New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-21
STEALING A COAT or ARMS.
WHAT MAKES UP THE LIBRARY or CARRIAGE
MAKER AND HOW 1T + USED

WHAT MAKES UP THE LIBRARY or CARRIAGE.
MAKER AND HOW 1T Is USED
II is not generally known. but it is nevertheless
fact, that every large carriage manufacturing
establishment in this country has a library. The
works of only two authors are in this library and tbese
are the productions Of Mr. Burke and Mr.. Lodge.
Burke's Peerage and Baronetsge, Lodges book Of the
title and Burke's General Armory are all that Is
needed, but they Indispensable.
man on whom fortune has smiled is having
carriage built Its to be heavy numbering affair
and guaranteed to have ook Of ancient respectablity
about it before it comes out OF the shop. Now he,
sensible man, had intended to have his cipher on the
panels but the ladies of the family Ambitious
and keep at him until, in moment of weakness, bo
consents dccorae his family carriage with coat OF
arms The next question IL how 10 get one. Hereto
tore he and his have struggled along without
armoria bearings and especially felt the need OF
them But things are changed. IL he lived IN
Brazil be would endow a hospital and The Emperor
would make him baron with coat OF arms OF great
complexity. If he an En2lishman, he might do
hundred things less expensive and get pedigree ana
coat arms from the College OF Heralds and write Sir
before his name. But being American, there is
Tor him to get OF arms except To steal It,
and so the respectable old gentleman is driven the
first theft OF his lie The New-york College Of
Heradry being no longer in existence, he conhdes IN
the carrisgr manu- actnrer. The carriage man brings
ont his library and in the seclusion OF his private oce
the coat OF arms of some more or less noble iord IS
appropriated to be subsequently trans erred to the
rich mans family coach These people rather
particular about their when they started
in the selection Say, Tor instance, that the man who
wants a coat OF arms IL named Smith. The carriage
man opens his heraldric record and reads Smith,
Edward Augustus Patrick Peter, First Baronet OF
Mudtowne County Kerry, Ireland" No. no. says
the rich man " Our family English by descent"
few pages are turned over and then under a
nenageIie OF heraldric animals the carriage manu-
facturer re ads: Bngsgate, Marquis OF lSmiih-Fiz
Plantaeeneu. James Augustus Douglas George,
MARQUIS and Earl, Baron Smith of County Of York.
The MARQUIS assumed in 1875 by Royal License the
additional surname Ftz Plantagenet for himself and
hs issue and quarered the Plantagenet with his
own"
All tuat must be the one," says the seeker after
coat OF arms. have heard that our family came
from Yorkshire"
And 40 the arms Of the Marquis OF Billingsgate blaze
on the panels of the carnage when rolls along
the avenue.
Approprintors OF coats of would make them
selves less absurd if they would read documentary
book ON heradry be lore they made the approprla-
ton FOR Instance. Nh Smith, in appropIIatine the
coat of arms of the Most Honorable the Marquis OF
Blllmgsgate." takes not only the arms OF smith, but
the arms of Fiz Plantagenet and likewise tho
supporters which can only be used by peer o. tho
realm He surmounJs the whole with the cap ana
coronet of a Marquis and anyone versed 10 sucn
matters wou Id suppose that peer was riding IN tho
carriase instead OF plain Mr.. Smith. Now II Slr. Smith
did really belong the fam of the Marquis, "a ne
did not he would be entitled only to the arms OF
Smith, without the coronet, the supporters or tho