Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-11-07
4 BUSY NAN.



= the Livery stabls Manages II ca
81. a. tain Seasons sgs
Let him who will sing the praises
Of 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 . carriage
or q cab was regarded as something
Of an event, the person who had
charge Of the goings and comings Of
vehicles was 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 combination Of a counting
room and 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 bust
ness Of keeping track Of the goings
and comings Of vehicles in different
parts Of the city is carried on as
though the carriage dispatcher were
an admiral controlling the move
ments Of feet. In the busy season
the dispatcher is at the telephone
nearly all day., and many q time he is
compelled to have his dinner served
as he sits between two wires.
Take, for example, stable which
has 70 cabs and carriages. It's nee
,essary for the man in charge to know
where each conveyance is at certain
time, when it will reach its destina-
ton and whether or not the horses
are ready to 60 on another call.
Often in the height Of the busy
season he handles carriages con mar
gin" That is, there are often occa-
sions when there is not vehicle or a
horse in the stable and a customer
wishes to have carriage immediate
ly to take him from Fnifty-ninth street
to the Grand Central station.
There may be carriage at one Of
the hotel stands in the neighborhool
standing idle. The operator learns
that it is landau, when the very
fastidious customer would be content
with nothing but victoria. Jones is
going to house in Thirty-fourth
street with victoria. The customer
did not specially select victoria, but
the vehicle was the only four-wheeled
thing which was available. The
problem which confronts the dis
patcher is to intercept the victoria,
send out the landau in its place and
then get the victoria to the customer
who insists upon having just what he
orders.
So the carriage agent at the x
hotel is instructed to hold the landau
and to intercept the victoria, which
is bound elsewhere, as it is driven
through the street past the hotel.
The vehicles do not follow regular
time tables, but the carriage dispatch
er estimates the distance which they
travel to a nicely.
In livery stable which supplies
many Of the hotels call was received
for carriage. There was none in the
stable. The dispatcher lost no time.
The carriage must be at a point near
" mile away by five o'clock, and it
was then eight minutes Of the hour.
The dispatcher worked and talked.
He changed the routes and destina-
ton OF three carriages and cabs, and
finally got the required vehicle NOV
ing to the place where twas required.
In three minutes he had the word call
rlght" from carriage agent who had
succeeded in making the necessary
changes as instructed, and the Gus
toner got what he had ordered.
"All right?' said the livery stable
man. SsOf course, when l get an or
der it will be filed, although many is
the time [ do not know how IN the
world it is to bedone." That where
the skill Of the train dispatcher is
often discounted by the man who has
70 rigseto keep in motion.