The evening world. Newspaper, November 26, 1912, Page 22

LOWER TAMAR ‘TART WOULD SWELL PROFITS 2:2: More Persons Will Ride When Rates Are Made Reason- able. ARE PROHIBITIVE NOW. Aldermen Must Make a Com] ana put ten atitenes in tt. plete Change to Have a Popular Service. By Sophie Irene Loeb. In ler they say: “The idea of abolishing the orivate| >be sure of what they have, each con- hack many cabs on the streeta to do the same amount of business, if the stands were! amount of money. @® much business as we can properly | dent, handie, “There are a certain class of people ‘who will ride in taxicabs at any price. “With the present private hack etands| recoms of thelr ‘We have so worked out our system that/and fitness to drive, & ‘we eliminate dead mileage every day | drawback which they shi and can practically tell where cab is working. “We have on several occasions duced the rates and did not have any More calls that at the higher rates. “Of course we have tii “There are also seaso the paying average. “The people who ride in taxicabs do mot want cheap rates, “Prices make nd difference to our Present patrons, for if they want a cad ‘e willing to pay they want it and for it taxi @ystem if the taxicabs public cabs with no privat legen. “The credit system we have worked ut for our patrons would needs be anged. “If the public taxicabs, aside from the companies, were to come in on the pri- Vate stands of hotels and restaurants t be able to carry on the tem we now have, which we would telepho: minim! our dead mileage. per cant. o} to hotel me: are, are not making money, he public Sponsible party A few of elally those conc “area of busine: transportation, m: letter just received from ley, for Transportation in London, ing with owners of taxioab/ their own statements, put on twice as eompanies in the hope of a more popu- jd reduced rate service, this is| the public hackman. during th day when we do not have enough cabs. when train-| proper in constructio foads of people come at the station from football games or any other public af-|a revenue of $450,00, fairs when we do not have as many cabs as necessary, but we must have jackman is not @ re- 8. twenty-five years Chief of News Oddilics Fremont, Ohio, the centre of the sauerkraut industry, reports the largest out- put in many years. The Armageddon casualties included @ slaughter of 197,500 Iron men from the Mary Garten 9s.e8 from Harry Lauder land a Scotch breakfast memi—oat- meal porridge with a pint c€ [Sout poured over it—to be eaten after dancing all night. Salome dance after it @ aang he possibilities. Isn't there a jaw against cruel and wmumed forms of punishment? Sheriff Harburser ts going to unlimber his guns long enou® to ask the wives of the all- mony club to eat Thankagiving dinner with their husbards tn Judlow Street Jail. GROUNDS FOR SEPARATION—Mrs. Louise Sutton of Brooklyn says her husband refused to let his mother-in-law live with them. Roxbury, Mass., man got married aa the result of an election bot. stated whether he won or lost. It ts not Surgeons in St. Louls lifted the heart of an Injured man out of his chest It was interesting for the surgeons, but the patient died. Costumes of theatrical performers in St. Louis are regulated by an alliance of ministers, and there ts danger that the chorus girla will resemble Arctio explorers in Esquimau dress. syetematize @ system whioh if with- Grawn would make.them, according to follow the London idea, and you have lower rates, there will be many cabs to meet th lower rates of ‘They contend that they would rather cern getting the hotels each year as they bid the highest, than have a change|the drivers generally want strict rules that would make them to do a more| so that an eayitable service may be en- extensive business to make the same | foyed by all concerned. Under the pres- y. ent system the public haokman js being That they have worked out a fine | discriminated inat and therefore can- telephone and credit em is evi-|not be on a