Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-06-02
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The Hiring Of Carriages and Horses b
the Month or Year.

The Hiring Of Carriaees and Horses b,
the Month or Year.
Carriages got up 10 look private, a
Thackeray puts it, are common enough In
New York, and nobody finds in the use Of
such vehicles any cause for shame. a
rich, famous and extremely successful
physician Of Brooklyn discovered some
years ago that il was better for his pur-
poses to hire than TO own horses. He las
had many imitators since in both cities,
and. with the promptness Of adaptation
characteristic OF business men in New
York, livery stable keepers have accepted
the situation and met the new demand.
"Turnouts by the month a speciality" is no
unusual sign ON a livery stable, and this
feature OF the livery business is growing.
The development has behind it the idea
that wealth should decrease rather than
increase the cares of its possessor, and just
as rich men rent safe deposit boxes and
have their wealth cared for by others-and
many women do likewise with their jewels
thus escaping worry aud responsibility,
so some persons who could well afford TO
own horses and carriages rent them by the
month or year. and leave the care and
worry TO the owners. Wealthy women. in
particular widows and old maids who
care little for horses and find the manage
ment OF coachmen trying. have taken to
the idea of hiring rather than owning.
You may now hire almost any sort Of
equipage by the month or year. You may
have your own horse and hired vehicle,
your own vehicle and hired horse or both
horse and vehicle hired. You may provide
coachman and footman, or you may hire
them along with vehicle and horses You
may provide liveries for footman or coach
man, or the man of whom you hire viii
provide liveries as well as servants. II You
rent the coach by the year the owner will
put upon il your initials or whatever coat
Of arms you own or may fancy. In fact
for a consideration you may have what you
will in the way OF equipaae, and with
privacy SO well simulated that your neigh
bors will never suspec. the thing is hired.
The hired coach, coachElan and horses
are sacred TO the customer. II the coach
man is unskilled or insOlent the liveryman
will send a new one, and keep on sending
new ones until the customer is satisfied.
The same team and ooach will be supplied
always. save when the horses are sick or
the coach is broken. The coaehmen are
usually Of the hackman type. but better
ones are provided for more money.
When Dudekin Is set down at the club
10y his coupe or hanson you'd suppose from
the calfs head on the panel that the
turnout was Dudekn's own and never
suspect that he obtained il merely by pay
ing the liveryman around the corner 500 a |
month. When Dudekin's frowning father |
rolls home from Wall street in the family |
carriage drawn by sleek bays which are /
driven by d stiff backed coaehman, nobody |
knows that coach, team ana driver cost |
the rich man just $50 per month. Nobody |
reads $500 per month" On the panel Of the |
rich widows victoria, with lis dappled |
grays and two liyeried men ON the bsx, but /
that is the price she pays for her equipage. |
1t costs rather more 10 take hired horses
TO the country than TO use them in town,
because it is customary for the liyeryman
from whom they are hired 20 arrange for
the boarding Of servants and horses and
make profit on the same Extras of all
sorts are charged for at highly profitable
rates. Meanwhile his are the risks and re-
sponsibilities. York sun.