Three examples of visual display of information are presented and compared for efficiency: 1) Ibry's 1885 graphical schedule of all trains between Paris and Lyon; 2) a graphical schedule, using Ibry's scheme, describing 200 buses connecting Hoboken and New York City; and 3) a crowded, illegible, tabular train schedule of the Trenton-to-New York run supplied to guests by the Radisson Hotel in Somerset, N.J.