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D. Edgar Grouse died in 1892. The property was 

 offered for sale the next year in the settlement of 

 his estate. 



After his death the stable was open for the first 

 time for public inspection. Before that only a few 

 of Mr. Grouse's friends and some who had bribed his 

 employees had been inside the building. 



For a week the curious were allowed to satisfy 

 their curiosity. Passes were issued by the executors 

 of the estate. Only those with cards were admitted, 

 and yet the attendants could barely handle the 

 crowds. Thousands visited the stable. The crush 

 finally became so great and the handling of the 

 crowds so difficult the doors were closed, and visitors 

 were barred. 



People during the time they were permitted to 

 enter were carried up stairs on an elevator put in 

 to carry carriages. Horses, some of them worth 

 thousands of dollars, were in the fourteen stalls. 

 At one side of the stallrooms were two brass 

 trimmed, porcelain bowls for drinking troughs. Rub- 

 ber mats covered the floor. 



Outside there was the exercising court. It was 

 covered with a skylight, and the floor with tanbark. 

 bark. 



Off the hitching room was an office done in rose- 

 wood with mosaic panels, oil paintings and chande- 

 liers setting it off. Through blue velvet portieres 

 costing $3,000 could be seen the inlaid marble floor 

 of the vestibule. From the office their was a private 

 elevator to the upper floors. 



