Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1885-07-23
No. 3o
TALLY-HO FOLKS.
FOREMOST BELLIES AND BEAUx or
THE METROPOLIS.
Annual Parade of the Coaching Club
How Fashion shows Itself to the Com
mon Multitude at the Races
4 Drawback.
- York cor. Boston Herala. !

New York Cor. Boston Herald
Very Tesplendent was the Coaching club
ON its annual parade. As a spectator Of a
circus entry into town, you may have
abated your awe sufficiently 70 pity the be
decked women who. perched high ON the
bedizened chariots, with their faces and
fnery cruelty glared by the MONDAY sun,
were subjects of much shameful comment
and little genuine admiration Now here
were thirty 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
harnessed horses. Their clotle, were ex-
amples Of the latest brightness in spring
toilets; and the loudly blown horns Of bu-
glers announced their progress through the
most thronged roadways of Central park
Multitudes stared, cheered, and sometimes
Jeered. The exhibited section Of polite So
ciety posed audaciously atop Of the coaches,
making altogether including three men and
three women 10 each vehicle. sixty-six in
divid uals; and il was all quite correct. be-
cause our swells did it,
Something Of discord came out of the
Coaching club, but the cause was so dis
tinctly artistic, so purely aesthetic, that it
ought TO he construed as evidence Of the ex-
treme state Of culture among our people Of
highest polish. The trip up through Gen.
tral park, back down Fifth avenue and
into Madison square, had been attended by
satisfactory multitudes Of impudently star
ing spectators. AT several points the ex-
hibited bellies and beaux had been delight
fully the subjects OF insulting photogra-
pliers and sketehers, and altogether the
afternoon had been one of immense sue.
cess. Nothing remained but to climb down
the ladders from the coach tops with un-
revelatory grace, and 90 in 10 a dinner
in the Hotel Brunswick Plates were laid
for Ixty-fOur. The actual eaters were only
sixty-one. The three absentees were young
women in white rainent They went Just
in -hr0u IA the doorway. and saw that the
luxgriouly decorated hall was heated by
ga, burning within pink globes. They
were dlsmayed by the light The illumina-
tion gave a pink hue 10 everything on
which II fell Their white dresses under il
became roseate. Their compilations wouldn't
permit ad junctive raiment of that tint
Could the Objectionable glass be- remoyedi
Nc. Then the three belles would take them.
selves away from the hateful light They
dld 20, IN spite Of all beSeechment
There were races at jerome park three
afternoons of the week. On no other course
in America are the scenes which character
tze French and English horse-racing 50
nearly reproduced. The facilite, for fashion
to show itself To the common multitude,
without mixing therein, are peculiar. Tho
track is not a regular ellipse, for the long
side opposite the grand stand is 50 deeply in
dented that the horses, in going along that
stretch, are brought within fifty feet Of the
spectators. An abrupt hill is the cause Of
this eccentricity in the cirruit. And ON the
eminence stands the club house, accessible
only 70 members. who thus are placed right
in front Of the general Assem- blage
Some Of them come ia fifteen to twenty
four-in- hand coaches, with the ladies in
very gay toilets, and each vehicle with
a 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 crcus-like
coaches for the diversion Of il, instead of
taking the quicker trains ON the railroad
which has been extended to the course The
top Of a coach comfortably holds six per-
sons, and the division is usually equal as 10
three bellies 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 a. for ball, save that
arms and necks were covered and
the skirts had no length of tra:. There
open parasols ON every coach added TO the
resplendency, for these articles were of q
fashionably ample size. and they matched
the dresses in colors beside presenting an
audacity of decoration which wasn't risked
in the robes. The coaches a. they arrived,
one after another. in rapid succession, rolled
briskly across the sodded lawn al the foot of
the Llll, commanding the eyes of the IL 600
persons packed In the public stands and ON
the quarter stretch. Nimble lackeys i'm liv-
cry placed ladders, down which the ladies
climbed-a feat whose grace or awk
ness was not infrequsntly applauded or de-
rided. Then the dandes and bellies scat
tered about the hillside and vsrandas max
ing the most snowy Of figurants aud group.
and all the while palpably conscious that
they were exhibited.
Between races they had luncheons, some
going into the house for the purpose, but
most OF them eating and drinking, picnic
fashion, on the grass. The only drawback
10 their exclusive diversion was the tend
ency Of the democratic mass to guy them.
The pop Of a champagne cork would cause
cheers; and whenever girl skipped frisk-
lily there would arise exclamations Of rapt-
urous admiration. Nevertheless, these dis
plays of wealth have increased on success
sive race days during the week, and they
are augmented by many beside those who
go in tally -ho: so that the foreign mode
of going to the races may be said to have
this season become pretty firmly established
al jerome park