CH. XIX PUTTING A COACH ON THE ROAD 433 



In 1876 Colonel A. DeLancey Kane, who in the 

 previous year had driven in England, working the 

 road from London to Virginia Water, put on the 

 first amateur public-coach in America, running from 

 The Brunswick Hotel, New York, to Pelham Bridge. 

 This was succeeded by others in different parts of 

 the United States, some of which are mentioned 

 below. 



Putting a Coach on the Road. — It is well 

 understood among coaching men that the person 

 who has been working a certain road has a right to 

 that road, and it is not in accordance with coaching 

 etiquette for any one else to put a coach upon it, 

 or upon any important part of it, without having 

 first obtained permission of the original proprietor, 

 or the assurance from him that he does not intend to 

 occupy the road that season. This matter having 

 been arranged, or a vacant road selected, the next 

 thing is to go over the road and to study it carefully. 



In modern public coaching the distance to be run 

 is usually such that a coach starting at a convenient 

 hour in the morning can have time for lunch at the 

 end of the route and get back to its starting-place 

 late in the afternoon ; or a longer route is chosen 

 which requires all day, the coach going down one 

 day and back the next. 



In the first case, starting at ten, a thirty-mile drive 

 at ten miles an hour will allow two hours for lunch, 



with a return to the starting-place by six o'clock. 



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