Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-08-28
NO. Sc.
TURNOUTS AT LONG BRANCH.
Some of the Handsome Steppers that are
Driven by New Workers at the Sea.
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There IS probably no other Watering
place IN the country that has SO MANY
handsome turnOutS as Long Branch
The place abounds with various beauti
tul drives for miles along the shore and
into the picturesque back country, and
they are the principal feature of the
place. Most of the cottage owners and
guests at the hotel stable their horses
at Elberon. Here Mr.. C. G. Francklyn
OF the Cunard line of steamers has a
hne stud Of eight horses-a pair of nice
bays, which he drives to a T cart, Vic
toria English dog cart and road wagon:
two thoroughbred bays and four mus
tangs for saddle use. Corporation
Counsel, w. G. Whitney, of New York
has stud OF tour-two fast bays to a
road wagon, and cross-matched brown
and gray to Victoria. Mr.. II. Mex.
Twombley. William II. Vanderbilts
nephew, drives Il pair of high-headed
bays to Victoria. Mr.. w. II. Gun
ther, of New York, has pair of large
bays and a cross-matched gray and bay,
driven alternately to landau; also a
pair of beautiful bays driven to a road
wagon or L cart. Hon. BeHiamin
Wood has q natty little team of bays to
a landau. Mr.. j. ". Harper, of New
York, takes his airings behind quick
stepping team of bays driven to a rum
BILE Victoria. Dc. Thomas H. Bailey
and Mr.. ". A. Bloodgood of New York
have fast blacks. Mr.. w. d. Sloane is
the happy possessOr Of IL pair Of dark
bays, driven to Victoria, and pair of
stylish browns driven to a L cart. Mr..
E. II. Hartman drives pair of fine
bays to a I cart. while his friend. Mr..
Geo. b. Blanchard, OF New York, has a
pair of dark grays, which he uses be-
fore L cart. Mr.. c. III. Christmas of
New York drives a pair of very hand
some bays to a landau. DR.. Smith of
New York has bay roadster to a two
seated pheaton.
Miss Mary Anderson, the actress,
drives a noble-loOking bay Kentuckiar
to phaetOn, and sometimes uses it as
a saddle-horse. At other times she
dashes up Ocean avenue behind spank
ing pair of rOans to q twO-seat phae ton.
b. A. Haggln has pair of stylish Ereys
to handsome Victoria or I cart. also a
tine mare TO a twO-wheeled cart. Mr..
John Sloane of New York has a hand
some pair of rOad5ters to Il Victoria,
while Howard Roberts of Philadelphia
takes his evening drive behind a beau
uful pair of bays to a L cart. Lord
Bache, Of the Cunard Steamship Com
pany, drives pair Of bays to a tandem.
Mr.. E. A. Packer of New York drives
pair Of high-headed bays to Z cart,
a oil alT 70 H.,
laGy's saddle-hOrse. Mr.. Clark of New
York drives pair Of fast-stepping and
stylish bays to Il landau, and also has II
fast brown roadster which he drives to
a T cart.
No one on the beach handles the
reins so daintily as Maggie Mitchell
over her team of sorrels to her phae-
ton. Frank Chanfrau Skins along the
roadway with his team of bays and
Brewster. DR.. Heyler, from the West
End, sports behind fine team Of bays
to park phaetOn, Stewart Brown driv-
ing cross matched gray and black to
a Victoria. MIR. Thompson of New
York draws the reins over a nice
Brown attached to Brewster. L. NJ.
Sanders drives out with pair Of glossy
blacks to a coupe that elicits much ad-
miration. Mr.. S. r. Phillips of New
York drives a sorrel that has record
of 2:25 to light road wagon. Mr. d.
S. Banning is daily exercising a fine
brown and roam to a light road wagon
or phaeton. Mr.. Henry Sands of New
York drives p crOss-matched brown
and gray to a Victoria w B. Crocker
of New York draws tAe lines over
stylish pair OF browns to I cart. Mr..
G. Auffwordt of New York had fine
stud of five-a team of sorrels to a side
bar buggy, pair of bays to Victoria,
and nice brown to a village cart.
The finest stud of ponies at the
Branch is perhaps that of Mr.. James
Low, of New York. He drives beau
tiful crOss-matched roam and bay team
to a landau that took the first premium
at the Paris Exposition-a pair Of styl-
ish horses to Cspring Victoria, which
also took the first premium for that
style of carriage, and a pair Of very
fast browns driven to d light road wag-
on.