332 HIGH IV AYS AND HORSES. 



1879 the list of members (confined to one hundred) 

 was full, whilst many applicants for election were upon 

 the books. 



Both clubs meet twice a year, and generally at 

 the Magazine in Hyde Park, though the Four-in- 

 Hand Club do sometimes meet on the Horse Guards 

 Parade-ground in the Green Park. The Four-in- 

 Hand Club's first meet is always on the Wednesday 

 before the Derby. The members of these clubs after 

 the meet is over generally drive to Greenwich, 

 Richmond, the Alexandra or Crystal Palaces, the 

 Orleans Club, Hurlingham, or some convenient place 

 at which to dine ; the Orleans Club has for some 

 time past been wound up, but it used to be a very 

 favourite rendezvous for the coaches. In 1874 Major 

 Furnival opened the Road Club in Park Place, and 

 Mr. Herman very shortly after this established the 

 Badminton Club at 100, Piccadilly, where there is 

 capital stabling for fifty horses. The Road Club keeps 

 a coach for the use of its members during the season, 

 and the Badminton has alwavs one or two teams, 

 with a coach, brake, etc., in the yard. The Duke of 

 Beaufort is president of both these clubs, as he is 

 also of the Four-in-Hand and Coaching Clubs. 



I give an extract from a report that appeared in the 

 Sporting Gazette, during the summer of 1881, with 

 regard to a meet of the Coaching Club. This corre- 

 spondent says that " on this occasion, Count Munster, 

 the German Ambassador, and a very enthusiastic coach- 

 man, was about the first arrival ; he was soon followed 

 by Captain Bill and Major Dickson, the latter driving 

 the coach of the Badminton Club, which," this corre- 

 spondent goes on to say, " is the local habitation of the 

 Coaching Club. Major Dickson, who with Captain 



