The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-05-17

| with difficulty over the country road
| one wheel rises and the other goer down
| I'm the rut This strains tho carriage ans
| the wheel breaks. All the new roadster.
| conform to the wagon-ruts of the coun.
| Try.
/ There is very fashionable new car.
| riage called the trap. The trouble in dis
| tinguishing 1t IS that all carriages are
| called traps" but this has a very high
| reversible rear seat The reversible seat
! sets three why's The riders can sit back
to back or the seat turns in usual car
| riaes style. or Il can be adjusted back Ia
| back with space between for picnic use.
a PICNIC TRAP.
when equipped for the picnic this trap
! has hamper space between front and
back seat and also cane rack. IL has
footreats and bears the look OF n family
picnic starting out under most favorable
auspices.
The fOur-passenger boulevard is a parl.
carriase with the undercut the hlgh.
box finish, the English whipcord and the
pneumatic tire.
Pneumatic tires are placed upon all
very fine carriages. They add about 500
TO the expense. They have the virtues OF
an pneumatic tires, but are liked by the
people because they take the carriage
along without mise Conversation be-
comes joy with a pneumatic tire.
There is d very smart road runabout
that has a spreading dashboard to keep
the mud or. This is exaggerated. Ike
all fashionable things. but is a good thing
Tor road use.
The queen phaet0n. so-calIeI because
II D. like the Victoria, Queen Vlctoria's
chosen carriage, D. tie most elegantly
luxurious vehicle OF the year. IL costs
500, which Is great deal Of money.
when you consider that the new dog
cart o. only 500. and the new brake not
over 500
There are new wrinkles in harnesses.
Winkers are square. Some have round
corners with wonderful yellow stIcAing
all the way around. la taudems the long
trace FOR the lead horse Is hooked I'm the
trace Of the other horse, thus simplify
ing tandem harness. one OF the
IwCmDleys sent up 10 his country house
fifteen sets Of new harnesses to be used
this summer in his mountain tours.
Others buy harness just as generously.
Harnesses are like shoes. YOU lose moth
Ing by resting them for DAY.
Horses' collars are OF white duck. The
duck soils ia one outing. bat as It can
be cleaned with pipe clay TO look like
new 30 is "a servlceabie material. one
day this spring, when the white tulips
were blooming, the Gerry and Sloane
families came out with white-collared
horses ana the HuutlngtOns added a
whole white harness.
Tho four-rOw stitching IS liked for har-
nosses. The stitching contrasts with
the leather. There are two rows on each
edge. with wcll-stitched harness a
driver can face tho fashionable world Sc
cure in his elegance.
TAN IS LIKED.
Tan harness Of a pale shade has the
supremacy over others. III is surprising
how tan crowd in popularity. 1t is used
even for dress-up and parades 10 the
exclusion OF the white harness. which is
kept for very fine excursions indeed.
Even the Irish iaunung cart has been
treated 10 the rubber tire. IN q drab
cart, with gray whipcord cushions ana
a pneumatic tire, a couple in gray tool,
an outing I'm Central Park one day TO
tho admiration OF pedestrians ana TO the
Onyy Of other drivers.
The new carriages are very pretty. but
b1friage makers confess that the old
one' can be made almost rs good bv
giving the carriage the BRIGHT polish Of
a piano, and dressing il mp with the tan
cushions. Stitching upon the harness
has also been done by amateurs who own
sewing-machines Of heavy build.
The American fashions in carts and
traps are similar this year 20 London /
ones. This is no Doubt due 10 the fact /
mat tourists take their favorlte vehicles
Win them or order ones exactly similar.
The strictly stylish horse is very. biactr (
or very white but tha. does not pre- /.
vent the owners ~ ten and bavs ana I
spotted horses from irving aifbopob /
there are grooms so Killed that tbor /
can peroxidize their horses TO white or ,
dye them 10 lnky darkness.
HARRY GERMAINF