Show Fashion Spoiled I A curious instance < Sf hbwafhsrnon wag nipped in the bud ok place in New York during the earlypart gf < this century A party of young swells = possibly the advanced ad-vanced guards of 1Qe prcsgntT army of Anglomaniacs day rigged up a coach andsix and drove around town in style This incited another clique of young men who not to be outdone at this sort of thing immediately fitted out a coachand eight and appeared upon the principal streets in great splendor So amusing wan this to the workmen of the town that a I party of sixteen carmen determining to I burlesnue the whole affair dressed them selves in clean white frocks and appeared in the most fashionable parts of the town in a new coach which was driven by no less than sixteen horses tandem Each man had his hair powdered Thirteen Thir-teen acted a postilions and the extraordinary extraordi-nary appearance of this singular vehicle sent a loud guffaw from one end of the town to the other So ridiculous did the carmen make this absurd custom of emulation emu-lation appear that no further attempt was made on the part of the youngswells who however took the thing in such good part that one of them wrote an ode called Car men Triumphe Clothier and Furnisher |