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COACHING CLUBS 



CH. XXIV 



There are Clubs in other cities of the United States. 



In Paris, there is, besides 'La Cercle des Gtiides' 

 which is a French Club, 'The Reunion Road Club,' 

 formed in 1893 with the object of encouraging road- 

 coaching. 



Its members are : — 



Chester Arthur. 

 Frederick 0. Beach. 

 O. H. P. Belmont. 

 Perry Belmont. 

 J. G. Bennett. 

 Marquis Du Bourg. 

 Frederic Bronson. D. 



COMTE DE CARCARADEC. 



Henry R. A. Carey. D. 

 A. J. Cassatt. 

 William P. Douglas. 

 George P. Eustis. 

 William C. Eustis. 

 Captain Pryce Hamilton. 

 T. A. Hayemeyer. D. 

 Eugene Higgins. 

 . C. Oliver Iselin. 



William Jay. 

 Delancy A. Kane. 

 De La Haye Jousselin. 

 Vicomte de La Rochefou- 

 cauld. 

 Prescott Lawrence. 

 Baron Lejeune. 

 donatien levesque. 

 Forbes Morgan. 

 Henry Ridgway. 

 Reginald W. Rives. 

 Fairman Rogers. 

 J. R. Roosevelt. 

 F. K. Sturgis. 

 William G. Tiffany. 

 William K. Vanderbilt. 

 George Peabody Wetmore. 



The rules and customs of the Meets of Coaching 

 Clubs are simple, and adopted principally with the 

 view of ensuring a certain uniformity. 



At the Meets of the Coaching Club in New York, 

 the coaches take a front load only ; the wife of the 

 owner, if he has one, takes the box-seat ; there are 

 two ladies and two men on the front roof-seat, the 

 back of the hind roof-seat is turned down, and the 

 two grooms are in the rumble. These rules are not 



