{"id":441,"date":"2023-07-29T12:25:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T16:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/?p=441"},"modified":"2023-07-29T12:25:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T16:25:18","slug":"the-old-whips-of-the-stage-coach-days-published-may-18-1884","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/the-old-whips-of-the-stage-coach-days-published-may-18-1884\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Whips of the Stage Coach Days [published May 18, 1884]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/adamsexpress.jpg?resize=250%2C198&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-442\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Tally-ho has commenced its trips for the season, and the whips of the Four-in-hand Club are displayin\u2019 their dexterity, but none of \u2018em can, I guess, come up in the handlin\u2019 of the ribbons to the \u201ccrack\u201d whips of the old stage-coach days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some of these old \u201cwhips\u201d lived to become quite prominent personages. Two of \u2018em who were loudest in their denunciations of railroadin\u2019, when it was first introduced, who sneered at railroads and predicted their downfall, became afterwards prominent railroad men \u2018emselves\u2013 Chester W. Chapin and Ginery Twitchell, for example. The latter of these two was before he died a railroad president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/twitchellginery.jpg?resize=431%2C279&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-443\" width=\"431\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/twitchellginery.jpg?w=819&amp;ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/twitchellginery.jpg?resize=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/twitchellginery.jpg?resize=768%2C498&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Genery Twitchell, Unrivaled Express Rider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chapin and Twitchell and another stage-driver, old Sam Woodward, who afterwards became one of the features of Adams Express, used to be a good deal together, and passed, the three of \u2018em, as the three best whips in the country; but it was never exactly settled which of the three was the best driver of the lot .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Each had his own special patrons and admirers. Chapin one day took a bet of fifty dollars that he could stop a coach-and-four exactly at any desired spot\u2013stop it so accurately and exactly that he could undertake to arrange it so that the stage could be brought to a standstill in such a position that either of the front wheels could be stopped right on or at any given object; not a little behind the object or ahead of it, but directly at it or on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A dollar was accordin\u2019ly placed on the road in front of a tavern, and Chapin was told to drive the stage rapidly along, and to halt with the front right-hand wheel directly on top of the dollar. And he fulfilled this condition. The stage was started, driven rapidly, then halted suddenly, and when halted it was found that the dollar lay right under the four right-hand wheel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As for Sam Woodward, he was great on the scientific handlin\u2019 of his whip. He prided himself that he could do anythin\u2019 with his whip, and one day he did perhaps the most remarkable whippin\u2019 on record. He bet drinks with a swell who occupied an outside seat on the stage that he would whip the head off any fowl along the roadside the swell might select, it bein\u2019 understood that the swell would stand the expens\u2013in other words, be answerable to the owner of the fowl for damages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This bein\u2019 understood, Woodward started his stage off rapidly, and as it was dashin\u2019 along at top speed a flock of hens came out of a farmhouse and passed alongside of the coach. In front of the flock strutted a rooster, and the swell told Sam to show his skill on the rooster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Without a word, without any fuss and without stoppin\u2019 his horses, whirlin\u2019 on as fast as ever, Sam Woodward flashed his whip through the air. The thong hissed as it flashed, and, quick as thought almost, wound itself round the extended neck of the rooster, cuttin\u2019 his head clear off as the coach dashed on, leavin\u2019 his body to the astonished hens, and leaving the old woman at the farmhouse to wonder that night how on the face of earth the old rooster had died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ginery Twitchell&#8217;s strong point was his endurance. He could drive or ride day and night without sleep, food or fatigue, though he liked eatin\u2019, drinkin\u2019 and sleepin\u2019 as well as any man when he could get \u2018em.