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MAGNIFICENT HOMES OF
MILLIONAIRES’ HORSES.
Some Palatial Stables Owned
by Wealthy Men.
AMERICANS VIE WITH ROYALTY.
The Duke of Westminster Has the Ffnest
Stables In the World—Homes of Some
Turf Favorites—Astor, Vanderbilt and
Bonner Stables.
Palatial is a much overworked word,
and yon might think it rank exaggera
tion to apply the adjective to anything
so ordinary as a stable.’ Yet there are
stables, not only in Europe, bnt in this
country, which are truly palatial.
We have some rich men in America
who are very fond of horses and who
have generally indulged their little
fancies without regard to expense, but
it is an Englishman who has the repu
tation of housing his horses in finer
style than any other individual in the
world. He is the Duke of Westminster,
who owns a good slice of London and
whose income from his tenants alone is
larger than that of Queen Victoria.
The ducal stables are part of the es
tate known as Eaton Hall. This is the
duke’s country home, and it comprises
a great tract of land near the pretty lit
tle city of Chester on the River Dee. Os
course, it is well known that the duke
has for years owned one of the most
famous racing studs in England, but no
other owner of race horses ever quar
tered his animals in such sumptuous
style as he. At only a short distance
from his $3,000,000 palace are the sta
ble buildings. There is one big structure,
and ranged around in this in the form
of a quadrangle are a number of small
er ones. In the center of the square thus
formed is a big bronze statue of a rear
ing horse held by a groom. The chief
feature about4he main stable is its size.
The first floor is big enough to drill a
regiment of cavalry in. Instead of the
rows of stalls which you might expect
to see there are wide corridors from
which open rooms. These rooms are the
quarters of the aristocratic favorites of
the turf. They are equine boudoirs, but
in point of luxury they do not compare,
luxurious as they are, to the separate
houses in which such kings of the turf
as Ormonde and Ben D’Or have lived.
If the other horses have private apart
ments, the Derby winners have private
residences.
Pretty little Gothic structures of
brick they are, each with two rooms,
say a parlor and chamber. They are
most artistically finished inside with
teak wood, glazed tiling and silver
plated metal work. In the windows are
pots of flowers, and on the walls are
THE ROYAL MEWS, SHOWING THE FAMOUS
CREAMS.
photographs and oil paintings of the
horses themselves and of their illustri
ous ancestors.
Without going into a detailed de
scription of these detached stables you
can well see that few horses in the
world are better cared for, and, as if it
were not enough to treat them when
alive better than most human beings
are treated, their ducal master does not
forget them even after they have gone
the way of all flesh. One of the build
' ings composing the stable group is an
equine mausoleum, and in it is the
skeleton of a horse strung on golden
wire. The bones are those of the famous
Touchstone, who was the pet of the late
Marquis of Westminster. Only a short
distance away, just beyond the corner
of the deer park, is the horse cemetery.
There ‘have been laid away from time
to time the noble and faithful animals
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which have borne to victory the West
minster colors over many a track and
course. Each grave is marked by a head
stone on which the name of the horse,
some of his most notable achievements
and the date*of his death are inscribed.
Still more famous, but not a whit
more magnificent, are the stables con
nected with Buckingham palace. They
are located behind the garden and at
some little distance from the great de
serted palace which the queen seldom
visits. But the stables are kept up just
as thoroughly as though the queen were
at Buckingham all the time. It is a
royal institution.
The royal, mews is the official
name of the queen’s stables, and the
head stableman, who is known as the
master of horse, is a real duke. He is
head stableman in name only, however,
the real manager of the stable being the
superintendent. Outside the massive,
imposing gateway which forms the en
trance to the royal mews stands a sentry
from the Buckingham palace guard,
and the visitor who wants to see how
the queen keeps her horses must come
armed with a pass from the master of
horse himself.
But there is really less of interest to
be seen in the Buckingham stables, if
you leave out the gorgeous state coaches,
than at Eaton Hall. There are not even
private rooms for the horses. Even the
famous “creams” are tied in open stalls.
Big, roomy, comfortable stalls they are,
but stalls for all that. Everything about
the stable has a substantial look, for it
was built to last not for decades, but
for centuries. The floors are of stone,
sanded in patterns, and the stalls are
carpeted with clean straw, neatly braid
ed at tho entrance. None of these horses,
as a matter of fact, is really valuable
when compared with great race horses.
