The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-14
WOMEN WHO DRIVE TANDEM.
Miss Roosevelt One of Those Who Set
 Much Followed Fashion.

Miss Roosevelt One of Those Who Set a
 Much Followed Fashion. To drive tandem is one of the latest ambitions of up-to-date women, and many fashionable New Workers are now putting in a good deal of time in mas tering this accomplishment. If an ex- pert teacher of the art is to be believed, ithree well known women are largely irresponsible for the fashion. They are Mrs. Burke-Roche, Miss Marion Fish, and Miss Alice Roosevelt, who devoted long hours at Newport last summer in learning the accomplishment.
 The teacher quoted above, who at the solicitation of some of his patrons, made arrangements to go to Newport early in the season to teach for three or four weeks, stayed there instead fourteen weeks. And at that he spent about twelve out of every twenty-four hours on the seat of a coach.
 q have taught many women of other countries how to drive" said he, but nowhere, save in America, have seen women who could dance until or 2 ! o'clock in the morning and then be i ready to start out at looking as fresh as if they had had ten hours sleep, and what is more surprising still, able to go ! through a lesson without once losing their nerve. A woman ought to be at her best before starting out to drive four horses, and to keep this up, week after week! It is marvel"
 1 As far as is known most of the fash 1 ionable women who set out to become proficient four-in-hand drivers succeed ed, some of course with greater ease and more skillfully than others, and many more women, not so fashionable, were equally successful.
 But before long it seemed four-in- hand honors ceased to be enough for the Newport women. As one and another became expert enough to tool coach without having a teacher she yearned for something else to conquer and found it in tandem driving. The three 'wo- men mentioned were the first at New port to seriously set to work to master the difficulties Of the art, and each has been successful
 The presidents daughter, says her teacher, exhibits more of the grit, deter | imitation and power of endurance dis played by her father, and she Is singu- larly free from nervousness.
 The example set by Miss Roosevelt and her two companions was soon fol- flowed, and as result the teacher now has as many pupils here for tandem as for four-in-hand driving, and the drives of Central park of morning show quite a sprinkling of tandems driven | by women.
 'The fact that women are taking to the tandem has already popularized this style of driving in all quarters,' added this teacher. T hear that there will be more tandem entries than usual at this years horse show.
 Now, driving tandem is not so easy as might be imagined by one who has never tried it. For a woman at least it is really more difficult and dangerous than handling four-in-hand, for the reason that there is absolutely no way 1 to manage refractory leader except by the whip. He hasn't the restraint of a horse beside him nor pair behind him. Each horse of a tandem is entirely in- dependent of the other.
 As every horseman knows. to use a whip slzilfully, especially on the leader or leaders of tandem or four n-hand, is perhaps the most difficulty feature and certainly the hardest of all to teach to woman. I have pupils who had to take dozens Of lessons before they could graps even partially the knack of it.''- New York S11n