The evening world. Newspaper, June 6, 1903, Page 3

~ CARMEN IN OPEN DEFIANCE OF LAW Refuse to Accept the Legal Rate of One Dollar an Hour to Drive Through the Park, and Fifteen of Them Attempt to Extort from $2 to $3 for the Trip. License Supt. Reynolds Gives Explicit Rules for the Public, Showing Exactly What to Do When an Attempt Is Made to Overcharge — Offending Cabbies Summoned Before the Marshal. 10 SAE THE CASAN WO bet “If you want to drive through Central Park at the rate of one dollar an hour, which is the legal fare, just get into the cab and tell the cabmar. what you want. If he should say that it would cost $2.50 or $3, the extortionate rate agreed upon by the Park gate cab- men, refuse to pay it. If he declines to drive you by the hour call raphs S will take you our and twenty minu drive you for two how will have to guarantee, or an hour and ah merrow or on any Dr! trade !s good." a policeman. If the police’ 1 refuses to help you take his number. The Union Reg Take the cabman’s number. Send both to this office. We Will do |yoion™ana the Axed have the rest. “Pay no attention to the cabman’s argument that one dollar an Of course more should lose his license.” —S/atement of JAMES D. ‘REY- NOLDS, Afayor's Secretary, who is in charge of the Bureau of Licenses. SAME RULE ALL OVER TOWN. In addition to these instructions as to how to treat the hold-up cabmen who prey on persons visiting Central Park, Mr. Reynolds gives other clear- dence, simp; 10) Pek for ong: “T'll make it $1.50 an other, At street, d_ 32 rate cards and refused Ban hour rate. "THO Spaeeap he Hf fh a i T only do this because it Is a dark day. L could not give you the same rate to-| oan always got the drive for $2. to keep our horses In good dition, as well as our hamsoms, and If live. cheaper we couldn't there are bad fellows hour is the rate for shopping or calling only. It is not. A cabman |business, but thas fa mo reason we good is obliged to drive you anywhere at anytims you hail him at his stand Pepa ead er ; oe at one dollar an hour. As. takes less than one hour to make the | jcStjeonte, only we cenit take sry ate tour of Central Park you should pay nc more than one dollar. Any | ** # aa me saints, ate only. ap ito higher charge is extortion, and the cabman who attempts to collect Loree ae er Nenavtielatacienedi in front of the Cornelius Vanderinit resi- ly refused fo consider any ition of a dollar an ho! rat dol the drive,” Bighth avenue and Fifty-ninth AMES D EIPIRITAN Dteurr zavons CTARSHALL for $1.50 for an tes. Or I will rs for $2. Y' me two hours time, ight day when tes Them. belong to a ‘hut yor n= “pata hour,” sald the pulled out their to consider the THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, sv “T POON? DRIVE 2H mOUGH ZHes FARK For © SOME OF THE CABMEN WHO LOOK WITH SCORN AT A DOLLAR AND | A CITY OFFICAL WHO IS TRYING TO MAKE THEM OBEY THE LAW. an MO. CABMAN RUFUSED THO DOLLARS Te GO A MLE Half Holiday. This Stalled Cars and Made for Trains, Bu’ Burned Out, double sing the vlockade Brookly to-duy ted hour and on nearly an people to lose a pe holiday walk The fret accident occu feni east of the Manhatn a Brooklyn-vound trolley {ts fuse and the ar stopp: ered behind it an jammed with p homes. A ru railroad throug: be! N OUR le eage: extended across the bridge ton & distanee of Only One Ticket An immense crowd of an on the sir span i ie railroad tickets. and many people r but walked past dropping their money in t ag they paseed on the to to gather kuardr refused inal over the delay that thoy through. the window let eut instructions as to extortion practised elsewhere in the city, Mr. Rey- nolds has drawn up some rules for the guidance of the public in this mat- ter, but he says that it lies with the public to secure proper recognition of the law gover 1ing cab rates In New York. “Tt will cause a citizen some irconvenience to prosecute one of these | petty thieves,” sald Mr, Reynolds, “‘but the citizen must realize that it is | only by a little sacrifice of time on his part that he can render