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Wednesday, July 27, 2005
1882 Engraving Shows Opening of Coaching Season From Hotel Brunswick to
Pelham Bridge
On February 11, 2005, I posted to the Historic Pelham Blog an item
entitled "Col.
Delancey Kane's 'Pelham Coach', Also Known as The Tally-Ho, Is Located".
The item detailed a little of the history of the the Pelham Coach that
began running between New York City's Hotel Brunswick and Pelham Bridge on
May 1, 1876.
Coaching to Pelham became a seasonal joy for many New Yorkers between May
and October of each year for a number of years beginning in 1876. I
recently located an engraving of the opening of the 1882 coaching season
that likely depicts Col. Delancey Kane and his Tally-Ho.
The engraving was published in the May 27, 1882 issue of Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper at page 213. A digital image of the engraving
appears below. The caption beneath the engraving reads: "NEW YORK
CITY.-RENEWAL OF THE COACHING SEASON-PREPARING FOR THE START FROM THE
HOTEL BRUNSWICK TO PELHAM BRIDGE.-FROM A SKETCH BY A STAFF ARTIST.-SEE
PAGE 315."
The staff artist appears to have been A.B. Shults. Since I do not have the
associated article, I cannot state with certainty that the coach shown
depicts Col. Kane's Tally-Ho (several such coaches ran to Pelham Bridge
and other nearby areas over the years), it seems likely that the image
does depict the Tally-Ho.
To learn much more about Col. Kane and his Tally-Ho, see Bell, Blake A.,
Col. Delancey Kane and "The Pelham Coach", The Pelham Weekly,
Vol. XII, No. 38, Sept. 26, 2003, p. 1, col. 1.
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