The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-13

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large and deep, and exceedingly
graceful. His harness, although not
snowy, is in excellent keeping and
very rich. The livery of the driver
is very subdued, and the whole equi-
page would not attract as much at.
tention as single horse to a two
wheeled dog cart that parades with
a footman up and down the avenue
every evening.
John Hoey has probably the best
stables at the Branch. Mrs. Hoey's
carriage is a heavy English landau,
drawn by black and a bay, banged,
white driver and footman in knee
breeches. The team is a good one,
and the carriage new and heavy. He
has a brown and chestnut trotting
team, which it is said has been driven
in less than 2: so to pole. 1t is pro-
bably the best team at the Branch.
Miss Josey Hoey, his daughter,
drives by all odds the most stylish
and valuable turnout Of any lady on
the road. Her horses are Of bright
sorrel, perfectly matched, fast travel
ers and mettlesome. Her wagon is
a very elaborate, long-geared basket
phaeton, with high rumble. She
manages her team with much grace
and Judgment. Mr.. John Hoey, jr..
drives to alight wagon his bay trotter
Tom Thumb. This horse, it is said,
can beat young Murphy's on the
track but not on the road. A young
er son Of Mr.. Hoey's has a team of
Shetland ponies about three feet
high, which he drives and rides.
Some of the accounts from Long
Branch portraying the extent and
value of the Presidents horses and
carriages have been very much exag-
gerated. There are probably twenty
stables worth more than his T here
use stable in the horseman's sense,
meaning the horses) now at the
Branch. He has four bays and
pair of colts. One team of bays,
driven to Mrs. Grants landau, is
composed Of Cincinnati and Egypt,
enc of which was Gen. Grants war
horse, and the other he has owned
ever since he has been in Washing
ton. Both horses are getting quite
old, although they are yet good step
pers. The other pair of bays are
also driven to Mrs. Grants carriage,
and also to a high-seated phactOn.
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 and
check-straps, which seem to be gen
orally tabooed by persons Of refine
ment. The carriages Of the PIesi-
dent are four in number, and are as
unostentatious as any gentleman
could wish. The family carriage
has been driven ever since Gen. Grant
became President. 1t is substantial
but not snowy. The high phaeton
or drag is the same in which the
owner drove from his street resi-
dence in Washington to the Capitol
when he first took the oath of office.
1t is, therefore, well worn, but is yet
a very respectable carriage and that
is all. He has also good piano-box
buggy, no better than 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 carriages, Miss Grant has a
modest one-horse basket phaeton to
which she sometimes drives Cincin- /
natl and sometimes a pair of black I
ponies. Gen. Grant never drives out
in the family carriage, but instead |
prefers his phaeton or light buggy.
This statement is in simple fairness
due to correct an unjust prejudice
on the part of portion of the pub
lie.
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.
Delevan, of New York, who says he
is descended 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 eccentric habits
and disposition. He is of gigantic
proportions and must at one time
have been an attractive figure. He
is harmlessly prosy in conversation,
dwelling rather too much at length /.