Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-06-29
Written for THE EVENING srAx.
PALATIAL STABLES.
New York Millionaires who Spend For
tunes on Their Horses.

TIE HOME OF MAUD 8. AND RARCs-coI- LAW
RENEE KIP's srABLEs-PoLIsHED FLOORS,
BRAss-MoUSTED TOOLS AND COSTLY RUss-How
ARIsTocRATIc THoRoUeHBREDs ARE CARED FOR.
The horses that constitute the upper hippic
circles Of New York are beyond all odds the
most fortunate class Of the population. They
are so beautiful in body that they can afford
10 dispense with the souls that some churiish
people would deny them. They are SO
superbly lodged and carefully tended here
below that they might well be content with
the present. They are the friends and COM
paniOns of gentlemen and show the results of
association. They have staff of servants for
their use alone. Their only work is that
which they must delight in doing, and no deli
cate, carefully cherished woman is so watched
lest she oyer-exert herself. The only creatures
that approach their state Of luxurious content
are the dogs. but unlike these they are not the
subjects of II. Ividual caprice. There are but
two flies in sIeir honey pots. They cannot
talk, and are not allowed to eat all they want.
To speak of the stables in which these horses
live seems inappropriate. The word is made
quate and misleading. Here it must be under
stood to mean city mansions fitted up in hard
woods, containing suites of rooms furnished as
the needs of high-bred aristocratic horse re-
qulre, the appointments having the last touch
light, heat, ventilation, and drainage carefully
regarded.
THE STABLES OF Mr.. FRANK WORK
have already the reputation for being the most
perfect of their kind, as has MIR. Work for be-
ing one Of the oldest and most accomplished
drivers ION the road" Without. the building is
imposing in its size and from its round-arched.
rock-faced entrance conceive within a large
Enclosure, oak lined and brass bound, with
richly rnO1ple6 friaze and Ian IF havala1
glass and oxydiZed silver swinging from gilt
tering chains. A heavy hemp carpet gives no
echo of foot fall. Within handsomely
mounted glass cases and on curiously shaped
brass frames hang the silver mounted and pol
ished harness. In velvet-lined enclosures
screened by glass the glittering bits. All
the appointments are brass mounted, even the
broOms and hay forks that make an ornamental
yet useful panel all TO themselves
This is the home of Edward and "Dick
Swiveller, zone of the four great trotting teams
that the world has seen. 1t is proper to APP
proach with respect the first horses who broke
the record, 2:20, and have since set up for
themselves. 2:l6SI. Edward and Swiveller oc-
cupy rooms in line and beneath pillared cor
ridor surmOunted by dome of glass. Their
rooms are paneled in quartered oak, above
which is an iron balustrade with acanthus
wreathed columns. The brass-lined feed
trough, II so vulgar a term may be pardoned
the brass hinges, bolts and chains are polished
to the last degree of brilliancy. Mr.. Harding,
who Is the architect of these stables, attracts
attention from these esthetc surroundings to
the fact that an engine stationed under the
sidewalk draws down the foul air and supplies
fresh air into these chambers in the winter
and IN summer does contrarywise, so that the
stables. as we read of them in English novels
not in evidence at all.
As Mr.. Work Is there making ready for his
afternoon drive, he acts the host and we are
taken up the oak-lined stairway to his suite of
apartments on the next floor. 1t consists of
three roOms-sittlng-room dining ROOM and
bedroom. Connecting at one side is the
marble-lined bathroom; the other is a
buffers pantry equipped with an air of prompt
mess IN silver and china and a little dumb
waiter IN communication with the kitchen
under the roof. The wainscotng of dark rich
wood. and the subdued light through the hang
ings add TO the luxurious impression made by
the furniture and carpets. Truly one may be
very comfortable here. At the sound of a
silver whistle a beautiful cocker spaniel bounds
In followed. by demure white cat with the
marks of tortoise-shell ancestry staining her
sides. These are the other occupants Of the
apartment and OF this happy family more at
another time.
MASTER AND HORSE.
Nothing is more beautiful about Mr.. Works
stable than the friendship between the master
and his creatures, on whom he has lavished so
much luxury. The groom has taken off ed
wards" bride and blanket, and before his
ward to be earessed. 1t is impossible TO resist
such friendly advances ''Swiveller' is more
indifferent and submits one of those who
turn the check. Evidently Edward" is Mr..
Morks tayorlte In answer to demand for
kiss he lifts up his velvety nose and the two
rub noses together. while Mr. Work calls at
tentiC to the soft beauty of his eyes,
This team cost $4,000. and are priceless,
since money could not buy them. Should
their master drive them no more thew will
he driven aOalD lint Snan1 tbair 1ayo
In Injurious ease ON the Long Island farm
But there are other horses here. .'Oswego
Prince" is dappled gray that cost $1,000
and has record of 2:245I: His mate is
Billy Frier," bay who has made 2:2il<.
But the beauty of the stable is ''Noina,"
who comes from Gov. Stanfords Palo Alto
farm in California. She is a dark BAY whose
coat with lustrous high lights and deep shad-
ovs Is the most ideal thing in horse covering
that can be conceived. She is young thing,
but four years old, but has made "a in the alb
breviatlOn of the stables.
Five stablemen take care of these horses.
Attached TO the stable and running its length
h an enclosed place, lighted by a sky-li zht
and here the horses take their constituents
en- bad days.
The STABLE OF Mr.. ROBERT BONNER
b temple-like, vine-wreathed structure OF
brick. Immediately behind Dr. Halls church.
OF which MIR. Bonner is so prominent a men,
Der. This home Of the three most celebrated
Of American trotters, Dexter, Rarus and Maud
s, u half screened by high board fence, for
around the house is the track on which the
horses are exercised. otherwise a crowd as
FAITHFUL as that which waits on Mrs. Langtry's
carriage would attend the appearance of Maud
; anu Rarus taking their exercise. Mr. Bon
ners stable was built sixteen years ago. and,
while 1t has everything for comfort, has none
OF the elegance that belongs to later stables
That makes no matter. for here Is maud s. She
stands IN the farther end. She wears blanket on
which one reads, MAUD S, Queen Of the Turf /"
She wears muzzle, else she would eat MP her
bed and carpet. The groom removes both and
she comes promptly forward.
Here Is little lady who has done something
that none OF her kind have ever done before
she Is the one horse out of all the world and
abe Is unspOi.ed and friendly as a kitten
''she loves the ladies'" the groom saws az
she rubs her nose against my shoulder and en-
deavOrs to find If a parasol knob is succulent
She loves 3lr. Bonner, too, but of all she loves
Murphy. Murphy may not get down but twice
year. but when he comes in the far door and
calls she knows his voice and shows how glad
she Is IN every way. Ii is Murphy also who is
associated with her greatest successes. and he is