a great to the community. “There are many honest cabmen, but there are @ lot of them who rob the public. The. license squad at present has only two men in ft, and in that way we are handicapped in looking for evidence against cabmen. The ‘Jogal rates for cab “hire must be kept posted in cabs. It is a vielation for a cabman not to have them posted in a public hack. That one thing | genders him liable to revocation of his license, | HERE’S THE SIMPLE PLAN. “7 would suggest that when a cab-driver, after having carried his fare a! mile, refuses to accept the correct price, a policeman be called. There is one nearly always at hand, and the case should then be stated to the police- man. If he tells the cabman that he thinks the distance is only a mile, or that the fare’s computation of the distance is correct, and the cabman still insists, then the thing to do is to pay the cabman. Take the number of the eab and the number of the policeman aud send them both to this office with a complaint. If the charge against the cabman is true his license will be revoked. | “Should the policeman not care to attend to the matter when called | there is a way to attend to him. My opinion is that any policeman will come forward and swear to the facts as they are presented at the time. “Shbuld the cabman put in a claim at the time you engaged him to the | effect that he had another engagement, that will not be accepted as an ex- | cuse, as the prestumption is that when he dickered with you about the price of his cab he was disengaged and willing to carry you. ALWAYS A WAY TO CONVICT. “Respectable citizens are strangely loath to go to the Police station, | and the only way to avoid it is the one I suggest. If a policeman is not handy any citizen will do. Or if the person is being driven*to a store a clerk from the store will do as a witness of the fact. There is nearly al- ways a way to prove that you are being overcharged if you think of it, | and once it is shown to the bureau that such Is the case the license wil! be | revoked. “Personally I have had men out working on the cabmen at the piers. I have found out one thing and will find out more. The practice at the piers is for one man at the head of the line to make a price and the others to stick to it. The bureau should have detailed to it several more men to search for violations and investigate complaints, In addition, it is really @ part of the police work and should have a small fund to be used in getting evidence.” | | | { . By distance— For one mile or By time— By distance— For any stop ov By time— For one hour or or charge for one | than five miles an | | shall be carried baggage carried, 2! ——— ALL THESE CABMEN ASKED ILLEGAL RATES. For one hour or any part thereof..... For each additional half hour or part thereof. FARE FOR COACHES. For one mile or any part thereof For each additional half mile or part thereof. . minutes or fraction thereof.......+ For each additional half hour or part thereof. No hackman shall demand more than the legal rates of fare HIGHEST FARES CABMEN MAY CHARGE AS FIXED BY CITY. \ FARE FOR CABS. any part thereof. For each additional half mile cr part thereof. For any stop over five minutes in a trip, for every fifteen | minutes or fraction thereo/..... er five minutes in a trip, for every fitteen any part thereof. stop not over five minutes in a single trip. No hack shall be driven by the time rate at a pace less hour. Line balls, for one or two passengers, $2 for the first mile or part thereof, and $1 for each additional mile, or part thereof. Bach additional passenger, 50 cents. One piece of baggage, not to exceed 50 pounds in weight, on a hack without Addition: 5 cents per piece, etxra charge. In all cases where the hiring of a hack is not specified in ad- avnce to be by time !t shall be deemed to be by distance, and for any detention exceeding fifteen minutes the hackman may demand additional compensation at the rage of $1 per hour. Any carriage kept for hire shall be deemed a public hack, and a carriage intended to seat two