Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-18
FORTUNES In WHIPS.

years ago | made whip for him for one
hundred dollars, and he has only had it /
repaired once. About the same time !
made one for Harry Hill for fifty dollars,
and another for Mr.. Hammond, of the !
Murray Hill hotel, for seventy-fve dol |
lars. All expensive whips are made |
from the customers own design Mr.. !
Murray's whip was studded ivory scroll
work for the stock, mounted in gold, and
bearing his monogram"
\ well-known jewelry house recently
sent up to the Forty-second street whip
maker an ivory handle with delicate
scroll work and gold mounts. In the
stock of the whip were forty-seven dia-
monds, and the value of the whip was
said to be $1,000. The owner wanted a
new snapper on her whip, and instead of
putting one on herself or telling her
coachman to get some whipcord and
make a snapper, or sending it to her sad
dler, she sent it back to Union square
and had her jeweler send it to the whip
maker. Another stock for which he had
made a whip was made of rhinoceros
tusk, into which was set a large dia-
mond.
At another store the journal reporter
was shown ladies' whips at prices rang
ing from twelve to one hundred dollars.
Some of these contained at the end of the
stocks "A miniature watch, some were fit
ted with a parasol for phaeton driving,
and some were "A combination of whisky
flask and whip.
Another novelty was whip braided
with crimson silk ana embroidered in
green, which the maker said would be
! very fetching near the race track.
There are three kinds of whips-the
straight or buggy whip, the lash whip,
and for riding the English crop. The
crop is handsomely short,
straight stick, with a fiat leather thong
at the end, into which may or may not
: be fastened lash.
: The manager of one large company
said "1he whip trade of America is car
/ ried on almost exclusively in Westfield,
| Conn, where there are no less than IL
! whip factories. We alone employ four
, hundred and fifty men, boys and girls
: On an average our firm turns out two
= thousand dozen whips week, but there
= was a week last month in which we turn
, ed out six thousand and seven hundred
dozen. We make all Bismarck's whips
t and we make them for the German EN-
V peror. We sell many whips to Eng lisl
i actors, who take them home as present.
= to their friends. They seem to be fond
e of this whip, for instance. You see i
|. is made like flute or fishing rod, anC
II can be disjonted and carried in the peck
= et''
II Persons walking through Chambers
# street yesterday might have seen in q
! whip-shop window two whips of remark
a able beauty. They had handsomely cary
: ed ivory stocks, were gold-mounted ant
made of solid whalebone studded with
ivory half way up to the snapper. On'
of these was marked seventy-five dollars
'e and the other, in the stock of which Their,
l. glistened diamond, was marked on
lie hundred and fifty dollars.
TT sin the commercial world" said tn
r New York agent of one of the Connection
II factories, Ivory stands in value next t,
:. gold, and it is the carving of large piece
st of ivory that makes whips so expensive.
h Another manager said that few year
n ago whalebone was plentiful at three
dollars pound. while now it is scare,
re at ten dollars per pound.
II "The most costly whip ever made il
). United States was made by us for
n the Frenchwoman. 1t was paid for by al
American and cost fifteen hundred dol
4, lars. The stock was carved ivory. gol'
and Jewels. The whip itself was hare
20 whalebone, braided with taperin,
20 whalebone thread. 1t took two weeks t.
1t braid the whip.
To-day a farmer took a very antiqu,
m which he left with us to be repaired.
ID is over one hundred years old. II
lie bought it at a country auction for thirty
e. six dollars, and offered him one hun
De bred dollars for it to-day as a curiosity
he He refused it. 1t was very thick, hea
I'd Wy ivory, clumsily-turned stock. Tn
r ivory alone is worth twenty-five dollars
J, and is piece that would tear the breas
in of Stanley with jealousy.
ne "Here is very old whip-stock tina
J. has carried off prizes in London and Pal
c. is continued the dealer. sit was mad
s. in 1892, and will be on exhibition at tn
ne Columbian fair in Chicago. America lead
ne the world in this as in many other things
IL and the Englshmen have found this on
lg long ago. A year ago a number of noble
IL men sent man over here to pick on
he some whips. Now, the American viii
e. is straight whip, while the Englis
a and French and German whips are al
he lash-whips, and yet we Americans exec
in the English manufacturers in the maxim
re of English lash-whips and also in crops