Ormonde, for whom Macdonough, the
Califoinia millionaire, paid the Duke
of Westminster $150,000 in 1893,
brought more than “all the, queen’s
horses” would if sold in a lump at the
highest market price.
In this country the really palatial
stables are those which our multimil
lionaires have built in the big cities.
New York has probably more of these
than any other city. The stables which
Sre connected with the big stock farms,-
while in many cases extensive and com
fortable, are generally plain both as to
interior as well as exterior, but. the
urban homes for the horses of rich men
are apt to smack of the magnificence of
the owner’s own dwelling. When John
Jacob Astor built his handsome new
palace on Fifth avenue, New York, a
few years ago, he put his stable on tho
adjoining lot in the rear, and, as city
blocks are not over 300 feet deep from
curb to curb, it brought his stable with
in less than 25 feet of his house. But
the stable is such a one as even a fas
tidious man could not object to.
Several New York cross streets up
town are lined with stables, but'as the
upper stories of the same buildings are
occupied in many cases by artists as
studios it can be seen that they are by
no means ordinary stables.
The Vanderbilt stables, which were
established by William H., who was
passionately fond of horses, were at one
time the finest in the city. They occu
pied four city lots, and two of them
were corner lots at that. The stalls were
of polished oak with mahogany trim- ;
mings and ornamented with cabinet
work. Handsome rugs and easy chairs '
gave the place the air of a drawing
room rather than of a stable. On every
thing, from the grillwork over the en
trance to the brass bound wooden pails,
was to be seen the Vanderbilt mono
gram. But the Vanderbilt stables are
no longer kept up as they were when
Maud S was kept there as a carriage
horse.
The stable of Cornelius Vanderbilt is,
architecturally, the finest in the city,
for, instead of being a plain brick struc
ture, it conforms in style to that of his
handsome home. In the graceful, stone
trimmed gables are medallions from
which jut hounds’ heads in terracotta,
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INTERIOR OF THE VANDERBILT STABLES,
ana the string course above the first
floor is marked with other medallions
of- artistic execution. The material is
pressed' brick and granite. The front
doors are solid pieces of beautifully
carved oak swung on massive hinges of
brass. The interior is almost imposing,
for the view from the entrances takes
in the dome covered court which ex
tends through the second story and is
covered by a large skylight.
Robert Bonner’s stable is a neat,
serviceable structure of pressed brick
with sandstone trimmings. It is located
on Fifty-fifth street just off Fifth ave
nue and within 20 feet of his own resi
dence. It is shut off from the street by
a high stone wall topped by an iron
railing,, and it stands in the center of
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city lots, Being surrounaea oya
dirt exercising walk. Inside are ten
roomy box stalls finished with hard
wood. There are several black walnut
harness cases with plate glass fronts
through which can be seen sets of sil
ver mounted harnesses. Maud Sis not
kept in this stable now, but has com
fortable quarters on Mr. Bonner’s farm,
near Tarrytown, and she is still the ap
ple of his eye.
Half a dozen years ago Frank Work,
when he was one of the rich men of the
metropolis, built on Fifty-seventh
street, New York, one of the most
elaborate stables in that city. The first
story was entirely of rough granite, and
the other two stories were of brick with
granite trimmings. This was Mr. Work’s
home as well as his stable, for he lived
there most of the time with his horses,
his dogs and his cats. The stable was
50 feet wide and flO feet long, which
is larger than most city houses. The
INTERIOR OF ROBERT BONNER’S STABLE,
box stalls and other woodwork was of
oiled light oak with brass trimmings.
His apartments on the second floor were
fitted' up ill wild cherry, handsomely
carved. He had a dining room, sitting
room and bedroom, while ih the third
story was his kitchen, chef’s room and
quarters for his drivers and stable
hands.
These are only a few examples of
luxurious stable building, but they go
to prove that some horses are lodged far
better than many human beings.
Cyrus Sylvester.
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Application for of Dis
mission-
GEORGIA, Floyd County,
Whereas James .<>. Garlltgton. ext cat or of
Mrs Harriet D. Jones, deceased, represents to
tne court m bis petition duly Hied, that he has
administered Harriet 11. Jones’ eeta>e. This is
to cite all persons concerned, aindred and cred
itor , to show cause, it any they can, why said
admi' isTator should not be discharged from
his administration and receive letters of dis
mission ontbe first Monday In December, 1887.
This September 6, 1897.
p JOHN P. DAVIS.
Ordinary Floyd County, Georgia,
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