The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1878-05-02
washington Celebrities ON the Road.

A Washington correspondent writes
A follows Nowhere in the world are
there better pavementE for driving with
in the city limits, and in the country
round about are some delightful drives,
which are well patroniEod ON pleasant
DAYS, aud one may meet in the hours
between the close Of business and dark
nearly all the notahlcs 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 che most stormy weather are
they missed from the boulevard. The
Presidents horses were matter of
much concern during the first lew
months of his administration. Rogers
bought them Of livery stable keeper IN
Alexandria, and was imposed upon. They
were ill.matchc,l-a hundred hacks IN
Washington were drawn 10y better pairs.
Last fall, however, after suffering much
ridicule, the President authorized the
purchase If another pair. and an edu-
Gated horseman procured them for him
i'm Kentucky. They are handsome, we'll
matched, easy-tmveling grays,
President Grant, ms almost everybody
knows. used 10 drive four-in-hand,
before a dog-cart, and il was familiar
sight 10 see him sitting on the box, with
his habitual cigllr, driving them into the
country. Senator Conkling drives fine,
large black horse, which he calls
Douglass, before light narrow
Brewster buggy, and generally alone,
When the Senate adlourns, Douglass
is generally waiting for his master at
the east trent Of the Capitol, and takes
stretch OF SIX or eight miles before
dinner.
Senator Burnside drives a handsome
pair OF hays, large and fast, 70 sort Of
Irish iauntng 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 equi-
page. His favorite "outtit is dog
cart, pair OF fast bays he has, and hls
daughter by his side. Miss Cameron is
an accomplished horsewoman, as is Miss
Bayard also.
The Russian minister has "A mammoth
pair of bays, with great numbering
chariot On which are spread the coat Of
arms Of his own and his wife's family.
He and Mime. Shishkin are very estlna-
ble unassuming people, and put on less
styls than any other Of the foreigners.
They are to be seen walking every day,
plainly dressed, and she stops 10 kiss
little children that she meets IN the
streets. Having kissed them, she runs
after her husband and labbers Russian
at him tall 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 stylish
turnouts, and are on the drives every
pleasant day. Sir Edward Thornton has
handsome pair Of clipped chestnuts,
which he drives before an elegant ba-
reuche, but he generally prefers walking
himself, and is one of the most lnveter-
ate pedestrians in Washington. His
walking shoes are curiosity. The
soles are broad and bevelled in the Eng
lish style, and are fully half an inch
thick. The uppers are OF goat skin, tied
with leather 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 waiting for
her husband at one of the entrances to
the Treasury Department, and as he Is
very methodical, his appearance at that
door is as regular every day as the clock
strikes four.
Corcoran, the banker and philanthrop-
ist, drives pair of small, jogging bays
before 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 standing
either at the Ebbitt House, or at the
White House or the Capitol, or some one
of the departments, and II carried him
faithfully for many years.
Fernando Wood drives 3 mammoth
pair of bay horses, with a gold-mounted
harness covered all over with his mono