The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-12

lies whose taste for horses has always been
pronounced. Col. Lawrence Kip has been
Tor years veritable treasure house of valu-
able lore concerning the trStters along
the road and their owners. The Turn
bulls, Lawrences, Jays, Sheppard
sons, Rives, Underhill, Sturgisps
and Nanderderbilts are names which
occur with remarkable frequency in the an
mails of the old Bloomingdale road years
ago, then of the Boulevard and finally, as
the city grew and encroached upon the old
resorts, of the region along the Macomb's
Dam drive.
Society in New York takes its tone very
largely from England in horsey matters.
All the young men in the smart set have
practiced until they can shift their cigars
from their mouths to the rein hand before
lifting their hats to the ladies Of their ac-
quaintance as deftly as that mirror of good
form and bad morals, the Prince of Wales
himself. The drivers salute which
one sees on London 'bus-that
rigid lifting Of the right arm with
the whip held perpendicularly-can
DO seen in its perfection any day on
Fifth avenue. The Coaching Clubs an-
nual parade on Fifth avenue is as fine a
sight as the parade in London, or James
Gordon Benefits famous appearance on the
+ Avenue de POpera and Champs Elysees in
Paris. 1t is becoming more and more the
custom every year to take the coaching
and carriage horses into the country
Ward McAllister has had his
month, off and on. Mrs. Cornell
ius Vanderbilt will have at Newport her
carriage horses, bought for $4,000 f. ON NJ
Thorne OF Paris, and driven by Napoleon
III old position Gulllot A Comfortable
section of the..ss Coaching Club Travelled all
the way from New York t. DR.. Seward
Webb's enormous place near Burlington
Vt, in four-in-hand pulled by relays of
horses.
The rise and increase of the passion for
coaching has created a demand for hackney
horses, and National Hackney Horse AS
ISOLATION has been formed to control and en-
courage their importation and breeding
Seward Weed John A. Logan, Jr., and A. J.
Cassett are prime movers in the enterprise,
and Mr.. Logan has imported from England
a considerable number of the hackneys. For
purposes of speculation this will do very
well, as anything English will sell in this
country, and some wretchedly st cky speci-
mems Of the genuine hackney beasts not
wo tn their passage across the Atlantic,
have taken prizes in their class in this coun-
try. But all lovers of the American trotter
and roadster will be sorry to see too great
an infusion into the trotting blood of the
country OF the coarser blood of the English
| horse.
A Norfolk or Yorkshire hackney who can
travel in better than three minutes is re-
garded, and justly. as marvel. Perhaps a
small element of the stout, serviceable
hackney strain would not harm American
carriage and buggy horses, but il is difficult
10 see why any one should care to import
hackneys in numbers except to crafty q
passing whim.
Akin to the present demand for hackneys
| is the curious passion there has always been
for "high-stepping, or sensational dress
parade horses for pulling the family car
riage. A stylish built team of horses, well
matched in color and trained to endure a
| cluelly tight check rein, who lift their feet
at every step as if picking their way over a
succession Of low hurdles, will always com
mand ready sale in New York. The action
is absolutely inconsistent with sustained
speed, but they look well in action, or rather
correspond 10 the requirements of a vicious
and unnatural taste.
The model carriage horse, to be driven
either Singly or to the pole, ma be of Mes
senger or Morgan blood or Hambletonian
or descendant of the great Mambrino fam
lily. He may be Of medium size and may be
below it; bis neck must be muscular at the
base and taper rapidly, his muzzle fine. eve
prominent and large, hips powerful, bones
fine and small, flesh well distributed. He
will be kindly in disposition if we'll trained
and viii be good for a reasonable degree of
speed for years. His gait will be natural
aud swinging. He will lie close to the
ground aud waste no time in perpendicular
action. He may be of any color to suit indi-
v1dual taste. With such a horse a reasons
BILE man may go down the roadn and be
happy. DAVID WEcHsLER.