Year: 1876

IFrom New York correspondence Danbury News,l


Among the innovations which 10 have in the
coming warm season is that Of coaching. club Of
enthusiastic New York gentlemen have already started
a club in order bring coaching into fashion Last
wear the club did considerable driving from the city to
Jerome Park but II merely excited curiosity. The idea
Is to the American mind strange one II is simply
the revival OF the old passenger and mail coach drawn
by four horses or course, since the revival Is for
sport the coach rather fine affair, and the horses
something better in breed than those that formerly
drew the mail For the time was in this country when
We TOO had mail coaches No doubt the efforts or the
coaching club will result in the establishment oflveries
for coaches and that stabemen will during the summer
start coach excursions This is being done
Englsnd where the old coach has gone out OF fashion
and new ones popular pleasure are coming In We
cannot compete with the English roads adapted for
coaching villages so close together as those
Of the other country Moreover me sun hotter and
the roads more dusty Nevertheless II there were
no among the very class that would patron


xe the public coach the sport would become very pop
ular here and should have the fonkers coach, the
Greenwich coach the Nyack coach and the Paterson
coach To il is hard to get into Jersey
count OF salt meadows and the sand in you
nnd very hne drives After striking the Passaic
River any point there good roads
md, and after reaching the hills anywhere
from Orange 20 Paterson the scenery is very grand
But, really, the only available drives out
Of New York are northward the island;
tut doubt that there sufficient inn accommoda-
in that direction make coaching comfortable
There needs to be succession surprises 10 make
Inc sport really exhharatlng Yet II the sport coulu
be popularzed it would be very romantic. Dickens
seems TO exult over the coach. No man has so hung
Il round with romance. Remember that long coach
ride in the storm 'The Holly Tree lnn" II Is
the finest piece OF description | have ever read In


Beak House. he describes the scenery OF the country
road with its windmills rick yards, mile stones, farm
er's wagons, scents Of old hay swinging signs and
horse troughs. In the "Pickwick Papers " where Mr..
Pickwick perched upon the outside OF coach, the
description OF women and children working in the
helds Is pleasant but It not likely that the young
bucks Of our country going 10 DO pleased
with any such sights The sport Ia not really
gay one and I doubt that the average New
York American is one who appreciates the homely
pleasures OF country riding There plenty OF peo


ple how ever, even New York. who would enjoy ex


eursions occupying than days time, If they
could be cheapy supplied For instance ride from
New York to the Jersey highlands distance OF forty
miles, half the way being through very romantic
country would be pantronzed. The English post
coaches make mlks an hour and II our excursion
coaches make no time, the whole distance could
be made In Ave hours allowing time for changing
horses at the foothills The Highlands already be
reached in a two hours ride on the Midland Railroad


but OF course there be in the cars delightful
rhmpses scenery such would get from the top
OF a coach. have frequently been excursion OF
this kind In barouche and 1t is wonder 10 me tha,
the highlands are not more patronized-