The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-10-31
HIRE 4 HACK WITH A CREST.
No Extra Charge, and Anyone Can Easily
BE Accommodated.

BE Accommodated
Can you hire carriage with a crest
or coat of arms? Why, sure. ANY
time you want. Come around and I'll
1t you out in good shape, and no extra
charge, either"
Not one, but many, tenderloin livery
men say so, and it's the easiest thing in
the world for them to carry out their
word. Several of them have crests of
their own, and half dozen of the hotels,
whose carriages they house, also sport
crests. And there you are. No matter
II there are people on the street who
can't be deceived by the arms, there ara
thousands of others who don't know
the difference. AS to getting carriages
with family crests on them, that is an
other matter. Nearly all the families
who use their crests in that way keep
their carriages in private stables. There
are few who hire carriages by the
month-called monthlies by the trade
and during the summer when the folk
are out of town the vehicles can be seen
carrying a somewhat different class of
people than occupy them in the town
season. One cannot hope to roll about
in carriages bearing the crests of the
Cuttings, or the Schnylers, or the Bel
monts, Havemeyers, Fishers, Living
stons, De Peysters, Jays, Lawrences or
a score of others. AS to monograms,
why, anyone can have his marked on
a carriage from his regular stable, and
when the owner of the device isn't hif-
ing the carriage anyone else can. But
when vehicles with real crests can be
had no pretender with any pretension
wants to put up with monograms. OF
the aristoeratic people who happen to
prefer monograms to crests, they, too,
keep their carriages either in private
stables or reserved exclusively for
themselves in high-grade public stables.
One liverman tells in this way how
he came to use a crest for himself: 1--WE
used to run carriages for several hotels,
each of which had its own crest. If n
call for carriage came from one hotel,
and all of theirs happened to be out,
we sent them carriage with the crest
of another hotel on the door. That al
ways made trouble. Neither hotel
liked the change, and both kicked.
Finally we got tired and adopted crest
of our own-iust had par of antleIs
painted on the door"
Give a hotel an English or Dutch
name and it can easily get an arm.
The Windsor has the Windsor arms
and stag's head The Holland uses the
Holland arms without the supporters.
The Waldorf combines the Waldorf
Dutch arms, with a fanciful letter w
inside an oak wreath. The Plaza has
a lions head inelosed by rope. The
Netherland displays the Dutch state
arms.
The carriages with these hotel crests
can be hired by anyone who wants to
bowl along the parkways in style. The
multitude will be impressed if they sec
the decoration. AS for the other folk,
who cares?
Coats of arms seldom go on car
riages Instead, the smaller crests are
generally used.
The oldest combination of crested
carriage and sham gentility is seen in
some funeral professions Carriages
of aristocratic demeanor show crests
on the doors and cigar smoke at the
windows. The faces seen in glimpses
suggest nothing heraldic, and the NTH
tudes of the occupants show that the
mourners are bound to get as much
comfort out Of the affair as the corpse.
Several columns of these carriages pass
over the Thirtyfourth street ferry
nearly every day.-N. Y. Press.