Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-11-10
A pALATIAL STABLE.

A DOrniitOry for Horses With
Gothic Arches and Costly Car
riages Cornell Vanderbiics
Stable In New York.
Now York Sun.
Around the corner OF Fifty-eighth
street, beyond Madison avenue is Cor
nelius Vanderbilt's stable. 1t is in the
hesrt OF district inhabited by the
wealth SIS people, one block from Filth
avenue, asd in the center OF long and
| otherwise solid block OF stately brown
stone fronts Yet no attempt TO disguise
its character has been made by the
owner of his architect. 1t isa low, wide
stable, with wide carrisge doors ana
horses head. like any other stable, ex-
cept that il is made so "a TO cost as
| much r.ouey ~ is consistent with the
! PURPOSES for which it is intended. The
| int. -ior, Oh the other hand, Is like
| church. except that there are but lew
| churches ia New York that are 80 ele-
J glut OF ~ costly. Probably no stable
in the world approaches it in these re.
spects. Scatfolding hides the beauties
| OF the facade, which is designed to rep
resent French architecture OF the
Renaissance. Great gothic arches
spring from the ground to the top oil a
tall first story; brick and granite and
terra Gotta are brought together most
artistically. Above, tue second story Is
formed BY row OF tail stone dorrner
windows. The residences of the wealthy
OH either side rise like towers above
This stable. Mr.. Vanderbilt wanted ap-
propriate medallions and figures in carv-
ed work for the facade, and therefore
employed l.. kemeys, famed sculptor,
to provide them. lie wanted horses
heads, hut not of the stiff and unnatural
sort that the iron founders have been
turning out of late. Mr.. kemeys excel
led himself Ii is said he was rewarded
for his skill when he exhibited his
pieces at the last annual art exhibition
in Paris. Bursting from the wall to the
right oil the carriage door is the head o! a
noble station. TIE neck OF the beast is
arched in manner that conveys an idea
Of the strong excitement, u not Jury, IN
the brute. His eyes bulge from his
head, his nostrils are dlIted, the cords
of his neck are swollen, his laws ere set.
He seems 10 be caring his way through
the wall toward the other figure OH the
opposite side Of the arch. This other
figure is the head and neck OF mare
of slender-nosed, small-featured, al
most deer-like animal. The mares eyes
are OH the stallion. She looks at him
SIDEWAYS from under iringed eyeids.
Her face expresses mischief, timidity,
hesitation. These figures are cast IN
terra Gotta. SO much action, grace and
iidelitv to nature were never before
seen IN the architectural ornamentation
OF a stable. Mr.. Kemeys has added the
heads OF three dogs in terra Gotta Tor
the meda.lions between the dormer
windows. The central head is as big as
hall a flour barrel. 1t is the head OF
Siberian bloodhound. The under Jaw
droops, the tongue Tolls out. and the
eyes leer. To the lett is mastihs
head, and on the other side the massive
face OF bull dog. The mastitt Is about
10 bark. Elsewhere, set in the brick
work, are panels containing, in terra
Gotta, ears of corn, wsps of wheat and
other studies from nature by botanist
whose rame is withheld, but whose
work jusiities the statement that his
fame is universal.
The doorway opens upon the coach
room-e great square chamber walled
with li~hl-tinte! enameled brick, the
edges oi which, wherever door or pan.
el breaks them, are lined with pressed
brick studded with big knobs OF red
CLAW. The floor is OF cement and the
ceiling is OF tire-proof blocks, beneath
which will De set IL figured roof OF cary
ell bard wood. On either side OF the
fur.h her doorway leading TO the stable
are other specimens OF the botanlst's
work. One represents tange OF clov-
or. the other a bunch of gain. The
stable looks like Moorish temple. In
the center i. is open from the floor to
the yaulted skylght that serves Tor \
roof. An ornamental gallery, built oil
terra Gotta, springs from the walls. Be-
meath il the walls are OF alternased black
and white enameled bricks. Columns
of polished brass, surmounted by orna-
mental capitals, support the gallery anu
mark the divisions oil the stalls. All
the appurtenances Of these stalls are to
be OF metal si,ver-plated. Twisted col.
umns of terra Gotta spring from the ba'-
ustrade Of the gallery to the yaulted
roof. and are set in curtain OF pressed
brick in which are numbeiless panels
designed b. the botanist. They en-
brace whatever is pretty in vegtt ,tion,
currants, horSe-chestnuts, strawberries,
cats, corn, clover and so OH. They are
so delicately nodded that close view
| brin.s out uunoticed beauties. The
gallery is a mass OF these sketches. Ii
n i'm the gallery that the hay is II he
kept. The stableman has room up
stairs in little tower placed like the
one i'm representation OF "Trovatore,
| and from Il window situated as Is the
one in which the imprisoned tenor
| sings, the stableman is 10 watch all that
goes on i'm the stable below. The lower
room OF the tower is where the feed will
| be mixed. The cai riage elevator IS 20
ascend from opposite the tower to the
second floor, wherein there Is wiIe,
| unbroken space. In front oil that the
quarters of the s'ableman are now being
| fitted with the most complete house
| hold appointments. A wide space IS
| left between the roof and the fire proof
| cSi!ing of these rooms, III order that
| they NAV be kept warm III winter and
| cool i'm summer. Like all the struc-
lures that the Vanderbilts are erecting,
wood is discarded wherever a fire proof
substitute can be found. The orders
are AL OF iron, aud blocks OF cement are
used in place of la,h and plaster.
Acknowledge the Corn.
This is the origin OF the phrase IL ~
! knox,p,i,r the corn In ISIS Mr.
Stewart, member OF Congress, said IN