persons inside shall be deemed a cab, and a carriage intended to seat more than two persons inside shall be deemed a coach, and the term hackman shall be deemed to include owner or driver, or both. Every licensed hackman shall have the right to demand pay- ment of the legal fare in advance, and may refuse employment | unless so prepaid, but no licensed hackman shall otherwise refuse or neglect to convey any orderly person or persons, upon request, anywhere in the city, unless previously engaged or unable so to do. No lcensed hackman shall carry any other person than the pas- senger firet employing a hack without the consent of said passenger. 50 40 + $1 15 | Following are the regulations governing cabs in the city. They are sent out by the Bureau of Licenses, and beyond them no public cab- man has the right to go: of the Fire Depart- heroes the day parade, when honored, a movement looking living are ve up din ilts effort to eave another a month ago. The movem« originated among members of the de- partment and already has tho sympaliy and sanction of the foremen to whose aticntion it haa been presented This would have been MeNally’s first parade, for he was little more than a boy and had been in the department only short time. To be a fireman, to save Ife, was the ambition of the yout, and even when he knew he was doomed to die he was satisfied because the end had rome as he had wished it might, The First Contributor. 50 Coineldent with the inauguration of the movement in the Fire Licpartme appears that citizens have talked over the project. The wing letter wae received by The ning World this af ternoon from a downtown business man: “June 6, 1 ‘To the Editor of The Evening World “Will you kindly place Inclosed toward a fund for the erection of monument in memory ‘of the late Fir William McNally, who lost his lite recently while in the performance of (hin duty, he annual review and parade of the |New York Fire Department takes pl al $10 a sented to the heroes of the department a monument to MeNally would be a Ntting recognition of his services | Ree Aas Readily Gave His MeNally's sacrifice stands out in the Jong series of brilliant deeds that have made the firemen the idols of the people New York, The pitiful he gave bis Ife need Lite, of this entered He Knew that a , and he went in to the mind of M lite was in rss rest just as you were on a pa You want to. take a tee tee (Phe erent remedy for domenttc dif. their imaginations on novels Path dmakinenc te Goundso follow to-day and while medals are being pre-| [FUND STARTED TO ERECT MONUMENT TO FIRE HERO. ye Business Man Sends $10 to The Evening World} for a Shaft in Tribute to William McNally, | Who Sacrificed His Life to Save Another. WILLI roared hear, ov tf he glance though at wa: T re crenval Burns 't AM M’NALLY, at him to 1 head frst phat Were Mortal. the roadway, at the tm dropp'ayg Into the river 4 under Sie wheels of the had by this time begun t new fuse in the motor o! met with the frat Affairs Straighte: The process of loadini |that the cars were 86 he flre among the f after it so that t! ‘could be FED BURG Bicycle Policeman Thieving Intruder Valuables There. equght a burglar in} | him to confess his identi to a square up. day. is The burglar | Thirty-third street | O'Sullivan went to his | Hast ‘Thirty-fourth stree! jand tu dd in for a ni | mother to wake him fo | hour. He awoke before well-dressed young O'Sullivan ad Fire Her He did not] man what he wanted Oe toon | "L'm looking for Mr, >|the Intruder I want him to go to wo! return he failed did h indow O'Sullivan the dining-room, tity wa unequil tothe is burden to the ladder, | mother question firemen had} down and conte: McEvoy | place to steal tHe | 1 pis ploture was i a him ed He gave James. No. 2,260 le ladder. irth floor jus ¢ i you work change have set aside $5,000 for the Dutiding, Franel Ninnioutts of Causing Touble and Annoyance. 