The New York herald., 1876-03-18
COACHING IN AMERICA.


GINA WATER COACH AND COLONEL KANE
THE COACHING REVIVAL IN AMERICA DAILY
ToUR-IN- HAND COACH FROM NEW YORK TO
PELHAM BRIDGE-THE ROUTE, FARES, TIME
TABLE. &C.
lFrom the Spirit OF the Times March IS
In England the popular taste for coaching has been
revived during the ait few years and the faded goes
OF The fashionable Four Hand Club have been
renewed with more than pristine lustre The revival
or all fashions rather than the creation OF new ones,
is distinctive feature OF modern civilization Thack-
eray's lament of the decline and decay OF coaching
gorcs longer appy-"Wherc are you, chariot
eersS Where are you, ratting Quicksilver o swift
DenanceS You are passed by racers stronger and
Bwiftcr than you Your lamps out, and the music
h your horns has died away Where the guards,
where the jolly teams, where the coaches and
where the youth that climbed inside and out Of
bhemS" A love for horscncsh is inherent in every
Enylishman, and Americans undoubtedly inherit the
Bamc taste 1t is, therefore, wonder that in
Hyde Park, London, dozen drags, each vying with
the other the quality OF its horses taste its
appointments and the skill of It's driver may be
daily during the season. Societies OF gentlemen have
started pubic coaches roads out of Lon.
don-coachcs which they horse with their teams
and generally drive themselves thus enabling them to
have all the pleasures OF private drag somewhat
reduced expense The Four in Hand Club of the pres
ent day comprises hfy-iou members, with the Duke
OF Beaufort, himself most accomplished whip,
Prcsiden. The opening day OF the season OF the
Coaching Club, early in May, Is memorable event TO
who has Witnessed that brilliant spectacle. long
PROCESSION of from thirty to forty magnificent turn
outs ranged three deep, with their superb teams OF
thoroug hbrcds extends along the drive Hyde Park
fom the Magazine along the Serpenne TO the Marble
Arch; all the beauty and fashion OF Lordon
society; all the most distinguished cclcbr-
lies tho worlds of siatecralt, politics,
art and literature viewing the and
helping to increase IT'S atractlvcncss But few years
ago and horse coach could not have been found
within hundred mios OF London yet last summer the
following coaches worked OF the metropolis -Tun
bridge Wells, Virginia Water, Brighton, Gmldiord
Windsor, Dorking demonstrating, Maidcnhead
High wycombe, Beckenham and ST. Adams, The latter
bas been working the ST. Adams road all winter and
II last accounts carrying good loads in spite of
lbe bad weather Nearly the whole OF these coaches
Are horsed by gentlemen of wealth and leisure and
arlvcn by them, tho excitement and romance of the
road" beng the sole nduccmcnt for thus assuming the
role and duties of the professional whip and which
they discharge with skill ana cxperness only deriya-
bic from extensive practice.
The starting point Tor all these coaches is the White
Horse Cellar, part o Hatchets Hotel, In Piccady.
II regular booking or ticket oilce" " should
ra H. where the business OF the coacnes is carried on
seats secured, Information gwen parcels and Luggage
sent &c. Here all the LonuOn passengers taken
mp and set down. but IN the country the coach stops
whenever hailed Punctualty in starting at tho
advertised is Invariably observed as 1t is made point
strict observance 10 arrive at each place "tabIo
time" In TACT, we have seen a coach 20 OF empty,
although every seat engaged and paid Tor a mo-
the load arrived but alas too late; the
'hind boot already far oil IN the distance. The
coaches run uahy, ram or smhe' saturdays
excepted; IN fact, In the various points of
punctuaity, regularity and despatch they quite
the equals OF their great rivals. the railways; |
while pleasure safety, comfort and thorough en- !