with the London and The writer visited various plants here all must give equal and found the working machinery in| service at uniform rates. fine order and facilities for carrying on| Aleo the drivers are beginning to re- the business methodical indeed. Alize that {f this condition existed in ‘That they are competled to keep|New York which !s generally conceded rt to honesty |to have a more spending public than that of London and Paris, that they would make more money and with cumbered with. lower rates would enjoy more fares and As Mr. Bradley asserts, the money | tips than at the present high tariff. The made in the license department is| London cabbies are gradually year by ed for the upkeep of the department | year arriving at the point of owning and carrying out the duties.” (Theso duties | operating their own cars, which tends are protecting the public with inspec-| toward more efficient and careful ser- el tors, prosecuting unscrupulou vice, as has also been found to be the seeing that cabs and taxim @rejcase here, according to Police Commis- ‘&e.) smioner Waldo. DRIVERS WHO FAVOR LOWER nd $800,000 of this RATES. is put Into the sinking fund. At the public hearing William Thiel, Perhaps if the burdens of the owners |owner of two independent taxicabs, in this direction were taken over by |enid that he was operating under the the city where they justly belong, with| thirty cent drop, and that his book an efficient force to carry on the busl-| showed an income of 98 1-8c. for every ness of policing the taxicab service, | mile his cabs travelled. He was “very the companies might turn some of this! wen” satisfied with the reduced rates Attention to further benefit of the and thought It could be reduced further public, with the private stands abolished, And when I suggested to the com-| “Do you find that you are getting In New York this department ytelds are used the aren in [D&Rton that if thie fund was turned | more business under tho reduced rates?” small and we have to make our money in that area—which ts different from * Burope. “We would have to revisq our entire over toward regulating their driver®| he was asked. ‘and making them more efficient as well “Yes, slr, and I believe it will even- as waving them money in the protec: tually get me a larger business than tlon of passengers in this way, what| before the reduction.” would they do for the people in return. | Another driver, George H. Hart, ariv- ‘he answer was: “If such regulation®/ing his own car for two years, was enforced for a time we would) asked, “In your opinion would a thirty cent drop increase the number of your passengers if universal in your city?” conmder the reduction of rates. But at present wo prefer to have the private hackstands and rates remain | ‘Tt certainty would." he answered. an they are.” A Nad this board should make more pub- jc stands and do away with tho special VIEWS OF A DRIVER WORKING BERTOTAR Fer INe Cae IN NEW YORK. would enable you to run a car profitably In answer to the driver signing |if the car cost you $1,800?" himself “A Union Taxicab Chauffour| “Cortainly,” he answered, of Local 267," another driver writes} Apropos of this, Alderman Courtlandt to The Evening World as follow: Nicoll, who is a nephew of De Lancay I have been a cabby for él Nicoll and has consulted the lawyer re- years. In that time I have never |@arding the proposed new taxicab goy- had @ police summons or an acci- jerning tawa, deciares that the compa- dent or an_overcha complaint. |®fes can exist under the %-cent rate, At present Iam driving @ public {And really flourish providing proper street, As you say, |™Managoment and operation follow. Tight, I lose lots of | Said Alderman Nicoll: “I atudied the ‘ount of the price the {taxicab question while abroad, having ators, senetton to visit ta my, researches, the lon’ iver rin jarge cities, obtaine. ‘rom a fiieteeles han i780 Scotland Yard a printed schedule of a week and eating steaks. rates in vogue in London since