Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1876 — Aristocratic Coaching in New York. [ARTICLE]

Aristocratic Coaching in New York.

This is the latest novelty, and, like all novelties, in the beginning, it is well patronized. Common people wonder why a man of the social standing and wealth of Gen. Delaney Kane should become a stage-driver, and go to the expense of providing such an an outfit, merely as a personal pastime. But it is aptly replied that that is his business, and it is quite as honorable and praiseworthy as yachting, horse-racing or other occupations which our wealthy bloods engage in, and far better than spending money upon wine and dissipation, as some do. However, the coach is a fixed fact, and it is a novelty that has its fascination for the public as well as for the fashionables. The coach starts punctually at ten, and returns punctually at five, and the departure and arrival are witnessed by large crowds of curious people. The singular thing about the coach-riding is, that it is only the outside seats which are considered desirable, and, during the four days the coach has run, every outside seat had been held at a premium, while those on the inside have been at a discount, although finally occupied. If is nowstated that all the outside seats have been engaged as late as June 15, but there are plenty of inside seats yet to be taken. Col. Kane’s driving is marvelous, but it is an illustration of the influence of aristocratic ideas upon the police that they allow this coach and its tour horses to race through Fifth avenue at full speed, every horse on a gallop, and the guard blowing long and loud blasts upon his horn, unnoticed',while'an ordinary individual would be stopped on the first corner for fast- driving. One of the charming things about this new affectation is, that it is considered the proper thing at the conclusion of the ride to hand both driver and guard a fee—after the manner of the English—and, to make this the more ludicrous, it is gravely announced that a silver quarter for each passenger is the precise amoun t which etiquette- demands shall constitute the aforesaid fee. Verily are we Americans, or. I should say, we New Yorkers, celebrating an independence of Great Britain by aping some of her most foolish habits.— N. I . Cor. Chicago Tribune.