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Manhattan Socialite Henry Bergh was 50 when he began to chase droshkies. One day in 1863 a St. Petersburg droshky driver was merrily lashing his horse in the Russian manner. Suddenly a smart carriage pulled alongside and Bergh, who was First Secretary of the U.S. Legation, bellowed to his coachman: "Tell that fellow to stop!" Obediently the droshky driver dropped his whip. First Secretary Bergh nodded approval, set out in pursuit of other inhumane drivers...
Dazed peasants in County Limerick, staring up this week from their fields, may have thought the Old Boy himself was whipping those demon horses and riding that painted coach down the road to Rathkeale. But it was the Irish Stagecoach, a spanking four-in-hand, with liveried coachman and guards, sounding an ancient English horn in the good Irish air. Revived by Viscount Adare, perhaps as a publicity gag for wife Nancy's holiday inn at Adare,† the stagecoach carries 25 passengers, will make three de luxe trips each week...
Died. Dr. Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, 87, founder and first President of the Czechoslovakian Republic: of pneumonia; at Chateau de Lany, near Prague. The son of a coachman, Masaryk worked his way through the Universities of Vienna and Leipzig to a Ph.D. in 1876. Two years later he married an American, Charlotte Garrigue, who died in 1923. After a long career of teaching and cafe politics, he founded his own political party, was elected to the Diet in 1907. With the World War, Masaryk, sensing the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, won the Allied powers to the cause...
...hostess,' said Tilley, coldly. 'Provided by the livery stable. Another dubious wonder of the modern world. In the event of emergency, she will be the one to walk to the nearest farmhouse, give the alarm, and be photographed.* Well, au revoir!' The coachman whipped up his cob, and the little party rumbled off along Fifty-ninth Street, Tilley brandishing his brassie with great ferocity at a horsefly. As we turned, we discovered to our surprise that the sidewalk, where he had paused a moment, was a pool of tears...
Undaunted by the impressive barouche drawn by two spirited plugs and a coachman with a fondness for beer, the CRIMSON nine (teen) soundly trounced the Lampoon's ball club 23-2 in the annual encounter on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. It was the 42nd game which the legitimate editors have garnered by the same score...