4 they had become blocked and the line of . and As usual, pany had only one ticket agent on che and jum mishap, blockade began to ilft about 1 o'clock. man jumped up and asked Williams,"" "I thought he lived hei named Burns, at No. 675 Broadwa: took the young man into where ‘BLOCKADES TIE UP BIC BRIDGE \Two Accidents Disarrange the, Traffic and Thousands of People Lose a Part of Their TROLLEY FUSE BLOWS OUT.) a Rush Was| it a Feed Wire Further the railroad | Bridge shortly | p traMe for ised thousands of their half compelled to across the structure. red avout 400] n depot. when | car blew out ed. Cars gath- were quickly | r to reach thelr was made for the bridge Several trains started filled almost to suffocation, when a feel wire took fire nearly opposite where the surface car lost Ita fuse, and the bridge ‘ stopped. Meanwhile the trolley cars rs e, up Washing- ton street to Borough Hall and up Ful- eet into the shopping district, nearly two miles from the| point where the blockade began a Awent. people bound | face cars, un- the trouble on the Bridge rail- the latter means of reach ‘The Brooklyn a line of formed to buy the com- ‘eftised to stand the gateman. he teke! boxes For some time after the trains began bridge the off, railroad any one the passengers became so angry began climbing ping ty mminent ris of we being ground trolleys, waich » move slowly. Workmen had been busy inserting a if the car which and the ned O1 is and sending cara across the structure was #0 slow not edule time for another half hour. running oa wires on the bridge railroad was extinguished shortl was discovered, some time to repair the wires suftctently | ing roi but it tool a8 Soule alent ed again. AR, LOCKED HM UP: Off Duty Awoke in His Home to Find a Looking for | -« Bicycle Policeman Eugene O'Sullivan s bedroom, force ty, treated him meal and then locked him He had him in Yorkville Court to- farry Howard, j twenty-nine years old, of No. 143 East home, No. 225 t, last evening. ap, telling his r supper in an that to find a in the room. the sald a ri for a fri he and his until he broke ie had entered the lis name, said tn the gallery, and ‘that he had done time for burglary everal State institutions. and quit thiew- : ‘To ascertain definitely if the cabmen , tour, as we want to take photographs,”’ wena Aver tiatlay MeNall clothes were burned , and he went @ ny iped out the stence| », eo ot been lying about his who huunt the entrances to Central | W4s suggested, but It was no use, | of the brave. youth occurred in. the yoked. him up and | unt an food, “He offered no} Park grossly overcharge their patrons, | park for So cents a'mile, ort wil ext) LJ EE EW, IN TALK OF LOVE Moriiing "of Sunday, May Dexiader "and. ‘the | defense to the cliarge of attempted bure | ‘ a test was made to-day. Fifteen cab- | down say gates and give you a nice ’ , story prion tonemant oe the Hed both to the street. | gary: Stu nd was held im $1,000 for men were approached at the Plaza and | ive {20 8.0) 1a bi ( SES AR Y M RR GE discovered in he'g EA as at the Fifty-ninth street entrances, and| make 4 ng if be t Deana ¥4 ADVI E L A IA dl a i} WEDDING. this 1a what happened: Yate of $1 an hour. January at his owe x | CHOATE-OL VER j ‘ Cabman No. 616 offered his services for |i) cents a mite noticing, range te is_one of the bustest in the | ; e” the drive through Central Park for §.|inat ine time ‘achedule. wan wot ‘applic- A . zs ; % ‘The fi hot, but tt was supposed Ambassador Made Hurried Trip ‘after a elacussion he cailed his “Bow,” [thie fo\rhe"Park, “Downtown aiettcta “Delay, in the Hope of Finding One's Affinity, |i Ri alone word went aroun iin muceumoed 19 "eum Bondun to Be Present. Dennis Martin, to his asiatance and |i, Ordinawes does not apply tS the Is Unwise,"’ He Says Ghat there was ‘aman onthe ‘Fourth | ALBANY, June 6—Yoseph Choate, Jeu produced a card and pointed to the dol-| Park,” he said. ’ . floor. Sume one had seen hint at the | ae acias Gore, Oliver were ar-an-hour rate. No, 1082 promptly produced his card| * os windo is 5s St. Peter's sd - marriage at § “We never drive in the park by the ef, geaulations and ainied to. the 98 Walted for No Ordern, Chrome this city, at noon time schedule,” he sald. “One dollar an | distinction between the shopping dis) CHICAGO, Til, Tune 6.