Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-07-01
Land Of the forest aud the rock.
OI dark blue lake and mighty river:
vi mountains re tred al0ft o mock.
Inc storms career. the hehuings stock
Our own gsoun land forever. "

GREAT IMPROVEMENTS AT THE CRY HoTEt-
NEW STABLES, &c.-Mr Brockway, the popuIar
ana enterPrising proprietor of the City Hotel Sen
eea street, has been making great improvements
IN MS accommodations for the benefit of his nat
rons, and the travelling public, which deserve no.
uce. Having erected a new brlok, in place of the
old wood front of the hotel, he made up his mind
to get up something for the accommodation of his
equine visitors little ahead of anything else of the
knu In these parts, and he has done it, Happen-
ing along there yesterday, we took occasion to
drop in to the fine looking new brick building
which we had before noticed gradually growing
up IN the place of the old stables, and cannot HELM
saying a word in praise of the enterprise and
ingenuity displayed it its construction.
1t consists of three story brick building. with
a front entrance on Seneca street, and side en-
frances into LIST and 2nd stories on the alley The
basement is diviyided into three compartments of
stables, which for beauty, neatness, and conven-
ience et arrangement, we have never seen sur.
passed. The stalls are neatly divided by partitions
with turned "newel posts, and the hay is br ought
down from the loft above in perpendicuIar boxes
80 feet 10 height, constantly kept filed with hay.
which the horses take through an ingenious side
grating Of iron, which feeds itself.
The manure ofthe stables is scraped into a re.
ceptacle made for the purpose, and hoisted by
means of convenient tackle, through a tran.
door to the second story, dumped" into a
wagon and carried off, thus preventing any
accumulation Of manure about the stables,
which are kept as neat as good housewife 3
kitchen Through the center Of the stable runs a
tier of stalls provided with the old fashioned slant
ing hay racks for the accommodation Of country
visitors who do not like "new-fangled" notions
A curved inclined plane provides for the passage q
horses and carriages to the second story where
buggies, carriages, etc. are kept in spacious hall
entirely free from posts pillars, the floor being
supported by iron lock bars. The massive door at
the front entrance to the floor ou Seneca st., is ar
ranged TO hoist by means ofpullies and machinery,
running up in groves in the wall, entirely out Of
the way. The hay is kept in the upper story and
Is carried down through the boxes before mem
TONED, and also furnishes place for keeping car
rages' bugges etc, which are left for several days.
where they are kept out Of the way Of all injury
They are hoisted from the lower story by means Of
large platform worked by machinery, playing
through trap-door, capable of raising the heav-
lest carriage with ease and CELEBRITY The bay is
hoisted from wagons at The side entrance by means
OF a large hay-hoister, which grapples load of
hay and swings it into the loft with great saving of
labor. u
These stables have been erected at a cost of m
wards Of six thousand dollars, and we are piad 10
believe that the public will not let such enierprise
80 unreWarded. The City Hotel must be, If pos
slble more popular than ever with the community.