Related article: own would ever learn to drive four Doxazosin Mesilate horses. Having mentioned the late Duke of Beaufort as a patron of the road — the stage coachmen of London sent, by the way, a wreath on the occasion of the funeral — it may not be inoppor- tune to notice the death of a very old proprietor and coachman, Mr. James Colpitts (who rode several times with the Duke on the Brighton road), whose decease happened a week or two ago. He was about eighty-two years of age, so that he could remember coaching about ten years earlier than did the Duke of Beau- fort. Indeed, he was more or less conversant with the details of the business probably longer than that, for his father was a coach proprietor and mail con- tractor, and while yet a schoolboy Mr. James Colpitts was sent out Tamsulosin Doxazosin to drive a mail cart on an emer- gency. The story used to be told in the north that even before he reached his teens he drove a mail coach on the regular coachman Doxazosin Mesylate refusing, for some reason, to dis- charge his duty on a boisterous night. That a boy not twelve years old should have been sent Doxazosin Mesylate 4mg out at night with a coach and four Doxazosin 1 Mg is, of course, nonsense, and I believe the real story is that the man who drove a mail cart was sent to drive a coach owing to the disablement of the professional, and that young Colpitts had to take out the mail cart. .] A COACHING Doxazosin Mg CHAPTER. 447 It was on a mail cart that Philip, better known as "Tim," Carter began his career before he was promoted to a pair-horse coach on the Brighton road, and soon afterwards to one of the north country mails. It was in the summer of 1894 that the late Mr. Colpitts rode for the last time on a coach behind four horses. Mr. Lewis Priest- man — his father was a good amateur coachman — was then running the Venture between Newcastle and Tynemouth, and he in\ated the old coachman to make the journey, and greatly Buy Doxazosin did he enjoy his day. Doxazosin 8 Mg The turn-out of coach, horses and harness pleased him greatly, and there is no doubt that many of our modern coaches would compare favour- ably with almost all those of older date. Some of the very swell concerns like the Brighton Age, the Shrewsbury Hirondelle, or the Birmingham Tally-Ho, were exceedingly well turned out, but the majority of the cross-country coaches left a good deal to be desired, while the less said about most of the harness used with the night coaches the better ; it had seen its best days by daylight, and was nourished exclusively on liberal applications of neat s' -foot oil . In connection , however, with Mr. Colpitts's later coaching ex- periences it should not be omitted that a very interesting meeting once took place in London be- tween Tim Carter, old Cracknell, who Cardura Doxazosin at one time drove a Norwich coach, and was, after the revival, on the Brighton road, and Mr. Colpitts. If memory serves rightly, it was Mr. J. B. Angell who brought about the meeting. Mr. Angell had been on the Prince of Wales coach, then run by Mr. John Eden from the Scotch Stores m Oxford Street, to Doxazosin 2 Mg High Wycombe, on which Mr. Angell was having a day, and happening to see Tim Carter in London, he found Cracknell, too, and the three old coachmen had quite a long talk. Mr. Colpitts was never, so far as is known, connected with any long distance coaches, but owned and drove several that made short journeys. His Doxazosin Tablets yard was in the Cloth Market at Newcastle, and for some time he drove between Newcastle and Durham, the coach going on with another coachman to Sunderland. Another of his coaches ran between Newcastle and Shotley Bridge, and he after- wards ran between Newcastle and Morpeth, keeping on Generic Doxazosin after the railway connected the two places : but steam was too formidable an opponent, and Mr. Colpitts, who had successfully competed against most owners on that road, had to confess himself beaten. There was no lack of opposition in the north while Mr. Colpitts was a coach proprietor, and all sorts of dodges were resorted to in order that passengers might be secured, and on one occasion a lady with a bandbox and a baby was seen to be approaching the spot where Mr. Colpitts*s North Briton and a rival vehicle were standing. The opposition guard ran up and secured the bandbox, but the far-seeing Mr. Colpitts went and carried off the baby in triumph because, as he afterwards explained, the passenger was bound to follow the child. The lady rode with Colpitts! The latter did so well on the Shotley Bridge road that a confederacy started an opposition coach, and one of Doxazosin 8mg the men on their side named Brown declared that, if they did not run Colpitts off Doxazosin 4 the road in a few months, he would hang himself. The opposition did not succeed, and the man did actually commit suicide in the 448 BAILY S MAGAZINE. rjuxE manner stated. It was mentioned above that on the Morpeth road Mr. Colpitts was beaten off by the railway, but between Newcastle and Durham he once beat the rail. A heavy snowstorm came on, and some of the passengers elected to return to Durham by rail, whereupon Mr. Colpitts re- marked that he would beat the train, and so he did, for although he was between two and three hours late, the train was Doxazosin Mesylate Tablets blocked in Doxazosin Mesylate 2mg a cutting for forty-eight hours, an incident which brought the coach a good deal of custom during the winter months. Of incidents Mr. Colpitts had a number to relate, and in talking of overloading, he remembered how, on one occasion, when Doxazosin 2mg his coach was crammed inside and out, an old lady decided to ride in the front boot rather than be left be- hind, and in quite another quarter of England, Devonshire to wit, the coachman of the Exeter Doxazosin Cardura and Plymouth coach once took refuge in the boot. This was Paul Col- lings, a little man standing not much over five feet one inch. 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