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DRIVING AS I FOUND IT. 



stopping the traffic would pull to tlie near side (middle 

 ot the road, and go on. It is wrong at any time to pasjs 

 between a vehicle and the curbstone, or sidewalk, as 

 some do. There should be but one way to pass each 

 other when going the same way, and that the rij^ht way. 



It is a positive fact that a good coachman can drive 

 with more ease to himself in London than in New 

 York, although the traffic is greater, the streets nar- 

 rower, and in a good many instances have short and 

 awkward turns. There iie has only to look out for 

 himself. So long as he is doing ^hat is right and proper 

 he knows that e^erj- other driver will try and do the 

 same. 



It was in the year 1880 that one of the best known 

 gentleman whips of England, the Duke of Beaufort, 

 being on a visit here, was invited by the owner of a 

 fast and well-appointed road coach working between 

 New York and New Eochelle to diive a stage. After 

 looking over the coach and complimenting the owner on 

 the way in which it was horsed and turned out, his 

 Grace replied: "I could drive your horses, but I should 

 not know which side of the road to drive on," a con- 

 clusion he had come to no doubt from riding on a Fifth 

 avenue stage. 



To some extent we must make an excuse for the care- 

 less way in which the stages are aUoAved to dawdle up 



