Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-06-28

think that many cities are provided with bet
ter drive ways than St Nicholas or Central
avenue. They are of Q stiff red clay, and
the time that the horses make upon them is
made against great odds. We are obliged
in building q race track here to use more
loan than is used almost anywhere else IN
the country. Moreover, the roads lead away
from the sea and the rivers directly inland,
and could not traverse less attractive country
If those who opened them had sought to
have them undressing. The Wissahickon
drive of Philadelphia, the Druid Hill Park
ana the shell road Of Baltimore, and the
Lake Ponchsrtrain drive from New Orleans
are all enchanting. Apparently only New
York among the great cities is poorly of IN
this respect. Railroads and suburban set
Elements have ruined its environs for the
purpose. Yet there could not be anything
more interesting to a lover Of horsefesh
than the spectacle on what we call .the
road" either in the sleighing or the wheeling
season. Conspicuous men, noted horses,
and models Of ightness and beauty. IN
vehicles fash by in numbers u~uapproached,
except in Rotten Row, London, and at a
speed not to to be seen in so many instances
anywhere in the world. The favorite drive
is up Seventh avenue, through Central
Park, across to McComb's Dam bridge, and
up TO the door OF that rural looking and
ancient house of call, Judge Smiths. No
thoroughbred horseman, not excepting Van
derbilt behind Leander and Bay Dick,
resists the impulse to. stop there, ayowedly
to wet up, but in reality to see and here
.ha g -, 4ha rno1 aanh Aou Uhof FuUQ WQU
or smash up has taken place, and what I'M
known and formidable horse has been giving
the boys his dust. The rein is given to the
horses from Judge Smiths door, and from
there they spin along Central evenue as far
as You please, past Gsbe Cases hostelry,
which is the return resting place. and the
vantage point from which to see the speed.
ing.
1t may sound ike an Irish bull, but it is
nevertheless true, that the only attractive
drive New Workers have is in Brooklyn.
Many believe that after the great bridge
dement's the cities our own drives will be
abandoned in favor of this We speak OF. |
refer to the Ocean Parkway, between Brook.
Ign and Coney Island, on which the Brook
lyn Ring has showered millions. 1t rams
five miles in q bee line from Prospect Park
to Coney Island, through a rich farming
country. 1t is three roads In one the GEN.
trail throughfsre being wide enough to give
ample room to twenty teams abreast. This
is bordered by shade trees, and thanked by
two narrower drives, each wider than Broad
way. Taverns dot the sides, and the fleshly
Brooklynites have cut outlets from the main
I.,ro - frn,,t sc oonh foyarp
Both the men and women of New York
dote on billiards, and such bright and shin
ing lights as Slosson, Sexton, Schaefer,
Kavansugb, and GARNER, who used to be
with US, ~have.collected many easy dollars by
tutoring the bellies, and ever their staid
papas, in their homes, which nowadays are
incomplete without a billiard table. One
gees The hest-known New Workers at all the
big blizzard matches; and billiard halls
VII, rein the poor mar learn at even greater
cost than the rich are a. plepty as buttercups
in q Jersey pasture. The most pslatial one
Of II is the White Elephant, on Broadway,
which has twenty tables on one floor, an
enormous room, carpeted and hung With
tapestry and costly ornaments. Beneath
this parlor are the bowling alleys and rifle
galleries the most costly and complete in
town. Elsewhere are wine, aud card, and
dining rooms. New York women have
taken to bowling, also, and to pursue that
psstime they are forced to go to the regular
alleys. For this purpose they form clubs
and hire alleys for certain regular nights.
They take to bowling in the first place to
kill ennui in the summer at the seaside.
There they dress as usual when they roll the
balls, but on their club nights here in town,
when they have an alley or two all to them.
selves, they veal short and wide skirts, and
loose sleeves to give their limbs full play.
There are always as many men as women IN
the cldbs, and thus protected they drink
their wine and lager and stay out late, ex-
actly after the example the men have set
for ages.
There is q good deal of dog and cock
fighting going on in the suburbs, and the
matches are regularly reported in the daily
papers, but names and addresses are never
given, because the law is strict and the
sporting men are wary. The curious thing
about these sports is that they are promoted
by the members of our most respectable and
wealthy mercantile and social circles. Where
ever they are assembled in large numbers,
as in Astoria and along the East River
shore, Staten Island and such fashionable
settlements as New Rochelle, dog and cock
pits are sure to be well supported. There
could hardly be q greater sensation than the
publication of the names Of those that |
have seen betting and drinking, and cheer
at a cock fight in New Rochelle.
The New Yorker has enough of yacht
and boat club houses to form a little Venice
of frame houses, and he is fond Of rowing
and is a skilful sailor. He fishes with the
enjoyment OF a child and the patience of a
statue, and he is forever rushing into bath
ing trunks at the seashore. Yet he cannot
swim. You catch a rars avis when you find
a born,and.bred New Yorker who can swim
The reason is that, though he is surrounded
by water, it is everywhere deep and always
dirty. There is no where a sheltered shelly.
ing bank to learn upon.
The New Yorker will pack a hall to see
q boxing match, but he is seldom seen TO
put up his own hands. The handle oil a
revolver protrudes from more than half the
hip pockets in town, but the weapons are
very seldom fired, and the huge town has
never supported more than one first class
rifle and pistol gallery at a time. Our Ger
man residents on the contrary, are extrava-
gantly given to trials of Workmanship, but
It is only with darts and paper bulrs.eyes.