454 COACH OFFICE CH. XIX 



an hotel and booking-office in the old business 

 coaching days, and later a public parcels-office. 

 About 1889 the coaches abandoned the Cellar and 

 started from the Hotel Metropole, or the Hotel Vic- 

 toria, in Northumberland Avenue ; the ' Guildford' 

 Coach starts from the Berkeley Hotel, Piccadilly. 

 In New York, the ' Pelham' Coach, and afterward 

 the ' Yonkers' and others, started from the Hotel 

 Brunswick in Fifth Avenue ; the ' Tuxedo' Coach 

 from the Plaza Hotel. In Philadelphia, coaches start 

 from the Bellevue Hotel. In Paris, all the coaches 

 start from the office of The New York Herald, 

 Avenue de l'Opera. 



A book, properly bound, with the name of the 

 coach on the outside, should be provided, one page 

 being devoted to each day. These pages should be 

 headed with the day of the week and of the month, 

 and it is better to do this for the whole season, when 

 the book is first opened. 



The following is a good form of page : — 



MONDAY, June 7, 1897. 



Coachman : Mr Thompson Dols. 



Mr Jones 4 Pd. 



Mr Smith 3 Pd. 



Mr Brown 3 Pd. 



Mr 



Mr Robinson out 2 Pd. 



Box 



1 

 2 



3 

 4 



and so on for the other six seats, the sum at the 

 foot being the amount for which the agent selling 

 the tickets is responsible. When the settlement is 



