Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-06-28
AN ENGLISH NOBLRMAN AND HIS HOR-
SIS

A correspondent of the Erening Post
writes -
Perhaps the most striking thing to an
American visiting England is the size and
perfection of the stables. For instance at
Knowsley, near Liverpool-the Earl Of Der
bys estate-the stables are very complete.
They consist of quadrangle two hundred
feet square, including paved yard ; III
the centre covered place for washing car
riages, and beyond this a circle i'll straw,
also under cover for exercising horses IA
bad weather.
Lord Derby's stables consist Of series
of rooms from fifteen to twenty feet square
on two sides of the quadrangle, and rooms
fifteen by fifty or seventy feet ON the third
side The fourth side, likewise divided
into apartments. is appropriated tor car
riages
The state carriage, which is very ornate,
has room -parlor in fact--to!itself ; then
/ comes an endless succession of coupes, park
and pony phaetons, Landaus, Aiberts, We
| torias, &c: and in long hall beyond this
is an apartment filled with great variety
/ of four-in-hand and park 'drags," vans for
conveying luggage to and from the rail
ways, dog-carts, an omnibus for conveying
color for the state and dress carriages ls
yellow, with crimson silk curtains to plate
glass windows All the drags and park
carriages are scarlet, the run"ing- gear he
! ing picked with black.
! The stables and rooms at kuowsley are
| paneled in dressed oak about six feet high,
| the walls and ceilings being hard-tnishcd
and painted some light neutral tint; the
floors stone, pipe-clayed daily, single
plate-glass lantern, with gas, being IN The
centre of each. The rooms, fifteen by TWEEN
! ty feet square, each contains one pam OF
carriage horses, the room being sometimes
| generally divided into two loose boxes.
! There were fifteen pair Of these, all dark
brown, about fifteen hands three inches
| high except two pairs of slatc-colored hor-
ses, each sixteen and half hards high and
" ith their names Haunted over their heads,
all beginning with D-such as Doncastcr,
Diomed, Damon, Dancer, Donereil, Dust,
| Doom, &c. &c. There were all in superb
condition when we saw them, 50 far as flesh
and lustre Of coats were concerned, but with
many Of them the legs were bandagcd, tie
animals having come down from town the
dav before considerably knocked up" the
groom said by the hard work of the Lon
don season. Although the day was warm,
they were all hooded and double-blanketed,
the under blanket and hood being scarlet,
and the upper (half whip-blanket) being
white cloth with the earls coronet and
crest worked in scarlet and blue in the cor
ner The single horses, hacks, riding hor-
ses, &c, were in stables containing each
twelve stalls, six and one half feet vide
Day and night the horses are kept well
bedded with fresh, bright straw,
Everything is, of course, in the finest
possible order, there being groom and
helper allowed to four horses, There are
thirty-fve grooms and SIX eoachmeh at
Cnowsey thirty-fve men and five women
in the gardens twenty-five lodges and
gates in the Park, and fifty other cottages
for gardeners, game-keepers, foresters, g.
There were about sixty horses here the
carriage horses costing from three hundred
, to eight hundred pounds pair.