday permitting “dummy” en- gines to run on the street car tracks for a period of thirty days @ HERALD reporter was yesterday as- signed the duty of finding out how far such a course would be practicable. The first place visited was the railway depot at Jersey City, where it seemed probable that ‘<lummies’ would be em- ployed and could be made serviceable upon the car tracks in a great emergency, such as is now threat- ened by the sickness of the horses. Mr, Barker, the acting manager, however, staged that only “live” engines were worked upon theline, and when questioned expreased the opinion that the project of running steam engines upon street car tracks was absurd, as they could not ascend the grades with @ train in tow and would be unable to turn the curves. At the Hudson River Railroad depot the writer discovered, notwithstanding Mr. Barker’s assertion, that there are eight dummy en- gines ee ed by the company to tow freight trains up to the depot in Thirticth street, and these proceed along the street and tara, several not vety sharp carves With ry si curves with ease. As there is not a single short curve upon the tp venue line, the idea of ranning dummies upon it— at least far down ag Chatham square, where there is aver steep incline—seems Seapible; but the didiguity pyemp chiety to con- in the dearth of dum the danger to pedestrians and the numerous stoppages neces- sary to take up or discharge passengers from a train of say, for example, four cars. The Third A Car Company has ‘one engine, which to its snow-sweeper. But one dummy to perform af the t, and ility of the rails and ties to wre the strain upon them by the weight of the engine. Thee ave veral ‘durimies on the Coney Island and other Exrcokies tate and as tnese partly run upon the street car lines they might be made to supply Semporariy the place of the sick steeds, The greatest barrier to the success of the scheme of running dummy engines and being forced by accident into the realization of dreams of quick transit in the city, however, is the lack of Companies ing dummies now find them far too useful to be readily induced to part with them; and it is to be hoped that before more could be constructed the terrible mur- rain which is cleat > the horses will have vanished like a Hideous nightmare, THE EQUINE MALADY IN BROOKLYN. ‘The horse distemper has increased in Brooklyn despite the more favorable change in the weather of the past few days. Pedestrianism has grown to be more fashionable by virtue of compulsion, The wealthy in the present instance are reduced toa like footing with the poor, so far as commanding the use of the horse is concerned. The diseese has spared neither the humble, thatched shed which serves as a shelter to the laboring man’s poorly kept beast, nor the comfortable and more enviable equine abode of the sleek, fat pam- pered animal, whose prancing or trotting gait when gayly caparisoned is the pride of the wealthy nabob. Hippomalaria has proved to be no re- specter of horse, All share alike in his attentions, But itis unnecessary to state, perhaps, that THE MORTALITY 18 GREATEST among the animals owned by the poor, as they have enjoyed less rest and attention, Indeed, it is with the utmost reluctance that working men take their horses from the traces, because of their inability to dispense with the services of their animala until the latter are no longer able to stagger under their burden. This is of course very short-sighted Polley and frequently results in the loss of the jorse by death. The appearance of the streets was remarkable yesterday because of the great number of people to be seen thronging the side- walks (crows it hand carts and wheet- barrows heavily laden), and the absence of horses and vehicles on the roadway. No less than twenty- nine dead horses were reported at Police Head- quarters yesterday. The precincts report the local- ities of the fatal cases as subjoined. DEATH ROLL. Second Precinct—Dead horse at ice dock, corner of Jay and John strects; one at 244 Water street; one corner of Navy street and Green lane; one on Hudson avenue ; one at white iead works, foot of John street. Third Precinet—Dead horse in Victory’s stable, First street; i "s stable, Bond. corner of Warren street; one at Duncan’s stable. 