Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01
FOR ROAD AND PARK.
Small Summer Coaches with Space
for Picnic Hamper and
Other Things.

riage is the most comfortable If You have
a hamper to carry and II there are four
lazy people who want to sit still and
watch the scenery and let the horse do
the work The bright athletic oncs can
wheel alongside.
The most fashionable thing in the car
riage world this seas IN is the miniature
brake This is small coach. 1t has
all the properties of the regulation coach
without being SO large or SO hard to
drive. Many chappies and women of
the fashionable world are able to drive
a miniature brake who would not feel
like guiding the destinies OF IL coach.
The brake has a seating capacity f'r
four. It's finish is a high pian3-bcx pol
ish, and its appearance very smart
one. The wood may be cherry, oak or
plain pine and still be fashionable The
high wood polish makes it beautiful any
way.
All the new carriages of the summer
have wheel cut under the body. This
is a high undercurve in the middle of
the carriage under which the wheel can
slip. II is to aid in turning around.
Turning can be done in a small space
The fashionable cushions are English
whipcord. The color is a medium gray.
The whipcord is used for upholstery
wherever possible, so that little of the
wood is seen.
A much-liked carriage, considered new
this summer, is the Tomar runabout. 1t
is built for two. It's distinctive quality
is that the springs curve and extend
from front to back of the Tomar like a
baby carriage The body also curves.
This is very easy riding, the springs give
a pleasant jolt and the Tomar is a de-
lightful vehicle. The action is Ike a
double-decker baby carriage designed
for twins seated side by side.
There is a hrand-noW dog cart this
year. It has no dashboard and it's floor
is a sloping one 1t is light, swift-run-
ming and is intended for the park. The
dashboard is left off Of many fashionable
carriages. The newest Gould turnouts
do not have them.
All the road carriages are made four
feet eight inches wide. And there is
design in this. All country wagons are
four feet eight inches in width, and con-
sequently all the wagon-ruts in the coun-
try are this same breadth. The park
carriage, built an inch narrower, is
driven With difficulty over the country
road; one wheel rises and the other goes
down in the rut. This strains the car
riage and the wheel breaks. All the
new roadsters conform to the wagon
ruts of the country.
There is a very fashionable new car
riage called the trap. The trouble in dis
tinguishing it is that all carriages are
called traps" but this has very high,
reversible rear seat. The reversible seat
sets three ways. The riders can sit
back to back or the seat turns in usual
carriage style, or it can be adjusted back
to back with space between for picnic
use.
When equipped for the picnic this trap
has a hamper space between front and
back seat and also a cane rack. 1t has
footrests and bears the look of a family
picnic starting out under most favorable
auspices.
The four-passenger boulevard is a park
carriage with the undercut, the high,
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 all pneumatic tires. but are
liked by the people because they take
the carriage along without noise. Con-
versation becomes a JOY with pneu-
matte tire.
There is a very smart road runabout
that has a spreading dashboard to keep
the mud off. This is exaggerated, like
all fashionable things, but is a good
thing for road use.
The Queen phaeton, so called because
it is like the Victoria. Queen Victoria S
chosen carriage, is the most elegantly
luxurious vehicle of the year. 1t costs
$780, which is a great deal OF money,
when you consider that the new dog
cart is only $780, and the new brake
not over $500.
There are new wrinkles in harnesses.
Winkers are square. Some have round
corners with wonderful yellow stitching
all the way around. In taDdems the
long trace for the lead horse is hooked
in the trace of the other horse, thus SIM
Dlifying a tandem harness. One OF the
Twombleys sent up to his country house
Z G I, 20 no SnC
this summer in his mountain tours. 9th
ers buy harness just as generously. Har-
nesses are like Shoes-you lose nothing
by resting them for a day.
Horses collars are of white duck. The
duck soils in one outing, but as 1t can be
cleaned with pipe clay to look like new,
it is a Serviceable material One day
this spring. when the white tulips were
blooming. the Gerry and Sloane families
came out with White-collared horses, and
the Huntingtons added a whole White
harness.
The four-row stitching is liked for har-
nesses. The stitching contrasts with the
leather. There are two rows on each
edge. With a well-stitched harness a
driver can face the fashionable world
secure in his elegance.
Tan harness Of a pale shade has the
supremacy over others. 1t is surprising
how tan grows in popularity. 1t is used
even tor dresS-up and paraaes to the eX-
clusion of the white harness, which is
kent for very fine excursions, indeed.
Even the Irish jaunting cart has been
treated to the rubber tire. In a drab
cart, with gray whipcord cushions and a
pneumatic tire. a couple in gray took
an outing in Central Park one day to
the admiration of pedestrians and TO the
envy of other drivers.
The new carriages are very pretty,
hut "a rri9 makers confess that the old
ones can be made almost as good by
giving the carriage the bright polish of a
piano, and dressing it up with he 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 to London
ones. This is no doubt due to the fact
that tourists take their favorite vehicles
with them or order ones exactly similar.
The strictly stylish horse is very black
or very white, but that does not prevent
the owners of tans and bays and spotted
horses from driving, although there are
grooms so skilled that they can peroxi-