Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-05-06
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

The Coaching CMb-Poiitical-1he' ChH-
dren's Opera -Pictares - Fashions
Observation-Disclosures.
THE COACHING CLuB.
1t is % terrible thing to have too
much money. Indeed, ! am not GER
tain that it is not better to have too
little. The last agony OF young
New York. with too much money, Is
coaching. What is coaching? a
very simple thing. Men with fine
horses who think there is comfort
in the old fashion stage coach, went
to England and had built for them
old fashioned stage c0aches-just
such, gentle reader, as you saw on
the road thirty years ago, fitted out
complete with boot for baggage,
and everything else, as it was in the
days when coaches, or stages as we
call them, were the only means OF
conveyance. They put to them four
blooded horses, and they put them
selves in the uniforms of drivers,
and they load on the roof all their
lady friends, and they drive them.
That is all there is about it. 1t
means that a certain number of rich
young men choose to transform
themselves into stage drivers. There
is Il club Of these amiable lunatics
in New York, the head lunatic be-
ing young James Gordon Bennett,
the proprietor of the Herald. Last
Saturday the club made its first pa
rade. Seven stage coaches, rather
more costly in style than those you
used to see on your roads, drove up
in front of the Union League Club,
seven very rich young men habited
as coachmen took their places on
the seven boxes. forty five very rich,
and not at all beautiful, young Ia
dies mounted on the roofs, and with
the utmost solemnity the cortage
drove off, up fifth avenue to the
park, and back again. The streets
were lined with people to see this
procession, from Madison square all
the way TO the park; and if the OBJ
ect of the parade was to attract at
tention, the gentlemen stage drivers
may be congratulated. But isn't it
queer that in the day of steam men
should attempt so absurd thing as
the revival of the stage coach ! The
horses on these coaches are the very
best that money can buy, and they
are groomed to a degree that is al
most painful. BY the way, the alb
surd English fashion of cutting the
tail of the horse into the shape OF Il
club, has been adopted here. Pray
let it be confined to New York, for
it is as ugly as sin.
POLITICAL.
The Democratic State Convention
did two foolish things, WHIT en-.
dorsed Sammy Tilden and snubbed
John Morrissey. The Convention by
it's acts made it a certainty that
every Republican in the country will
vote his straight ticket, no matter
how much he may have been dispos
ed to bolt. For Tammany-John
kelly's Tammany-run the machine
from first to last. John MOrrissey
made a vigorous fight, but he was
routed, horse, foot, and dragons,
and the Kelly was left in complete
possession of the field. Tilden was
endorsed. and if he wins the nomi-
nation he goes before the people as
the nominee of the most villainous-
ly corrupt organization that ever eX.
i,+nd Ho snou into tho oan~oco os
the especial creature of the old
Tammany ring reorganized-the
Tweeds and Connollys under other
names. l have no especial admira-
zion for John Morrissey, but L must
say that he did make good fight,
aud an apparently honest one,
against these villains. But Tilden's
money, and the Tammany organiza-
ton were too much for him, and
down he went. The decent portion
of the Democracy of New York are
very sore oyer the result, and with
IA good candidate the Republicans
can easily carry the State. Tam
many has recovered from its defeat
last fall, and is as arrogant as ever.
Let the Cincinnati Convention give
the Republicans good candidate,
and let the St. Louis Convention
nominate Til,len, and we can carry
New York with perfect ease.
THE cHlLDEEN's OPERA,
SIN aid of the Centennial" stares
one at the head of every pleasant
project days, and people are
pretty well pillaged on one pretext
or another. The last was a very
pretty spectacle of "Cinderella" at
the Academy of Music, given by
two hundred and fifty children Of
fashionable families. Tableaux from
Mother Goose followed, and it was
a pretty sight, the curled darlings,
with flowing tlossy hair, and cloudy
silver spangled dresses, with gauzy
wings and wands as fairies, and all
the antic Mother Goose people
Red Riding Hood with her bask-
ct, the Sleeping Beauty and the Eli
Prince and it won plenty
Of compliments and plenty of dol
lars from the admiring families and
friends who filled the house. Per
,aps the best fun was the next day,
when the Young performers all went
Town to Morals, the Spanish artist,
who takes the beauties aud celebri-
les of the stage with such delicacy,
10 be photographed in costume. A
:lowd stood before the entrance to
;he gallery OH Broadway for hours,
% catch a glimpse of each snowy
lad little figure as it fed from man.
mas carriage up the steps. The