The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-10
A MODEL LIVERY STABLE.
1t Has Every Modern Convenience
and Cost $3.50. 600.


Many persons who have come away from
Niagara Falls with feelings of resentment for
the hackmen, or, rather, the chief hackmaD,
for the business has been controlled there by
one firm for nearly twenty-five years, will be in.
terested in knowing what has become of their
money. Some of it, says an exchange, has
gone into large stable, probably the most
complete OF its Kind in the country in the heart
OF the city of Buffalo. Il is plain, rectangular
building OF brick ana sandstone SIX stories
high. but the chief element of public interest in
1t is that it has cost the round sum of $3.50, 900.
The big stable is built on a system entirely
novel. The five uppermOst floors hang from
the roof, suspended from fifteen large can't.
lever trusses supported on steel pillars that run
up through the side walls. This leaves The
ground floor without pillar and makes it pos
Slole 10 hold even coaching parade within
doors. II is as big as a regimenIal armory on
The ground floor, the dim nSlOns being 230XG5
feet. The same care that has marked he hack
men in reducing the size or the pOcketbOokS of
Niagara visitors has marked the system of de-
tails IN erecting the stable. In the cellar for
example, there are two fifty horse power boil
ers which supply The sta iOnary engines.
pumps and dVnamOS with steam. The exhaust
steam heats the building from top TO bottom
Hot and cold water found on every floor.
The 1--WE big pumps supply water for the 1900
automatic spTinkers in the building and Opei-
ate new sanitary system for stables. The
front OF the basement is devoted to blacksmith
and horse shOeing shops and the rear has large
storage accommodations Tor big vans and other
unwiedy vehicles.
The first floor has sumptuous Offices. and the
plan is TO have dozen or more rigs hitched up
all The time to answer calls of any kind on the
jump.
In the rear of the main floor Is a bot
room. with asphalt floor, and there the wash
ing OF carriages is done. The heat softenS lie
mud land Ice II it is winter time) ana the men
who 90 the work can accomplish double the
work they did in the old way. The second and
third floors are fitted with stalls for $50
horses. There is an elaborate system of food
distribution and ventilation. Baths are pro-
vided and even an elevator for the use of sick
horses. The fourth floor is used for the stor-
age OF coaches, and The fifth has separate
places for palntshopS, harneSsrOomS, TRIM
shop for mendnE the livery Of the drivers.
There are dTying-roOms for harness and mems
clothing. The sixth floor is storage place for
feed and sleighs.
Every floor has day and night foreman, and
the entire stah of men employed numbers more
than 200. It is palace for horses, aud even
for men. The equipment, besides horses. con-
ssts OF hfty-two coaches, thlrty-hye coupes,
twenty VIctOrias, a dozen hansoms twelve
buses. thirty baggage wagons, seven hearses,
five moving vans and several band wagons. be-
sides forty sleIghs.
When a certain rig is wanted whistle from
the office TO one floor causes the horse 10 be
brought down, one to another floor brings
down the harness, aud one 10 still another
brings down the carriage. system akin 10
military discipline pervadeS the establishment.
MIR. Miller, who has charge OF the Buffalo end
of the business. has been dreaming of his for
/ thirty wears, be says and now that he has the
most elaborate stable of the kind In the cOun-
try his nelghbOrs say he is inclined 10 think
that Niagara Fails Is q small affair in CON-
parison.-BuffalO News