The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1901-11-16
A BUSY MAN.
10 the Livery Stable Manager in Car.
tain Seasons.

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Let him who will sing the praises
oil the alert man who controls the
schedule Of railroad trains, but there
Is no man more alert in giving orders
which extend over miles of road than
is the latter day carriage dispatcher.
In the old days, when New York
was small and the hiring of a carriage
or a cab was regarded as something
OF an event, the person who had
charge of the gOings and comings of
vehicles was a leisurely man, who SUI
Perintended the departure of every
rig as he stood in his livery stable door
smoking his black cigar, The office
OF the livery stable of this modern
day is a combination of a counting
room and a train dispatcher's office,
says the New York Herald,
In the average large stable, where
carriages are supplied in response to
calls for hotels and clubs, the BUSH
ness of Keeping track Of the goings
and oomings of vehicles in different
parts of the city is carried on as
though the carriage dispatcher were
an admiral controlling the move
ments of a fleet, An the busy season
the dispatcher is at the telephone
nearly all day, and many a time he il
compelled to have his dinner served
, as he sits between two wires,
: Take, for example, a stable which
t has 70 cabs and carriages, dtis nee
i essary for the man in charge to know
r where each conveyance is atacertai
e time, when 1t will reach its destins
ton and whether or not the horse
are ready togo on another'call.
2 Often in the height Of the bus
" season he handles carriages con ma
5. gin" That is, there are often Occ
5. siOns when there is not vehicle OF
,e horse in the stable and a custom,
n wishes to have a carriage immediat
ly to takehim from Fifty-ninth sire
II to the Grand Central station.
ID There may be a carnage at one
Y the hotel stands in theneighborhC
10 standing idle. The operator lear
;s that il Is a landau, when the VI
o. fastidiouS customer wnuld be contC
70 with nothing but a victoria. Jone!
~ going to,a house in Thirty-foul
~ street with a victoria. The custor
IN did not specially select a victoria,
be the vehicle was the only four-whee
no thing which was available. 7
re problem which confronts the
;s patcher is to intercept the vicio
nj send ON the landau in its place
he then gel the victoria 30 the custOl
700 who insists upon having just wha
.os orders.
ali So the carriage agent at the
hotel is instructed to hold the Ian
N and to intercept the victoria, wi
is bound elsewhere, as it is DR.
Wa through the street past the hi
The vehicles do not follow reg
tho time tables, but the carriage dispa
,t;o er estimGtes the distance which
of travel toanicety.
% In a livery stable which sup
many of the hotels a call was rece
for a carriage. There was none IL
with stable. The dispatcher lost no
The carriage must be at a point !
nod. " a mile away by five O'Clock, a
wv
,,eb was then eight minutes of the !
.ical The dispatcher worked and ia
,isA- He changed she routes and DIES
elds ton of three carriages and cabs
finally got the required vehicle
Iopg ing to the place whereit was reqV
ord In three INMATES he had the Wort
Iee3 right" from a carriage agent whit
e@. succeeded in making the nece
changes as instructed, and the
Mr. toner got what he had ordered
and "All right" said the livery
70 man. "Of course, when | get
tLo der it will be filled, although m.
the time | do not know how i
world it is to be done" That's
N'.s the skill of the train dispatc.
,'n often discounted by the man wi
!, Is sso 10 rigs to keep in motion.
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