Note 28 — AN EASY PLAN OF ASCERTAINING EVERY FARE OF A HACKNEY COACH.
Reading edition
“In
Paris
, Hackney Coaches are hired either by the
course
(
à la course
), i. e. as often as the vehicle is stopped, or by the
hour
(
à l’heure
). The fare is 30 sous (1
s.
3
d.
) per course, whether it be a quarter of a Mile or three Miles; or two francs (1
s.
8
d.
) for the first hour, and 30 sous (1
s.
3
d.
) per hour afterwards.
“From midnight to 6 o’clock in the morning, the fare is doubled.
“These coaches are not obliged to carry more than four persons and a child, nor to take any heavy luggage.
“If the Coach be hired by Time, the first hour must be paid for, whether it is entirely occupied or not; but it is not necessary to pay for more of the second, or of any succeeding hour, than has actually elapsed.
“If a coach is engaged to go to the Theatres, or to any place of public amusement, it is customary to pay the coachman at the time of starting, in order to avoid delay at alighting.”—Planta’s Picture of Paris, 16mo. 1825, p. 408.