The evening times., 1901-10-08


coaching -Hc. against .s-n- .r-m Nrw
York 10 PEHaJ.r.ha aut r,.uu rnwur-
row is exciting .r- I....-r interest. mot
alone iu eraehn- ,.ro..-. l"t aw"nE
Ears.ruJ~ generally TIN. even. l.# l.""
arranged Ig Aruv.t- r. BovI.lt. OF \-"
York. who has sS-ar." "t,7 H..u uIw In o..
attaup. tn establish a record Alfred a..
Vanderbilt and >. H. Hrs. r. E.w l"rr.
The WORK Of arrg.-.w.u- ia. the DrT...-
Gus relays OF horses necessary IS s.-
going forward. but It is expected JhaJ a!
viii bo completed in tire Go permit Jh.
trip To BE- made.
Mr.. Howiotg who ha. wau.s.d many
loug-distance coaching runs iu France. D.
conSdent Of success. but thor. are maaE
horsemcn who. do not hesitate go say tH'
feat cannot Poe accomplished ai the hTsi
attempt. The roads ar. Do measure
strange to the cogehm,u. and IN places
very sandy. The horses have been S' lh-
cred from "a half dozen ai"e-,rt stables
and many have never worked DID teams.
The mtn who will be- relied on 10 assist
I'm making the changes al different points
along the road are for the most part 5l-
experienced some of them never having
seen four horses put TO "a coach.
IA the face Of these Obstacles the pro-
j,ct9rs Of the trip have framed "a sched-
ule which if carried out. will. it is said.
eclipse all lou--Jistauce coaching rec.
ords.
The start is to be made from the Il0l-
land House AT 5-s5 a. IN Crossing the
Twenty third Street ferry the coach is
due al Newark at 6 80 O'Clock. Here the
first change of teams is 60 Doe made.
From Newark tho route lies through
Elizabeth. Railway. MotUCben. and New
Brunswick.
Beyond New Brunswick the roads are
saudy and from th.s point To Franklin
Park a siN-horse team is To be used The
next stage is 10 the Lott fam. on Ten
Mile Run. This, too, IS over heavy
road. and six fresh horses viii Toe re-
Quirod TO handle the load. Other changes
ar to be made at Princltou. Trenton,
TIuytown, Bristol Coruv ailis, College
Vile. and Fraukford Luncheon Will be
served on the roof of the coach. bowling
along between Princeton and Trenton
If an goes well the coach viii pull up
at the Bellevue Hotel. Philadelphia. at
2.s5 O'Clock No stop is to be made. be-
yond the time required to change horses
for the fTSt stage of the return trip
AccordiuE To- the schedule arranged the
coach should reach tho Holland House at
10.sU o'clock at night. sixteen hours and
fOtty-five minutes after the morning
start.
Seyenty-two horses have been collected
for the tTip. Mr. Vanderbilt contributes
four teams, Mr.. Hyde thirteen horses, Mr.
lIgwlett ten horses and William Durland
eight horses. The remaining teams were
picked up wherever they could be found
and hired All the horses are TO De sta
toned along the route today, in readiness
FOR tomorrow run
The coach TO bc used is an imported
4 HrvrH..
built by Nihou < Quiet of Paris. Its
weight is about 300 pounds. The passen-
gers viii probably DE six in number.
Messrs. Vanderbilt Hyde and Hewlett are
TO take turns in driving.
Ger. Edward MorrgIl. who was associ-
ated with several other weu-known anna
teur whips in the notable coaching expert
ment made in 1924, when for two weeks
coaches were regularly run between New
York and Philadelphia. says that. while
Mr. Howletts "trip viii unquestlonably be
Interesting il viii hardly demonstrate
anything so far as real road coaching is
concerned.
In the coaching experiment in which
was associated with Nelson Brown,
Harrison X Gamer. Edward Browning
and T. RIttenhoUsy Miller. said General
MOTTeu today. we Tau "a bona nde pub
lie road coach There was no attempt 20
run against time The only time "a fast
trip was made was when. on Il wager.
] attempted to run the coach through I'm
thirty minutes, less than the schedule
time. ] succeeded i'm making the run In
thirty-tWO minutes less than the Sched-
ule time As far as We could figure the
total distance was ll2 miles and this was
done in twelve hours r. guI lTly. Forty
minutes were taken for lunch, and there
were two other stops Of five minutes
each Then there were twelve changes,
So that. figuring his time out IN VIII be
seen that our actual running time was
ten hours and f0rty-SiN minutes and that
D.. a g. |I "A n
Hewlett expects TO make twelve miles an
hour So that his time. even with special
cOuditiOTs for one record run. is but
mile ian hour faster than ours.
'Srch run as this that is cOutcmpiat-
ed. of course. does nos demonstrate road
coaching. any more than a trip made by
a specially fitted Pennsylvania train be
tween Philadelphia and New York
would demonstrate what train ser
vide every day Under such
egtcial conditions IL will not be ueces-
sary 10 spare the horses as We mad TO
spare them. when those that were left
by the coach going one way were taken
UP and again used on the same day by
the coach going the other way. Then. too.
there ism the same need Of spariUg the
coach. and class OF horses can Doe put
in that can run speedily. but that would
he unfit % haul, day after day. a heavy
road cOach. II must also hc considered
that In regular road coaching there
would be a certain number of ladies as
passengers, whose nerves must be c0nsid-
cred.
"Of course. ] do not know what Mr.
HoWlettS s. arrangements are, ard ] am
speaking from what I have seen Of the
project In the papers II would De possi-
BILE ] think. for one man 10 drive from
New York 10 Philadelphia and return. but
IL would be a very severe strain. u would
be possible 20 make the run in twenty
four hours. Mr.. Hewlett has an excellent
reVutatiC" IS a whip. and should be able
20 make remarkable record. While I
do not as I say. consider that such a run
demonstrates anything SO Tar real road
coaching is concerned I am Interested to
sec IL made as record TUu.
The trip made by General Morrell Is be
HeVed 10 be the fastest made by an in
dividual between the centre of Philadel-
phia and the centre Of New York Twelve
hours had been made before. anS subse-
quently MIR. Browning and Mr.. Gamer
made the run through but not in the
was his time thirty-twO minutes less than
the schedule but on the run the coach
was held up eighteen minutes at railroad
crossings. The AQuiduCck. with which the
record was established. was heavy road
coach weighing 2695 pounds and was
that such a vehicle should be provided
with. IL is probable that this was the
greatest distance ever made by so heavy
a coach I'm this country within twelve
hours. The distance which II is necessary
10 cover I'm coaching between New York
and Philadelphia is shorter than it was
in 1894. when the Philadelphia Suburban
Road Coaching Company was in existence.
so that instead Of the IL miles that Gen
cral MorTcu and the other whips Of the
company were obliged 60 travel. iT is
now necessary TO go less than 100 miles
TO run between New York and Fhiladel-
phia u IS estimated that in the Urip the
D. rrsFFT al. mil