In the inauguration ceremonies Washington's coach was drawn by four horses with gay trappings and hoofs blackened and polished.

This became his usual style.

He seldom walked in the street, for he was so much a public show that that might have been attended by annoying practical inconvenience; but when he rode out with Mrs.Washington his carriage was drawn by four--sometimes six--horses, with two outriders, in livery, with powdered hair and cockades in their hats.

When he rode on horseback, which he often did for exercise, he was attended by outriders and accompanied by one or more of the gentlemen of his household.

Toward the end of the year there arrived from England the state coach which he used in formal visits to Congress and for other ceremonious events.