The sun., 1901-06-30
TINE TABLES IN DEMAND here.
A Southern Man Comments 4 pom q Peculiarly
Of the People OF New York.

-ons metropolitan industry that strikes
the visitor from a small town "a peculiar, ia
the timetable delivery business" said a
travelling man from the South. Down in
our part Of the country R hotel or station
gets bundle OF railroad literature every timo
new schedule goes into effect, and that IA
supposed to last until there is another change
or So little account arc time tables consid-
cred by local travellers that tho supply never
runs short, and when the company finds It
necessary TO forward fresh installment
there are always number Of tho old tables
still on hand.
But hero it ia different Everybody wants
a time table New Workers are really adj
dictnl to the timetable habit. Judging
by the number OF people whom you see hus-
Ting about with railroad maps and folders
tucked up under their arms. it would seem
that all New York is going travelling. OF
course, good many of these people do got
away, but they who stay az home study the
route and schedule of railways and ocean
lines even more diligently than those who
60 somewhere IL keeps several two-horss
teams busy delivering 10 hotels and Offices
the time tables used by the travellers and
Wpuli-br travellers Of the metropolis. IhOu-
sands are distributed daily the year round.
bat i'm the summer the output Is greatly in
creased. on some roads that are popular Tor
summer FraNCl tho number Of folders delivered
daily il doubled during the months OF June.
july and August.
Time tables Of many roads other than
those that run In and out Of New York are
also iu demand. Each hotel has it, own
particular patronage. some catering espec-
iay to Western visitors. Others To people
from the south, and 50 on, Naturally,
house which draws largely from a certain
section ~ the country, handles the time
tables of the railroad, u that territory, and
thus you can hnd In New York hotel twice
Hs many folders for n road 5000 mlleS away
IA you could find in that district itself Ii i
surprising, too, how many time tables of
foreign roads are called for here IL would
seem that people about to 60 abroad could
wait TIL thcy got on the other side before
paving much attention To- the railroads but
there are certain lines, particularly IN En-
gland and France, whose folders circulate
almost us widely a, those OF our native roads.
IN lNu N""o~ ul my stay here I, 100, seam
10 hay" caught tine time table habit, and |
actually spend hours poring over the most
drnct mean, of trauspy rtation to places
that have never heard of before and would
never visit even II | should outliyr Mcthusrlah.
In Yielding tnthiS fascinating practice make
u-' Of ten times NOR" circulars than | need
II Il just such people ~ I that cause the
drivers ot delivery WAGONS 10 work an hour
or so overtime irving 10 supply the demand
for time tables only y"St"rdav heard on"
Of tho poor follows beWoHping the fate which
the tirH,-tahir habit imposed upon him
'Whln the stati-tlcian~ are az work
SAID h,, ,HCurInR out where everything comes
from and whore h goes to. | wish thcv would
try and md ouJ who gets away with all The
time tables Personally, ! am OF the opinion
that the book concerns have duit making
as toNf books N the public schools | Ger
tainly deliver enough 10 supply pli the schools
IN N" land and | can't think " anv other
use to which gll Of them could he put
"Of course this was an eXaggeraton but
the number ~ tim" tables made away with in
New York l. certainly enormous