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THIS CARRIAGES.On© of the great features of this exposition Is the display of carriages. Cincinnati manufacturers are alone represented, but they hare brought some of the most beautiful styles manufactured; of novel patterns and of finish anch ms will sustain their well earned reputation. Perhaps of all the articles in the Mechanics’ Hall, there is nothing that so attracts the attention of ladies.Go where you will, there will be ladles passing along this aisle. You will see them, unaccompanied by gentlemen, wander, ng up and down the avenue skirted by the tasteful vehicles. But this is not strange, for is it not proverbial that woman is fond of a good horse and carriage ?In speaking with a manufacturer, yesterday, a gentleman askod him how these new styles sold. “Ah,” said he, that depends on whether a man brings his wife. If the man comes alone, he will always get the newest, but if the woman is along, she wiU admire the beauty of the new, but will prefer the one resem-bling the carriage she has been in the habit of using.”“What is the result generally?”“As usnal,”said the manufacturer, “the woman has her way.”These on exhibition comprise not only some of the newest styles of carriages, but some of the newest features in carriage manufacture. Here are the latest axles, the most approved springs, including the cross or fifih spring, the newest couplings, the patent perches, and many things interesting in connection with carriages. Here is the Landau carriage, the old English pattern which, has only been introduced in New York within two years, which has the advantage of being a closed vehicle, and at the same time may be made an open coach; the Landaulette, a dosed ooscb, the fore part of which may be removed and the rear let down so as to make is also gn open carriage; the Clarence coach, one of the most beautiful of all the closed vehicles; the four-seated phaeton; .the pony barouche; the Coupe rockaway; the Clarence roekaway; the six-seated or park phaeton; the most approved road wagons, some of them weighing as light as 116 pounds, constructed without iron springs, the beds resting on bars of hlokory; the sulky of fifty-five pounds weight, familiar to the sporting man; the skeleton wagon weighing eighty-seven pounds, constructed only of hickory and steel, used for trotting and breaking celts ; besides many others that can not be now enumerated. It is an interesting collection of such manufactures, and affords as good an opportunity to persons seeking knowledge in this field as will often be presented.AH ARTIST AT TBB EXPOSITION.During yesterday, Frank D. Skiff, Esq., the well known special artist of Frank Leslie’s, and Harpers Weekly, as well as of the London Illustrated News, was making sketches of parts of the interior of the main hall. Yesterday afternoon and last evening he devoted principally to the fountain and its surroundings. The results of his work yesterday will appear in the New York papers of week after next; in London necessarily later. He will be here Beveral days, during which time he will make sketches of the mala points of interest In the exposition. It is cot proper that we should anticipate what he will say in the papers he represents. Still, It is but just to the'great exposition, which will have well nigh passed away and be reckoned among the things of the past before we shall see the results of his labor, that the people should* know that one who has seen the great exhibitions of the world speaks in the highest terms of this grand display, and that, In some of its great features, he believes It to be superior to the famous Crystal Palace exhibition in New York. When such authority pays such tribute, It will be strange If the audience does not increase each day as the exhibition progresses.
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Cincinnati Semi Weekly Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Tue, Oct 04, 1870
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