Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1925, Page 89

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C —GRAVURE SECTION—MARCH 22, Four perfectly vahd reasons why I £ ; : ., B J s g ; taxi drivers give up the life and ¥ § i % go back to bootlegging. From p i : o left to right we have with us this day the fare who gives the ~ » N, - ’ RV " | 5-cent tip; the quarrelsome lady ¥ N ? / : v 4 x who knows the meter is wrong " e % g ’ 5 . § \ s (it was 40 cents yesterday, and i today for the same distance it BY 8 g “ i = registers 70 cents); the friend W E. HILL ; 7 : A \ £ | of the fare, who says, "My dear ey / i y ‘ . don’t give him a 2 nt tip—10 \Cow:yuhl;elm ; - ! cents is plenty!” and lastly, the i s k 3 . / s timorous elderly lady who knows , 3 # the taxicab driver is going t murder her or abduct her Some traffic cops are just naturally mean—won't let a taxi driver get away with anything, without coming over and asking him who he thinks he is, and what he thinks he's doing ! The lady taxi driver from the rural districts (she 3 ‘Aw, yougo — — ! ! | * % & you — _ | 1} substitutes at the wheel of the bus only when "Got anything less than a i ‘ regulation argument between the truck and the taxi friend husband is otherwise engaged) is driving dollar?”" The taxi driver o ' ¥, (This is all we can print in cold, uncompromising type.) to the station with some poor week ender who has who seldom if ever has a [” & A The taxi driver, you see, attempted, rightly or wrongly to get back to town. The last bump nearly sent change, if it's under a dollar e 4 B to get ahead of the truck, and the truck driver naturally the weck ender through the top of the car L - feels a little bit hurt about it Joe, the starter at the cab stand, thinking of nothing 3 £ in particular, unless it's a cup of coffee and a fried The economical family from out of town, comprising mom, pop, grandma, Nettie, Walter, Buster and Babe, are taxi-ing from the egg sandwich train to the hotel—all in one taxi. Grandma is still a little wee bit carsick. Waiting taxi driver thinking things over in general. Life is just one fool pedestrian and bad tempered traffic cop after another! b——=dll A" > Y