New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-04
VEHICLES OF THE WORLD.
LIGHTER CARRIAGES FOR wOMEN-BAs-
KET PHAETONs REVIVED.
GREC1AN cHARIoTs. FRENCH LITTERs AND AN
ENGLISH "coCHE.-Hov OLD TIME PEG
PIE REGARDED INNOVATIONS

The emancipation of the horse and its passing
beast of burden is one of the important features
of the incoming century. Many automobiles are
being ordered by for the coming season, and
a knowledge of their management is regarded an
essential by all horsewomen
There is a growing desire for lightness in auto
mobiles well in other carriages for women
Many of the models that are shown exhibit
this in a marked degree The basket phaeton' that
won great popularity twenty years ago, will be
in evidence again next summer. The basket work
OF one that ordered by woman recently is Of
brown. while the wheels carmine. Others are
appearing in greens and yellows.
The presence of the automobile in England made
il necessary to protect the life of the Queen and
her family by familiarizing ali the horses of the
royal stables with the modern innovation IN the
first lesson in the three stable yards Windsor
the horses were led and then driven around mo-
tionless automobile. When they had become accus-
toned to its appearance another lesson was given.
This taught them what to expect Of an automobile
in motion, the horseless carriage being driven
around them. In the third lesson the automobile
was driven between them when they stood close
together. pure bred Arab stallion is said to have
shown the least concern of all.
While American riding light
victorias comfortable broughams and pretty phae-
tons. the women of India still going about in
pagoda rooted. two wheeled droschkes, which, like
their Colicut cab, Is drawn by sacred oxen on
state occasions The tonga of India, with little
aid Of Imagination, may remind one somewhat of
the opera cab or hanson, which is gaining in
popularity here. Unlike the opera cab however,
the tonga has but wheels and is a sort of tip
tilted affair with a gable roof
The Valencia cab. with its white hood which Is
employed by the danes and duennas Of Spain in
going from hamlet or city TO another reminds
one somewhat of the American prairie. schooner
the conveyance the early settlers 10 the confines
of the Western world.
fondness for going and love OF riding are
probably shared by the world over.
Whether locomotion be confined to dog sledges
Lapland sleighs, that jolt frozen plains TO the
Jaunting car of Ireland. the tourist of England
the Spanish and Swiss diligences the basket phae-
tons or the light automobile of the American a
ride Is still ride and one of the choicest pleas
ures in the world.
EARLY DAY VEHICLES
The earliest known vehicles are the charfots of
Egypt and their first record Is left in the book of
Genesis. where Pharaoh commands his Prime MIN
lister in these words: Take you wagons Cchariots)
out OF the land OF Egypt for your little ones and
for your wives and come" Seventeen hundred
years after the clumsy, uncomfortable wagons"
of the Egyptians bore the Israeltish women and
children from Egypt, writer leaves the following
unhappy description Of the Roman OF hts time
Those who travel fast would rather ride on
Of baggage the Weigh Of Tebcs o. the
etosging OF the wheels the roughae5s OF the track
the streams the plains and the declvites of the
There is a long step from the Grecan woman's
jerky affair and the swiftly gliding luxuriously
upholstered automobiles of my lady Of to-day In
the course of the evolution Of vehicles none were
more curious than that of the movable house of the
Scythians, which consisted of a strong fat floor
on the sides of which poles were inserted and
around these the skins of animals drawn On some
OF them the poles arched, and when the mat
ting spread they had the appearance of
old fashioned beehives made Of straw. AS they
moved the plains seeking pasturage their
cattle, the women within pursued their domestic
employments. 1t is said by Herodotus that certain
Amazonian women refused offers OF marriage from
Scythian because of this mode OF living
In 1894 A. d. ordinance issued by the King OF
France to suppress luxury forbade the wives Of
citizens to carriages under fear of severe pen
alties. Probably the Oldest representation Of a
Gallo carriage is TO be found in a paper in the
British Museum which bears the date of l947. This
charlotte was an open kind CT wagon with
side curtains rolled up 1t was driven by mounted
position and drawn by two horses The woman
herself sat sideways, while her two attendants evil
IDENTIFY maids. were seated wi their faces toward
the horses. Previous to this -ine and for many
years afterward filters and sedans were in common
use among Continental nations Isabella Of Bavaria
made her entry into Paris in a litter in 1899
Litters still in use in parts of the world
The traveller who would traverse the most danger
mountain passes OF Persia must do so IN a
tachtravan. little wooden structure with curved
roof borne on poles, carried by two donkeys. one
of which pulls and the other pushes.
The luxurious carriage OF the desert Is the palar
qun, which is borne by camels. The paIanquin
that is used in India is carried upon the shoulders
of four six II is sort Of box about eight
feet long and four feet wide. and is similar the
sedan. In Japan 1t is called the norimOnd and in
China the kiaotsu. 1t is employed only where man
ual labor is plentiful and cheap
The passenger barrow of China with it's one
wheel requiring expert ridership balance. is evil
IDENTIFY the connecting link between ntters and
wheeled vehicles
According to an old authority coaches were first
introduced into England in the reign OF Queen
Elizabeth. but in old ballad OF the time Of Ed
ward Q272-1s0D occurs the following reference 20
them;
She was the first that did invent
In coaches brave to ride;
She was the first that brought this land
To deadly sin and pride
The ballad bears the following quaint title:
A Warning Piece TO England Against Pride and
Wickedness being the fall OF Queen Eleanor wife
/ OF Edward First, King of England, who for her
pride by Gods judgments sunk into the ground
at Chartng Cross and rose al Queenshithe.
An old print represents "the state procession OF
Queen Elizabeth to open Parliament April
1911" This was the first occasion which state
coach had ever been used by English sovereign
and 1t was the only vehicle in the procession on
that occasion William Boonen Queen Eliza
beths eoachnan-
In 1852 the English Ambassador at the Court OF
France wrote TO Elizabeth. saying;
The French King hath commanded TO be made
for Your Majesty an exceedingly marvellous princely
moies which are 70 be had, for 10 carry Your
Righnesss litter The King hath been moved 10
shsw himself IN this sort zratefal 20 xSer Majesty