Model Livery Barn

A-cting on the iiivitation of the proprietors a Times representative visited Holmes' new livery toaras the other day. He found a model barn, conveuiently arranged. delightfully clean and thoroaghly modem in every particular. A' brief .lescription will hardly be out of place here In view of tlie bitter fight whlch certaiu parties waged from the start againat allowing the barns to be erected iii the present location. The new building is 011 E. Liberty street a few doors west oí State streei . Ir is a handsoïne three-story brick, set back a few feet from the stivet giving room for a bit of l'awn in front. The office is on the left as you enter, and has the appea ranee of 1 cus counting room, with its electric ainunciaüor, clerk's desk and easy ehairs. Froin tl.is room all the electric lights of the building are coutrolled. Ai?joiuing the office on the íidrth is the harneas room. The balance of the ground floor is of cement and affords ampie Toom for buggies, cabs and carts. To the rlght oí tüe entranee is the buggy washing room. with all needed attachments aud proper sewer connection. Here also is a large elevator for hoisting or Iowering to or f rom the seeoBd and tiiird stoi-ies. The roain barn is 40 f eet wide bj 100 feet deep, and is supple nented at the rear by an iron-covered two-story structure 2Gx40 íeet, extendiug at right angles wit'li the rear of the rnain building. The gro.md floor of this addirion affords standing room for drays and is lighted by eleotrlcity. The second floor is for the siorage of hay and to guard against tire is Dot lighted and is entered only by day, and then through an iron door connecting it with the second floor of the maln barn. This door is always kepi looked. A covered inolined passageway on the oucside of the building conueets the first and second Üoors for the eonveying of liarse to and from their quarters on the second floor. Here there aro all niannei' of aceoramodations for horses, single sfalls. box stalls, rooms for clipplng horses and a robe storage room. Tlie thiTd floor is given up to the granaries, conneeted with the floor below by chutes, and general storage room for vehicles. Tliis completes the round of the building and the visitor may reacli tl;e ground floor by elevator or stairway. Every detail in consirnction and squipment hafl apparently been attended to with the utmost care and the result is as we have said at the start, "a model livery barn."' TIilbuilding is estimated to have cost about $7,000.