Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-12-16 | Page 12 | Morning's Icy Pavements Make Hauling Perilous Work for Horses; Iron Shoes Prove Veritable Skates

Icy Pavements Make Hauling Perilous Work for Horses Iron Shoes Prove Veritable Skates Driving a horse these wintry morn i ings is not the easiest t thing in the category o of h human man activities Drivers who pace the quarterdeck of delivery wagons have to tack their insurance policies s on the wan wall before leaving home and the pilot of a coal wagon has to take every grade with a provisional pro pro- visional schedule The concrete pavement is a trencher ous on-a thing with ice ico on it and the tho thin coating of ice this mornings ad added ed to the fact that horses wear iron shoes made it perilous Work for the silent partner of oman man you OU want for a skate bettor better than the iron shoe of the tho horse borse and the icy pa asked Mrs Jennio Holcomb of the Utah Humane society this morning I othin could coul be devised more easily to the wearer to glide over tl to e surface of the street than two And tho horse cannot pull loads under such condi condi- I simply tied up a team until the sun came out ont this morning although I had a load of coal to deliver up on the east bench remarked a driver for fora a coal company No Use trying to tomake tomake make the team pull on that ice t Here Here and there they are using sacks on their horses horse's feet said Patrolman Pa F. F I. I rantz Frantz And And one man had his horse with only nh one shoe hitched to a 8 buggy He w und up after his horse borse had tried tOI to drive through the bottom of the street by tying the animal to the tho hitchin hitching ring b br the tho sidewalk and waiting for a thaw