New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-23
RISE OF THE LIVERY STABLE
FIFE CHANGES OF \ QUARTER OF A
CENTURY.
HOW HORSES AND CARRIAGES ARE KEPT ANr
WHAT IT COSTS - THE LARGE
ESTABLISHMENTS.


&c Vew-York City grows stretching its terdrls
49,, over Long Island Westminster and New
Jersey. all OF her industries grow with her
What quarter of a century ago was considered
oourishing business would to-day be lost sl2ht OF
in the greatness OF present things and the promise
- Greater things to come. This Is especially
,,,c ~ the livery stable business Thirty years
go Mr.. Brown. OF Ryerson & Brown
to1 what was considered for those days large
,.,hlc At University Place and ThTtecnthHt'
-. dov il would be swallowed up IN any OF the
h,anch establishments OF their business
The livery stable is also no longer tie Simple
.r,onocmcnt of former years. winch ana every
,rjrc from sending cabs To stand on me sueel
,rcrs 10 wait for customers To the more sven
,,sincss Of jobbing." but stables now nave .icT
orn specai province, running IKE every 'ii"S
- srocialtics The great livery stables
~, besides their stables and their carriage
houses have connected with them ol"cNSml'l
'hons ,vhcelrieht shops, horscshocing shops ana
rona;r shops of considerable extent. Some hrihS
oven build coaches in their eS'aollShmeh'S'
As the city gets more coSmopohtah' lhe "uSl-
-. Of iobhinc~ becomes Of greater and greater
a,,crt wealthy man wants 10 sci zap
NOT for himself PROSTITUTION lie may
l., man OF business, 'uIlC" iA''i' 'i''''''''7
.t,. IN tho whirl of Wall Street or the pondcrous
,nsb Of the dIygOodS dlstrlct-hN' more Hh'N
,,hs wife and daughters Now. the rent of first
class private stable would cost INN from 9|''''
:. - ooO wear. and there would he the expense
~ ,orri,,c aud y pair of horses. Then, IN adj
,,;,;oo no would have TO pay wages OF at least
.'.a ,nor 70 saw nothing Of feed for the horses
.nd tho constant worry over horse gone lame
.oJ
60 tbousand and one things with which the
e,.cbn,an would every day annoy HIM.
NV FAMILY CARRIAGE i SECURED.
uo wants the family TO have carriage how
lar CO he GOES to a livery stable Keeper an"
e'1e 49, j., bir \ pair of horses and carriage
i selected. n man in livery is told OF to the e.,
.,trel,oort - as the outfits are technically Called
I'D from that time Oh the whole affair Is ms rs
r.,ob as if he owned it. For this he pays II lie
-. 6rst-class establishment" $4,000 per Ncir
IT.. carriacc is always at Lis disposal. ana i
1n,.,tirc banpens 10 one Of the horses re ms
saloo,od the stablekecper Is obhsed 10 replace
60 animal with one as good. lie can TAKE 'i'
Establishment away u Newport or >"I"''-'
:; .ho summer if he wants TO, OF II ne = sol'-
% Fpronc he can cancel the arrangement. some
t,r,iIies have iobbel" tic same outIt wear al'cI
,.,or until the horses know each memo'r oil
,boir na+ron's family and the coachmon feels IKE
an old family servant
Another kind of stable increasing IN FAVOR -
tho boarding stable OF these there are pToo''N
CIV Of considerable size in the city. \ man VINO
ovns his own cquipagc. horses and ALL AN" h'''9
his driver. sometimes does not want the eAP'"9'
and trouble of hiring a stable, 50 he goes To I"
boarding stable. and for so month OF less an
co-o ie removed from him. Then many "a man
,ho owns road horse and likes 10 take SPIN
i, tho Park on pleasant afternoons, or maybe
,arn, M beyond McC omb's Dam Bridge, saves " Io'
a. worry and anxiety by keeping his llS "' !"
boarding stable where ne knows II VIII DE We"
cared for.
These stables. which are devoted entirely 10 me
care of horses and carriages. employ the n''l
expert men they can find, and being anlc 20 Se.eo'
f,or, LARGO number of applicants for employ
ment the horses and carriages often 20, 'e'''i
care than they would in q Drirat" s'-blc. Here an
expert in his particular branch is constantly over
seeing the work. while in n private stable things
must 10 a great measure. be- left to the knowledge
and whims OF the head coachman.
PRIVATE STABLES STILL THRIVING.
Yet. with all the growth of boarding ana h'eIN
stables in the city there is no dinnutoh III we
rrr,ber Of nr,vatn stables Some OF these private
range from the splendid establishments OF the
Vandorbil,s and Robert Bonner 10 the modest and
unprctentious ones which for generations have
sheltered the numbering family coach ana doclle
and portly pair of horses and formed IN The upper
,for,. tie home of Tom the coachnan, ana his
family.
When one visits one Of the great pubic stables
hc j, not greeted by the sight Of roughly cI'd
groom. nor are his nostrilS salutcd by the pene-
tratinc odor usual 10 stables ON the contrary
he enters clean, wcll-furnished Office, with per
haps a waiting room opening of OF H. livery
thing is scrupulously clean and meat here j.
finely upholstered furniture, and men, perhaps
women. too. sitting chatting as if IN . drawing
room. waiting for carriages or 10 make arrange
ment. for an outfit that VIII be the pride Of the
Avenue" The unpleasant parts of tie stable
are shut ont from view and hearing.
M Brown. Of the firm Of RycIson d i'Town
recently told a Tribune reporter many interesting
things regarding the public stables OF Ne"-l oIN
and their management His forty years cA
periencc in the stable business make HIM com
pendulum Of everything relating 10 IT,
Why is il, Mr Brown" asked the reporter
that cab hire and carriage lire Is 50 much
higher in Ncw-YoIk than 1t is in other great
citics?7
The price of labor for one thing, he replied
the wear and tear on the carriage owing 10 ih'
pavements Of the streets, for another, and then
because people do not use carriages so much
WHAT BAD PAvEMENGo Co-r
carriage wears out IN Ncy-Yori much sooner
than the same one would IN LonGon or Paris,
continued Nh Brown Our streets are muc!
better paved than they used 10 be- We have
gotten rid of the old cobblc stones. but still the
" uo1. Il,
Paris the upholsrering OF "A carr3gc viii become
old and greasy before Tie carriage j, in need
Of extensive repairs Here in Ncw-Yor, thc
Innings viii be IN excellent condition when the
carriage will have 10 be- called in for "a General
overhauhDg. 1t IS hardly fair 10 compare Our
city IN the matter of streets with those Ii,-
r0pean cities W17Ch have been made and finished
We are still making, and the time viii come when