The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-08-21
TALLY-HO FOLKS.
FOREMOST BELLIES AND BEAUX OF
THE METROPOLIS
Annual Parade of the Coaching Club
How Fashion Shows Itself to the Com
mon Multitude at the Races
Drawback.



Nery resplendent was the Coaching club
on its annual parade. As a spectator of a
circus entry into town, you may nave
abated your awe sufficiently to pity the be-
decked women who, perched high on the
bediZened chariotS, with their faces AMI
finery cruelty glared by the monday sun,
were subjects of much shameful comment
and little genuine admiration. Now here
were thirty three of the foremost bellies of
the metropolis, maidens and young wives,
all reputable for social worth. voluntary
exhibits in precisely such a cavalcade- Their
seats were on the lofty tops of gaily painted
coaches, drawn by double teams of jingle
messed horses. Their clothes
ample; IF the latest brightness in spring
toilet: and the loudly blown horns of bu-
gIers announced their progress through the
most thronged rOadwayS of Central park
Multitudes stared, cheered, and sometimes
jeered. The exhibited section of polite
ciety posed audaciously atop of the coaches,
making altogether including three men and
three women to each vehicle, sixty-six in
divd uals; and it was all quite correct, be-
cause our swells did it.
Something of discord came out of the
Coaching club, but the dis
tinctly artistic, 50 purely eesthstfc, that it
ought to lie construed evidence of the ex-
treme state of culture among our people of
highest polish. The trip up through Cen
tIdl pdTh, DuCh uOWH TlLtu dNeuue
into Madison square, had been attended by
satisfactory multitudes of impudently star
ing spectators. AT several points the
hibited bellies and beaux had been delight
!, fully the subjects of insulting photogra-
piers and sketchers, and altogether the
afternoon had been ono of Immense sue
cess Nothing remained but to climb down
the ladders from the coach tops with I'M
rovelatory grace, and go in to n dinner
in the Hotel Brunswick Plates were laid
for sixty -four. The actual eaters were only
sixty-one. Tho three absentees were young
women in white raiment. They went just
in through the doorway: and saw that the
luxurio,isly decorated hall heated by
gas, burning within pink globes. They
were dismayed by the light. The iIlumina-
ton gave a pink hue TO everything
which it fell. Their white dresses under it
became rOseate. Their complexionS wouldn't
permit adj junctive raiment of that tint.
Could the Objectionable glass be rcmoveds
No. Then the three bellies would take them
selves away from the hateful light They
did so, in spite of all beSeechment
There were races at Jerome park three
afternoons of the week On no other course
i'll America are the scenes which character
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nearly reproduced. The facilities for fashion
to show itself to the common multitude,
without mixing therein, are peculiar The
hlNA - licb u ulil tiilitsc, ioI the long
side opposite the grand stand is so deeply in
dentel that the horses, in going along that
stretch, are brought within fifty feet of he
spectators. An abrupt hill is the cause of
this eccentricity in the circuit. And on the
emnence stands the club house. accessible
only to members, who thus placed right
In front OF the general assem- lage.
Some of them come i'll fifteen to twenty
fourth hand coaches, with the ladies In
very gay toilets, and each vehicle with
n bug.er loudly blowing. The drive from
the Murray Hill section of the city is about
eight miles, through Central park and pic
turesque country roads, and many stage
loads of sightseers follow the circUs-like
coaches for the diversion of it, instead of
taking the quicker trains the railroad
which hos been extended to the course. The
top of coach comfortably holds six per-
sons, and 1he division is usually equal as to
sex Thus each roof holds conspicuously
three lelles whose costumes. faces and man
ners are subjects for critical scrutiny by
thousands.
Out of thirty two who were noted on this
occasion by the writer, four wore bright
red, five blue, one yellow, eleven white with
colored ribbons, one purple, one green, and
the rest slightly less brilliant hues
The styles Of the garments were as
elaborate rs for a ball save that
arms AMI necks were covered and
Inc ShltEH mai no length oI tran. There
open paraSols ON every coach added to the
respicndency, for these articles were of a
faShionabiy ample SIZE and they matched
the Dresses in colorS, beside presenting an
audaelfy of decoration which wasn't risked
IN the robes. The coaches they arrived
one after another, in rapid succession, rolled
hriSkly across the sodded lawn at the foot of
the hill commanding the eyes of the IL 600
persons packed in the public stands and on
the quarter stretch Nimble lackeys in hv-
cry placed ladders, down which the ladies
climbed-a feat whose grace or awkward
ness was not mfrequently applauded or de
rided. Then tho dandies and bellies scat
tered about the hillside and verandas max
ing the most snowy of figurants and groups.
and at the while pafpably conscious that
they were exhibited
Between races they had luncheons some
goinc, into the house for the purpose but
most of them eating and drinking, picnic
fashion, on the grass. The only drawback
to their exclusive diversion was the tend
ency Of the democratic mass to guy them
The pop of a champagne cork would cause
cheorsi and Whenever a girl skipped frisk-
NY there would arise explanations of raDt-
urouS admiration. Nevertheless. these dis
plays of wealth have increased on success
s1ve race days during the week, and they
are augmented by many beside those who
go in q tally Tho; that the foreign mode
of going to the races may be said to have
this season become pretty firmly established
at Jerome park