Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1876 — A Defense of the Coaching Experiment. [ARTICLE]

A Defense of the Coaching Experiment.

A Western journal characterizes Col. Kane’s coaching experiment as “ the latest New York foolery.” Why “foolery !” we beg to inquire. Does the envious editor mean to say that fresh air and swift motion are things which a wise generation should not delight in? Has he really never experienced the charms of a ride upon the outside of a coach, when the roads have been fine, the proepects pleasing, the company good, the speed swiit and exhilerating? If not, he has missed one very good and stirring sensation, and he has evidently forgotten the thrill of delight with which when a boy he watched the mail-coach come rattling in to his village. The attempt to revive a health-giving recreation of old times is very far, indeed, from being foolish, and our Western friend, instead of enviously grudging us this small pleasure, would do better to urge his townspeople to imitate our example. There is no reason why every American, city should not nave similar coaches, by means oi which its citizens might enjoy suburban, rides under the very best conditions for health and pleasure. The experiment in. New York, which simply repeats here one of the acknowledged attractions of Londnn,is made by a gentleman of wealth and leisure, who can afford, it is said, to lose money in the gratification of his-inclina-tions. We hspe that he will makamoney, inasmuch as it is only by its being rendered profitable that we can hope for the permanency of this enterprise, or look to sec other coach-lines established. One coach a. day is glearly not enough for the man v who realjy must desire to avail themselves of an opportunity to enjoy a mode of locomotion which is second to horseback-riding only in stirring and health-giving qualities.— Applezone' Journal.