The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-27
CAR DRIVERS GLOVES.
And the Various Gloves and Mittens
Worn by Motormen and Gripmen.

And the Various Gloves and Mittens
Worn by Motormen and Gripmen.
The car driver, when he wore any
covering on his hands at all, has al
ways worn bloves. He needed the Use
or his separate fingers in handling the
reins; but his modern successor, the
grlpman or the motorman, while wear
ing gloves in summer, in winter wears
mittens; he does not need the use of his
fingers separately in handling the me-
chanical appliances he manipulates and
mittens are the warmer and more com
Portable. In summer all wear gloves.
Aside from their created convenience,
they are at that season cooler. Gloves
and mittens for motormen, gripmen and
car drivers are made in many, a hun
bred or more, different varieties. The
materials used in their manufacture are
horsehde, buckskin, sheepshin, cow
hide, calfskin and rubber, the glove or
the mitten being made perhaps entirely
of single one Of these materials, or of
two in combination; and then many of
these gloves or mittens are lined with
some other material, or they are, it
may be. worn with some other kind of
glove or mitten.
Horsehide has In recent-years come to
be largely used for gripmen's and mo-
tormen's mittens. There is made of
horsehide for this use a leather that is
not only strong and has good wearing
qualities, but that is at the same time
soft and puable One kind of horse
hide mittens is made with a wooden lin
to. Id
sion cuff, also of wool, to be turned
back over the wrist of the wearer.
The horsehide tanned for mittens does
not get hard, nor does 1t shrink. OF
course, no man using leather gloves or
mittens of any kind ever throws them
aside when they are wet, to care for
themselves; but he dries them careful
ly, occasionally working them with a
sort of massage, to keep them soft
and flexible.
The driver wearing gloves buys very
probably, gloves of buckskin, very
stout and heavy; and the old driver is
likely to buy them unlined. He wears
next his hands, with the unlined buck
skin gloves over them. fleece lined
cotton glove that is specially made for
1
keeps off the chill of the leather; draw
ingoff the buckskin glove, the driver
has in wet or cold weather, hand that
is dry, and with which he can easily
and conveniently get at his watch. And
if these inner gloves get wet, or damp,
from the Precipitation of the hand, they
can be easily and readily dried sepa-
rately from the buckskin gloves, and
so quickly made ready to wear again
inside the buckskins.
These gloves are worn pretty large,
so they will not cramp the freedom of
the wearer's hand; that they may be
put On and taken off readily they are
cut with a wide and roomy wrist part.
In that part of the glove nowadays,
there is inset with Its base at the edge
of the wrist, small gore of softer
leather. Attached to the glove at one
side of this gore is strap with a snap
in the end of it, while at the other side
is a button; this snap and button being
like those nowadays used on kid gloves,
and in other uses. With the snap I'M
fastened the opening of the glove is
hand wide; when the glove is on, and
the snap is fastened, that part of the
glove is drawn closer around the wrist
keeping the glove on better, and af-
fording better protection from the
weather. The old style, without snaps,
until few years ago, worn
everywhere by car drivers, were called