Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-13
cor UP TO LOOK PRIVATE.
The iring of Carriages and Horses by
the Month or Year.

The II firing of Carriages and Horses by
the Month or Year.
Carriages got up to look private" as
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 it was better for his pur.
poses to hire than to own horses. He has
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 speciality" is no
unusual sign on Il 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 and responsibility,
80 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 will
provide liveries as well as servants. If you
rent the coach by the year the owner will
put upon II your initials or whatever coat
of arms you own or may fancy. In fact
for consideration you may have what you
will in the way of equipage, and with
privacy so well simulated that your neigh
bors will never suspect the thing is hired.
The hired coach, coachman and horses
are sacred the customer. If the coach
man isaunskillsd or insolent the liveryman
will send new one, and keep on sending
new ones until the customer is satisfied.
The same team and coach will be supplied
always, save when the horses are sick or
the coach is broken. The coachmen are
usually Ol ILe HtChlnHu type, Dut DetJeT
ones are provided for more money.
When Dudekin is set down at the club
by his coupe or hanson you'd suppose from
the calf's head OH the panel that the
turnout was Dudekins own, and never
suspect that he obtained it merely by pay
ing the liveryman around the corner 800 a
month. When Dudekin's frowning father
rolls home from Wall street in the family
carriage drawn by sleek bays which are
driven by stiff backed coachman nobody
knows that coach, team and driver cost
the rich man just $3.50 per month, Nobody
reads $500 per month" ON the panel of the
rich widows victoria, with its dappled
grays and two liveried men on the box, but
that is the price she pays for her equipage.
1t costs rather more to take hired horses
to the count ry than to use them In town,
because it is customary for the liveryman
from whom they are hired to 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- New York Sun.