The Harlem Post was a local weekly newspaper printed in German for the local German population. Its first edition was published on September 12, 1895. The paper’s January 5th, 1899 edition, included the following news:
‘All’s Well that Ends Well”
On Saturday morning, the driver of the Choiss milk wagon narrowly avoided an accident. As the wagon driver attempted to cross the Wisconsin Central railway tracks on Madison Street and urged his horse forward to get out of the way of the passenger train approaching from the North, the horse’s hoof became stuck between the rail and the adjacent coal. The railway signalman, who immediately noticed the precarious situation of the wagon driver, ran toward the train and signaled it to stop. The locomotive driver was able to comply, and the locomotive stopped a mere 50 feet away from the spot where the horse, whose shoe had come off, was lying helplessly on the tracks along with the wagon. No damage occurred apart from the fright and the broken horseshoe.
Translated by Uli Leib
Horse drawn milk wagons, such as the ones for the Bowman Dairy Company in Forest Park pictured above, were used into the 1950’s before being replaced by motorized trucks.
