Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-26
ELEGANT EQUIPACES.
Handsome Teams and Fine Carriages
on the Avenue.


NOTABLE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF FINE
TURNoUrs wELL-GRooMED H6fsEs AND
STRIKING LrvERIEs-THE TEAMS AND THEIR
OWNERS >e;eers
A few years ago fine equipages in Wash
ington were SO scarce that q handsome team on
the street was readily recognized by nearly all
passersby. Now they are SO plentiful that
even the best posted horsemen cannot keep
track of them. Anyone who has frequented
Pennsylvania avenue of late years cannot have
| failed to notice the change. Magnificent
horses covered with gold and silver mounted
harness drawing elegant carriages can be seen
every pleasant afternoon Everyone who
keeps horses seems to have made special prepa-
rations for this winter. The carriages are all
look like new, and the elegant Hveries Of The
coachmen look as il they had just come from
the taiiors. The horses are clipped and banged,
look like velvet. The summer Vfctorias and
phaetons have given way. for the most part, to
coupes and landaulets. Hofsemen say that
horses and carriages as it Is in It's residences,
and they predict that In very few years it
will surpass any city in the country In the num-
Der o. elegant turnouts to be seen on the street.
THE PRESIDENTS TEAM.
The Presidents equipage naturally attracts
| more attention than any other. It is well worth
looking at. The seal browns have improved very
perceptibly under the care of Albert Hawkins.
the team came here. They are spirited and
are driven without checks usually to an ele-
CANT landau, but sometimes to Victoria. The
black fur capes. The President sometimes
rides out behind the office team-a spanking
pair of clipped bays.
THE CABINEr.
Secretary Bayard's private team is a COM
Portable looking pair of bang.tailed bays
driven to a large coach. The Secretary has q
fine saddle horse of his own. His daughter,
Miss Katherine, Also owns spirited riding
no. hGsse II is SAD that no man is able to sit on
feet control With her he is gentle as a
lamb.
Secretary Endcott's Office team is nice pair
handsome pair Of bays OF his own, however,
and new brougilam and landaulet. "~aiis
Secretary Whitney takes the head among the
cabinet officers as a judge of horse flesh. He
delights in fine turnOutS and spares neither
trouble nor expense to secure the best possible.
His Washington horses, seven in number, are
OF the stable. A magnificent pair OF clean
limbed, big roans clipped, with tails banged
brougham, and Victoria The coachman and
lootman wear light livery. Next the raans stand
pai,r Of road horses; clipped bays He has two
coat for private use and banged tail bay, and
besides he has a bay buggy-horse that can trot
The other members of the cabinet do not
pride themselves on their horses. A handsome
pair OF big grays, brothers, belong to tine Post
Office department, one for the Postmaster Cen
efai and the other for his first assistant. They
could not be told apart were ii nes for different
looking drivers; Secretary Lamar h,.s but one
horse, u gray. driven TO an open carriage. At
torney General Garland prefers 70 travel afoot,
or In the street cars. Secretary Manning uses
only the department turnout, but is understood
To be ON the lookout for Il fine team.
SENATORIAL MACS.
Opposite Secretary w hitney's horses at Dow
ney's. stand Senator Don Camcron's three beau-
ties. His two big clipped bays valued at 81, 800,
are considered equal to any team in the city.
The white men on the box wear dark green
livery. His third horse Is a big black. which is
driven TO both coupe single and with one OF
the big bays, ii either needs rest.
Senator SaLin owns one OF the finest stables
In the city. composed OF nine horses. He has Il
pair OF black Hanbetonian horses, valued at
$1,000, driven to both a coupe and landau. He
has another horse valued at S1,2uU, u large
black coupe horse, valued at $500, and PAL +
OF handsome roadsterS, that are lrst-class tray
eers.
Senator Leland Stanford keeps seven fine
horses at Wash Majors. His principal team is
driven 10 either an eisht-spring D'Orsay or a
Victoria. The harness is silver mounted. The
driver and foom;,n are white, in black livery,
with black rOSettes on their hats. These black )
are perhaps the largest carriage horses that
ever came TO the city. Each is II hands and an
Inch high Senator Stanford S road team is val
ued ut S4O,O0O. They are both rich bays and
are, OF course, tue finest OF tnorDughbreds. They
are of good size, with splendid frames. The
ord Of 2.1Sta. Her male, Record, by El.ctioneer,
has record o. 22Ol, Tney are considered the
fastest double team in the city. Their owner
frequently takes long rides behind them in q
buggy. He has here also another pair of car
riage horses, bays 1872 hands high. seven and
eight years old. They are Mrs. Staniord's ia
voritc horses. One mas u record OF 2.36la and
the other OF 242La the remaining "hor.e is u
brown or dark bay named keinble that trots In
the twenties. He is generally driven single.
though occasionally lie is driven with one OF
the Others. Besides the carriages already men,
TONED senator Stanford has two pole wa ,ons
and large sleigh, ana viii have new victoria
next week. On MS farm near San Francisco
there are eight hundred fine horses. Among
them IL Is claimed are the fastest yeariing, TWO
Notwithstanding the speed OF the horses that
are here, Wash. Nailor threatens that NJ In ME
Palmer, his little black, will throw snow in the
faces OF any OF them should there be sleighing
this winter.
senator Jones' (Nev.) cgh.-spring coach cost
300; lie has, besides, u Ian leau, a brouglam
and u I-ctrt. His horse; arc big bays.
Senator Payne, OK OAio, has a new six-pa ssen-
ger amiiy rockaway, drawn by nice pair of
bays.
Senator Camden, of West Virginia, has pair
Of large, clipped DAYS, almost mouse color, with
banged tails The coupe has red stripping.
stepping thoroughbred Ham blctonian nays
that trot to the poie in three minutes. Tney are
rather small, with long tails and travel in great
landaulet Ior office use. but they have plated
harness when driven in IL handsome Ian iau
Senator Allison Is driven to anu from the
Capitol in II andso:ne 81 X-seat rock away drawn
by ~ comfortable pair oil bays. He also drives
out in u Victoria.
FOREIGN MINISTER'S.
But two Of the foreign ministers accredited
to this country keep private horses aud car
riages. These are the British minister and the
japanese minister. The establishments OF the
latter official is provided by the home govern
ment. He drives bays 10 u large baroucne.
The British minister is obliged to keep ND his
Clipped bays, all very much alike and inter
changcabie. They were bought in Washington,
and are descended from some OF Gov. Bowie $
stock. The carriages-land;;u, Victoria and
coupe-ana harness were brought from Eng
land. This turnout can he very Readily rtc,,S-
nizcd. The English coachinan and footman
wear blue livery, with silver hat bands.
All the other foreign ministers hire their car
riayes by the month or when needed.
OTHER PUBLIC MEN.
Justice Strong has II nice pair of sorrels to q
landau. Dark green livery.
Representative Mitchell, of Connecticut. fs
the owner Of q very line team, we'll matched In
size and movement, though not in color. Both
One Is u Sorrel, Dr perhaps u dun and the other
bay tinged with roam. The harness is silver
mounted and the MEN on the box wear DARK
green livery. The elegant brougham has a mo-
nOgram In red on the doors He has besides a
couple of handsome cheStuuts. His other car-
riaSes u Victoria and T-cart. ~ IT,
Representative Morse. OF Massachusetts. has
Mr.. Cotton, OF Illinois, is the owner Of two
magnificent large iron grayS, driven To a laroe