New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-11
COlCHING IN AMERICA.

THE PROGRESS IN fOUR-IN-HASD hNlNG-IHE
AMERICAN sUPERsE DING TIE ENGLISH COACH.
Coaching is one of the imported pastimes for
wealthy men which has taken strong root In this coun-
try aud is growing steadily IN favor To own afour IL
hand Is about n par with the luxury OF ownlngA
Yacht rs regards the pleasure one can give his friends
and the Importance it cOnters its The COM
parson with yacht might be carried sill farther for
both need strong guiding hand and watchfu eye both
Of them pitch and roll less and both arr liable to
collision and capsizng with an unskillful skipper
Fast in the height OF Their per-
fiction when railways we're introduced and may he said
10 date from ls2Jor earlier. IL was not nntll ABOUT
the year 1854 however, that amateur coaching was
started, when August BclmOnts gaiy-painied drag
awoke the echoes and the envy of Fifthave. Leonard
Jerome was also pioneer in this new English pastime,
first driving break and afterward drag. Mt Jefon
was the first to drive American made coach.
In 1879 the Coaching Club was founded by Leonard
Jerome James Gordon Bennett, Frederic Bronson
william jay. Delaney Kane, Thomas NewOod, William
p Douglas s Nicholson Kane and A. Thorndike Rice.
The Club owned seven coaches all being OF English make
except Mr. Jeromes No person belong To the CluD
who does drag except he he son oi member
who IL part owner of an establishment. The style or
coach adopted the old mail coachwlth the difference
that the English coach carried no passengers behind
The guard Oh the old English coach used TO be perched
over the hind boot and would sound his horn TO warn
other vehicles out of the way This was the privilege OF
vehicle carrying the mall for the protection OF when
the guard was armed with deadly blundrrbuss' Mr.
Fowncs the father of Colonel Kanes guard relates WIN
sto how he used TO drive the ma-coach from Lohuoh
Co Hastings.
The coaching men also have uniform consisting ola
rsn resscoat with black velvet collar bnf or white
waistcoat and black trousers. Every spring they drive
off for three days outing house IN the country,
and in the latter part Of May give their annual parade
for which the boxes are more coveted than n
tatIous TO the Patrarehs balls During me summer ana
often take long drives with relays OF horses through the
P md Idm island They are as a rule solid quiet
gentlemen OF leisure and much given 10 tradng horses
for roans then for irongrays chesnuts bays.
Colonel Kane likes coach-horse TO De ABOUT nIeen
hauls high and weigh $50 to 200 pounds ZONE OF
fine members prefer heavier horse. Slowly but surely
the American made coach has gaied on the Lnglisn I'M
the Cub The Tsntivy and Pioneer which have 0een
run Pelham and YonkerS are both % American F ake
rick Gebhard PayemeyfrR flsIe Roosers
Bowd9 and Mr. Jerome Mham int has pG Sasn rsno
waited so much that II Is as good as nauraiLed Inc
O0ghy English dg' p are 5h 0Sd %armsG Rorsrs
both of Philadelphia; q. e. Haven William JAY, Colonel
Kane F. II, Riycs and g. p Weim9re. ,,,,. 49,,
Drrwstcrs, of Broadway and Forty-e.Shth-st.. are
making three coaches for Chicago men anu TWO Tor hos
They have S also Of bSS sboR that the Object OF
the Coaching Club to encourage fonr-n-hand driving
I'm America" IL being successful. Oht Oh Inc P.lu'so
drngs ever turned out by this firm IL f. d. Moryns IL
Ia light drag, only weighing 200 pounds III Il inc
opulon Of mny that the coaches naae ~ Al,itrl'an
woods stand the climate better than the English VI
course they patterns OF the latter IN all ese
rial features Their owners do not have 10 stand tue
thirty per cent duty levied the imported vehicles
The Coaching Club makes its headquarters at the mick
crhDckcr Club House and numbers about thirty.
Colonel perhaps the typical coaching man IN TINS
country holding position similar to that long held Dy
The Duke of beaufort In England Lord Beehive and
Lord Maccesfcld among the coaching reIiyalists
Mar Club coach on It's daily trips in summer by which
hundreds have enjoyed the exhlaration OF ride nehd
sixteen rattling hoofs with cracking WHIP AMI are
sounding horn.