24 DRIVING AS I FOUND IT. 



Ascending the opposite hill enabled me to pull up, 

 when 1 found sure enough the pole pin had been left 

 out. 



Since 1876, when Colonel DeLancey Kane started the 

 well-known coach "Tally Ho" from the Hotel Bruns- 

 wick, New York, to New Kochelle, which first gave that 

 impetus to coaching and mania for driving in this 

 country, a great improvement in everything relative 

 to horses, carriages and harness has been the result. 

 The drive in Central Park can now compare favorably 

 with the Row or the Bois de Boulogne, both for quan- 

 titj and quality, except in one most particular point, 

 and that the most essential point of all — ^the private 

 coachman. When I speak of a coachman I mean one 

 who has been brought up from boyhood in good stables, 

 under good men, and knows his business thoroughly. 

 The first coachman to a lad}^ of fashion requires much 

 more knowledge of his business than people generally 

 suppose. Here every jolt must be broken, no swinging 

 of his carriage over the crossings in the street, no sud- 

 den pulls up or hitting horses with such bad judgment 

 as to cause a sudden backward jerk to the carriage. 

 There should be no stopping at doors so as to leave it 

 swaying backward and forward to the full extent of the 

 check braces and tlie discomfiture of its delicate and 

 fastidious inmates. The carriage must stari}, go on 



