The evening world., 1894-06-06
3IS MILES BY COACH,
DR.. Seward Webb Tools on the First
Stage of the Trip to Vermont.
But His FelIow-W Whips viii Take
Turns During the Journey.
Start Made from the Hotel lsruns-
wick at $50 This Morning.

Ten members Of the New York Coach
ing club started to-day on n journey of
3lS miles, requiring forty relays and
eigh. " horses.
They will he Or. w. Seward Wchb's
guests at %Shclburne Farms. near Bur
lington, Vt, and it will take them four
days, driving an average Of nearly
eighty miles IA day. To complete the
journey. 1t will probably be the longest
coaching trip OF which there is amy
record during the last half II century.
Promptly at $50 o'clock, the scheduled
time. the coach departed from the Hotel
brunswick. The start was witnessed
)yseveral hundred people. while thou
sands of others in the windows of aris-
tocratic mansions on Firth avenue
watched for the coach to dash by.
DIR. Seward Webb was the whip, but
every m Of the party will take
turns at driving the coach. II Is one OF
DIR. Webb's, and presented an exceedingly
smart appearance with its white body and
black running gear. Tn leaders for the
relay to Kings Bridge, a distance Of
ten and n half miles. were IA spanking
team of bays, and the wheel horses were
chestnut browns. Each of the four
horses was decorated with a huge yellow
rosette just below the outside ear. These
rosettes correspondent to the yellow
buttJniers of the c1achmen. all of whom
wore the regulation coaching coats and
tail hats.
Those in the party, in addition to DR..
Webb, were a. j. C~assatt, Nelson Brown
and Col. Il. .Morrell. Of Philadelphia; +.
<, Sturgis' Reginald w; Rives. Prescott
Mills and Theodore A. Havemeyer. The
last two were picked up at the Plaza
Hotel. An of these gentlemen are ex-
1t was given out that w. X. VAN
derbilt and eX-Secretary w. c.. Whitney
would be of the party, but these gentle
men are in Europe. They contributed
teams and attendants, however, as dill
also Perry and Oliver Belmont and ali
or the gentlemen who are in the coach
Ing. party.
The coach rolled into Kingsbridge on
time, at $50, the first 10 IL miles having
been made in one hour and fifteen min.
utes Here fresh horses were hitchei on
and the coach, still on time. dashed away
Ior a point 63,t miles distant and two
miles north OF YOnkers, where the third
relay of horses had been stationed.
Ten changes of horses will be made
each day. The teams used to-day will
be sent on by special train for the
row Will be forwarded by train for
work Saturday. Even by this method
IL Will take eight horses to complete
the trip.
Mr.. Cassatt was to relieve DR.. Webb
of he whip at Tarrytown and F.. X.
Sturgis was to relieve Mr.. Cassatt at
North Croton.
The party was to take luncheon at
Sing Sing, where the coach was due to
arrive at 1910. The special dining car
Elsmere, equipped with everything that
can be desired, Is following the coach
ers by rail, n in it they will eat most
of their meals. DR.. Webb supplies the
transportation, but the other expenses
of the novel trip are borne equally by
each member OF the party.
The coach Is due at I o'clock tonight
at Poughdkeepsie, "A distance Of 81 Ia
miles. To-morrow's journey will land at
Troy and comprise 81 12 miles. Friday
the party will travel 50 miles to Rutland,
and Saturday evening at 6o'clock the
members expect to roll up the great
driveway to Shelbourne Farm. where
they will remain until Sunday, when
they will go out on Lake Champlain on
DR. COTS steam yacht.
The entire party, including horses.
Will return by rail.