The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1912, Page 12

The PRMBored Daily Except su by the Presa Publishing Company, Nos. 6% to 63 Park Row, New York RALPH PULIT President, 63 Park Row, ANGUS &t Treasurer, 63 Park Row os i Secretary, 68 Park Row, Fntered at tie Poet t York as Secon Bwbscription 1 * vv England and ent and World for 1 1 States All Countries In the International and © | Postal Union. One Year..... . + $2.60) One Year.. Ceeevees $9.75 One Month me Month, «86 VOLUME THE EVENING WORLD'S TEN TAXICAB TESTS. VERYBODY has a chance this week to root for popular taxi- E cabs at popular rates. Chairman Willard of the Aldermen's Committee on Taxicabs says he will call a public hearing, when all who desire to be heard may appear and address the Committee. Go and tell your taxicab grievances. Demand that theae public vehicles which use the public streets shall be recognized as public con- veniences and as such made uniformly safe and cheap. The Evening World again recommends to the people of New York and to the Aldermen ten simple requirements for a metropolitan faxivab service, each and all of which may be found at the present mo- ment successfully regulating the great popular taxicab syatems of ether capitals: TEN TAXICAB TESTS. 1, All properly Heensed taxicabs should have equal rights. No hotel should be allowed to sell to a taxicab company special street privileges which belong to the people, No taxicab company should be permitted to charge the public exorbitant fares on the ground that it must pay a hotel for such privileges. 2. All Heensed taxicabs should be equally safe. No hotel should be allowed to plead that it must favor certain cabs for the safety of its patrons. Luxurious cabs with extra rates for hotel guests are, of course, permissibla But every Meensed taxicab doing business in the public streets should be safe and should have access to any hotel. 8. Taxicabs should be held to specified standards of con- | struction and equipment. Thorough examination of the ma- chine should precede the granting of a license. Meters should be tested frequently inspected—if necessary under seal. Any car falling below the standard should be ruled off the streets. & Taxicab stands should be numerous and convenient. Hotels should not be permitted to monopolize such stands. The city should designate sta In squares and side streets wherever possible, In certain streets, at certain hours when trafic is not impeded thereby, cabs should be allowed to take } passengers on hall from the curb. | & The licensing of taxicab chauffeurs it he thoroughly | organised on rigid lines, Every taxi driver should be at | Jeast twenty-one years old, able to read write, experi. | enced, healthy, strong enough to manage his machine and handle luggage, neat and polite, He should be required to furnish testimonials as to his record, and to pass a prac- tieal examination proving his ability to handle the car he proposes to drive. No man with a criminal record should be considered. @ Under no circumstances should any person be per- mitted to ‘ride on the front of a taxicab with the driver. The front of the cab should have but one seat and that should be occupied by the chauffeur himself. His license ber should be always plainly displayed. His photograph should be stamped on his license. 7. A book of rules and regulations should be carried by every chauff He should be familiar with the contents, A digest of these rules and a schedule of distances fares should be displayed inside the cab in plain view of the pas- senger. & The city should Insist upon the adoption by the com- panies within reasonable time of devices for the convenience and comfort of taxicab passengers, Every cab should be re- | quired to carry a rag in cold weather. The front window | should have in the glass behind the chauffeur’s head a shutter through which the passenger may speak without opening | Invention of similar conveniences should be 9%. Fares of New York taxicabs should be reduced, not immediately to the low Europ seale, but to a point which | shall at once encourage the general public to regard use the taxicab as a convenience for the many and not as a | lexary for the few. Particularly should the tariff for short stances be reduced. A tariff of forty cents for the first mile or fraction thereof and ten cents for cach additional quarter mile would soon stimulate a confidence in taxicabs and lead to further and more consistent reductions. 10, The city should establish and maintain a special traffic bureau for the regulation of taxicabs, examination of taxicab | the way, Evening World Daily Ma | The Day of Rest %% }-xra% THe Copyright, 1912, bv The Press Publishing Ce, (The New York World), said Mr. Jarr, in a patronta- ing tone, ‘is that you don't understand women. I never have any quarrels or misunderstandings with ny at all, It 1s very simple tf you have just a lttle forbearance. That's ‘bear and forbear.’ Yos, I might say that rand forbear’ ts tho eret of married : 1 ! It's a bear! All right!’ sald Mr. Rangle, gloomily. ‘Gosh! I do everything I can think of to please that woman, But to hear her you'd think I was the worst guy that ever lived. I know what's the matter, I've been too good to her and ehe only ‘m- oT trouble with you, Rangle,”” Grivers and such supervision and study of the taxicab system rae en ba Maeuiea scurmie iin as might further the extension and cheapening of the service, self-pity," sald Mr. Jarr, emugty. ‘Tf If necessary fifty taxicab inspectors should be put in the |you'd just go easy" — streets. Taxicab rules and tariffs should be so laid down as to Ppa Cte a Fg jo «oehurch,” Interrupte ir. neo, be absolutely clear to the companies and to the polices In eager {0 air his sorrows. ‘Can you tell any difficulty appeal to a policeman should be final, Taxicabs in public streets are for the use of the public, The public has every right to demand that they be safe, cheap and accessible, The Evening World makes its taxicab campaign from one broudl. | impregnable platform: Taxicabs, like other public conveniences, must be Regulated by the city government for the ser- vice of the people. Inspected by the city government for the safety of the people. Encouraged by the city government for the comfort of the people. Letters from the People We'll Think It Over, I believe you would get every man and To @e Edttor of Te Kvening Word woman in Greater New York, who could Rave noticed your editorial articles! uftond it, to invest tn your company refarding ‘Taxicab Servi and 4in| Hesides, even thowe who do not {invest Goeply interested in same, [in stocks tn the company would use the y don't you start a taxicab com-| World Taxicab Preference to the pany of your own and call {t the “World| other nowing the good Taxloab Company? 1 ain positive every suite pany would bring body would be glad to buy rhares in| about Would Aw n the World Taxicab Company, The fact! business Xlewbs often, and of The World starting »: company |invariably it {# certainly an imposition: ‘would not only give the New Yo the prices these taxicab compantes the best taxicab service and rates, but| cha nervices given to the gene wow bring the other taxicab com-|eral pv beyond reason. panies to time and they would meet) Whether you start the company or Peer vetes. I know you will way thai|not, your Qe in the newspaper business, but amount of good, but the proper thing dees not alter the fact that you to do would be to start a "World Taxi. @0 @ gent thing for the people, cadCompany,’ SAMUEL 1 BLOOM, editorials will do @ great |me why people who think they are so Pious only have plety as an excuse :o raino a row? Wasn't it better for me to be truthful and honest about tt, and \it T didn’t want to go to church to say lin his best Wise Owl manner, "Lat |mo tell you how T work it, and after this you do the same." “Spm it, sp it sata Mr. fomewhat tmpatiently “Well, along about Thursday | Jarr will see a preacher go by, or read about a fashionable wedding. and that [wit put church in her mind and she'll Jeny, ‘We're getting to be regular heath- ens. We never go to chureh, and that's a terrible example to the children, Bit T suppone it's no use talking to you, you wouldn't go to church no matter what Ta a “That | mutte: Rangie, Mrs how ft all 4 Mr. Rangle, began with ua" “and now ny |wite tan't speaking to me.” “That's because you were boob enough to say right out you didn't want to go to churoh,” replied Mr, Jarr, "You should have said, ‘Nothing Will please me better, my dear, Let os Ro to church Sunday.” “What good would that dot 1 Wouldn't Ko to elureh when the tine eame.”’ Mt Mt wonld put off the raw tit the time came, and the chances are ten one your wife would forget It, or she be expecting company Sunday, or she de up late Saturday night and wouldn't want to get out early to church, Aay- to so? But T spoke up like a man and 1! fot a bawling out. Yow!” “Your work ts rough,” said Mr. Jare azine VE} te Bone ODO wHar ? LOORING FoR FLATS, as Sure! | een Taen AY eer HIS 1S ME SIXTYSEVENTH ETTER Dec Of Rowe . fT, ANOTHER PEAOAERASOSOEESED SERED EREDEROR ORES ARSER OREO REFEREE Mr. Jarr Imparts the Secret Of Perfect Domestic Bliss VOVV OVO PFOTITTSS FIFIS ISS IS GIS 99S HESSSESETITZORIGOS way, always say ‘Yen’ to a woman,jone missed a meal one was saved Just] ‘I do not! sald Mr. Jerr, very em- especially In the case of far-ahead|that much bad food f in grease and | phatically Propositions, Hy doing that it doesnt|a plague of table flies! But since That's