The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-01

nounced the family coach and set up a
little trap of her own. She brought out
the one horse cabriolette and estab-
lished it as the approved little vehicle
for ladies and when Lady Bache Gu
nard, Consuelo Duchess Of Marlbor
ough, Lady Leigh and the Countess of
Craven followed her, there was nothing
for the Duchess of Sutherland and the
other wealthy native born peeresses to
do but fall right into line. Since then
the little. daring, picturesque coro-
netted Americans have thought out all
, the novelties every season, and ] am
bound to say they have transformed
the Row in the afternoon into line
of dashing, brilliant turnouts.
who leads? Why. / think the Coun-
tess of Falklands and Lady Newbor-
ough's carriages are nowadays the
models for the London, Paris and finest
American establishments. Both these
handsome women are American born
and married to rich young peers, and
they put more good ideas into the Eng
lish coach builders and livery tailors'
heads in one season than those stolid
British brains would evolve in dozen
years.
A Daring Yankee.
ut was the Countess of Falkland,
who set up her own livery colors to
the temporary scandal and final admit
clared that her husbands family col
ors, handed down from Plantaganet
days, did not suit her Paris frocks or
her porcelain complexion. and if you
ask any man on Piccadilly to point out
the smartest carriage in London, he
will ignore Lord Rosebery's brougham
to show you Lady Falkland's black and
white establishment, that for style and
perfection Of detail can't be matched
anywhere else.
Lady Falklands is cabriolette
built by King Edwards coach builder:
its shining black wheels and body are
picked out in white; white pipings and
white enameled devices appear on the
harness worn by a big black horse, and
| the coachman wears white boot tons
white breaches, and over his high but
toned white leather waist coat a very
long skirted black coat, turned back
with broad stole shaped. snow white
| melton revers. White gloves, and
/ rather low crowned. curly brimmed
| top hat, are the details in the dress of
this stately individual, who is as much
admired as the Kings scarlet and gold
| laced out riders. The cabriolette it.
self is upholstered in satin finished
black cloth. but the robes are all white.
bound with white suede, lined with
| white fox fur, and have little silver
| clasps at the corners.
| There Is not the least effect of
mourning conveyed by this study in
black and white, which. though daring
| to the verge of the picturesque, is none
| the less smart and impressive. What
| amazes and pleases the Londoners is
| the high standard of immaculate per-
| fection that these titled Americans
have set in carriage appointments In
| our Doggy, sooty city. Lady Falkland's
| equipage whisks by as fresh as a new
ly blown lily. The crispest white taffe-
| ia rosettes are on the horses head
stall and the white of the livery, robes,
etc, is the white of driven snow.
Lady Newborough's cerise and green
| liveries run a close second to the black
and white in popular estimation, and
Lady Egerton Is known to the strollers
in the park by her mole color and blue
turnout. Velvet cuffs and collars of
the brighter colcr, with plpngs of blue
or oerise give these liveries just the
decorative effect that Is properly assoc
ciated with lady's carriage.
The Coachman's Low seat.
"0ver here in the United States | see
that the one horse cabriolette has come
into popularity with all the features
that 1t possesses in London. The credit
Is due your women across the water
for giving this little carriage its proper
balance by lowering the box seat so
that the coachman no longer towers
above his mistress by taking a half
inch off the crown OF his hat, and they
use the coachman alone. Two men you
see are superfluous weight on the
horse, when it's just matter of b
drive in the park or a round of the
shops and all superfiuous weight and
bulk Is cut down in order to enable the
horse to keep up his smartest pace.
1.-THE big Victoria. with its lofty boot.
heavy harness make the occupant
thereof look, beside the uabriolette
owner, like a. traveller in a steamboat
alongside a snug, swiftly, silently NOV
ing electric launch. 1t was one of
Lady Egerton's excuses for setting up
her own little carriage that I'm the rush
OF the London season and In the pres
sure OF London's traffic she got through
double the amount OF social duties that
could be accomplished in a ponderous,
deliberate family coach. Just that very
point has recommended these tidy lit
tie turnout to the women on this side.
and in the requirements for single car
riage horses, speed Is essential. They
are now exporting 10 England and
France cabriolette horses with the
blood of famous American trotters in
their veins, for society moves at pace
quite beyond the old fashioned high
stopper who wasn't much more than
III uiay ACi 6c dAhNA
They Drive Fast Horses.
"Some Of the fashionable women I've
the good luck to know IN both London
and New York, keep little stop clocks
between points. At first the leisurely
Britisher resented the rapid cabriolette
as an invention of the nervous, restless,
invading American but the women
would have IT 80. and 1t Is now a. no
uncommon sight, at the London horse
dealers, 10 see a lady OF title. muffied
In ftrs, stop watch In hand critically
and cody marking time on
various imported four-footed beauties
that are trotted swiftly before her. IL
It is an American peeress who IL not
shopping for a roadster, she Will like
as not climb into the imported bicycle
runabout her self. take the reins and
secure personal acquaintance with
her possible purchase. Lady Newbor-
ough. who halls from Kentucky, was
the first to do this, and prove that she
knew as much about trotters as any
colonel from that state. To-day she Is
the first feminine authority on fast
carriage horses In England. and gem
erousiy advises her sister peeresses who
are Just beginning 10 acquire the in
toxlcating habit OF fast driving.