The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-07-06
TRUNKS OF MANY pRTS
MANY MADE TO FILL SPECIAL RE
oUIREMENTs,

INC SoTI Irunk, the Short Tf) Trunk |
and the Shoe Trunk-A trunk TO
Carry a Parlor orqan-Various
Bags.
While the America. whel travel
Ing, still commonly preserves his
characteristic habit OF putting his bag
gage into the most compact form and
the fewest possible pieces, there are
nevertheless more and more people IN
this country nowadays who carry
many pieces of baggage. and buy
trunks designed for special uses The
hat box, for men, is old; but men
nowadays buy shoe trunks made es-
pecially for the use, in which there
are spaces for shoes and boots carried
on their trees. There are made shirt
cases, for nothing but shirts and a
peculiarly modern thing, and proba-
bly, confined to this country, is a shirt
trunk in which shirts are sent from
another city to New York to be laun-
dered, and then shipped back to the
owner. Laundry work like everything
else is better done there than any
where else; the city naturally attract-
ing in this, as in various other kinds
of work, the finest workmen. There
are plenty of men of means all over
the country who buy their shirts in
n
regularly send their shirts here to be
Numbered.
There are made nowadays golf
trunks for the safe carrying of golf
sticks, such trunks being provided
also with suitable compartments for
golf clothing Sportsmen's trunks are
not new but they are now made in
greater perfection than ever; trunks
in which guns can be carried at their
full length, without unshipping the
stock, and with suitable compartments
for the various items of the gunner's
requisites, and with laces also for his
hunting clothing. The opposite of this
package and perhaps the newest thing
in mems trunks, is a trunk for trou-
sers only, in which may be carried
at full length and in perfect order,
with press board between each pair
and its next neighbor, dozen pairs.
There are made nowadays trunks
especially for women's gowns, and
trunks for women's bonnets; there
being two kinds of these in one Of
which the hats are pinned on forms.
the hats in the other being pinned
upon the inside of a crate-like con-
trivance, made Of webbing. that fits
into and fills the interior of the hat
trunk. There are now made trunks
for the carrying Of women's waists
and laces, and trunks especially for
laundried wear. The newest trunks
for women. probably, is one made
especially for parsols and umbrellas
in which these things can be securely
placed and carried without injury.
Modern in the completeness of its
adaptability to the use for which it
is intended, is what is called a short
trip trunk designed to be carried on a
visit of a day or two. Short-trip
franks are made for men and for wo.
men, and there are also made short
trip trunks for two persons. A trunk
of this sort has a compartment for a
mans hat and also a compartment
for a women's bonnet; and it has
other suitable compartments for the
separate belongings of each.
Steamer trunks have now long been
used on land as we'll as in sea travel.
Something designed for water or for
land use as bag is made of heavy
canvas and trimmed and finished with
leather. This bag is much like a mail
bag in appearance except that 1t is
shorter; that is, rOt so deep This
Is used on steama|s to carry over.
shoes and wraps in; and it is, perhaps.
when emptied, hung up in the cabin
and used there as a receptacle for
things to BIZ Hundred Bags of this
sort are used more or less in yachting
and boating. and perhaps long jour
neys where transportation facilities
would be limited. Such bags are also
used in trips into the woods and SO
on. Afloat or ashore the bag can be
tossed about without injury to itself
or anything else, and 1t does not, like
a trunk. take up fixed amount of
space but only the space actually re-
quired by bag and contents, whatever
the contents may be, more or less.
Trunks are made for various special
purposes; for the use Of men travel.
ling on business; as for example, there
! was made for an insurance man a
trunk with a movable compartment
section containing spaces for blanks
and envelopes and so on, and for pens
and ink, nr whatever was required in
his business. This made practically a
completely stocked desk. Wherever
this traveller stopped 1t was not neces-
sary to take out of the trunk and
transfer separately to table the var
ious things he required, but he simply
lifted out from his trunk that portable
desk and set that upon the table, thus
getting In moment everything that
he needed, conveniently at hand and
in its ac customed place.
Perhaps as unusual special trunk
| as any that has been made was onA