Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1897 — WASHINGTON’S COACH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WASHINGTON’S COACH.

It Is Now a Roost for Chickens in an Old Barn in New York. Washington’s coach, in which the father of his country rode to his inauguration and which should be treasured as a precious relic, is now rusting away in an old stable in fsew York, serving as a roost for chickens and a catch-all for discarded things usually thrown into garrets. A few years ago this coach was purchased for $6,500, but to-day it is virtually neglected. With what delight, says the New York Press in commenting on this, would the French take this graceful relic and array

it in the Musee de Cluny beside the Napoleon carriages guarded so reverently! None would esteem it better as a public possession than the Swiss or Tyroleans, who have his portrait and that of Abraham Lincoln in honored places on the walls of their homes. His appeal is as strong as that of the other who “made way for liberty”—brave Arnold Winkelried. And wouldn’t the Italians like to wheel it into the great armory at Turin! It would look interesting beside the stuffed skin of the horse that carried the hero of Marengo, and the picturesque accoutrements of Garibaldi. Here in New York it is falling away with neglect.

WASHINGTON'S MISUSED COACH.