Show ORIGIN OF SEDAN CHAIR London Chronicle Perhaps some sonic expert In the Siamese language will tell us what is its word for sedan chair When the King of Slams Slains ministers protesting prot ting against his favor toward motoring suggested recently that the royal se oc sedan sedan dan chair was always ah s at his disposal it is improbable that they used a word reminiscent of the French town For It Is from the scene of or Napoleon IlLs collapse that the sedan chair takes Its name and perhaps remote posterity will suppose that It had some connection with that event But Sedan first produced these conveyances cen centuries centuries tunes ago and they were seen in Eng England England England land in 1581 1551 One used by James Is 15 Buckingham provoked great popular outcry against the employment of ot men mn menas menas as beasts of burden Sir S Duncombe Is credited with having introduced them to London In 1634 |