the ad- single and do not. drink, vent of the taxicab. These schedules reveal a rate that does not, it whi LOW TARIFF PAYS WELL] [2ker me, all my time to save. | thotta, ‘prevail In New York, ‘The sost ENOUGH IN ENGLAND. dollar and tive decently on 377-60 [of taxicab travel in London, the man- “or business purposes the operations by taxicab Is, largely operates against tht not exist with a high tariff, to the tariff, taxicabs frequ: to the race meet! y engaged #, to the sei diva npear. “The license fees are used for upkeep of the department carrying out the So it would seem that the area of tuxleab business is, in reality, more in| New York than in London, taking in the hotel districts and the downtown | Of course only a} small percentage of population ride tn business districts. taxicabs at the above rates, New York has never had a popular | eervice, as there are not 2,000 cabs in| ty entire as against §,000 in Lon- | Phat in London they make money everybody rides 1s certainly . Bradley states, “attributable to the tariff.” More answers to the companies’ con. would seem-from the public * as follow London, where all texical here claim is the best system. Fverybody has a right to the city Streets in all localities where they are serving the public as common carriers. rding to the owners, taxicabs are erally four to five miles in London. age is a conmderation In de- termining tariff, but a factor which cle, and so creates a demand which “Notwithstanding the enormous tran- ait facilities of cheaper forms of loco- motion tn London the taxi does a good business, which is directly attributable In fact, in the season, £0 ide, fJovrneys varying from 40 to 100 miles. With a prohibitive tariff these would private hackstaids in owners agement of taxis, the behavior of driv- Week working for a taxt compeny; ers of such cabs and the general all can and eat steaks, “But as lone fares Secatee ae Hey Sorm toms, there as a company {s in league wit! . an auto achool, who suplies all woe oe te Ass, tae ree ie their men at ent, and these {mately from 2,049 cabs to 6,441 cabs. According to Mr. Ducasse of tho Mason-Seamon Company, the number of taxicabs has decreased every year in New York. ‘Why? where do we pany fe hirti know where hot men who won't r theatres are, and it's a shame. They could not drive in London or Paris without passing an examination which in strict. It 1s awful to see them driving all ov the city asking where is 40 in Former County Clerk and Congress- man-elect Peter J. Dooling has com- pleted all arrangements for his annual entertainment and reception, which will take place on Thankagiving Evo, at the Amsterdam Opera House in West Forty-fourth street. with the hack- citizens what be- Children Cry for Fletcher's CASTOR IA. Tue Kind You Have Always Bought has borne th ture of Chas. H. Fletcher, and has been made me sana Personal supervision for over 30 years, Allow no one * sust-argaod”? are but experiment; and oni enee the riments, and endanger health of Eniidren—Experience against Experiment. ~: ‘ASK ADMINISTRATION ONE HUSBAND'S ESTATE = meme One Values Suicide Fox’s Property at $900, Other at $3,000. The rival clatms of Mrs, Martha Fox of No, 121 Bast One Hundred and Ninth street and Mra. Lillian Fox of No. Fort Washington avenue, who deci they are the widows of Harris A. Fox who killed himself at the Fort Washing- ton avenue address about a fortnight | PeoPl letters of administration, ago, for will be heard by Surrogate Fowler her application should be granted. Mrs, Martha Fox also asks the Bur-| 09409. rogate to inquire into the validity of a] 6 divorce decree entered in Kings County full of dandruff or in January, 1911, wherein Harris A. Fox ia gis plaintiff and 23rd Street On Sale Wednesday, November 27th WOMEN’S GLOVES. _ 1m Bots Stores. Tan or White 1 clasp Prix Seam Capeskin. special, Black or White 12 button length Glace regularly 2.50, 16 button length White Glace Mousquetaire. Mousquetaire. SWEATERS. Wool Sweaters with V