The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-06-02
DELANEY KANE's COACHING,
The Four-in-Hand Amusement in New
York-GentIernen Stage-Drivers.
New York Tribune.

.. NEW 1ork Tribune.
The visitor to London, who strolls down
Plccadilly about five o'clock in the after
noon, will be struck by q small crowd Of
persons gathered in front of the venerable
Hatchett's Hotel (where Nelson used to
iodge), and gazing expectantly westward.
PRESENTLY an old-fashioned yellow mail
coach thunders up from the Hyde Park
side, the four smoking steeds ecme to 4
stand exactly at the door of the White
Horse Cellar, and the coachman-who NAV
be OF any rank, from simple gentleman
TO a most noble duke-becomes the focus of
admiring eyes, as he filings the ribbons to
groom and wipes his heated brow. The
entire turn out is his property; having re-
vlVed the four-in-hand as manly pastime,
ne adds an original touch by reyiving also
the extinct stage coach, and running it in
the service of the public. Day after day,
rain or shine, he mounts his box at the ap-
pointed minute, cracks his whip, starts TO
the flourish of the guards horn, and pune
tually carries his load of passengers and
luggage over the twelve or twenty-mile
route he has chosen.
The visitor to this city may now witness
similar spectacle, every morning and
evening in front of the Brunswick Hotel.
If he beholds the start, it will be braver
sight than London can show. The yellow
coach, with its four outside and eleven in
side passengers is the same; but the spank
ing steeds carry boquets at their left ears,
and the coachman, Col Delaney Kane, in
his white hat and top coat, is certainly a
more gallant-looking Jehu tLan the most
of his English brethren. His passengers
are of the first families, and their destina-
tion is the old Lorrillard mansion on the
sound, near Pelham bridge. They will be
driven the sixteen miles in an hour and q
half; they will have four hours for rest and
a lunch in the mansion, now hotel, and
will return in another hour and half. a
real English guard, with real English
stage-horn, is perehed on the rear box, and
his unaccustomed footing is divine music
to the ears of the proudly smiling bus
drivers as sthey pass. They are not a bit
jealous of Col. Kane's glory, those weather
beaten old fellows; their Union has given
him no varying, but on the contrary they
are the heartiest II applauding his coach
manship. In short, "the New-Rochelle
and Pelham Coach,'' is regularly advertis-
ed, with the additional inducement of "s5
pounds of luggage to each passenger free;
parcels carried at moderate rates and pune
tually delivered "-is an immediate and
remarkable success. Although it only be-
gan running on Monday, the seats are en-
gagged for six weeks in advance. AS Colonel
Kane has announced his service for the
whole season, we can therefore compute
the financial result of the enterprise. The
passenger fares each. day will amount to
$40 Or $4,000 for a season of $50 days.
Luggage and parcel delivery, to which we
may add the customary "tip" or gratuity
to the coachman, will probably increase the
sum total to $4,000. Deducting from this
the running expenses, including left ear
boquets for the horses, interest ON the in
haflf-years Wages-equal to the salary Of
cashier or first-elass bookkeeper, and
much more agreeablY earned.