The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-02-07
Wednesday, Feb. Z, 1888.
MIR. vaNDzsn,Lr,s STABLES.


dressed brick, brown stone and marble,
costly woods and plate glass combine to
make the millionaire's stable place of lux
ury and even splendor Maud s. and the
other trotting wonders in which William II.
Vanderbilt takes pride are housed in man
ner BETTING the pets of the richest man in
America.
Entering from the Office the visitor found
himself in a capacious room. Walls, floor
and ceiling were ali of polished wood, cherry,
ash and black walnut being arranged in
strips and panels in a way that brought out
the beauties of each to the best advantage.
In one place a long mirror reflected the line
of sombre and stately coaches opposite and
Ia another case of nickel plated bits on a
background of black velvet hung glittering
on the wall A set of Fox's English hunting
scenes, and oil portraits of Mand S. and
Fullerton in heavy gilt frames relieved the
baroness of the ash walls. In the corner,
on platform of cement, stableman was
washing light wagon which had been
whirled over the road that afternoon behind
Aldine and Early Rose. The stable nipple.
ments which lay around him flashed in the
gaslght with their heavy mountings of pol
ished brass, and the pail in which he dipped
his sponge was decorated with u big brass
monogram. There was no scent of the
stable in the air. The noises of the horses
In the stalls a few feet away could scarcely
be heard through the thick walls and the
heavy doors of black walnut and plate glass.
There is no loud noise, no confusion and no
dirt in this 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 harnesses, heavy
with silver, the wheels of the light wagon or
the heavy coach roll on board strip of car
pet stretched diagonally across the floor, and
there is no din or tumult.
Looking into the arless-room large
cases, with fronts of plato glass, extending
on all sides, were seen. The walls of the
room above the cases were of plate glass,
and the light from the courtyard streamed
through in a food upon the shining black
and the cleaning silver OF the harnesses.
Here we're all sorts of harnesses, from the
plain affair whose only ornament vas the
monogram Of Mr. Vanderbilt, to those in
which the leather was almost hidden by
profusion of heavy decorations. Two
grooms rolled back two immense sliding
doors, and dim-Et apartment rooted by q
dome of glass was entered Up and down
the center, on the hard cemented floor, were
ranged rev of light vehicles and around
them extended tanbark 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 showing in
the semi-obscurity, produced pleasant and
striking effect.
The most interesting part of the stable,
however, was that devoted to the horses.
Here the lights from numerous gas-iets
showed long lines of box stalls OF light and
polished wood trimmed with black walnut.
Beyond was line of open stalls where stood
the powerful black carriage horses. Open
ing the door of largo box-stail at tho end
of the room, the reporter entered it. The
stall was lit only by the light that came over
the top and was in state of half darkness.
In one corner, up to the fetlocks in straw,
stood Maud s. quietly eating her well-earn-
cd oats