The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-11-23
A GRAND COACHMAN.
ne is AT THE HEAD or THE LORD
MAYOR OF LoNpoN's STABLE.

A big Man Physically n In Other RE-
~spects-The Carriage and Horses-Lord
Mayors May Come ard Go, but the
Goodman Is q Fixture.
An antediluyian spectacle was pre-
pared for me in the stables of the lord
mayor Of London. In q vast courtyard
IN enormous carriage made. DE gold, to
which were harnassed six magnificent
brown horses; harness ornamented with
massive copper, chiseled by an artist,
Ii not with taste at least with a great
deal of care, and . multitude Of ribbons
and cockades OF a cherry color.
On the seat, six feet above the earth,
the coachman, but what q eoachman,
my friendsi A coachman the breed of
which has been lost since the time OF
Louis XIV. He wore d wig with q SER.
tuple line of cnrls symmetrically ar
ranged, had a bicornered hat on his
head, and he wore his livery.as Yelling
ton after Waterloo must have worn his
uniform. His livery has q grand air. IL
is black and gold. The frock is too or
namental. The black velvet of it disap-
pears under a thick embroidery of gold
wheat and field flowers of purplessilk,
bat the chest on which it is opened ia
80 ample, and the large epaulets, with
gold fringes, fall with q nobility 80 inn
posing ON arms SO fat and SO firm, that
one cannot find this exhibition Of
wealth excessive.
The carriage is a poem. It is of the
purest Geo style. Massive in the low
err part, the panels of which are orna-
mented with allegoric paintings, the
boz is exclusively formed of looking
glasses held together by q light frame
work of gilded wood. Everything il
gilded, from the Cupids which hold the
box to the chimerical figures which or
nament the platform where the grooms
stand: from the Tritons which hold
with their strong arms the seat where
the corpulent Phaethon is enthroned to
the shell where he places his feet; from
the hub to the tire Of the wheels. Only
the interior of the carriage il not gilt.
IL in ornamented with red cushions.
"Have you, seen everything?'' asks
the fat man. say "Yes, and Master
Wright descends from his perch. He
puts aside with sacerdotal slOwness one
by one his hicornered hat, his wig and
his frock. As he becomes q simple NOR
cal he talks and smiles. I smile, too,
because he strangely resembles Coque.
lin. His trumpet shaped nose is particu-
larly q success.
Master Wright is not too proud Of
Ii. He is proud only of his size. He
talks of it with evident conceit.
"Do you know" he says confiden-
TALLY, that I measure from shoulder
to shoulder AZ inches? To become a
member of the Royal guard, where
there are splendid men, you need only
AZ inches. Some OF them measure 43.
There are some who measure A., but
there is not one who measures AZ.
In the harness room-in q special
room of which the first coachman alone
has the key-Wright hands to me one
of the sets of harness. Its weight is
fabulous Each horse carries ITO
pounds. Add to this the enormous mass
of the car, and You may understand
why it is that ordinary horses will not
do for the annual parade. The livery
man who has charge OF the stables Of
the lord mayor is compelled to search
for two months in advance in order 20
find the six horses destined TO. drag dur
ing this memorable parade tha formida-
BILE machine. The rest OF the year there
are only six horses in the stable. They
are all beautiful, but Of . smaller size.
Four OF them, are harnessed TO the SEQ
ond carriage, the lord mayors dress