always the way with you! mother alwi She never cared but no wonder, when pu've always gone out of your way start any argument.” | affront her! What will she think “Well, if I get out of this scrape I'll try your method,” said Mr, Rang. “Meanwhile, I am not going to give tn that only encourages a woman to {m- pose on a man to the limit.” Consclous of having given advice that would prevent further dissension in his are back from the country | am ma ing an effort to have our meals at a regular time, You know I asked you to come home early. Gertrude wants to 0 out to-night and I wish to # the supper over and let her go in time, so she will be In good humor for to- eried Mrs, Jarr, treated you “My nicely! for you, When she invites all to come and take dinner with hei morrow night When we are all going And bring something to eat) with friend's home, Mr. Jarr went towardlover to take dinner at my mother's {nterposed Mr. Jarr, his own domictie in @ calm and saintly {in Brooklyn, and I'll want Gertrude to) “Well, I'm sure you don't begrudge state of mind. ay in and mind the house." my taking a steak over with us, and 1 thought you were never going to} “Oh, that's all right, I'll stay In and|some cake and a few other things? wet home!" began Mrs. Jarr, “You ara| mind the house,” said Mr. Jarr. You and the children hy please ramem-. “Why, don't you want to go to my |tites— And, furthermore, we are net: mother’s with the children and me with Uncle Henry, where if'asked Mra, Jarr. such appe- not camping out now, ber, Me out of {t, because I'm not going,” said Mr. Jarr. “Why don't you go, because it ts MY jmother's home? Because she is of one of the best families in Brooklyn? Be- lcause she doesn't have friends who are |saloon loafers? Because I want you to. | Because"— But Mr. Jarr and rushed out Where's Rangle?” strode into G “He telephoned his wife he was sorry about something and was coming home to take her out to a theatre,” said Gus |"‘There's a feller knows how to gat along mit the vimmen!” had grabbed his hat he asked as he The Papers Say By John L. Hobble ‘opyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), [’: @ wise woman who knows her own husband—and knows enough not} to let him know sho knows him, | eae Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, A man who has just escaped from «a serious love-affair has the same} (Phe New York World) dizzy feeling of thankfulness as the man who has just reached the® sidewalk after beiup grazed by an automobile, get some people's mone: into circulation is to let them dfe, The pity which the woman who lives on her husband feels for the woman who works for her living is almost akin to scorn. Impossible things do sometimes hap- pen. A man suing a street car company { ie tf u what her | fo" 44mages went into court with none The truth about a woman usually lies halfway between but amateur witnesses and won his case. friends say about her while she's alive and what her tombstone savs about —_—_ | her when she's dead, “Morgan to dig up dead city.” The Burns detective agency has been doing suvh things for several years past. “Price of pearls ris soon be so high that the average man cannot afford to eat an oyster cracker, A corporation's bellef that {t is right to rob the people is, of course, not #0 honorable as the people's bellef that it is vight to rob a corporation. We can almost forehear that swift Kick that Contributor Perkina will get when I no longer have use for him, “Chemical preparation discovered to bring out faintest finger prints." This will be good for the wife to discover whether those prints on the husband's ooliny were made by herself or shat other woman, Tf Copernicus was anything like some clubmen, no doubt Mrs, Copernicus \had her own private opinion of how he happened to discover that the world went round, The Lord made matrimony a lottery for Woman by giving her no chotce in the matter, Man makes it a lottery for himself by foregoing his right of choice and leaving it all to chance, As long as a woman can keep just out of reach, she can keep a man ‘busy reaching for her, If husbands weren't like Christmas gifts, and women could SELECT them, some men would lose that beautiful faith in their fatal fascinations Which now sustains them through life's vicissitudes, Cocktalts are the father of tnvention, Monday, September 16 | has more than he can attend to in handling the bustling trade. | several men who have come at the specified hour to look Into the opportunity, man in @ tremendous hurry. He ts short and sharp in his remarks. The gen- tleman has seen the condition existing at the store. ‘The store takes in an average of $100 a day, The boss wants to sell at once for $1.0 cash in onder to put {it Into a larger store he ix opening