486 COACHING CLUB TRIPS CH. XXI 



Coaching Club Trips. — It has been for many 

 years the custom of The Coaching Club at New 

 York to make one or two trips every year, driving 

 from the city to the residence of a member of The 

 Club, to spend a day there, and to return on the 

 third day. A coach belonging to The Club is used, 

 and teams, sufficient to cover the ground, are fur- 

 nished by members. 



The distance varies from 30 or 40 miles to So or 

 90, and one trip has been made of 317 miles, con- 

 suming four days, but driving only one way. 



The first of these Coaching Club trips was made, 

 on the invitation of a Philadelphia member, on May 

 4th and 6th, 1878, from New York to Philadelphia, 

 through Newark, Elizabeth, Railway, Metuchin, New 

 Brunswick, Kingston, Princeton, Trenton, Bridge- 

 water, and Holmesburg, a distance of 90 miles. 

 The time was from 6.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m., with a 

 stop of 40 minutes at Princeton for lunch, leaving 

 1 1 hours 20 minutes driving time, at a rate of 8 

 miles an hour. The hours on the return trip, Mon- 

 day, May 6th, were from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on both 

 days the arrival at the end of the journey was pre- 

 cisely on time. There were nine teams, the stages 

 being 10, 11, jj4, 7j4, JO, 10, 10, 11, and 13 miles. 

 The coachmen were Messrs A. DeLancey Kane, 

 Francis R. Rives, Perry Belmont, Theodore A. 

 Havemeyer, Hugo Fritsch, George P. Wetmore, 

 Frederic Bronson, George R. Fearing, and the 

 Philadelphia member, the present writer. 



