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BIG SHIPMENT OF HORSES TO SARATOGA. New York, July 16. Herbert Temple, of the Adams Express Company, sent out a special train of horse cars Friday .night, bound for Saratoga. There were ten of the companys big 74-foot steel cars in the train and the horses to be sent out. are as follows: Lewis Garth fifteen horses, E. B. McLean fifteen, William Garth, sixtoen, J. W. Henley and Frederick Johnson, fifteen. M. Henderson, fourteen, T. P. Thome fourteen, John E. Madden, sixteen, It. F. Carman eighteen. J. W. May fourteen and Mrs. Payne Whitney will send up her driving and saddle horses by the same train. The next special train sent from the Long Island tracks to Saratoga will go out July 18, and another will start July 23. These special trains offer special advantages to those desirous of shipping horses up to the springs. Owing to the shortage of trains, which exists Just now, the railways cannot guarantee regular and satisfactory service by attaching cars to tho supposedly regular trains; but by making up specials in advance, they are sent right through practically independent of the scheduled trains, as they run without delays incident to shipment in cars attached to regular trains. For thi3 reason, specials are being arranged for in advance, thus obtaining fast and satisfactory service.