neck or roll collar. Various weaves. Women’s Fine Worsted Sweaters in White or Grey. Boys’ and Girls Worsted Sweaters......1.75 Large assortment of Angora Sweaters in plain and fancy weaves at moderate prices. UMBRELLAS. Appropriate Men’s and Women’s Umbrellas,—covered with piece-dyed Silk Mixed Fabrics, tape edge. Handles of Staghorn, Capehorn, Gun Metal, Carved Woods with Sterling Silver Caps and Trimmings. Handles:—Long Etched and Engraved Sterling TWO WIDOWS IN COURT day. Mrs. Martha Fox asks that Mra, Lillian Fox appear and show cause why James McCreery & Co. In Both Stores. For Women and Children. Women’s Worsted Sweaters with high collar or V neck, —plain weave. In Both Stores. Fox, therein styled “Mary Fox,” is de-| said she was the lawful widow and thet serfbed as the ‘Mrs. For ée-| the other heirs were two children, Mer~ nies all knowledge of such divorce. ton 8 and Della Fox. She estimates the Mrs. Lillian Fox was the first to file | estate at $3,000. application for letters of administration.| Fox was @ designer of women's fash- She valued the estate at $900, and said| lone and was said to have committed the heirs at law were nerself and three | suicide because of the morbid fancy that children—Annie, Moses and his ideas for fashions had become BEAUTIFUL HAIR WOMAN'S CHARM. DONT HAVE THIN, FADED, GRAY HAIR A Simple Remedy Beautifies id sox cea bring back the natural color i "] : a ae da, aaa teow i id yourself of any dandruff an th) and Darkens the Hair, (2 tnd make your hair grow strong “4 Cures Dandru# and beautiful by using Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair ae f F jage to see so many What 6, pity it ty halt faded oF nd preserving the Streaked with gray, and realize that |co ind Sulphur is recog- of these people might have soft, nized by Scalp Specialists as bein; to. | most of these people S'Beautiful color [excellent for treatment of hairan re it they ,would but. wsethe | scalp Soult d if they There is no neces-| If you are troubled with dandruff Proper treatment. tovtixty-five years |or itching scalp, or if your hair is sity for ie no excuse for any bre its fete) CI its oat get a - |fifty-cent bottle ith’s having thin, stra Sulphur from your drug it, and not ye] the improvement in the earance » emelling with or lye hair after a few days tre mr. GEORGES =. About to RETIRE from GEORGES STORES I’m Sacrificing a Mil- 34th Street lion Dollar Stock for Cashto Settle with Him in This Reorganization Sale. HEN I announced this W extraordinary sale in five Cities, I said in one of my first advertisements:—"'If values can juce results all my stores should be crowded to the doors from the first heur of this announce- ment.” m pleased to say best values GAN and luce results, par- ticularly in New York. 95c a pair 1.75 a pair value 2.75, 1.95 a pair value 3.28, 2.65 In the first ton days of the sale I have enjoyed the greatest selling in the his- tory of the Georges busi- ness. I knew that m: ent reactors would bring response. made them purposely Gnd eorroges it’s up to me, the junior fee) to turna Million "pole lar stock into cash quichly, eo that I can make settle- ment with the senior mem- ber of the firm, who is about to retire. Never be- fore in the annals of retail clothes selling have you had such a remarkable and yet such a legitimate offering at the opening of | the season. eWhile cash is my imper- i losing value 5.00, 3.85 value 6.00, 4.75 value 2.50 Christmas Gifts. future of my business after this Reorganization de- pends upon the making, 1.75 Suits & Overcoats Now $18 satisfying and keeping of ff value 2.50 and 3.00 curtamnaty curiae Hy. Pies Umbrellas covered with Twilled Silk, tape | edges. Handles:—Etched and Engraved Sterling AE Se Now $10 | Silver Caps, Staghorn, Carved’ Woods, plain or $20, $22.50 & $25 $12 fancy trimmed. For Men and Women. 2.75 page hay aa New | value 3,50 to 5.00 SEE Oveceats New 915 Taffeta Silk Umbrellas, — tape edges. $30, $32.50 & $35 Silver Caps, Staghorn, Capehorn, Pimento and English Furze with Sterling Caps and Trimmings. 