The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-10-23
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, Useless Grants New stable-Partia
Quarters for the Presidents Horse,
Seneca Sandstone Again Brough
, to the Front.
From the Washington Chronicle.l.
1t is fact not generally known tina
there is being erected for Presiden
Grant one Of the finest stables in thu
United States. Visitors, especially
western and southern men, upon look
ing 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 instead Of the old one
story frame building the President will
soon be able to show to his visitors one
Of the handsomest and most completely
arranged stables in the country.
When Mr.. Lincoln occupied the Ex-
ecutive Mansion, there was attached to
it fine, large and airy brick stable,
where proper accommodations were af
forded to his span Of horses, and the
ponies which his sons, Thaddeus and
Willie, usually rode.
This, it will he remembered, was
burned down, the work, as supposed,
of an incendiary, and a temporary
stable built. which has been since used
by Presidents johnson and Grant
The new stables will be two stories
high, pressed brick front, with Seneca
stone trimmings, and a most deliberately
finished and beautifully designed French
roof, in the center of which will be
built a handsome tower. The outside
measurement Of the building is 80 by
IS feet. The lower floor, on which the
stalls, from 20 to %, will be built, has a
l6-feet ceiling. The upper rooms will
be about Is feet high in the clear
There will also be a 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
a division in one OF the lower rooms
more stalls can be provided il 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 a brilliant snow-white ap-
pearance, which will not have to be
painted or oiled, as is generally the
custom, as acid will be used to clean
off all marks.
The stables will cost, it is estimated,
$4,000. The work is being done under
the supervision Of Jacob Adams, the
brick work supervised by James V.
Collins, Esq The stable when finished
will compare favorably with any in the
country. There are larger stables in
the country (that of DR.. Jayne in Phila-
delphia being built Of white marble,
and larger), but none can compare with
it in beauty, style Of finish, adornments,
and practical usefulness. Special at
tention has been paid to the ventilation
of the rooms and stalls. The stalls will
be a little larger than are generally
built, and will measure four feet nine
inches in the clear.
In the rear of the stable will be a
door which will lead out into the White
Lot, where the horses can roam at will.
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, on writing OF the
stables and horses of our former Presi-
dents, relates that General Washington,
when President, had at one time plenty
OF the best horses in the country. lie
had but small accommodations for
them, 80 far as the Government stables
were provided at all. When John
Adams came from Philadelphia 10 the
White House, he needed horses for
daily locomotion over roads almost i'm
passible. Mr.. Jefferson, his successor,
was, of course, obliged to have horses at
his command, even for his necessary
communications with the captal-a
mile and a half off, 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 pavement, was!
svamp and his horse was brought TO
the door of the White House by his
black servant, from his private stable
now standing at the corner Of Il and
Fourteenth streets-which. edl1ce.' a
long tune after, was used as an IRON
foundry, and afterwards a Methodist
church. About seven years ago the
building was torn down, and the new
Foundry Methodist Church now stands
there with its towering steeples mon
ument of Christianity. Mr.. Jefferson
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 oy
freshet, and unfordable. lie tied EiS
horse to a tree-one of the original
trees of the forest-and crossed the
raging and chatting Tiber on an extern
porized bridge, made Of the trunk OF a