Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-25

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THE PEOPLE PAY THIS BILL.
Usetess Gsrant's New stabIe-Pnr.
tiaI Quarters for the Presidents
HOrsea--Seueea Sandstone Again
brought 60 the Fr"nt.
From the Washington Chronicle.l
1t is fact not generally known that
there is being erected for President Grant
one of the finest stables in the United
States. Visitors, especially Western and
Southern men, upon looking at the sights
in and around the Executive Mansion,
would naturally inquire where the stables
and stock are kept, and upon being
shown would in nearly all cases, regret
to learn that the stables for the President
are such mean and small affairs This
defect, thanks to architect Hon. A. b
Mullett, will soon be remedied, and in
stead Of the old one-story frame building
the President will soon be able TO show
to his visitors one of the haudsomest and
most completely arranged stables in the
country.
When Mr.. Lincoln occupied the Exec
utive Mansion, there was attached to it a
| fhe, large and airy brick stable, where
proper ACCOMMODATIONS were afforded to
his span of horses, aud the ponies which
his sons, Thaddeus and Willie, usually
rode N HI
This, it will be remembered, was burned
down, the work, rs supposed, OF an IN
cendiary, and o temporary stable built,
which has been since used by Presidents
johnson and Grant, NN u
The new stables will be two stories
high, pressed brick front, with Seneca
stone trimmings, and most elaborately
finished and beautifully designed French
roof, in the center of which will be built
a handsome tower. The outside meas
urement Of the building is thirty-nine by
seventy-eight feet. The lower floor, on
which the stalls, from twenty to thirty,
will be built, has sixteen-feet ceiling.
The upper rooms will be about thirteen
feet high in the clear. There will also
be . cow-house in the cellar.
The ventilation is On the most perfect
plan, fires being used throughout the
cellar and building. The stable will
front on Seventeenth street, where there
are two wings which will be used as
carriage-houses. Accommodations are
made for four carriages. By cutting
division in one of the lower rooms more
stalls can be provided If needed. On
the upper floor the front rooms will be
occupied By the hostlers, while the rear
rooms will be used to store away hay
and other feed. Gas and water will be
run throughout.
The building is now ready for the
roof, which will be put on during the
coming week Marble dust will be used
on the front with the mortar, instead Of
white sand. This will give the joints q
brilliant snow.white appearance, which
will not have to be painted or oiled, as
is generally the custom, as acid will be
used to clean on all marks.
The stables will cost it is estimated
$50, 900. The work is being done under
the supervision of Jacob Adams, the
brick work supervised by James V. Col
Inns, Esq. The stable, when finished,
will compare fsyorably with any in the
country. There are larger stables in
the country THAT Of DIR. Jayne Of Phil
adelphia being built of white marble,
and larger), but none can compare with
it in beauty, style of finish, adornments,
and practical usefulness. Special atten-
ton has been paid to the ventilation of
the rooms and stalls. The stalls will be
little lerger than are generally built,
and will measure four feet Rile inches
in the clear.
In the rear of the stable will be door
which will lead out into the White Lot,
where the horses can roam ~ ~ VIII VII.
The stables, when finished, will at
tract many visitors, and may be as much
sought after as the famed stables of the
Queen of England at Windsor.
A correspondent writing of the stables
and horses of our former Presidents, re-
lates that General Washington, when
President, had fine stud Of horses, and
had at one time twenty of the best horses
in the country. He had but small &C
commodations for them, so far as the
government stables were provided atall.
When John Adams came from Philadel-
phia he needed horses for daily locomo-
ton over roads almost impossible. Mr..
jefferson, his successor, was, Of course,
obliged to have horses at his command
even for his necessary communications
with the Capitol-a mile and half of,
over swamp-when Congress was in
session.
Thus, when Mr.. Jefferson delivered
his first inaugural-that great study for
all future statesmen-he could only have
reached the Capitol on horseback The
avenue, now so fine roadway, with its
beautiful wood pavement, was a swamp,
and his horse was brought TO the door Of
the White House by his black servant,
from his private stable-now standing OF
the corner of C and Fourteenth streets
which edifce, long time after, was used
as an iron foundry, and aiterward a
Methodist Church. About seven years
since the building was torn down and
the new Foundry Methodist Church now
stands there with its towering steeples,
monument 70 Christianity. Mr. Jeffer-
son rode up toward the Capitol on the
4th of March, 1901, TO be inaugurated as
President Of the United States, but
could not get further toward it than
Tiber creek, which was then swollen by
freshet, and unfordable lie tied his
horse to a tree-one Of the original trees
of the forest-and crossed the raging
and chafng Tiber upon an extemporized
bridge made Of the trunk Of a felled
forest tree.
The new stable will be finished and
furnished in about two months, and will
be Immediately occupied.