Grafton D. Payne.
The Palace Sales Stables, conducted
by Mr. Grafton D. Payne, at 242 West
Main street is one of the most spacious
in the city having 12,000 square feet of
floor space in addition to a large covered
yard used as a repository for
vehicles. The first floor is used for
horses and contains forty-two stalls,
every one of which is filled with high
class animals, while the second is the
feed department. Mr. Payne does a
general livery, sale and boarding business
and has a large trade in all these
lines. He has twenty permanent
boarders and a large number of transients.
A force of expert hostlers is
employed to groom them and only
high grade feeds of the best quality
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Payne's Palace Stables.
are used and the condition of the
animals show the excellent attention
they are given. All of the sales are
private and a specialty is made of fine
animals. In the livery Mr. Payne
has fine single drivers, double workers,
cabs, park saddlers and gaited horses
and rigs of all description closed or
open. A feature of this fine stable is
an electric clipper and cleaner, the
only one in the State of Virginia. By
this apparatus horses are clipped in a
remarkably short time, and even
when just off the pasture are cleaned
in less than 15 minutes. This specialty
alone is sufficient to add greatly
to the popularity of this establishment.
Mr. Payne was born in Fluvanna
County, and located in this city eighteen
years ago. He first engaged in
the coal line, but ten years ago entered
his present business and for the past
six years has been at the place he now
occupies. He is well known fraternally
being an Elk, and an Odd
Fellow, and a member of the higher
branch of the latter organization, the
Encampment.
