CH. XX PUBLIC COACHING 47 1 



plan to print a note to this effect on the ticket and 

 on the time-card and to adhere to it rigidly. 



The coach should not be taken off its regular 

 road or its regular time, unless (in accordance with 

 a notice given in the commencement of the season) 

 for some special reason, such as the holding of a 

 race-meeting, at the place to which the coach runs. 

 A coach which goes here one day and there another, 

 is not a public-coach at all, but merely a vehicle hired 

 for excursions. Public coaching is public business, 

 and as such it must be conducted. 



On a public-coach, persons known to be compe- 

 tent whips are sometimes invited by the proprietor 

 to drive, either a stage or two, or for several days 

 at a time, and it need hardly be said that the most 

 scrupulous care in giving such invitations must be 

 taken, to avoid any possibility of accident. The 

 coaches run by coaching jobmasters sometimes 

 have subscribers, who pay toward the support of 

 the coach, with the privilege of driving on certain 

 days ; in the selection of subscribers, the same care 

 ouorht to be exercised. 



In Paris, the police regulations in regard to public 

 coaching are somewhat onerous. The proprietor, 

 who may be the coachman himself, must be a resi- 

 dent of Paris, and is responsible for damages in 

 any legal action. The coachman must be exam- 

 ined and licensed by the police authorities, and if 

 he is not himself the proprietor, must be regularly 

 registered as employed by the proprietor. This 



