New York by sunlight and gaslight : a work descriptive of the great American metropolis ; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu . eresting. Themeet is always at the Hotel Brunswick, which isgayly decorated for the occasion. The coaches aredrawn up in line, led by the turn-out of the presidentof the club, and the route is up Fifth avenue to 59thstreet; through the Park to Mount St. Vincent; backto the avenue ; down that street to Washington Square,and then along the avenue again to the Hotel Bruns-wick, where the parade is dismissed. Then followsthe annual club dinner at
New York by sunlight and gaslight : a work descriptive of the great American metropolis ; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu . eresting. Themeet is always at the Hotel Brunswick, which isgayly decorated for the occasion. The coaches aredrawn up in line, led by the turn-out of the presidentof the club, and the route is up Fifth avenue to 59thstreet; through the Park to Mount St. Vincent; backto the avenue ; down that street to Washington Square,and then along the avenue again to the Hotel Bruns-wick, where the parade is dismissed. Then followsthe annual club dinner at the hotel. The avenue andPark drives are lined with carriages and equestrians,and the windows of the mansions along the route arefilled with bright and smiling faces. The fashionableworld is out in all its strength, and is reinforced bycrowds of dwellers in the less select circles of the throng is so great, that along the entire route theprocession is obliged to pursue a slow and statelypace. This enables the richly-dressed ladies who fillthe seats of the drags to show their millinery togreater advantage. Care is taken by the fair riders. 264 NEW YORK. to make the colors of their dresses harmonize with thaprevailing tints of the coaches, and* each turn-out, as itflashes by, is a study in form, color, and grace ofmovement. The avenue and the Park drives at suchtimes are musical with the long-drawn notes of thehorns of ths outriders of the coaches, and the clear,soft sky of the May afternoon gives a glow to thescene that .greatly heightens its beauty. Truly Coaching Day is an enjoyable occasion,both to those who take part in the performance andto the lookers-on. Colonel Kane well deserves thethanks society for his efforts, for he has not onlygiven it a new sensation, but a healthful and innocentpleasure. During the season the drags may be seen dailyon the avenue, or in the Park, and at the races theyform a prominent feature of the scene. MADISON AVENUE, 265 CHAPTER XVI.
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