3.85 and 4.85 value 6.00 to 8,00 Sizes for Men and Women. 23rd Street James McCreery & Co. And 90 on upward, in- cluding the aristocrats of my stocks, many the un- talled-for garments of Fifth Avenue merchant tailors, made to order to bring $35 to $75, and Georges custom ff, built model clothes, equally high in quality and char- | acter, now in the Reor- | anization Sale, $20, $22.50, 5, $30 and $35—embracing ailk-lined suits cf the finest imported fabrics up to luxurious Montagnac over- coats. 34th Street ee Bence, Christmas Clearing House of Women’s Ready-to-Wear Clothes Now on the Christmas Floor Instead of going to the Subway floor for women’s tailored suits at $8 to $15—for the serge dresses at from $5 upwards, and equally moderate priced coats—now take the elevators to the Fourth floor of the New Stewart Building, near the House of a Thousand Babies. This is the Christmas floor, and women’s clothes make excellent, practical gifts. Women's Tailored Suits, $10 to $15 At 810—blue or black serge suits, plain or with large revers, trimmed th braid, lined with guaranteed satin. All sizes. At $11.75—cheviot in black and brown, with the plainness that is the best investment jg moderate- Peed it t uits of fine serge or cheviot, with plain or trimmed revers; made by men tailors. Warm Cheviot and Chin- chilla Coats, $12 and $15 Warm cheviot coats, heavy enough to keep out the wind. Some braid bound and with big buttons. Oxford gray only, 812.75. ‘ull-length coats of fine serge, lined sy yay iad with guaranteed satin. Black or blue, $12. Warm coats of mixtures in good colors—almost a hundred of them atgig. “Of the Making of Books There Is No End’”’ And there’s practically no end to the Christ- mas and the All-the-Year-Round Books in * The Wanamaker Book Books for all moods of all minds—for the young, the old, and the ageless=-for her, him or yourself. Books that are rare, old, select, quaint, curious, classic, or popular. Plain, homely books that become well-thumbed; regal- looking books that become treasures. Books of fact, fancy, fiction. Such a veritable library of books as both bibliophile and popular fiction reader will revel in. complete a gathering of books as possible to find. It is a place to browse in—this Wanamaker Book Store. No one is importuned to buy; all books on the shelves are classified by subjects; and there are plenty of competent people—specialists, we might truthfully say— to advise, help, suggest, serve you. And—by way of Christmas doubt as to what present to give him or her, give a book. Here are a few: A_YOUNG MAN’S FANCY— Verses and pictures by Coles Phillips; decorations by E. Stetson Crawford........ $3.00 MAIDENS FAIR—By Harrison Fisher; decorations by T. B. Hapgood $8.50 CHILDHOOD — Pictures by Cecilia Bull Hunter and Caro- Nine Ogden; verses by Burges Johnson. 93.00 ROSEBUDS — Drawings — by Henry Hutt; decorations by E. Stetson Crawford 92.00 AMERICAN TYFES—Wit' six- teen engravines in color and forty-seven in black and white; by Clarenc F. Underwood, with pems by various AUCHOTS.. ce ceeeereerere $2.50 THE BROAD HIGHWAY—By Jeffery Farnol, with twenty: wr plates in color from drawin zs by C.E. Brock....+++++ 33.00 THE HARBOR OF LOV Ralph Henry Barb «:r, illustrations in colo oy. W. Plank and de wrations by Edward Stratton Hallo- WAY isscieses Pen e) ALL i HE YEAR ROUND — By James Whitcomb Riley, with twelve illustrations cut on wood and printed in colors by Gustave Baumann. .. $2.50 JUST SO STORIES—By Rud- yard Kipling; pictures by Joseph M. Gleeson...... 