ASHINGTON'S COACH

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 426, 14 July 1904, Page 3

ASHINGTON'S COACH

9il«ii« Cifckaa &«*»* Sua •to SM VlaeeeT ta f taee a* Bkdß4Mttesft ; MBit* fttoMV Saeltea'at Meastt Yew* f a«w'd «aa aia »Btaa> ; ;>w to. *»•***■».,»w wm aJaw days age presented by A* gustoa Srey, a real eatato agent, of No. 110 .Start Om Hundred aad Twaa-<ty-fiftk strati, to the Ladfea' Salon of America, eay* Mm HVw York P©*t. C&pfc. Richardson, a well-kaawai ifure la Harieas, paid 9MO for tha ronereble vehicle at -t3se easriaaai&l eapostolen at Philadelphia. Ke was f«tn«ur as a cottooior of relic*, ami hie home a* Caetle BdtoY MoTrisania, waa a muMara. Hr. Fray bjsught it of him. It will be shipped to Mount V«rsod, wh«re M will be placed «a permanent ©xhibstWa with ether Washington relics «f wfetok to* aaiam baa beeome toe ew**s, Frew the otottonotot to toe proaent tfina Waabiaftoa'a aaaoa baa been mattes; oway fa aa eld stable te Marrieasae, eetrvtof aa a roewt far ehiehoaa ail a aatab-afi tor aUearded thfe>se wroa&y thrown bate garrets. Maay pereeaa rcaaanber It aa toad off theeo parti:at tha parade to Now York, wbiab put one*" to tooeh with toe 'aaraawato> tone ol mm "reptiibloaa eewr*." "»mybedy, -Aiaarlnna sjsjPajjaaeaa, aweae, or humble, lad* aeaerlala of «ea. Weshtagtaa aa ataraat bribe to «at sentfaent W»e aad lot it ran," to appraatatlre awato «f the society which bow baa tha eeato aid the tobor-toT. TMk whet dcUglvt would. toe Freaaft take abia graceful relic a»4 array it to too Mneec to Cluny beatta too ftapatoam aarriafai guard* ed to roaowatlyf s Aad wouldn't the Rattan* Mhe to wefeal M into the great armory «4 Tvtwim ||t waald leak iate?* *-Hing bealde «be:|a»aff«4 skis of the horat that c»rri«di'the kero of Marea* go, and the piotareiiave aeeoatraaaaota of -Garibaldi.- H*r» ta Weir York It has been falling- %way Witii the eareleee a Sootck t*i-.-iiy-r ~.. It wat a eoaeb of aoaM arra»d*un !sa its day, and easy as tks lap of suru,~/. Louis XVI.-,used one aot enlikt ft. It* broad panels were ersam white, its frame black, and around the at of t)i« body ran a preity molding of .gold*. Black stripes were on the spokrb +v.\ felloes, and tha nuts of the ax esaad the handles of the doors were ail- * V.ared. Hitched to St went six creamwhite horses, wearing black ham*'. .«a with silrer mountings, bright and j.nyteug, and engrared; with the arms of th« punctilious geatleman n'he owaed, and who, in fact, designer! it ail. On the box, detached from ths cradled body, set two upright black 'men, and 1a the rear a black footm: i, while for extended Jbumeya the. ; were also brilliant outriders. Somewhat after this faahioa d i Washington go to his inaugural »'i down in Wall street, through'lir«?s r>f people. His progress that '0? v.u* like Are racing along a" .train . <; powder, "kindling at «Tery' : new successions of burning jo " It wu magnificent c* a spectacle. >Tearta were dilated with patriotism, arrl a' raw treed to the forms-of royalty felt that.they had not lost erenthe decorations of government by tni- *.tur..... .. pendi'Ui. , i .'hai.ige Ihry had madf VVhile ha l : v?d in. this city, rain or shine, the pre«)t]ent never failed *o go tor a walk cr a ride or fl drire. W:»' <h;s the same ooacb whleb arvi] t-» swing up the Bowery and over the' iiiicient' on the 11rrVni'"■.'rive he liked 'Vo well? It .was u.-ed i.n Virginia and was probably •br(*!!<"ht here*) -sArd if so, Washir,.:ton ar.d >h:?;lady and her children .<?seed '•mivpy,times, on, bs leather cushions OTf»r a part of the same N»w York d-'iv^v,.... which are «till popular, and the nioßt gay with fne turnouts of any in the couatry, ranking, indeed, with the Casdae.jil Florence, the Bole d* B'oiilogpe'at^Parij|,j-pr|'Loßdoa , B Pall ; Mall.'- "'* ■*" ***•>'■** '-'\' This always wee a triumphal equipage. No (English mail coach, decked with laurel- and carrying the king'a news of the -rfctory of Salamanca or ol Waterloo,, erer h»ve ber-n • ftieMedOl" fsloS*dv S*!b more emo- ■■! tion than, this which carried the sere n : hlack>a!blt«dn ?"l5* i **d gen ern 1 and his family In thoae early ders the republic. Relic hunters have cut a way .the leather hammercloth of the boxnnd clipped off scrolls at the corners of the moldings. The : ic*m ;n's holder is wholly, gone. Oce eoV. '•; te found it until racantly u*ai? *A» ,*';}*■ hencoop, as it wart,, and the gatwt of the famUyoooupylnff tha pramiieii where It was kept. %t :■• This- old coafihv-WittißOW fat b*t« tef stibHnjg' In Mount Vara©* than it A had at Ons Hiind#«d and Sixty»f<jtii*tfl stt'eet rthd Shirfdab aventoe, If. H Were tx& beautiful as it was in Hi yV>nh" it VfottJd desert* a pkoe Ih the Mctfo-. - polHftii of Art. Kot long ago Art*tiMiiK tref Would have been glad to get «''/' <H lt"fofes»So. ""yew'ate oat . ,;. property inh*ritancjiss from the per- ,' : (Kinnf Estate of Waahington. Consid- v , erlrig how flnely-prou'dteother nations, ' , who have in him an abatraot interest, would be of 'this legacy, we ■•■declared the man before quoted, "merely out of self-admira-tioni to -see'- that*tiktoi uses this old conch of his.wlth 'gonltfe and respect- ■->- ful attention/'''f : i»v siA f» ii_ , t ~ ~■■ . ■'II "''-'A-WMlwer »ee«.'.. Lydia—o,/.Clai4nce, If 1 y r sho'i'd. fall, into the brings ocean, would &hj jvu nvc me? . , g ■"* "C M-nce-^i.don't r know, darling; I ■pe'\ r saved anything in my life.— V:' gprookljn Life.- '-' :} M