88 Butler street. Fourth Precinct—Dead horse at No. 13 Adeipht street; ‘one on Jonhson street, near Hudson avenue; one at No. 47 Graham street, stables. a ee oe dead horses in various private Sixth Precinct—Two dead horses in stables corner of Jackson street and Graham avenue. Seventh Precinct—Dead horse in Franklin street car stables; one at No. 53 Newell street; one corner of Huron and Franklin streets. Eignth Precinct—Dead horse in stable on Prospect ave- nue, near Sixth avenue; one in Seventeenth street, near Sixth avenue. ‘Ninth Precinct—Dead horse on the corner of Brooklyn and Fulton avenues; one in the rear of No. 281 Van Buren street; one at 604 Madison street; one in the stable on Ful- ton avenue ; one on Atlantic avenue. Tenth Precinct—Dead horse corner of Third avenue and Bergen street; one at Bedford Brewery, Dean street. The offal contractor's carts are groaning under their burden. and the rendering establishment on Barren Island is beginning to find Its capacity se- verely taxed. The cnd isnot yet. The veterinary surgeons are reaping a golden havest, several of them having as many as 300 sick horses under treatment, The city railroad company: officials report an im- provement in their horses last evening. They ran about half their cars allday. The President of the Canarsie Steam Railroad tendered the use of his steam dummies to the President of Atlantic street and Fifth avenue horse road yesterday. The offer will be accepted should the condition of the stock continue to grow worse. THE DISEASE IN NEW JERSEY. pie Sale eatin The Horse Plague Spreads Among the Jersey Cows. It is reported that the mysterious malady among the horses has also spread among the cows in the vicinity of Newark. G. L. and A. G, Mitchell, East Orange dairymen, have lost, it is stated, fifty head of cattle out of sixty-five of the finest milch cows in the State. poe Sy tne equine race there is an increase. Two deat only are reported, however. } The Springfield avenue line is running but three cars owing to the sickness of the horses, wpe being made at intervals of an hour and a half. The Bloomfeid and South Orange lines are not running at all, as all their horses are affected with the dis- ease. The horses of the Orange and Newark Horse Car Ratiroad Company are serjously affected by the malady, but none of the cars have as yet been withdrawn. It is feared that the illness of the milkmen’s horses will interfere with the regular supply of milk. The streets of Newark have been quite de- serted for several days by the noble beast. ‘The al- leged nobler beast, man, did good work yesterday as drawers of farniture, dry goods, groceries, &c., along the main avenues, much to the amuselnent of the sidewalk measurers, There was quite a turnout, too, of ox teams, The Hippomal. Mount Helly and Princeton. TRENTON, Oct, 20, 1872, This city has not as yet been visited by the epizootic. But ramors from she surrounding neighborhood indicate that it is fast approaching. In Tyburn, four miles south of here, where Mr. Joseph Headly has his stables, three cases are re- ported, one of them very bad. Mr. Headly’s splendid and valuable trotting horse Flushing is ome of the victims. This is a widely celebrated trotter, having distinguished himself heretofore on affected with the disease. Several horses belong- ing to the Midland Railroad Company were taken sick yesterday. Two ti were sent out yesterday to pick up and tow the ts on the canal. The weather is cool and bracing. The Disease at Port Jervis. Port Jervis, N. Y., Oct. 29, 1872. The horse disease has made its appearance in this vicinity, The boat horses employed on the —e and Hudgon Canal are the principal suf- Two-Thirds of the Horses Sick at the State Capital. ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 29, 1872 Two-thirds of the horses in this city are disabled by the distemper, and business onsiderabl, aifected thereby. , mf 4 New Yorkers Hiring Oxen at Poughkeep= slemFive Yokes of Oxen Coming te the City To-Day. POUGHKEEPSIE, Oct. 29, 1872, New York men are arriving here by every train in search of oxen to convey back to the metropolis to do their carting. A number of yokes have already been obtained, Mayor Eastman is receivs ing telegrams hourly and has his hands full of busi- ness in the matter. R. Hillyer & Sons, druggists, at 58 Cedar street, New York, have secured a yoke from Mr. James Roosevelt, on the Hyde Park road, Monroe, Chamberlain & Co., of 45 Murray street, have procured a yoke of oxen anda boy to drive them, from Mr. Burbans, on the Hyde Park road. E. R. Macey & Co., of William street, have tele- permed for six-yoke, and have probably got theny y this time. Lang & Robinson, of No. 1 Front street, have a man here in search of oxen, D. K. Ducker & Co., of 42 Fulton street, telegrapty as follows:—‘‘We want oxen by the week.. Supply. us by to-night’s boat.” J. Munroe Taylor, chemical works, 112 Libert; street, telegraphs, “We want ten yoke of oxen for, four weeks. If our horses recover our freight Sonne bed doligeret tanned fon Lead tenet . D. Palmer & Co., liguor “We want twelve yoke of oxen inmediately: tend them on right off.” Mr. John Roosevelt will send his oxen to New York by boat to-night. j A drove of fifty oxen passed into Putnam count; Peles , and are being followed w) lew Yorkers. They say they will almost any price. Mayor Eastman sent