Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-25

The Vanderbilt Stable and Its Occupants.
A reporter recently visited Mr.. w. b.
Vanderbilt's stables at Ffty-second street
and Madison avenue, says the New York
Tribune, and was shown through the build
ing. Entering from the Office the visitor
finds himself in spacious room. It was
just after dark, and numerous of gas-jsts
were burning around the walls, the light
streaming through porcelain globes, each
ornamented with broad band in the mid
die of which is a horses head. Walls,
floor and ceiling are all polished wood,
cherr lash, and black-walnut being laid in
strips and panels in way
that brought out the beauties of
each to the best advantage. In one
place long mirror reflected the line Of
sombre and stately coaches opposite, and
| in another case Of nickel plated bits on
a background of black velvet hung glitter
ing on the wall. A set of Fox's English
hunting scenes and oil portraits of Maud S.,
and Fullerton in heavy gilt frames relieved
| the baroness of the ash wall. In the corner,
on platform of cement, stableman was
washing a light wagon which had been
whirled over the road that afternoon behind
Aldine and Early Rose. The stable imple-
ments which lay around him flashed in the
gaslight with their heavy mountings of
polished brass, and the pail in
which he dipped his sponge was
decorated with big brass mono
gram. There was no scent of the stable
n, ho on no - <ho -, =
stalls few feet away could scarcely be
heard through the thick walls and the
heavy doors of black walnut and plate
glass. Only the man at work on the wagon
| in the corner, and the long line of coaches
against the wall, gave the large, well-pro-
portioned, and really elegant ap artment
any appearance of connection with the
| stable. There is no loud noise, no con-
fusion. and no dirt in the big hall at any
time. Even when some famous trotter
comes into the stable, fresh from some
| new exploit on the road, or the stout
coach horses come in champing their bits
and rafting their harness heavy with sill
YER. the wheels of the light wagon or
heavy coach roll on broad strip of carpet
stretched diagonally across the floor, and
there is no din or tumult.
Looking into the harness room, large
cases, with fronts of plate glass, extending
on all sides, were seen. The walls of the
room above the cases we're of plate glass
and the light from the courtyard streaned
through it flood upon the shining black
and cleaning silver of the harnesses. Here
we're all sorts of harnesses, from the plain
affair whose only ornament was the
monogram of Mr.. Vanderbilt, to
those in which the leather was al
most hidden by a profusion of heavy
silver decorations.
At the command of Mr.. Phelps, the su-
perintendent of the stable, two grooms
rolled back two immense sliding doors,
and dimly-lighted apartment rooted by
dome of glass was entered. Up and down
the center, on the hard cement floor, were
arranged row of vehicles; and around
them extended tan-bark track. This is
called the walking track" and here the
horses are exercised. The red pressed
brick walls of this place were hung with
pictures OF hunting scenes and celebrated
horses which. with their bits of color show
ing in the emi-obscurity, proceeded
pleasant and striking effect.
The most interesting part of the stable,
however, was that devoted to the horses.
Here the light from numerous gas jets
showed long lines of box stalls of light
polished wood trimmed with black
walnut. Beyond was line of open stalls
where stood The powerful black carriage
horses. Even here there is no unpleasant
| ior. nothing but the smell of the clean
straw with which the horses had been