NEW YORK COACH-MAKER'S MAGAZINE. DEVOTED TO THE LITERARY, SOCIAL AND MECHANICAL INTERESTS OF THE CRAFT. EDITED BY E. M. STRATTON. VOLUME ELEVEN, JUNK, 1S69, TO MAY, 187O, NEW YORK: E. M. STRATTON, Publisher, 208 LEXINGTON AVENUE. PREFACE. The volume now placed before the reader in the complete form we think is equal in variety and interest to any which has preceded it. Notwithstanding the past year has • been one of extreme hardship among business men generally, and among carriage-manu- facturers especially, we are happy to state, that, in a pecuniary • view, our ex]3ectations have been more than realized and amply rewarded. For this result we are indebted to the interest our long-tried friends have shown in our favor, by correspondence and sub- scriptions for the Magazine. Among the more prominent subjects in this volume we may mention " The Adven- tures of Three Jours," by H. S. Williams, which as a story applicable to coach-making has never before been equaled; "The Treatise on the Wood-work of Carriages," trans- lated from the French expressly for us, ahead of any French Rule yet published in this country, in its general application to carriage-architecture; numerous " Sweeps for Scale Drafting;" besides a series of chapters in history under the heading of " Our Grecian. Carriage Museum." Some of the original poetry we have published from the pen of Mrs. Whitney has been of a very high order, showing that the author has drank deeply from the Pierian fountain. The special departments would have been much better had the parties with whom we contracted done their duty faithfully, and not have allowed themselves to be swayed by outside influences, to our injury. Our " Pen Illustrations of Drafts," in the present volume, we have reason to believe have been well received both by workmen and manufacturers, and the fashion plates themselves are far in advance of all others, in design, engraving, and press work. In taking leave of our old friends with the close of the volume, we entertain the hope that they will not forget us the coming year, but that they will, as in the past, give us pecuniary assistance, which, after all, is the most potent thing for the encourage- ment of literature. Yours sincerely, Yoek, April 22, 1870. INDEX TO PLATES IN VOLUME ELEVEN. Directions to the Binder.—The C and Elliptic Spring Clarence, published in the May number of this volume, should be bound facing the title page, and all the other fashion plates at the end of the volume in the order as numbered. Plate. 1. Full Clarence. 2. Light Phaeton. 3. Bracket front Coal-box Buggy.—Dog- cart Phaeton. 4. Scroll Coal-box Buggy.—Coal-box Road Buggy. 5. Six Passenger Park Phaeton. 6. Road Buggy.—Scroll Phaeton. 7. Shifting-top Buggy. 8. Gaylord's improvement in Carriage Springs.—Light Two-wheeled Tub. 9. Phaeton Carryall. 10. Six-seat Extension-top Sleigh. 11. Buggy Sleigh.—Physician's Phaeton. 12. Phaeton Sleigh.—Road Buggy. 13. Americanized Victoria. 14. Phaeton with Falling-top. 15. Original Monogram, H. W. S.—Side- bar Buggy. Plate. 16. Improved Cutter Sleigh.—Six-seated Family Sleigh. 1*7. Drop-front Rockaway. 18. Excelsior Dog-cart. 19. Trotting Coal-box Buggy.—Coal-box with Top. 20. Original Monogram, M. B. & Co.— Canoe Coal-box with Top. 21. C-spring Caleche. 22. Go-cart. 23. Rockaway with high doors and win- dows. 24. No-perch Buggy.—Two-seated Open Wagon. 25. Park Phaeton. 26. Excelsior Victoria Phaeton. 27. Coupe-pillared Six-seat Rockaway. 28. Nonpareil Top Buggy. 29. Dog-cart Phaeton. Plate. 30. Extension-top Phaeton. 31. Phaeton with back seat to turn in. 32. Shifting-top Coal-box Buggy. 