Show t aw IF r T Z I 1 T W ih i H M 4 5 1 2 K 8 f A 4 i j ro pei ion slop for me roes ses e 4 rard cot 81 in old or ta it 1 cups cops Se atrz roas t r 14 t H I 1 1 I t it v this is the held head of v d joe of fire engine 7 it Is fitting that he should begin this story tor for I 1 e is the oldest and wisest of the city s four footed ser and he is not likely to be in the city s sen sern ice fee long soon unless he dies iri id the mearil ime he will so go to tl te tle e auction block as pug the police horse did a few weeks meeks ago hen the two legged men members ibers of the vie city cit s pol ce and fire departments lave jave given theli best la a s lo 10 its ervice ernice aid ald a ld have haie cassed their il usefulness ef ulness it if they have served long and faltas 11 tie vie city pensions them and they live out cut their lives at baoe tae city sells tae lie four legged members of the force in like tase case for what tiey will mill f tea joe has been twelve lears in t e department and ten of them in the quarters of seven engine II 11 ll 11 hs s won a prize at the horse show and baa has held the department reto reco d for getting himself into harness quicker than any other hore he can pie his own collar up from the floor going goin 0 g down on lif his s knees to wriggle into it when ti tr alarm bell rings he ile es hand hands with hie his right fore feet and once he even put wood under the engine boiler when they told him to do it he ile does lots of trie a N ft hen a dozen flags are thrown before him oa the floor and he is told to pick out the most glorious flag flagon on earth hell he 11 take the american colors up in his teeth ev et cry ery time and toes toss his head with them and he has served the city faithfully 4 for twelve years that is the history of all four d servants that eat the cites city s oats for live flee deais eais or ten the comfor comfortable of the fire horse and the j augle of the silver ene eng ne bells or a soft stall 0 in the park and a daily tour of duty in 4 the bright blue and yellow trappings of ae the mounted police then the auction block and the small trades tradesmen mans s wagon or maybe the peddler peddlers crt cart with work from dawn to eark in old age and very soon after tat t at a speedy journey to the last place tor for poor old horsek the offal off dock pua there was pus pug he went irto the police de artmont art ment at 5 years old as a handsome plucky and trim a bay horse at ever entered it I 1 bor or ten years be he did hie his tight eight hour hours of daily duty in the park with oe or another heavyweight policemen on his back his official record saya says that he was instrumental in stopping five hundred hund redi runaways in that time the men who rode him declare that the number wa wan nearer a tt tro usand they mere a so many that nobody counted them after ten yeara years of it racing about on hard roads tor for eight hours a day and every now and then straining every nene nerie to catch some frightened trotter pug co aida t do as well as in his young daa das s but the whole park quad would have resented getting rid of him so he was pat in the patrol wagon and policeman bald in n was male the driver that is no light job either especially in the hot summer when there comes a call from sone distant part of t e park every halt half hour or so pug kept at it for four years more then the department veterinarian loo ed him over and decided that there nv was as no place left for him in tl e city s I 1 st and he vant to but it is difficult even for a horse to do his duty in the I 1 lublic bublic service for fourteen years and not make mahe friends scores knew pug and bis his record and the news that he had been condemned brought soe of tl ti em out his feats were repeated and his paces shown and men on every enery side began to bid they carried h 3 price up to 10 0 the last 60 50 cents was bid by his old master policeman baldwin and to baldwin be was enoc knocked ed down the policeman polleen an bought him in for the easle earit t life seemed open to him H was to go to the president and superintendent of a cair lage company tor for use in hi alj o own buggy so pug passed out of the city s cervice and more stories were printed about his sale then people who love horbes beran ban to ci eq that it was mas a shame to have so noble an animal as thi wita record or alty done enough for six horses toil toll on to the inevitable end harry a park horse aimo t as famous in his diy daiy as pig and as hand some and knowing never went to the auctioneer auctioneers s block not that the city bayed him after alx years ears police duty he died a vent emar s desta in his own stall with his master beside him spinal gitis carried him off before the time came for the tle city t tu wash its hands of him and leave him to the ten dr mercies of a chance purchaser it ua with policeman baldwin on is back M VIA 11 he won the blue ribbon time and again V ra as 3 the best and best ridden police horse at tae lie annual show then he did tricks too he loved to play po iceman when hia its rider dismounted he took that as Us c ie le to patrol th beat and i another po acenan appeared would klamu f u ly puh I 1 mm lin off the road with his nose just as it if hp were indignant that his terri ory had been infringed harry upon with the fire horses it Is the line ime story only ow they living under the same roof with their human felloe morl ers become human them selves and therefore their fate is the harder it Is so hard that the firemen have hit upon a little scheme to postpone the evil day as long as pos ible by grading the tasks to suit the old timers very different they look these old fire Aeter ete ars raps it ii I i ts tte last days of their ervice cervice from the youngsters in their prime in the department it if you step downtown a mile or so and look in on engine 4 in seventy seventh street it Is 1 a very di ferent lerent sight down there in the newest and meet most elaborate fire station in the city capt crawley has the handsomest team of grays now in the department and the most knowing he ile sas says so and he obtained them himself and to know the grays are young yet and a long way f om the auction room but in the same room is a pair of hand handsome ome blace s t bat aie ale older and ha have hae e a record of their own they were dashing down to riverside drive on their way to a fire and right at the turning a throng of children babiec the was it was downhill and to stop was impossible driver joe diggers let his tean go str straight ight fit at the wall across the street baby the leader took it at a bound and leaned clear of his harness sixty feet down onto the railroad tracks le cleneath neati then he stopp d unhurt and 1 around a though he asked why he bad had been expected to do that the other two horses hung over oner the rails suspended in the harness one was injured by the broken railings and died the children in tae erect were mere 4 safe U bior q T A so only the pair are left no other horse in the fire department ever took P ai such a leap as baby did and the corn pany is proud of it none of its mem mern bers needs much urging to tell the story of that ride just once the city did pension a fire horse he was mas old jim of engine 33 fourteen years he had spent in the department when he was mas condemned baby and every blue shirt in it knew him the whole department rose in rebellion against selling soiling the jim hoss 1 I or once there was mas nearly a mutiny in net nev york s best disciplined force the sale order was recalled and jim boss hoss was mas trans transferred erred to engine 52 up in ie 1 he ile cd acro to the vio cf of ath no one ever thought of insulting hia him wit a baiter balter in the day time he wandered abo it the lanes nibbling tle grao gra and in the evening he did tricia tricas tor for the fremen f remen one day they found him in a heap trici en with 1 sis only a few yards from quarters to help him as ible so d L bergh society man shot him he ile was tbt th e only animal of the city a hundred who ear lived to a green old age untroubled by toil in his lat la t daa da york sun |