Arizona silver belt., 1901-08-08
WASHINGTON'S COACH
J,s Use as a Chicken Roost Has
 Come to an End.
ro He Placed in state Oa Exhibition with other Relies at Mount ver- non by the Ladies' Union
 or America.
George washington's family coach

NaS a few days ago presented by Au-
 sIstuS Frey, a real estate agent, of No. no East One Hundred and Twen- y-fflh street, to the Ladies Union I ,.I America, says the New York Post. 1 Japt Richardson, a well-known hg- | urc in Harlem, paid 5000 for the ven i rrable vehicle at the centennial expo | suiou al Philadelphia. lie was fa- | nous as a collector of relics, and h.S home al Castle Eden. Morri>;,nia. was museum. Mir, Frey bought il of him, IL will be shipped to Mount Yer non, where it will be placed on per manent exhibition with other Wash ngton relies of which the union has become the owner.
 From the centennial to the present time NaSh:ngton'S coach has been ruSting away in an old stable in Mor- rjSania, serving aS roost for chick ruS and a catch-all for discarded things usually thrown into garrets. Many persons remember il as the chief of these parts uf the centenary parade in New York, which put one in touch with the ceremonial time of our republican court"
 "Everybody, American or European, great pr humble, finds memorials of Gen. Washington an eternal bribe tl cut sentiment loose and lei il run" an appreciatiye member of the society which now has the coach said the other day. With what delight would the French take this graceful relic and array il in the Musce de Clupy beside the Napoleon carriages guard ed so reverently? And wouldn't the Italians like to wheel il into the great armory al Turin, lt would look inter- esting beside the stuffed skin of the horse hat carried the hero uf Maren- ga, and the picturesque accuutrementS of Garibald.. Here in New York it has been falling away with neglect in the careless care of Scotch fam jly."
 Il was coach of some grandeur in it's day. and easy as the lap of luxury. Louis XVI. used one not unlike ir. It's broad panels were cream white. it's frame black, and around the edge of the body ran pretty molding of g,ail. Black stripes were on the spoke~ and felioeN, and the nuts of the axlrS and the handles of the doors were sil- verrd. Hitcbed to it went six cream white horses. wearing black harnesses with silver mnunting> bright and i'ay- ling, and engraved with the arms of the punctilinuN gentleman who owned and who, in fact. designed II all On the box. detached from inc cradled body. sat two uprighr black men. and ia rhe rear black footman. while for extended journeys there were also brilliant outriders.
 Somewhat after th, fashion did Washington go to his inauguration down in Wall street. through lines ni people ITS progress thai day was like fire racing along train of gun powder. "kindling at every instant new succesSinns of burning ioy." II wa, magnificent as a spectacle. Hearts were dilated with patriotism. and a race used to the forms uf royalty felt that they had not lost even the deco raiion> of government by the sru- Pend"us change they had made While he lived in this ely, rain or shine. the president never failed to go for walk or ride or drive.
 Was this the same coach which used to swing up the Bowery and over the ancient Kissing bridge on inc l3- mile drive he liked SO we'll? II was used in Virginia and was probably brought here. And if SO. Washington ard his lady and her children passed many times on its leather cushions over part of the same New York drives which are still popular. and the most gay with fine turnouts of any in the country, ranking. indeed. with the tascine al Florence. the Bois de Buulugne al Paris, or London's Pal Mall
 This always was a triumphal equip age. No English mail coach. decked with laurel and carrying the kings news of the victory of Salamanca or Of Waterloo. could ever have been greeted or followed with more emo ton than this which carried the se- rene. black->u.ted. glorified general and his family in those early days of the republic. Relic hunters have cut away the leather hammercloth of the box and clipped off scrolls al the cor nrrS of the holdings. The footman's holder is wholly gone. One could have found it until recently uSed as the hrncoop, as il were, and the garret "t the family occupying the premises where it was kept.
 This old coach will now get bet fer Stabling in Mount Vernon than it had at One Hundred and Sixty-fourth street and Sheridan avenue. If it were as beautiful as it was in it's youth i would deserve a place in the Metro PoHtan Museum of Ari Not long ago Augustus Frey would have been glad '" get rid of il for Sj5O. Few are our property inheritances from the per >"nal estate of Washington. Consid- rrng how finely proud other nations, who have in him only an abstract in- lrreSt, would be of this legacy. we "oght. declared the man before N"o'ed' merely out of Self-admira- '"n, To see that time uses this old coach of his with gentle and respect t4A attention