—Benator , Noulties—c sions on the part of | MeNally heard it. He did no The. Right Rev. William Croswell hour applies to shopping tours. It takes | (riot and the A. Depew, during his visit] Bl for orders; he did not walt for lls, Part Doane Bishor of Albany, officiated trip in the park, but ¢ 1s steady driv-|fare'in the park for Man nour. in Chicago to attend the annual meet-| DF iisee and a knowledge of A man running ups np, up to vhe a‘monuinent 0 whee ey brltegvoom is the son of Joseph 3. dng, and I won't worl my horse for less A Brit, ing of the directors of the Chicago and! other's tastes and peculiarities docs urth oor and & window that was} ioNu My and tel ven shen 10 the pate Choate, “5 BIA eaiA RSM RAAHARITE than $3. You can't make a cabman take A Brilliant Policeman, Northwestern Railroad, talked about) insure congeniatity afterward. ey oeenSe street his comrades| matter in CAarse, es's, and the bride you for $J an how; so that's all there] At Fifth av ne and a Bitty: ath strect |, Th \ “Women pitch thelr ideal an- i Robert Shaw Ol. ye ye are the sen- y als mar ‘i A arent i policeman, shield iy, precinot love Ch aaa bs kind on too high a plane, Then they Riel aera ae Tyra Brigade of Ne, 726 argued from tho same stand- timents he uttered: find that man is only a common mortal ] potter Seal bine earth sey the aise take a u ' " © po b es Mar. y point, yh er a his Cables ton Wed the, park for th the | ty rate of rie “A young man is always in love. It'S) without even a pinfeather on his shoul- $5,000 GIFT IS Ife r the Lo il pene Leeman oe their iver, sisters, “and Y/ trip for ‘This, he claimed, was with- 6 8a) lcan do nothing 9 a the dition 1s | der-biade I families tha we nisstone cousin in the legal fae of $1 per hour and #1 ie mobning dat of $1 his natural state. The co pened ctl pine eg MADE TO POLICE. | Fema i Miss ‘Mabel Choate, of |! In front of the Plaza Hote! No. 868| make the man "eh nthe ‘only “Tet & man i an's, A man's tife Is too full, too ac- spectaes pestle) re Me rary argued for the $3 fare. He catne down | {hing for, you to ‘es Js to, eet gut nt Mae urpere 8 nike ltive. too varied in {te Interests, He |Stéck Exchange Contributes It and/a committee to de upon what her Waere sree seb ‘ 10 $2, but refused to consider the §) an ‘the on hg ' “Delay In the hope of finding one's) ve5 put not as woman does. How- Money May Be Used for |shall be ¢ ey. Prob: 08 APART: hour rate. aMinity is unwise. A man is just aalevor, a man may become so madiy In- Hospital Beds. iy Ae wh cay a rat err er age Nere's One Excu for thactrive ng $2:001 ikely to hit upon hia Ideal early as! raruaged aa to spend his business hours Pirhe pt le in considera: | RBBng” the. eu Mr. “We cenit take the people Srtving 30 other propositio: Jate. My advico—don't walt. wing cuplds ail over his or-heads. R. H. Thonfas, President of the Ste ck | tlon of thi 3 ‘ oF we police 1 | Douglas Roblagon, o th rt for the same rate ag wo Op) t@ the New York Athletic Club ‘Propinquity ja the most powerful Many women form thelr Ideals of | Exchange, sent a letter to Commis: protecting the valu ponds of the] m: cs 8 » they’ were be : one ladied shopping, oF we iia in front of | No teas was hailed. ‘Ine waade the most factor in Imaking wo hearts eat as] what hiabande alould be by fecding {Ro¥er Greene to-day Inforining bin Bxohange whlle they were belng tran, seaaning gat Ae dM + atau ve playa Ithat the Governors of the tock Mx- Produce Exehange and back to the new! bald oe HIGH HONORS FOR THE FIRE HEROES Medals Presented to Men Who Rendered Gallant Service in the Performance of Duty at the Great Parade To-Day, MARCH UP FIFTH AVENUE. Ten Men from Manhattan and Four from Brooklyn, All Medal Wine ners, Form the Guard of Honor, Medals were pinned upon the breasts of fourteen firemen to-day by Low. ‘These men, marked for dating. tion In a department where every mam is a hero when the opportunity pr@ sents itself and where