Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-07
TILE AUTOMOBILE rAn.
Part tina: Horseleas Vehicles Are Play
ing in Fashionable Life.

ing in Fashionable Life.
New York sun.
As general thing Americans are
very quick to adopt French fad; but
tney nave been uncommonly deliberate
ABOUT taking up the horseless carriage
lefnapS ii has been an evidence OF
YANKEE shreWdncss Americans ,yerr
willing that the French expcrioenters
should solve the problems alone. Ii
mas becn an expensive process ana the
men Of money and of leisure on ibis
side of the A;lant!c have not enviod thn
wealthy Per.sian5 who have been wres-
tiinS Win these expensive trials
Now that the horse!ess car,iora b5s
peOVihc Il positive craze in Paris. it's
inr1apectS in New York are brighteninr
me mA!iners and the dresl,maker~
moreover are helping it along rhaj
&c p"ihE Il good deal more to add 10
-" popularity than the dealers have
nsch ABLE to accomplish in five voar.
f'NciE mi!iincr is Showing hats "ou;o-
hoD.-e red. ana every writer. an fn.,h
iohS Is describing costumes to be v,o,.n
IN 'he hoFselesS vehicle. Just WIN tharn
StF1TT7Tt ne any automobile gown l. NO,
pu''e clear but the species has attain
ca MS individual n sphere in wonlan's
i"1''.oHS as the bicycle suit or the
evening gown. Tic new donor,pcon,
has appeared in mems fashions n,.n
.lcice there is nothing to be done hnf
20 provide the automobile IN 90 ,.;Th
me gowns and other toys.
rms they are really beginning to do
Mr.: o. IL. j. Belmont ran" two oufo,
ntopllsS at Newport This Summer. one
~ mem n, Il Sihsle-seated carriage. some
thinS Ike /? stanhope.. ard Tho n.h.,
for four persons. O;hcr orIo,,oi,ii's
enlivened the Newport roads hui -i,e,
were py no means 50 numerous as to-
set IN one ano;her's way Mr.. Harhar
had doubie-seated one an nj ArdsIey
where he and his automobile were The
centre oI - good deal OF interest even
curing me golf tournament. There are
several h-rSele,s carriages in New
York owned ana operated by women
II Is 20 me women III fact that the au-
to!npDiie seems 10 particularly anpeal:
perhaps because of the reason given bv
Dry:
- wouldn't drive a horse If some enc
made me present of one" she said.
ld be AFRAID he would run away But
tbs thing can't run away. The worst
IL can DO is to stand still. and that
i5A dangerous. y horse will run away
ana VIII balk, too. But the automobile
Only naiks. and that not very often"
the hWseless cabs lumber unceas-
ingly up and down the streets. They
are not calculated. however to make
anc one fan in love with the idea OF a
motor vehicle. One of the cheerful &C.
centricitics is that they steer by the
rear wheels. and. therefore. they have
10 so towards Il thing Before they can
get away from it. One of the funniest
things TO everybody but the cab mo-
torman and the passengers. If there are
any, is to see Il cab plunl<ed UP against
the curbStone and trying to get away.
al nj % ri CraG hnWaNGr-
by their front wheels, and are less
amusing in their antics.
While the automobile in Paris has
become the playthng of the rich and a
dictator of fashions. in New York it
has had n much less picturesque ca
reer. Aside from the cabs, riding in
which is regarded very much in the
light OF shooting the chutcs or trying
any other freak method of iocomotion.
the horscles,s vehicles seem to have an
pea.ed chiefly TO buyers with an eye 10
adS cruising their business. In New