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the great Harrison, or \u201cTippecanoe and Tyler too\u201d campaign, Twitchell was employed to get the earliest election returns and carry the news to certain journals in New York and Boston, ahead of all other papers. And he kept this contract, too, although it cost him about twenty-one hours\u2019 hard ridin\u2019 out of the twenty-four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Twitchell once drove on a wager nine pairs of horses \u2013an eighteen-in-hand\u2013the largest number of horses ever attached, I believe, to one wagon, or driven by one man,although, as I said recently, one of Dodd\u2019s Express men on one occasion drove a considerably larger number; but then, he drove \u2018em unattached to any vehicle, round a ring, circus fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And they were as jolly as skillful, these old whips of the stage-coach days. They were all the time tellin\u2019 good stories, or playing\u2019 pranks, or doing\u2019 both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One of the famous practical jokes of the old fraternity of whips was when Treadwell, afterwards an innkeeper, impersonated Lafayette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Treadwell was a tall, thin, fine-looking dark-faced man, a good deal like a Frenchman in his appearance. In fact, I believe his mother was a Frenchwoman. He had a very courtly air and prided himself on his gentility; very polite and airy. He got into a part on the country once where nobody knew him but Sam Potter, the regular stage-driver along that route, and he found several people here and there who felt disappointed because they had not had a chance to see General Lafayette, who was then payin\u2019 his second visit to this country. Treadwell really thought it was a pity these good folks had been deprived of the pleasure of beholdin\u2019 this great and glorious patriot, so he determined to make it up to \u2018em by givin\u2019 \u2018em that pleasure and playin\u2019 Lafayette himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He suggested the idea to Potter, who hailed it with delight. Now Treadwell himself had never seen Lafayette, but had been told several times that he looked very much like him, which gave him the idea. But Potter had seen Lafayette, and after he had given Treadwell some points he was willin\u2019 to take an oath or a drink that he could hardly tell Treadwell from Lafayette at a distance. The real trouble in the way was that although the real Lafayette could speak English the bogus Lafayette couldn&#8217;t speak any French. But then, as Sam Potter remarked, nobody else in that section of the country could speak French either. So the bogus patriot determined to make up his language as he went along, and with Sam Potter&#8217;s assistance made a very successful Lafayette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/lafayettevisit2.jpg?resize=624%2C345&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/lafayettevisit2.jpg?w=624&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/lafayettevisit2.jpg?resize=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Marquis de Lafayette, waving to American crowds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sam gave out along the road what a distinguished passenger he had in his coach, makin\u2019 up some story to account for the General travelin\u2019 alone over a strange route, and Treadwell kept bowin\u2019 from the top of the stage right and left, puttin\u2019 his hand to his heart, shruggin\u2019 his shoulders, winkin\u2019, blinkin\u2019 and grimacin\u2019 as only a monkey or a Frenchman can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The people turned out to see him. The coach was stopped half a dozen times, and the hand of the distinguished guest of the nation was squeezed by all the men, women and children within reach of the post road for twenty miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There was plenty of good eatin\u2019 and drinkin\u2019 goin\u2019 along with the other privileges accorded to the nation&#8217;s guest, and Treadwell quaffed and stuffed till he nearly burst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And sittin\u2019 next at table at one of the taverns on the road to an ancient spinster, the bogus Marquis for sheer deviltry began to make love to the old dame, who took it into her head that the great Frenchman had fallen in love with her. Women, you know, are never too old to believe the possibility of any man fallin\u2019 in love with \u2018em.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For years after, till the day of her death, the old maid really believed, and chuckled in the belief, that the great General, Marquis de Lafayette, had been impressed with her charms, and for six months or more the whole country believed that they had seen \u201cthe friend of Washington.\u201d Then Sam Potter changed his stage route, let the cat out of the bag, and left the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Editor&#8217;s notes: Though the veracity of the above column appears to be suspect, it is grounded in source material. The anecdote about inn-keeper Treadwell imitating Lafayette can be found in T. W. Tucker&#8217;s <em>Waifs from the Way-Bills of an Old Expressman<\/em>, New York: Lee an Shepard, 1872. Woodward, Potter, and Treadwell were real, as were rail magnates Chapin and Twitchell.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Tally-ho has commenced its trips for the season,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,60,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","category-practical-jokes","category-transportation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Old Whips of the Stage Coach Days [published May 18, 1884] - 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