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driving
Motoring has huft W. IN tao ways
,es,afks a nsu,ber ~ q great carriage
house 4ows ~ our best customers have
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~ venture on the roads behind horses, and
In sei protection ~ " we're, they llse
sttornobiles We gain aomething from an
Increasing demand for finely finished caf-
r,sgp parts for automobiles but W. only do
s,ch work on order and do not venture to
kaap such bodies In stock
There ha. never heen hetter market than
the present one at New York for the highest
,vpe of harness and saddle horses, while
here il a buyer for each aud every horse
placed on sals. The situation, In brief
fully iustiiies tho optimistic views in the
Two trades; and, ~ for the automobile
dealer. they are neither optimists nor pessi-
rrtsta but are merely standing pat In feel
ing of thorough confidence.
The last fortnight has been the crown
ing carnival of the year in coaching. for IL
has been dlstin nguished by the spring pa
,ades Of the Ladies Four in Hand Club
and the Coaching Club. The women whips
~ New York. who have mostly learned
m drive on the coaches OF their fathers or
brothers. form a class unequalled in any
ci,y. They maintain a club coach and
drive regularly each spring, usually with
a noted whip on the box "a mentor, and
when they drive out at the spring meet the
style is unsurpassed. The whips are Of
prominence as society leaders, and in 1895
when Mise Jean Reid drove, Ambassador
Reid was passenger.
Yesterdays parade OF the Coaching Club
was Its twenty-sixth spring meet, as the re-
unions are styled. The first was in 1879,
but there have since been four blank years,
1907 to 1900. The organization is limited,
and, as there IL always long waiting list, it
often happens that man who may be very
prominent asa hand whip in the park
or at the horse shows is not member. The
whips on the first drive were Col. William
Jaw, Frederic Bronson, Delaney Kane
Leonard Jerome, F. r. Rives and W. p.
Douglas Col. Jay has remarkable record
as whip in this paramount annual occa-
sion OF park coaching, which, with its model,
the spring meet in Hyde Park, London,
is the browning display Of each season in
town Of the highest type OF vehicle for pleas
ure driving, fine teams and the appoint
ments Col. Jay, as president OF the Coach
ing Club, has failed to lead the line in but four
drives with his yellow and green drag
and with Mrs. Jay on the box seat.
This In @ rule OF the Coaching Club, that
the wife or near relative Of the whip shall
be on the box seat. II there is a woman
relative eligible it is safe to say she will
he In the place OF honor, and weather per-
mitting, in very becoming spring costume.
1t somedmes happens that the whips
father may have the seat, as Theodore A..
Havemeyer rode with his son, G. +. Have
meyer in 1895, or 1t has happened that the
positions have been reversed. The rule
about the female relatives Is strictly OBJ
served, and it may often solve the quandary
Of bachelor as IA whom he should ask OF
the young women Of his acquaintance.
Occasionally, too, the earliest notice OF an
engagement has been the appearance OF
the young lady In this reserved seat. The
family relative rule does not hold for stag
parties and r. w. Rives, in closing the line
as vice-president. has frequently had such
q load made up Of club friends.
Col, Delaney Kane-the duty falls on the
vice e-president--headed the line in 1878,
when Col. Jay was in Europe. In the same
order the late Frederic Bronson, q very
stanch supporter Of coaching, led the
parade In 1890 and 1894, while last year
r. W. Rives had the post. In England
coaching traditions 60 back TO "the road
and the mail coaches. the drags being
lighter and neater variations brought in
by the amateur ooachmen. for the park
driving, but our coaching In the English
style is an exotic. American traditions are
a modern chronicle and mainly have TO do
with persons, They date, really, no fur
ther back than the first meet Of the Coach
ing Club.
In the early years the coaches formed
by the trees in Madison Square and there
were stately PROFESSIONS down Fifth avenue
to Washington Square and back again up
the avenue and, after the dismissal, an