The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27
WASHINGTON Celebrities on the Road.


ter pavements for driving within the
city limits, and in the country round
about are some delightful drives,
which are well patronized on pleasant
days, and one may meet in the hours
between the close of business and dark
nearly all the notables of official and
social Washington.
President Hayes and his wife are sell
dom prevented from taking their daily
drive between four and seven O clock,
and only in the most stormy weather
are they missed from the boulevard
The Presidents horses were matter
of much concern during the first few
months of his administration. Rogers
bought them of livery-stable keeper
in Alexandria, and, as is usual, was i'm
posed upon. They were Unmatched
and were a disgrace to the nation-a
hundred hacks in Washington were
drawn by better pairs. Last fall, how
ever, after suffering much ridicule, the
President authorized the purchase of
another pair, and an educated horse
man procured them for him in Ken
lucky. They are handsome, we'll
matched, easy-traveling grays.
President Grant, as almost everybody
knows, used to drive four-in-hand,
before dogcart, and it was a familiar
sight to see him sitting on the box, with
his habitual cigar, driving them into
the country. Grant was averse to max
ing himself CONSPICUOUS. He drove for
the pleasure of it and not for show,
and was never found on the fashona-
BILE streets with his four-in-hand, but
o1, tool lo
to well-traveled country road. Grants
skill as horseman is national, and it
required an accomplished driver to
manage his team. Senator Conkling
drives a fine, large black horse, which
he calls Douglass" before a light
narrow Brewster buggy, and generally
alone. When the Senate adiourns,
Douglass" is generally waiting for
| his master at the east front of the Cap
itol, and takes a stretch of six or eight
miles before dinner.
Senator Burnside drives handsome
pair of bays, large and fast, to a sort
of Irish jaunting car, and is fond of
having young lady by his side.
| Senator Cameron has quite a stud of
horses and good taste in matters of
equipage. His favorite 'outftn is
dog-cart, pair of fast bays he has,
and his daughter by his side. Miss
Cameron is an accomplished hOrsewom-
an, as is Miss Bayard also.
The Russian Minister has mammoth
pair of bays, with a great numbering
chariot on which are spread the coats
of-arms of his own and his wife's fam
lily. He and Nine. Shishkin are very
estimable, unassuming people, and put
on less style than other of the foreign
ers. They are to be seen walking every
day, plainly dressed, and she stops to
kiss little children that she meets in the
street. Having kissed them, she runs
after her husband and jabbers Russian
at him till he smiles, and looks back at
the child his wife has kissed They
have family of little ones of their own,
and for their use the carriage is mostly
devoted.
The foreign Ministers all have styl-
ish turnouts, and during Lent especially
are on the drives every pleasant day.
Sir Edward Thornton has handsome
pair of clipped chestnuts, which he
drives before an elegant barouche, but
he generally prefers walking himself,
and is one of the most inveterate pedes-
trians in Washington. His walking
shoes are a curiosity. The soles are
broad and beveled in the English style,
and are fully half an inch thick. The
uppers are of goat skin, tied with leath-
ern thongs.
Secretary Sherman takes his daily
drive in an open carriage, drawn by
two ordinary-looking horses. Every
day about four o'clock, if it isn't too
stormy, you can see Mrs. Sherman wait
ing for her husband at one of the en-
frances to the Treasury Department,
and, as he is very methodical, his APP
pearance at that door is as regular
every day as the clock strikes four.
Corcoran, the banker and philan-
thropist, drives pair of small, jogging
| bays before a comfortable carriage.
swinging very low to the ground, which
was made at his order because his
rheumatic limbs refuse TO enter high
carriage.
Senator Morton's old coupe is missed
from the streets. Every day of his life
in Washington it could be seen stand
ing either at the Ebbitt House, or at
the White House, or the Capitol, or
some one of the departments, and it
carried him faithfully for many years.
1t was low, the box reaching down to
within an inch or so of the curbstone,
and was made expressly for him. 1t
was scratched and battered and worn,
and the horse he drove before it was
one of the forlornest specimens of ami
nal life that was ever seen. The har-
ness was old and rusty, and the repairs
it had undergone were well advertised.
Mr.. Morton had peculiar antipathy
for anything pretentious-itwas almost
affectation with him as it was with Lin
coln--and no one could ever induce him
to get his coupe vanished or trade his
old crowbait off for a horse. One day
his driver left him and he engaged a
new one. The first time the new man
made his appearance he wore livery
he had brought from his former service,
but Mr.. Morton would not enter the
carriage until the negro had taken off
the rosette from his hat and put on a
suit of ordinary clothes. He used to
say that livery was badge of servi-
tude.
Fernando Wood drives mammoth