Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-29
TILDEN'S TOPPY.
How Uncle Samuel Takes His Airing /,
Central Park.

How Uncle Samuel Takes His Airing in
Central Park.
New York Star.
There is nothing more pleasant to the resi-
dents in the neighborhood of Gramercy park
than the sight of the de .jure President,
'Uncle Sammy as he takes his usual morn
ing horseback ride.
MIR. Tilden owns seven horses, and his
stable on Twentieth street near Second
avenue, is the pink of perfection. Here his
coachman resides with his family in all the
splendor of a Centennial sJarvie." Among
his horses, which are all more or less noted,
the favorites of Uncle Sammy appear to be
sToppy" and "Hero." The former is his
favorite saddle-horse, and the latter, one of
a pair of old and well-beloved coach horses.
In his morning equestrian exercises, which
Mr.. Tilden generally INDUCES IN in COM
pany with his coachman, he wears a glossy
stove-pipe hat and black broadcloth suit
The coat is very low-necked in the tail, and
the wrinkles see-saw up and down the back
as the fiery steed Frances off, Generally at
about ten o'clock Toppy is led up to the
residence, No. Is Grammercy Park, and
afler Mr.. Tilden has vanlted into the saddle,
he touches the horse slightly with his little
whalebone whip. ''Toppy,, pricks up her
ears as if she would say: "Well, if we can't
be President, we can at least be Stylish .
starts off on brisk trot toward Fourth
avenue, and in ten menutes
Tilden's twenty blocks away.
"Oh, how the mud flies and oh, how the
horse prances and, oh how the ladies look
admiringly on and yet the equestrian sits
on 'Toppy' with the ease and grace of a
Robinson or a Fish, and gazes neither to the
right nor to the left, except when he recog-
nizes some fair friend, when he CALAMITY
doffs the glossy stove-pipe and casts run
ming glance at the occupant of the passing
carriage. "Jarvie'' follows at respectful
distance, but never gets so far behind as to
lose sight of his illustrious master. Along one
of the many avenues leading to Central
park the twain move briskly, the adj
mired of all admirers, and the wrinkles in
the coat see-saw up and down the back, and
its tails float gracefully in the morning
breeze, and the glossy stove-pipe comes off
at stated intervals, and the de functo Presi-
dent appears to be happy and at peace with
sured that he has all that human heart can
wish for, except the Presidency, and he is too
sensible a man to even for moment i'm
going through the roof.
The master and man usually take in the
East drive on the way out and the West
drive on the way back, and return to the
Gramercy Park residence in time for an
early luncheon. Upon arriving home the
master springs from his horse with the
ightness of an acrobat, Toppy paws the
earth eight times with his right foot, seven
times with the wrong foot probably in
recollection of the electoral commissions
vote), whisks her tail in the air, pricks up
her ears, and then is led back to the Hotel
de Horse, on Twentieth street, by the adj
miring Jarvie.
In the evening Mr.. Tilden invariably
drives out in company with members of his
family. II the day be fine he usually holds
the lines himself; if stormy the close car
riage is used, and Jarvie's services are again
brought into requisition. Day after day,
year in and year out, this is Uncle Sammy's
programme.