a man in! the county yoereraey and he returned last night, He reports that he has secured twenty-three yoke, and some of them have en arrived, More ar expected to-day, and all will be forwarded propellors John L. Hasbrouck and Daniel 8, Miller.) Oxen are also being shipped tor New York at othe: pone on the Hudson. The demand for them is feverish one, and as yet it is impossible to suppl, it. In a day ‘or two, however, the way the news i now trayelling, oxen will come pouring in from al quarters, and the price per day for them Hy? de. cline. At present the prices range from $8 to ey lew Yor n er day for a yoke, with driver Lead age te 0 he “‘dicker” between the farmers and the are pt fre ht on a pair of oxen from here 8 York men for the “critters” is sometimes amusing, One man to-day (a New Yorker) went out on th road to hire a yoke he had heard of, when the fold lowing occurred :— NEW YORKER—Say, boss, I want to hire yous oxen for three or four weeks to take to New Yor! to do our carting. FarmMER—What d’ye pay? NEw YORKER—Six dollars a day with driver, FARMER’s Boy—Shall [ go with um, pop? ar FaRMER—Well, now, that ar’nt enough for theny ar’ critters, That ar’ olf ox ken pull a horse down Say $8 a day and their your’n. J ieW YORKER—Well, old man, we won't quarrels git em ready. Is this boy to drive ’em? fi FARMER—Well, I don’t know about that. Yo know that York is a hard place. Vil have to ste in and see the old woman about that, All three entered the farmer's kitchen.) ‘ARMER—Mother, Lhave hired out Brindle Bol and Jim to this Yorker and he wants the boy to gd with ’em and drive ’em. FARMER'S Boy—Ol yes, mother, you know I cam look after ‘em better than poppy; I'm spryer. MorHER—Yes, Johnny, but who'll look aiter you (Turning to New Yorker) Do you beiong to church New YORKER—Oh yes; our’ flym are all churel members; go to Henry Ward Beecher's; we'll loo! after the boy. MornER—Tell Mr. Beccher he’s allers went to Sunday schoo] and bin a good boy; now do takd care of him. New Yoreen—Never fear, aunty; I'll take hint to Sunday Schoo! and church. When the boy and New Yorker left the farm, witht the oxen, the mother stood in the kitchen door4 way, wiping ler eyes, and the “old man” was leand ing over the barnyard gate. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 29, 1872, , While the existence of the horse disease is denied’ in this city yet there are a number of cases of horse sickness reported where the symptoms are similar. to those of epizootic. The cases reported yesterday are improving, and fatal results are not appre- hended. In the Market street stavles twenty horses are afflicted with a racking cough, and tw of the cars have been withdrawn. Several horsed in the Green and Coates streets stables were at- tacked to-day with a cough and taken off the lined Four cases, the symptoms of whieh are of a more violent character, are also reported in the Mont gomery street stables. The epidemic, if such it is,! appears here in a very mild form. fi ere are now one hundred sick horses im Camden. The Disease Developed in Baltimore. BALTIMORE, Oct. 20, 1872, The horse disease has fully developed in this city. Fifty cases are reported to-day by one veterinary, surgeon. At Columbus, Ohio. CoLuMBUS, Oct, 29, 1872. The horse epidemic, has broken out here, Two horses were attacked yesterday, and another to- aay. The Disease Among the Horses at Hale ifax. HALIFAX, N. S., Oct. 29, 1872. The horse disease is reported here, and owner@ the turf, But the symptoms of the disease have not as yet assumed @ very dangerous character in this case. Mr. A. C. ‘e, of Pennington, .eight miles from here, has a ae ee colt, of very good promise, afflicted. In Mount Holly, Borden- town, Princetown and other remote towns, several cases are reported; but the character of these is such ag not to cause much alarm. Horse medicine eae he the prevailing disease is in much de- mand here. Horses in Paterson 8t: Affected. PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 29, 1872. ‘The horse disease is rapidly increasing, and fully forty cases are reported to-day, seme of them very bad ones. ‘The disease has appeared in most ofthe livery and express stables. The express companies have much dificuity in moving freight, their horses in New York as well as here being sick with the same complaint. THE DISEASE ELSEWHERE. ahaa The Horses Getting Better in Boston— Partial Re: ption of the Street Trame. Boston, Oct. 29, 1872. The equine epidemic in Boston is beginning to pass away. Most of the express companies and truckmen have brought many of their horses up to such 8 stage of convalescence as to use them a por- tion of the time, and commerce and the transfer of the necessities of life have been greatly facilitated in consequence. The Metropolitan is the only horse railroad company that