The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-12-11
HOT SPRINGS. SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER
EXPENSIVE WHIPS. :

EXPENSIVE WHIPS,
SOME COSTLY ARTICLES OWNED
BY WEALTHY DRIVERS.
Whips That Must he Regarded More as
Ornaments Than as Instruments Of Use.
S"lncss for Urging Slow or Fractions
Animnls-.A Vanderbilt Possession.
The Vanderbilt family owns valua-
bic whip. 1t was presented to the late
w. II. Vanderbilt by the Jackson &
Wooden Car company, of Berwick, Pa.
The design was made by Fritz Kalden-
bnrg, the sculptor, ut cost of $4,000.
The whip and ivory stock, before any
carving Was done, cost $500. 1t was seven
feet long. Above the stock the whip
WAS made of solid wlalebone, then worth
three dollars per pound, now scarce ut
teu dollars. Over this solid whalebone
was the linec brailing of split tapered
Ihalcbone ever attempted.
The braifling of tho whip and making
of the snapper occupied one whole
month. The case for the whip cost $160.
The handle of the whip was of the purest
ivory, 81 inches long and II inches thick
at the butt end, which is an ornamental
capitol, from which floral pattern ema-
mates, emblamatic of power, truth and
perpetuity, which encircles four panels.
Ivo pnfsl, 1,u.rO1 l.. Eel -e
carving-on one side locomotive and q
train of cars; on the other steamboat,
sylnbolizins the foundations of Cornelius
Vanderbilt's great achievements.
On the third and fourth panels are the
achievements of w. H. Vanderbilts
genius, the Grand Central railroad de-
pot on one and on the other himself in a
buggy driving his celebrated fast horses
on the road. On the end of the handle
are two portrait busts in high relief of
Cornelius and w. Fl. Vanderbilt, father
and son. This whip is sacrcdly kept in
a glass case among the ;,rt treasures of
the Vanderbilt gallery, and in future
generations will be treasured as work
Of art, even though it is simply q whip.
Jim Fisk had ~ driving whip covered
with silk thread, heavy carved ivory
handle, handsomely engraved, gold
,nountings, with the owners name in
diamonds. The whip, with its velvet
lined case, cost 5000. w. K. Vanderbilt
has u fine whip, costing $3.50.
SOME FAMOUS WHIPS.
jay Gould has whip, made for him
twenty years ago, at cost of 300. He
has had it repaired only once.
Mr.. Hammond, of the Murray Hill
hotel, New York, had a whip worth $15,
and Harry Hill, tho famous New Yorker,
had one worth $50.
Hon. Arthur Siedler, of Morristown,
N. j., has an ivory handled whip, beauti.
fully mounted with silver. On tho ivory
is carved his monogram. The whip cost
several hundred dollars.
The late Theodore Stewart, of Flew
York, had Il whip that cost him $500.
Pierre Lorillard, Of New York, has a
fine whip, with u handle of ivory, richly
carved and encircled by twining leaves
Of tobacco, into which his monogram is
deftly carved. 1t was presented to Mr..
Loriliard by friends, and is valued at
$500.
1t is quite fad with ladies who ride
to have couple of fine gold mounted
whips, tied with their favorite color of
ribbon and laid in the form of an x on
their beds.
Many thousands of dollars is expended
every year in fine driving whips, costing
from $s5 to 500, as presents to pro,ni-
nent men i'll clubs, societies, railroad
and steamship companies, etc. Fins
whips share with the gold headed canes
in their use as gifts. AS nearly every
gentleman keeps fine horse, he must
needs have fine whip.
For female riders, u large variety is
made.
AS the country grows more densely
populated, and richer and finer goods
become q larger part of regular trade,
new and novel designs are continually
brought out by manufacturers.
| THREE KINDS OF WHIPS.
There are three kinds of whips-the
straight or buggy whip, the lash whip,
and, for riding, the English crop. Tho
crop is . handsomely mounted, short,
straight stick, with n flat leather thong
at the end, into which may or may. not
be fastened u lash.
America leads the world in whips, and
the Englishnen have found this out long
ago. A year ago u number Of noblelnen
sent a mar over here to pick out some
whips. Now, the American whip is q
straight whip, while the English, French
and German whips are all lash whips.
= New York Lady has a driving whip
which she values at $4,000. In the stock
of the whip are forty-seven diamonds.
One of the costlicst whips ever made
in this country was made in Connecticut
for q Frcnchman. 1t was paid for by an
American and cost $1,000. The stock
was carved ivory, gold and jewels. The
whip itself was whalebone, braided
with tapering whalebone thread. It
took two weeks to braid the whip.
A farmer living near New York has a
whip over 100 years old. He bought it
at country auction for thirty-six dol
lars. He has been offered 800 for it as
n curiosity. He refused it. 1t is very
thick, heavy ivory, c)umsily turned stock.
The ivory alone is worth twenty-fiy dol
lars, and is q beautiful piece.
A whip dealer in New York has very
old whip stock that has carried off prizes
in London and Paris, and will be on ex-
hibition ut the Worlds fair in Chicago.
It was made in 1909.
Bismarck and the German emperor
have their whips made in this country.