82.50 THE ADVENTURES OF KITTY COBB—Pictures by James Montgomery Flagg.82.00 bh fone the Formerly A. T. Stewart & Co. Broadway, Fourth Avenue, Eighth to Tenth Street. Chinchilla coats with velvet collars, Oxford or dark blue, $15, Striped dark blue boucle coate, br velvet facing down the front, 15. Serge and Silk Dresses $5, $5.75, a $8.75 and upto Most attractive dresses of soft serge and harder finish diagonal whipcord. All sorts of pretty little touches to make them interesting and out of the ordinary, At $10.75 and 812.75, charmeuse and other silk dresses with the air of much more expensive models, Women who own these pretty frocks can always feel well-dressed. At $10.75, about 110 evening dresses, so dainty and fresh that each one seems to suggest a Th iving Day party or a Chri: lance. (Fourth floor, New Stewart Bldg.) Store It is as nearly suggestion—when in DANCING AND _ DANCERS OF TODAY — The modern revival of dancing as an art by Caroline and Charles H. Caffin, with numerous illustra- ++ $4. tions ROYAL RD! —By Cyril Ward, B.A.; illustrated with thirty-two full-page color re- productions from original water- colors and with five pen draw- ings by the author...... $5.00 SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, OR_ THE MISTAKES OF A NIGHT—By Oliver Goldsmith; illustrated by Hugh Thom- ip ROE $5.00 JAPANESE GARDENS — By Mrs. Basil Taylor (Harriet Osgood), with twenty - eight pictures in color by Walter Tyndale, R.I........... 86.00 MARCUS AURELIUS ANTON. INUS—In the tra: George Long, illu the water-color dr W. Russell Flint. . A BOOK OF HAND. COVERLETS—By Eliza vert Hall, with numerous pl: in color and other tions... THE RAP account of the life of Rap! Santi of Urbino, and his p in the development of art, together with a description of his paintings and frescoes by Frank Roy rie, 8. M. F, R. P. with fifty-four reproduc- in color and in duogravure THE MISTRESS OF SHEN* STONE—by Florence L. Bar- Tamia mt | WhatisCASTORIA _ Victor-Victrolas many cabs to do the same amount jastoria is @ harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paree OF THE PURITA: ER! , F. | clay, with eight illustrations AND THEIR. ONDE of business, ‘oric, Drops and Soothing Syrups, It contains neither i in every style and case | intonlar by Fe He Towas 0 NEW BOSTON AND THE 4 But the public would be the bene- pium, forphine nor other Narcotic substance. It de- | send. A aga MASSACHUSETTS BAY : okies : ‘ stroys Worms and allays Feverishness. For more than — | $15 to $250 | KIM—By Rudyard Kipling, with = COLONY—By Albert C. Addie arch A000, cabs on the streets of voir year fnas beon in constant u a for the relief of | | NEW YOR i strations by J. L. fons with Bumerous original EAM? cides Palka a? ¥ orate Donstipation, Flatulenc: id Colle, a thing Trous | } y ini: ing RADITIONS' s 8.08 Bee iodeee dein eatncann tan bles and Diarrhoea, 1t regulates the Stomac haa Fowelsy Mahogany and Oak finishes to har K TRADITION: assimilates the Fa i ‘ THE LIFE OF THE BEE—By Getting in a tax! 1s almost as much of giving healthy and na: monize with interior wood work, i ral slee, ice Maeterlinck, translated BURGH — By Robert Cham- & habit as getting on © street car The Children’s Panacea—The Mother's Friend. am ds b inant ti 42 West 34th | by Alfred Bato; i rated by bere, LL.D, with Mastentie ’ pere. And, as Mr, Bradley says, the Records by every prominent operatic Edward J. Detmold. 4.00 color and pen and inl . rival f ti tat! nor- : ° di 3 rival means of transportation ere enor-| Th@ Kind You Have Always Bought and concert artist and by the leading Bet. Broadway and Sth Ave. THE BELLS AND OTHER . ruriyfe, OY James Riddel Be fas Grice of these only § cents for Bears the Signature of personages of the comic stage. with illustrations by Edmund CHSRCOALS OF NEY AND a * Be 4 ao A A am aereapme Ap Dulac. ccccccccccccecess —Fietures me WO) penta and pwede: rmeiee ag THE “MODERN READEWS —& iezt, by B+ Hopkiasen i 4 2 MA ang BONE Le Harieeeerny Samra § S vith seen MBH 5 EA Vintos sosounta cpapad ty epectal SPAS ald WIREISE, pectal works at Gels "We ah Me oy EH 3 ess.” “Why? Only ‘on account of this | oe e arrangement. Chatcer,, now, fink pie inte itusteated by ‘Gordon ‘ vi whi he Ni ne ‘4 oe Ee rt deen has ver enjoyed in Use For Over 30 Years $8rd Birect| ai dee Be —=| Tatlock and Percy MacKaye, FIERY. 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