New-York tribune., 1896-05-10
NEwYoRK DAILY TRIBUNE. I&TIRTYFOUR PAGES

1or the air as we'll as for the pleasure n, he,no
s,an "a S.u u IL the ladies' are out driving why,
ese eoen ~ tney are In hansom sir, they want to
81 sse 'nv o,her women who are riding In yicto-
rlas. Well. in the hanson they have an omen
lront. with nothing to obstruct their view Of
any. aanSuhing ana everything They can sec every
Uuuy else ana everybody else can see them
about fast e"e anu 'heS get
Ihere's nothing so convenient as a hanson
Tor quick movement. You're I'm n or ont of n In
moment. In crowded street the driver "a ~
make short turns. He can get in to the curb in
q pr procession ,ts where victoria couldn't go to
saNe tseii, ana the lady can have her shopping
errand half done before the big carriage GETS a
curp hold When her errands done she doesn't
nave 10 wait while a footman gets down and
throws open the door, or the driver reaches
PACK, or she opens IL herself 1t Is all ready for
her. She just steps in elegant like, says Wal
dorr, or any other little word and the cab Is
Oets Out OF the ruck and away like shot Then the
caos we are getting now for the regular service
are just as fine they can be made. and they
cannot cannot. be distinguished from swell private
sideration in this business. especially with the
ladies' II they can, they want the same cab
furnished them all the time. II one of them
ever rides over set Of rubber tires. that settles
the question forever in her case. 1t s no use
to send her any othe- kind Of a carriage after
mat She will ask for the 'one with the rubber
wheels and we have to send It, The company
is now fixing all The cabs and carriages with
the Improvement AS soon as one goes to the
shop the tires are put on"
FEARS OF THE DRIVERS
How do you men like driving the hanson, as
compared with the old style carrage?'
well. now. that's pretty hard question to
answer, and yet 1t isn't 50 hard. Some Of them
don't like 1t at all. and some of them wouldn't
drive anything else If they had the chance. They
take freaks about 1t. Many a time I've had men
come to the stables who'd been driving carriages
for years on the public stands They wanted a
take hanson. 'Nough said. Off they go.
What was the matter? Why they wouldn't be
get nervous, that's all there Is Of It, and they
arc not quite sure whether they could drive the
thing or not. But take man who has been
driving a hanson for years. and he wouldn't
come down off his perch to the front Of cab
for the price of It,
i've tried both. and while 1t looks easy. yet
the first time fellow gets up on the roof OF
a hanson and looks over the cover of 1t and
down at the horse, he wonders about good many
things. He's inclined to ask. where the devil
will l be If the old horse lays down me sud
den? and he wants to get right down and have
argument with an expert on that question, so
to settle it peaceably He don't want to find 1t
out by actual experience. Then when he's once
on the seat and looks down behind him he gets
seasick again He sees nothing under him. and
he wonders If the blamed thing was balanced
right in the building. He'd like TO know whether
the man that set it up WAS making allowance
for horse at 1900 1.50O pounds. OF course
he don't ask fool questions like that OF himself
d1ter ne mas Stuuleu tne makeup VI thc Hdhooih'
but he's these comic pictures what lot
Of you newspaper men draw about lightweight
horse going up in the air between the shafts OF
a heavy weight cab. while the driver is standing
up in the seat waving his whip and looking
generally scared. He thinks he's going to be the
subject for another picture, and genuine one
at that and he wants to resign right there and
then, and let the police take the cab back TO
the stable. That feeling passes away after a
chap has been up there for awhile, and. as l
say an old hanson driver don't want to come
down to a four-wheeler. even II he can get 10
draw the rens two horses instead OF one"