elsewhere. Ty are several after | the place. If the gentleman wants to buy {t must be arranged at once. There | te @ lease running for three years, The crook exiibits said lease, (With print ing presses on every block, getting a letter head and lease printed is no dif. | fleult Job, and as for signatures, the gang doesn't stop at a little thing like a AY found to prolong life.” Let W us hope not. The only way to | back | | " Pearls will 1912 TE GRAF ITER | \ PETS THE MONEY, sv DETECTIVE WRG-27E°*) SHERIDA A Series of Articles Fxposing the Every- Deceptions of the Powers That Prey. (’Camera-Bye" Sheridan 18 reyar ded as une of the best detectives that ever existed outside of fiction. The feate of memory which gave him his nickname, when he was = BZ head of the Bureau of Identification of the New Yor PoNee Department, are proverbial. It has been said there 1s no man in the Onited Btates with 80 thorough a knowledges of criminals and their ways a8 Detective Sheridan. In this series he gives the public many valuable poiaters calculated to save them loss by swindling.) (Copyright, 1912, be W. Aulick.) No. 15—“ The Cigar Store Fake. ay NE ewindle which does not depend for its success upon the dishonesty O of the prospective victim is known technically as amioke-up” or fn plain English, “the cigar store fake.” In this, the principal operator is aided by confederates, who perform as supers perform on the sta In all big cities there are many vacant stores in desirable neighborhoods which may be hired for a very lmited period—a day, or a week or a month The Anti-Tuberculosis League hires many such places for brief campaigns Theatrical managers often rent a store of this sort for a day's advertising The understanding with the landlord is that he may gain Imimediate possession in case he makes a deal with a permanent tenant. It ts one of these locations the cigar store faker obtains, on payment of @ very amall sum. Hoe shelves tt up with an imposing array of cigar boxes, mow of them empty, puts in his lighters and Inexpensive fixtures, catis his mob to, gether and is ready for business. The whole thing may be arranged or take down as quickly as a crew of stage hands seta or “strikes” a scene in tl theatre. The next thing to be undertaken {# the insertion of an “ad.” Papers, one that sliali prove a puller and bring immoeliate results, crooks have no time to waste, An announcement is placed in big black ty in the Business Opportuntty columns of the big dailies, the advertiser seth forth that @ ciear store, well established, in a populous district, doing $100 day, will be sold at a ridiculously small price, as the owner ts preparing to » into business on a larger scale, The address is given, and prospective pin chasers are invited to call at the hour of 10 in the morning, when the proprieto will be on hand to talk terms. At 10 o'clock next morning when those who have been attracted by the advertisement call dt the address given, they find the place doing a rushing business. ‘The proprietor, who is himself smoking a cigar of delightful eroma, There may be n the new for ¢ but the proprietor flads no time to consult with them, so conatant is the stream of visitors. Should the crook snatch a moment's leisure and begin to discuss terms, he t# {immediately interrupted by the entrance of one of the mob calling for a dollar's worth of cigars. Finally the chief swindler permite ils customers to walt while he makes appointinents with the intended victims to meet them separately in another part of town at different hours. The comedy is kept up until all the gults leave, the mob having doubled on itself several times in the course of the frameup. Then the store is closed and a placed on the outside announcing that the shopkeeper will return in a few minutes. This ts done so that any other “suckers” answering the advertisement would not be met with the sight of & store doing no business at all, which, practically would be the case were not the gang prepared for the coming. When the head operator keeps his appoiitment with the first man he arrives in @ rush, looks nervously at his watch an! gives indication cf being a business forgery.) The chances are the much-impressed victim will Tf he doesn't ppt up $1,000 the crook takes as much as he will put up n he visite the others who have called in the morning and the same operation is gone through with At the clone of the day there is a goodly sum to cut up with th " men have documents entitling them to the $100 a cigar store, and several men are very much peeved when they arrive simultaneously at the shop and discover how they have been swindled. This !s a dangerous game, and only the most daring swindlers care to pursue it. 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