Show distributing DIstri biting time tab it is a fact not generally known that the furnishing of railroad timetables time mablea tablea to the hotels of the city is performed by a regularly incorporated company who ma malra ke that work their solo occupation something had to be done to correct corr T t the evil of having old time tables in the coatroom and porters closets of the hotels hovels which kave eava nothing but misinformation to the traveler if indeed he ha could find any time table at all and so the general passenger stenger pa agent of one of the trunk line roads hit bit upon the scheme of forming a timetable time table supply company this was done dona about a year ago and has now assumed large proportions me the profits in the business are chudd erable and come coma from the railroad companies some seventy or eighty of abe prominent roads of the country are subscribers bers they supply their folders and an d tune time slips to the company and subscribe liberally for the work of having them distributed among the large hotels and I 1 other resorts of new york and brooklyn th the company furnishes each hotel with a neat rack either stationary or revola ing and supports a delivery wagon and an agent whose duty it is to make tho tha rounds weekly putting new time tale tables in place and replenishing the depleted supply As a consequence it is a far easier and more certain matter to obtain accurate information in now new york regarding the tha movements of western and southern trains than it ever was before and every one who has waited ted for an hour or more at a lonesome I 1 railway station elation or has lost a half day through misinformation will vill bless the genius who invented a railway tuna time table supply company new york herald |