33. Crane-neck Hearse. 34. Extension-top Cabriolet. 35. Round-cornered Box Buggy. 36. Coal-box Buggy. 37. Brett Phaeton. 38. Road Phaeton. 39. Shifting-top Scroll Coal-box Buggy. 40. Drop-front Pony Phaeton.—Pony Phae- ton with Rumble. 41. Landau. 42. Rockaway with turn-over seat. 43. Standing-top Piano-box Buggy. 44. Piano-box Road Buggy.—Coal-box Road Buggy. 45. C-spring Caleche. 46. New York Buggy. INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. Page. C and Elliptic Spring Clarence, Frontispiece. Sweep for Scale Drafting, 5 Clarence with Metropolitan Boot and Cant, 6 Improved Bending Irons, 10 Transom Stay (2 illustrations), 10 New mode of Fastening Cushions (2 illustrations), 12 Spannenagle's Velocipede Race {comic), 15 Roman Wine Cart, 21 " Baggage-wagon, 22 Sweep for "Scale Drafting, 23 Bird's-eye View of gaylord's Im- proved Spring, 25 Linings for a Landau 26 Watergruel's Fresh Milk and Butter Express (comic), 32 Framing Sleighs (4 illustrations), 37, 38 Grecian Chariot, 39 Landau Linings, 44 Electioneering under the Women's Rights Administration as it will be in 1870 (comic), 47 Treatise on the Wood-work of Car- riages (2 illustrations), 53 Grecian Chariot, 54 Sweep for Scale Drafting, 55 Page. Prof. Bullfrog's New Musical Turn- out (comic), 63 Treatise on the Wood-work of Car- riages (20 illustrations), 67, 68, 69, 70, 71 Improved Bolt-cutter, 74 Designs for Buggy-steps, 74 Apparatus for drawing off Varnish, 75 Treatise on the Wood-work of Car- riages (4 illustrations), 82, 83 Grecian Chariot from the Parthenon, 84 Sweep for Scale Drafting, 85 Original Monograms, L. K. H.; C. P. H., and G. F. C. (3 designs), 91 India-rubber Prop-block, 92 Treatise on the Wood-work of Car- riages (8 illustrations), 100, 101 Sweep for Scale Drafting, 102 Attaching Steps to Carriage-bodies, (2 illustrations), 106 Whip-socket (2 illustrations), 107 Treatise on the Wood-work of Car- riages (7 illustrations), 115, 116, 117 Perch-stays (2 illustrations), 121 Lining for a Rockaway (3 illustra- tions), 123 Stuck in the Snow (comic), 127 Page. Mechanical Geometry, 133 Grecian Chariots (2 illustrations), 135 Stays for a Double Perch, 138 Making Wagon-backs, 139 Cutting out Tops (2 illustrations), 139 Military Officer and Stableman (comic), ]43 Treatise on the Wood-work of Car- riages.—Cant of Phaeton body, 148 Flight of Priam from Troy, 151 Squaring the end of a Plank without the Use of a Square, 151 Primitive Colors (2 diagrams), 154 Design for Carriage-step, 155 New " Feloserpeed" (comic), 159 Treatise on the Wood-work of Car- riages (2 illustrations), 162 Grecian Chariot, 166 Finding the length for Axle-beds, 170 New arrangement of Slat-irons, 172 Treatise on the Wood-work of Car- riages.—Back View of Phae- * ton Body, 178 Geometrical Exercise (3 diagrams), 181 Grecian War Chariot, 182 Dash-board for Buggies, 184 Boggs Takes a Turn in the Country (comic), i88 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by E, M. Stratum, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United qtatpa for the Southern District of New York. INDEX TO VOLUME ELEVEN. To the Reader.—The matter pertaining to special departments will be found under the separate heads of Editor's Work Bencii, The Home Circle, Sparks fbom the Anvil, I'ai.nt Kihpm, Trimming Room, &c, alphabetically arranged. Page. Pagf. Page. A Centenarian, 112 Editorial Tactics, 175 Trades Union Despotism, 187 A Curiosity, 101 Trades Unions and Politics, 107 A Few More Left, 79 Editor's Work Bench: Twice Earned, 124 A Good Hack, 133,149 American Institute Fair, an Vandalism, 187 A Negro's Compliment, 142 Hour at, 77 Varnishes, Wood-filling,