personal danger” is not considered when life is to be saved, stood before an admiring throng while thelr comrades gmiled and in review at the annual parade. On the reviewing stand at Sixtieth street and Fifth avenue were the bers of the oMcial family of the Mayes) distinguished citizens and members the families of the men justly hi for thelr bravery. ‘Herves In the Lend, The fourteen medal men led the mare® ’ from the start to the point where they were led Into line and decorated by the Mayor and then stood and reviewed their comrades as they marched past, A company consisting of all the fire men who hold medals awarded in for mer years followed, and there were twenty-five engine and hook and lsdder companies of Manhattan in line, Tem ; companies from the Bronx and volun’ eer companies from Richmond and” ueens also swelled the ranks. ‘The jine of march was -up Fitts avenue from Washington Square to @ix- tleth sireet, mere oe Mayor reviewed » Joesph 4 Soogey, Ca ‘Thomas ie owe pl jooney, pt. Freel, Firemen Charles F, Douth, jam Kelly, jr. Jonn fiat? ert Walker, Capt. Peter Sloan, Firemen | James W. Trihy, Edward BF, Ni “f dolph J. Uster and George A. aie Medal Winners for 1001, RICHARD NITSCH, of Engine pany No, 45, wins the Bennett t: At a fire at : street, on Jan. 29, 1901, he fearn that woman, a Mrs. G. Le Piemme, wae the burning building. He ran up ¢ stairs and groped through the smoke untjl he found Aer. He battered | out the panes of a window. S90. was the smoke that be ged woman across the floor and down stairs. She was severoly ae and had to be taken to the VICTORY. A. COAKLEY, ae Company No. 3, who receives the ner medal for’ 190i, i leave of absence } the rew covered an in an alarm, returned to the! building, ‘The fire waa at No. 67 Oliver | street, it was confined to the floor, and when Coakley burat opea door to the apartment the flames gut into the hallway, On his hands and / knees he searcaed the rooms until he found zor Martini, a six-year-old and carried him to the street at jak to his 1) PHAR Ba e. cue (of Hooke and | Company No. 18, e ete ‘Trenor-Warren medal. ‘ risked his life at an early mornii in the six-story tenement at No. folk street. on Marca ™. 1901. created a wild Grierson totes eg en to cl e At the fourth floor, he found ae bury, who was paralyzed with fear, Through the flames and smoke Clune rated the woman safely to the “JOSEPH J. MOOWEY. Ladder Company No 14. receives the Strong medal for rescuing Oscar Hunter, his wife and two children from burning in No, 1% East Sixtieth street on 8, 191i. Two lives were lost at Spartmentdnouse fire; | Mooney we among the first to enter an pulsed and carried the family from thelr NGAPT. THOMAS F. FREEL, of of Bn- gine Company No. Stephenson award for feel emelency as a commanding officer. Award of Medals for 1903. CHARLES ROUTH. der Company No. 3, many heroic firemen and policemen at the Park Avenue Hotel fife. whieh several lives were lost. ‘and brought two men to risk of his ite. ere ; and Ladder Company the Bonner medal in a fire at No. cl Fourteenth eriee on June 20, was nt wor! he upper building when, he learned Ree 4 was about to Jump from the window the floor below, weal to nin aap Bitly, Sinetnec Areas, ant srune aime self from the window. hand he reached down for the man Ry trapped below. A wild cheer went up from the street as Kelly drew the maa to_sa! ‘JOHN A GOUGH, of Engine Company | | | ent E No. 3, 18 tae reot Awagren ak for his Taree? ata I Arey | $s, 1908 bu: most lost iis ‘Own Iife in trying: to William Gla others Injured tn ep was. pro! Gough ran ahead tered the building. In besterine, ROBERT WALKER, Ladder Company No. ei Strong meda on Oc! nM ight ‘08. of the ey ntened on on th { floors 0 elped ou into the building W alker found @ wo-! 7) man and her baby and carried them?” ” down the stairs to safet i Brooklyn Medal Winners. edals for the Brooklya y che citizens ma Manhatuan aven' aimselt as swell coLaolae sldven on Seot. ma Court street, 8 "He b heat long: enoug! ra Ee window and get “a hp calldren, climbed