Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1895 — Where Old Car Horses Go. [ARTICLE]

Where Old Car Horses Go.

Just as we are getting rid of our horses by substituting electric traction on street railways, the inhabitants of European countries are complaining that their equine population is increasing beyond all reasonable bounds. Electric traction has as yet made comparatively little progress there, and we are dumping on their shores many of our wornout old car horses, to such an extent that from one country—Scotland—an energetic protest lias just gone up. In France 'they are no better oft. Recent statistics show that that country has no less than 3,000,000 horses and that the horse population of the cities (about 800,000) is continually increasing ata greater rate than the human population. This, without doubt, is due to the increase of urban street car lines, which are making much progress in France,especially in the smaller cities. In Paris there were twenty-five years ago 70,000 horses,now there are 120,000, which travel collectively every day a distance equivalent to two and one-half times the circuit of the globe.