The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-24
LONG BRANCH TURN.OUTs.
The President's Equipages-Charle
III. Deleyan's TeAm-A Magnificent
Coach-Efsk's Driver.

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From Long Branch Letter to n. Y. Tribune
First take the Presidents stable
And here let me say that some Of TIT
accounts from Long Branch, portray
ing the extent and value Of the Presi'
dents horses and carriages have beer
very much exaggerated. There are
probably twenty stables worth more
than his q here use stable in the horse
mans sense, meaning the horses) now
at the Branch. He has four bays and
a pair of colts. One team OF bays. driv.
en- to Mrs. Grants landau, is composed
of Cincinnati and Egypt, one OF which
was Grants war horse, and the other be
has owned ever since he has been in
Washington. Both horses are getting
quite old, although they are yet good
steppers. The other pair OF bays are
also driven to Mrs. Grants carriage,
and also to q high seated phaeton.
Sometimes they are driven four in hand
TO the heavy landau. The only thing
that would attract attention to this team
is the white lines aud check straps,
which seem to be generally tsbooed by
persons OF refinement. Tie carriages
of the President are four in number,
and are as unostentstious as any gentle
man could wish. The family carriage
has been driven ever since General
Grant became President. 1t is substan.
tial but not snowy. The phaeton or
drag is the came in which the owner
drove from his l street residence in
Washington to the Capitol when he
first took the oath of office. 1t is, there
fore, well worn, but it is yet very re-
spectacle carriage and that is all. He
las also a good piano box buggy, no
better than a hundred farmers have
within twenty miles OF New York. To
this the President drives his pair OF
colts, which are of excellent action and
speed. This is the best team he owns.
In addition to these csrrigee Miss Grant
has a modest one horse basket phaeton
10 which she sometimes drives Cincin-
natl and sometimes pair OF black
ponies. General Grant never drives out
in the family carriage, but instead pre-
fers his phaeton or light buggy. This
statement is in simply fairness due 10
correct an unjust prejudice on the part
of portion of the public.
The turnout of all others at the
Branch which most reminds the be-
holder of the days of Fisk and Helm
bold, is that OF "Col." Charles H. Dele
van, OF New York, who says he is des-
cended from one OF the Oldest and most
aristocratic families in the land. The
Colonel is reputed to be worth several
millions OF dollars, and is a bachelor OF
very eccentric habits and disposition.
lie is OF gigantic proportions, and must
at one time have been an attractive
figure. He is hsrmlessly prosy in con-
versation, dwelling rather too much at
length on his horses. His height is 80
great that it was necessary to construct
bed for his accommodation before he
became a patron of the hotel. The
Colonel's team consists Of four well
matched, spirited blacks, which are
we'll groomed and richly capari'
soned. His carriage is an immense,
high Berlin pbeton-an exact copy, as
the Colonel says, of the one Emperor
William drives in. The Colonel says
be saw the Emperor in his carriage,
and he liked the style so much that be
ordered Berlin coachmaker to dupli-
cate it, which he did at a cost OF 50 900.
For a driver and footman the Colonel
has two negroes of nearly his own size,
black as Erebus, and as ostentatious as
possible. Their livery is brilliant il it
is not in good taste. A broad gold
band encircIes their hats, and gilt but
tops are as thick on their coats as
crying babies and scoldIng nurses are
in front oil my room at this minute,
which is going az far as truth can. Their
neck cloths are brilliant, and an arti-
fetal boQuet OF crimson flowers is Sc.
cured to the lapel OF each coat. The
driver is the same who drove for Fisk,
and he manages his blacks, four. in
hand, with a good fourish-the Colo
mel sitting in the back seat as serenely
az though he were, indeed, the Empe-
ror OF all Germany, and the owner OF
all the Jerseys. The Colonel says he
has also four bays and four grays, all
ne-fsc,lv matched