Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-07
Tha 80 Har.smen o. Nsu Yorg.

rom which we take a few extracts
A number of changes have been made by
the ~frequentors of the road in their roadsters
since last year. Bonner, of the Ledger, has,
however, kept up with all the improvements
and changes, and still maintain the position
of leader on the road, and allows no one to
pass him. Although Lantern and Lady
Woodruff were acknowledged to be the feet
estteam hat travelled Bloomingdale, yet the
enterprising proprietor OF the Ledger, with
his universal propensity fora new sensation,
has left Lady Woodruff at home, and now
appears with a "Bushwick mare, an exact
match to Lantern. This new animal looks
so much like Lantern, in colour and motion,
that it is impossible for a person not accus-
toned to driving them to tell them apart
Last year he would be seen passing over Har-
lem lane with his pair at the pole at 2-35,
new he does it with his new matched team at
2-334 with ease. Bonner has still Eve horses
the purchase of which took about $4,000 Of
the profits o fthe Ledger. Lantern and Light
originally cost him $500 he traded Light
for the BushEiek mare, paying s I,5sOtO boot
making the present team stand him j n$Il,-
600 a snug little sum, to say the least to
have wrapped up in one pair of horses. No
persons can. see Bonner lodging about among
the fast men without becoming convinced
thst publishing a story paper is not his only
speciality, for no person appears so much at
home and enjoys himselfs so well holding the
ribbons as does Bonner and not one can do
it with bstteF TASTE BE also purchased at
one of the recent races on Fashion Course,
S. Hoagland's Lady Palmer. She trotted in
80 drawing $50 pounds weight. Her motion
suited Bonner's eye, and he purchased her on
the spot paying it is said, $4,000. He mas
recently appeared with Lady Palmer and the
Bushwick mare together. We doubt ifthere
isa team in the world that can beat him.
Last year Vanderbilt Il team was considered
next in speed to that of Bonner's, but he IS
now usually compelled to yield that honour
to Mr.. C. Baker, importer, who now claims
that honour for his gray horse, and will not
give the road to any person, except it be
Bonner, without q tussle. Many a person has
made the effort to psss and been compelled 10
fall into the line behind him.
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt-the
white cravat and ministerial looking gentle
man-stil mingles with The fast men on the
road, and maintains his reputation Of being
one Of the coolest drivers, on Bloomingdale.-
BE has three or four bay roadsters, all Of
them quite fast, and never gives in to any
person evceptit is Bonner OF Baker, and those
gentlemen have to earn all the hOnours that
they get of with from the Commodore. No
person on the road take more comfort and
keeps up better spirits than does Vanderbilt
he seems to enjoy a ride a much as he does
the safe return of one of his famous steamers
from aproftsble voyage; and who would
not if he could have $40, 600 worth of horse.
flesh to do it WITH
One of the most notable turnouts of the
soberly respectable class is that of AugusI
Belmont, the banker. He invariably drives
four horses before an English "brack,H the
only carriage Of the kind in this country
He delights in handling the ribbons himself
and many a person has wondered who tina
aristocrstc looking gentleman was, sitting OF
the drivers seat, with a lady at his side
guiding two pairs-elegant bays and black
over the famous drives of the Contra
Park. He can be seen on almost any pleas
ant afternoon in the Park, with a lady an
one of his sons on the drivers seat, an
friends inside, moving about as though the,
werein Paradise.
= The carriage isl large and commodiOu
one, with seats wide enough to accommodate
three persons, and will seat twelve person;
\ including servants, the latter being placed i
the rear of the vehicle. It was built b
Brewster & Baldwin, of this city, and hi
whole establishment is valued at IS, 900, an
was considered the most elegant of the NJ
merous equipages that were at NewpoI
during the last fashionable season. Eccen
: tricity, comfort health, as well as pleasure
At are said to be the motives that lead him {
p appear in this unique style.
Of Mr. Edward Schermerhorn, of Great Jone:
street. a young bachelor, reputed to have a
/, income Of forty thousand a year, appears o
tie Central Park, drives with apair Of show
= milk -white horses, before g stylish %'four-i1
handi' carriage, the running part painted wit
!, rose-color and striped with cream, with gree
shutters Oh the panels of the body. E
usually makes quite a stir among the ga
: turn-outs on the Park, and was one of Ii
most admired, especially by the ladies,
the numerous equp2ges at Newport la
season. $4,000 is the amount that unit
reports to be wrapped in therig.
: Mayor Wood has changed a portion of h
Y horses, and now appears on the fashionab
ed drives drawn by a snowy pair Of iron gray
not very FAST but rather stylish, worth abO
$3.50
D General Winfield Scott, whose nan
Id heads that formidable list has the same eqJ
J. page that we noticed last year, being a lar
9 pair Of long tailed bays before a close ca
8 = rage.
Peter Cooper has improved his stock
horses, and now has four very good anim'
G. three bays and a black, but continues
r exhibit bis shabby looking carriage;
nit seems to have no fondness for display.
piIsp All the Astors show a fondness for I
70 fashionable drives. They also seem to
'e for comfort rather than show. Vim. B. 4
tor has several fine horses, but his Cent
a. Park rig has mostly been a bay team beforv
close carriage; his horses have a very styl
action, and have about them 8 substant
e~ appearance. Vim. B. Astor, Juny Of Fl
avenue, has perhaps about as much ambiti
for, display on the road as any of the fami
He has a pair Of large bays, full sixte
hands high, which are attached to a eli
- coach or covered rockaway. Henry As
- has been driving a crossed matched pail
On gray and 8 black, before a phaeton trimn
with corduroy, and has a coupe painted pal
e1- cd and trimmed with blue.
y. Vim. G. Bryant Of the Evening Post, is
ID, the habit of carrying out his free soil prir
pies by driving a fast gray horse befor
and light wagon; is invariably slone aud ma
a., quite a splurge, always appears IN a med
s 4 ting mood.
ne Cyrus W. Field, of Atlantic telegraph
torietg, has been changing his teams dur
the past years; he has now a pair Of b
n and q pair of greys, and appears alternat