The sun., 1900-12-16
Styles ~ CARRIAGES.
Uniformity In winter Models More VARIETY
In vehicles for summer Use.

The Horse Show has had the effect TO
great extent of doing away with IN" COM
petition Of GA rriaCe builders In the matter
of getting out new designs every spring and
fall, and has created practically uniform
types which are adopted all over ths country.
Manufacturers simply took the blue ribbon
vehicles as models and copied them, thus
reducing the rivalry down I" competition
in the matter Of finish and strength. COM
hined with elegance and construction.
hrousham. n victoria. cabriolet, an opera
omnibus or any cf tho other standard We
hicles with which every well-soupped stable
is supposed to bc supplied is now the same
cycryw here. instead OF appearing in half n
dozen or moro different forms n heretofore
80 when ono goe, TO manufacturer and
asks what new STYLES are forthcoming, his
reply Is that there il none II il only in the
summer vehicles, the light wagons, phRtonS,
runahouts; carts ana the IKE Tor country
Of form and ornamentation The standard
vehicles for city use ar" not only Of standard
forms, hut they are entirely Simple III the
aud carvings aud bright col"r- hav" Gon"
The colors all run to dark greens. blacks
ana 9n daIn mar"o,i c" Me omnTi pSTh vi,hin The
past Ave years and IL "A result of the con-
centrated good taste rcpre,cnted in tho
Horse SHOW. In the matter oi the summer
vehicle, tor country u.c 1t i quite another
story In these tho brighter and ~unuer
and gaNer tho general effect, m" hotter
Brilliant red l. a. iaNurlt" color Tor Wheels
and running gear aud the boxes ard tops
are in all sorts of fancifu designs and ~ty le'
of ornamcntatiun The carriage makers
let the fancy oi their own designers run riot
aud then fall back on whatever whims may
have seized upon their customers
we are no longer initiating the English
STYLES, except in certain vehicles, said
carriagenaker "Of course In 'hc ear!y
times all our fne carriages were imported
f,n, N
we have number Of vehicles whose ancestry
in design goes back 70 Great Britain Now
some of tho English sly les that wer. in vogue
few enrs ago are out uf date n tho heavy
hich- wheeled cart for, instance W" ar"
building no more of them We are huild-
inr carts to be sure. hut they are an = the
lighter American types. which people here
like The best
As 10 automobiles. they have not hurt
the carriage building business ~ tho least
There " ere more carriages sold last Year
than over before and the prices II any thing
are higher. because all F!nds Of raw ma
t.rial are higher The tendency oi carriage
prices is still upNard l he love, however.
tina, the automobile has come to stay -thnt J..
rather that some form, of il Vel 10 b" brought
OUT viii come 70 stay A. the present time
not even The automobile delivery wagons
are n success lhey are run a. loss as
compsrcd with tho price of r'nUlng wagons
with horses lutil they ar" made 70 do
their WORK ns "honrly Hs ~" hors"-drawn
wagon they arc not -uccos- 81 c"r'r"iltor
bNo of tho large firms here -h,pr"d 20 lima
r.ccn'N a runahout cart via D top on u.
all houch not pari Of the usual design Tho
cart l., ior tho use &c Count Nun Nalder-
spe/ihe German General in command. and
the top " as put on at his special request.