The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-23

some Congressional EiGs.
F,op. the St. Loui, Republic.
U.szISGroy, Aug. 1s.-ln city where
- era fine. smooth streets, there are
IT. snre 70 be fine carriages. The broad
E~hslt as smooth as billiard table, with
-L,cb Washington is paved from one end
% the other, offers the finest surface IN
America for carriages. and there IS prooa-
hIv no other city of equal size where there
&c much brilliancy Of equipage
:, here The fact that the asphalt
: the worst possible surface for
Lo-sas to travel over, that it ruins
.beir feet. breaks tn cir knees and often pro-
5rcas a shortening of the gait, is not the
80 Of much soIicitude TO Dives, who
Ms la vnrio,Isly down Connecticut avenue,
- com fort unmarried by the jOlting and
y, which he must endure in other
Iitias vTben he takes an airing. when his
Srses 90 to pieces he can buy new ones,
md there is, after all, certain economy
~ II because, while it is hard ON the horses,
il is easy on the carriages, and they last
vice as long here as they do in cities which
are paved with cobbles or the belgian
blocks. Lo,,.-L,..
.La bighesL stepping horses, the most expert
ot,o and the best dressed footman are
tbose of Levi P. Morton, Vice President OF
the United States. White, the coachman,
,1ssd to be known in New York as king OF
the whips. For years he drove the carriage
If the MARQUIS of Lorne when the latter was
(,overnor general of Canada, and atterward
Se vent into Mr.. Morton's service. He Is
hip burly fellow, with the regulation English
ynnttonchop whiskers, cropped close. he
drives RAPIDLY and apparently careIessly,
hut his ewes are about him, and he has his
horses under complete control. To see him
dash around a corner, just grazing the
curbstone; to see him make his mettlesome,
quivering nags STAND near p9nlng i aiN
tive. or to watch the magnificent flourish
with which he pulls up in front of the house
that the Vice President wishes to stop at, is
a treat to a lover OF horse flesh.
White is undoubtedly a bowling swell,
hit the national character among coach
men is Albert Hawkins, who drives for
the President. He has been master OF
horse to the President ever since Grants
first term, and has held the ribbons
in FIVE inaugural professions. Black
as the ace of spades, tall and
straight, with strongly marked features, he
looks like the chief of some African tribe,
an appearance to which slit in the upper
norton of one of his ears lends reality.
He too, is an uncommonly good driver,
but he Is unfortunate in often being
obliged to drive poor horses. He puts all
the stvle and life into them he can, but his
powers are subject to human limitations.
Such horses as the pair of grays that the
fraudulent President Hayes owned no living
man could make respectable. They be-
longed IN hay wagon or plough. Presi-
dent Arthur had four pretty, stylish horses,
but there was not much solid worth IN
them. Westinghouse who know horse
from hippopotamus we're much amused
to read in the newspapers four years
ago of the magnificent seal brown
SEEDS that President Cleveland had
given 81 800 for. If be gave 5000 for them
he gave more than they were worth. They
were big numbering animals without a
vestge OF style, and six months after they
came here they had not sound leg to stand
on. They sold for something like $500 when
Mr.. Cleveland went away-a very fair price
for them. Gen. Harrison's horses are
strong, serviceable nags not snowy, but
pleasant for a horseman to look at. When
they first arrived they wore fashionably
banged tails, but these appendages have
been allowed to grow to a more conserva-
tive length.
Grandpa" said Baby Mckee when he
was seated on his grandfather's lap driving
out to the Soldiers Home one day, Grand
pa, why don't you have hossy's tails cut OFF,
DcCduse IL IL CIuel W JIcIl, sonny. 1u6y
can't switch off the flies In summer if their
tails are cut, responded the President
Hi, grandpa" said the child, "but it's
cruel to the flies to let the tails be long"
Here, McKee," quoth the President.
take this child away. He has wisdom
beyond bis years" And, really, on the
unitarian principle of the greatest happi-
ness to the greatest number. the law should
require horses tails to be docked, instead of
prohibiting it.
Among the members of the cabinet there
is little ostentation in carriages and horses
Inc department carriage, which the gov
eminent pays for, is invariably plain
family affair, with the coachman's seat on
aieVel with the occupants of the carriage
"hen 1t IS new 1t costs about $500, but the
same vehicle is used administration after
Administration. If he can afford it the sec
rotary has a separate carriage for
the ladies of his family. otherwise tbev
are compelled to use the govern
ineht carriage for making their calls Did
ever occur TO anybody, by the way, what
a loO 1I secrets coachman may catch on
oo' "hen Gen. Garfield and Col Rock we'll
we're OUT In the open carriage, | wonder
wuetner albert listened to what they, were
Gylng. What did Cleveland and Dan
t on or cleveland and Dan Manning
ta4K about on those long drives in the COM
uy, which they used to take in the victo.
tlaS1 Nobody knows-except Albert. per
laps. Inc true history of the country can
uov e written until we can get the coach
man and butler to talk.
;, p9t the really fiue carriages do not belong
" sne ofhclals generally. Some ambitions
suanc men, who have gorgeous turnouts at
W. W. 40 not bring them into the glare of
ta'nihgton light. They have a wholesome
c g~n oL tne people" whom they wish to
tbidy FAVOR with. A notable excention IN
s.as was The late Attorney General Brew
SET, whose old-fashionei glass coacb
b Nun yellow wheels, fairly bristIed vr;t5
ons aO OF arms, and it was consnicu-
ness o on t9e winter blankets and har-
An Ans VI VI ms horses, while his coachman Wore
Wht Uiu-tIme family livery. Secretary
oats S y e; was not afraid of Showing his
csrrio. 81 ner, as the horsemen saw. He had
and bs9 horses, trotters and steeple-chasars
and TS low Victoria and strawberry roans
not o 1ff1 tt coachman and footman were
mich 'ue modest character that Herr Most
WsnounaVe prescribed for him. :John
bonso alilaAer, who has taken Whitner;s
a aouse, Is not a bad successor r. 80, ~
B BIT 81 are among the finest here.
on yTbadIo out and out ostentatious snlendor
creas I0e'S IS to be found in that RAPIDLY in
who So Giass OF residents in Washingto,
spend tbniI thelr winters here lust as fhev
or Bar rHg T4 summers at Newport or Tenoy
fast No. Har6or, because it has hacor,a a
I02g q, thing to do, '00oile a
there is o, among the diplomatic corn,
rarooi 'nSlderable display hut II 49,. r