The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-27
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W NGLISH people have always been
H. disposed to criticize with good
IL deal of severity Americans who.
residing in the United Kingdom
in a non diplomatic capacity. have
adopted cockades for the hats of their
liveried servants. But British ire has
recently been raised to the boiling
point by the appearance both In Lon
don and in the provinces, OF num-
Der of four-horse coaches freighted
with parties of American tourists, and
rented out by one of their most enter
prising countrymen In London, who
realizes that seeing the sights Of the
metropolis. and especially the rural
and cathedral town scenery, from the
top of trim coach with liveried
driver and servants. appeals much more
to the visitors from the United States
than doing the old country by train,
or even by motor.
Now in order to render these coaches
(Which he has been able to buy cheap
more attractive to his customers, he
coachmen and of the men in attend
ance on each vehicle This has proved
the limit, and frantic applications have
been made by Mortified Britons of the
upper classes to the authorities to take
some means to put stop to this
fragrant infraction of one of the most
universally recognized of those un-
written laws of England that are much
more strictly observed than the stat
utes figuring on the Code.
AS no mention is made of cockades
in the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1t may
be as well TO mention that they We're
INTRODUCED on the accession of George
I. of England when his adherents
adopted a black cockade on their hats
to distinguish them from the Jacobites,
who wore the color of the Stuarts
namely, white. The cock used to
consist Of bunch or rosette of rib
bon designed 10 hold the brim of the
three-cornered hat in position. The
role which the cockade played in those
days is best shown by the following
lines, relating to the defeat of Sir
John Cope by the Jacobite insurgents:
But when he saw the Highland lads,
WI tartan trews and white cockades
gauds,
Q johnnie took wing In the morning."
The three cornered hats were in
course Of time abandoned by the gem
try, and In the army and navy but
We're retained for domestic liveries, and
still form part of the state liveries
or servants, When the high silk hat
took the place of the three cornered
chapeau for ordinary livery wear, the
cockade was transferred from the brim
OF the one to the edge of the crown
ades are Of three kinds: the royal,
which Is black, entirely round, bigger
than the TWO others and reserved eX-
clusively for the royal family This
Is the one, adopted by the American
livery stable keeper for the men en-
ployed on the coaches which he let's
out TO parties of tourists and 1t is
easy under the circumstances TO un-
derAand The British resentment caused
thereby, Then there Is the naval cock
ade, which is oval; and the militasy
c9ckade, used also by all civilian dig
fan-shaped.
The use of the cockade has spread
20 toreisn countries. forming part and
parcel of the liveres of servants In
me employ of officials. The cockades
OF the Spanish royal liveries are bright
red, those of the Kaiser and Of the
royal house Of Prussia black and
White those of the President of tho
French republid being the national
ccolors. rcd, white and blue In France
tnere Is no rule restricting the use
or cockades, which are to be seen,
white IN hue, adorning the highly
glazed white hats OF the Partisan hack
driver. and which need not necessarily
be taken as indicating his Jacoblte
swmpathles. Blu, In monarchlcal coun-
tries the rule is much stricter, and
as | have stated above, the use Of
cockades by the servants OF any save