IOyment they far outsirp the latter Each coach has
Its guard, whose business 1t is, besides blowing the
horn that each passenger has, at starting, tho
engaged aud generally to be useful and look after
The comfort OF the passengers HIS aacrity In this re-
Ipect quckened by the prospective tp at the end
DI Tho journey
The following story has been so often told that il
must DC true. The present Duke OF Beaufort, the !
"Fathcr OF Coaching" and proprietor OF The Brighton,
was one day driving the coach, when she was hailed
and picked up rustic who was soon III warm discus
with tie guard about tue fare to the next village
son let hIm 70 lor a shilngln sung out the DuSe
ana was rewarded the end OF the stage with six
pence and warning not To let the guard see II ''or you
wall have 10 divide II with hm.
The coaches all well horscd the rule being ''a
horse mile. -. TINS is IN double coaches, or those
which and return the same DAY; SO II the distance
Is say twenty-five miles, there Will be twenty-five
horses to do It, Each stage rs about six miles long,
but OF course, II varies with the nature of the ground
travelled The pace is quite up 10 that OF the old mails
and lust coachcs-about twelve miles an hour while
rolling which makes abolt ten miles an hour stable
tune" allowance having 10 be made for changing
stopping, &c Very little time Is lost in changing,
the team stands ready harnessedi still time Tor
a glass OF beer, or stretching the legs, as the I'M
mortal Mr. Squecrs used say in his famous journey
down 10 Doheboys Hail. Lunch is always ready AT
the end oil the journey, and the "coachman presidcs
In the good, Od-lashioned way al the head OF tho
table on coach good nature seems to pervade every
one and all heartily welcomed All OF every class,
regard the coach with great The coach alter It
has become established, has regular patrons the
road who ride once twice week. and IN time como
10 be as old friends and great PRIDE does
The coach takO IN regular riders Much hospitality
Is shown tho road nowcrs, iruit, &c, often being
Ient out 10 the coach One house, on a well known
Af nnIn n lNNnN uCnE nlInr n
"Sherry Castle IRON the fact that sherry &C. Is sent
out to the coach the FIRST and last days OF the
son Ladies are great patrons of these coaches and
Often make up parties anu ana plvnies' taxing
the front seats The back seats, or tho
the road the right OF way universally conceded TO
lhc coach; every conveyance from the numbering
uagc wagon to the arstocratlc fourhh hand carriage.
snhcsilailngy giving way when the musical notes OF
hc guards horn announces tho approach OF the coach
cuecry greetings arc cxchanged The elevation oil the
elbow OF the whip hand beng the true professional
Iaiutation Througho the entire length of tho
route The different stages the regular uniform rrot
Of the magnificent team Is preserved alike IN the
crowded OF the city ana on the broad high road
OF the open country.
Tbc following good story which is tho bottor for
being true, is told OF well known banker,
whose son is to-day driving OF the
sboye.namcd coaches Ho tthc sonl FIRST
h.vsr wi,h coach in the country and ono Of those
busybodes always TO be iound IN village, being much
exercised over 1.-THE number OF horses he had pur-
chased In fact the very idea OF the thingsat down IN
great haste aud to the iathcr:-'Mr Charles IS
turning common coachman; be Is buying horses IN un
told numbers, ana thcy say ne has uHcaul spent
1000 " The good old bankers reply was as follows
ali my son Charles with his love OF horses, can get
his amusement for fl 900 am satisfied; Tor, II he
went on the turf might lose ten times that amount
In month, and with its gambling, twenty times IN
week; so | see great hcnent in his new sport and II
Mr. charles wants 81, 600 more he knows to whom TO
apply H. and, in conclusion, beg to state that tho
nav Messrs - & sons made their money was by at
lending TO their own business y The Is now his
hthrrs partner but this docs prevent his being
of the most accomplished whips tnat drives
coach out OF London
A gentlemen
OF tho coaches, which -, that no amateur-the FRO
prctors have been driving all their livcs, and can
scarcely be regarded amateurs-shall, any pre-
cxl be allowed have anything to do with the horses
"fwant 20 learn TO drive, and I'm thinking OF taxing