The evening world. Newspaper, May 31, 1912, Page 4

suLD CUTTAX! RATES IF SPECIAL mittee Reduction Has Netted Larger Protits tor Him. | FAVORS LOWER CHARG 1p ent de being in very Taxi-Merget Has Two Fares] tiie Because of Its Arrangement With Pennsylvania RR. stock p writ of haveas corpus to-day, Willlam Thiel, an independent taxi- cab owner, told a special commitice of the Board of Aldermen to-day that the Independent Taxicab Owners’ Associa- tion had reduced taxicab rates, and that he, for one, was #atiafied with his Profits since the reduction. He told the Aldermen that his two cabs, which “hack” about Madison Square, charge 50 cents for the first mile and 40 cents thereafter. This has been in ef- fect since May two hundred members of this assocta- tion signed the new rate aoale. . first half mile we charge 80 cents,’ explained, “For each sub- sequent quarter of a mile 10 cents.” “Are you satiafied with the reduced rates?’ asked Chal: “I certainly am,’ where Bennington once tried real eatate splash, former Frederick A According ts deeply int Willard. plied the wit- ness. “Would you be willing etill further to reduce the rate?’ inquired Alderman Marks, of the Committee. “Ys, I would be satisfied to do that, Providing the present hack stands for the privileged taxicab owners wore atplished, ao that we could pick up our fares wherever we choose.” ‘Thiel stated that he got more business in Corona. Later he was under the reduced rates than he got under the new rate and added thut ale profits have been more. He eald that if all stands and privileges wore made common property, a much lower rate than 19 now in force emong the inde- the name of the place as and not nN. time to look into it. Sprightly Nuree, 47, Get Li showing the number of registered taxi- cabs, the rates each individual and cor- poration charges and explained the soheme of the taxicad stands ebout the big hotele and cafes in Manhattan. Mr, Drennan told the Committee that there Gnancter, wed, privileges, He waid that there are one hundred and fifty epecial stands which accommodate five hundred and ninety- two spaces, The @ig taxi concerns pay the $%5 for cach of the five hundred and ninety-two spaces. % Mr. Drennan said the Cab and Tax! Company, the Connectiout Taxicab “8 Company and the New Lork Transporta- f tian Company, which recently consoll- dated under the tee of “The Yellow ‘Taxicab Company,” have two rates, one #0 cents for the "fret mile and &© cents thereafter, and the other 70 cents for the fret mile and © cents thereafter. This $a due, Mr. Drennan said, because of an arrangement one of the converns had with the Pennsylvania for the lower rate. parse OROZCO MUST EXPLAIN : ANTI-AMERICAN MOVE American Consul at Chihuahua Ordered to Quiz Rebel Leader and Report Immediately. ‘WASHINGTON, May %1.—American Consul Letcher at Chihuahua has been instructed by the State Department to take up with Gen, Orozco the Inflama- tory articles which havo been coming from the rebel zone regarding anti- American sentiment on the part of the revels because of the attitude of the Vaited States in not allowing arms and ammunition to cro#s the international Mne, Consul Letcher wil! ¢ sult with Orozco to determine the ar- tieles were in anyway inspired, He is directed to report immediately the re- sult of his investigations. merican Consul at Juares porte Increasing resentment on Of the cadels there toward Amer Forty-ffth treet. 334 West One Hundred and Art, the guest of E. RK. eat meat. of cereal food. ling houses ar ver tehnis - courts tad out, cells—including florid“‘Summ <r Resort” Ads, Last Year- 80/001 More Than the Herald. For information about the few hotels already open for “season see WORLD SUMMER ‘T ADS. TO-DAY, OR IN 4 NEXT SUNDAY’'S WORLD pones the Case. nas A. Edison jr.'# name and Ukewise the backer of a et tions and brokerage (suppressed by post-office inspectors), was taken before Justice Putnam in| the Supreme Court in Brooklyn on a} He was produced by the authorities of the Middletown Homeopatic Hospital for the Insane, Through his friend, Dr. Heard, @ veterinary of Freeport, L. 1, mied out the writ ‘are, Ausust Belmont din Bennington's case. This information was regarded an particularly interesting to thone who know of Mr. Belmont’s long and suc- | coestul campaign to minimize the Jury to racing donce by such plungers as Bennington and his friends in the} betting rings of the Metropolitan tracks, Before the court proceedings began & number of Brooklyn persons who con- aidered themsclves sualified to judge of Bennington's sanity had a session with them. He said that after he had broken down his wife, an actress, Bosele Tay- lor, had him committed to a sanitarium and, as he said, went to “Cobalt, Ne- on business connected with & mining investment. The place {s not in the gasateers, hut it sounded fine to the Brooklyn volunteer investigators. @aid ho was a charity patient at Mid- dietown and had a private room and a special nurse and that if the stigma of asylum were removed it would become very popular with New York's tired Dusiness men as a health resort ‘These statements and the discovery that he knew that he had never owned the famous mare Imp and that his real estate adventure was in Freport, 1. I., Freehold, J., caused the ‘volunteer board to send word into court that he was quite sane, Nevertheless, Justice Putnam at the request of Deputy Attorney-General Edwards, put the caso over until June 6 to give Mr. Edwards po Bart RY MR. MAUGHAM, 67, 1S TO WED. Septuagenarian iis three-score years and seven teks ing dut lightly upon him, John Halbert Maughem, welked into the Marriage License Bureau to-day, his arm in that of Miss Margaret Blain, « ygistered nurse, and secured a license to Mr. Maugham eald he was @ widower, and gave his residence as No. 18 West The bride-to-be said she had: not been married before, was forty-seven years old and resided at No. ‘The couple aald they would be pee hth ney Oliver Looks Us Over. | ver, the Governor of Ja- stopping at the Tute-{ Carlton on Ms way to England, where he is to join Lady Oliver, preparatory to returning to his post, #pent the after- noon at the Metropolitan Museum of Robinson, the Girector, Yesterday Sir Sidney was the Ever try omitting chops or st fast and replace them with Grape-Nuts and cream—eaten slowly? “There’s a Reason’’ Pestum Coreal Company, Limited, Battle Creek, Michigan ~ NEWTON BENNINGTON [s**t rez ! 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A German woman of Chicago gives an instance in her own famil, t's briefly told but the truth is there: “My husband lost his left hand in an accident and lost a large amount of blood. He kept getting weaker for five months and finally got a severe cough. He would eat big meals of meat and potatoes to get well but didn’t get any good from them. Finally I persuaded him to try Grape Nuts food and from a skeleton of 88 pounds he soon regained his normal a! weight of 207 pounds and is strong and well and declares he poate 89 no other food for the main part of io reals. “As for aclf my flesh was flabby, I tired s0 ly and my memory was so peer I could keep not! ag in. my head, ut after three months of the Grape-Nuts ce I gained 12 pounds, my my flesh is hard id firm, I am stronger and my memory iy leproved wonderfully. I keep a candy store, but I sell Grape-Nuts, too, for T think it is the best thing to give the children.” | Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. 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