has yet attempted to do business since the total suspension, and evenonly one-eighth of their usual number of cars are out. The South and East Boston, Cambridge, Charies- town, Highland and other out-of-town lines are stillidle, and alsc the Washington street and Charlestown line of coaches. J about enough hacks to supply funerals and do transfer between the hotels and depots are to be obtained at extra- nt prices. Oxen, mules and now and then vehicles drawn by men are not strange scenes upon the street. Numerous dealers in furniture, teas and musical instruments have taken advantage of the epidemic excitement to haul empty cases through the streets preceded by a band of music; but the advertising dodge was so transparent that it will probably be abandoned after to-day, The Eptizootic in Bridgeport, Conn. BRIDGEPORT, Oct. 29, 1872, On the night of Friday, the 25th, the first pro- nounced cases of epizootic made their appearance in the stables on Middle street, and now every stable in town has it, and magy hundred horses are affected. As yet there are no fatal cases, but there is great inconvenience resulting from this state of affairs. The car companies haye taken off about half their cars and run fewer trips, and physicians find it very dificult to get about and visit their patients, not a doctor in town having a freg stable. The dis- ease is sup) to have reached its climax here, and an abatement is daily looked for in the num- ber of sick animals, The C 1 Boats Delayed. Oswseo, N, Y., Oct. 29, 1872. The movement of produce by canal continues light, in consequence of the epidemic among horeeg, Over two-thirds of the canal Roraes Org are taking every precaution against it. DREADFUL ACCIDENT. A Broker Instantly Killed StreetmA Heavy Piece Dashes Out His Somewhere. Shortly before two o’clock yesterday afternoon Mr. Luther C. Gallagher, son of the Rev. J, 8. Gal- lagher, of 69 Broadway, the agent of Mr. William P. Douglass, was passing the new marble bank of Drexel, Morgan & Co., now in course of construc- tion in Wall street, when a large piece of scantling fell from the topmost story and struck him upon the head. The timber was about five feet im length and six inches in diameter, yet it was broken in two picces ,by the concussion. Mr. Gallagher fell with his htad upon an iron stanchion lying near the gutter, and it was instantly covered with the blood and braing ofthe unfortunate young man, When picked up by the bystanders the following bill of exchange was found in his hand, and it is supposed he was reading it when the fatal timber struck him:— Nuw York, Oct, 10, 1872. No, 946—Exchange for £609 7s. at B. So4—$3, On demand pay this frat of exchang der the sum of £609 7s. storling, for value received by P. Douglas, in amount paid tothe bom sg Ht eg panv. BROWN BROTHERS, To Rev. J. 8, GaLtacmen, No. 69 Broadway, room No, 62. The injured man was at once conveyed to the New street station house, but he only survived his arrival @ few moments. ‘The deceased was thirty years of age, and resided in Bloomfield, N, J. Coroner Herrman was notified, and will hold an inquest upon the remains of the hapiess gentle- man, What caused the dislodgment of the scant- ling wili be made a subject for special invest tion, a8 several accidents of a somewhat ae nature have occurred since the building at tha corner of Broad and Wall streets was commenced. ROVING BED MEN, A large party of the wards of the “Great Father! Grant, arrived last evening at the Grand Central Hotel. They are in the charge of Special Indian Commissioner Captain Henry E. Alvord, of Virginia, The delegation is made up of chiefs of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Arapahoe, Caddoe, Witchita, Kerchie and Delaware trives, with ten squaws, comprising in ali about fifty-two persons, They have come from Philadelphia, where for several days tape ogiighed the heart of the ag gw George Stuart, who discovered their meanor strong hector 4 in favor of the continu. ance of the eS tat Hood 2 policy toward them andtheirkin. They been to Washington ther” during Which they promiged-tueh, tint wero er,” durmg i and wero not too modest to ask for what they scusider an adequate compensation for their good bebavior. They will “do” New York as th ly a8 it is pos- sible for them in a few Unwearled by travel or the ceerenee et city life, some of the Comanches attendec the circus last evening, as they were un- willing to allow any time to pass unimproved by = [apap ‘The inajority of the braves, however, lolled and smoked in their rooms, and placid per- mitted the gaze of the many fair ones, Who re- mained, careless of the fumes of th weed, aad erfectiong a poltrooné in Wall of Timber Braine—Carclessness ., tO OUF OF poin out and admired the physical of the red cutthroate of the canyons al OF the prairies,