The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1913, Page 8

A i ff itt ‘ Gov. Giynn eatd to me upon tsuing the BACKS UP CIT AND CREATES PRECEDENT: ItIs Now a Misdemeanor Throughout: the State to Get Hack Stand Profits From Public Streets—Apartment House Calls Also Affected. By Sophie Irene Loeb. ‘Tile te what the new law signed hy Gov, Glynn yesterday puts into (@Beet in the State of New York: A free-for-all use ef the stree @edfmance in this city, now more forceful on account of the penalty Prescribed. * It Is now a misdemeanor, punishable hy a fine or imprisonment, te make any contract or agreement for cabs to stand on any public Street in front of real property. a | Y ORDINANCE | ris, as prescribed In the new cab leheaper rates but shands of the worst set of pirates over No more private hack stands can be established by hotel owners on public highways. No more arrangements may be lawfully made between employees of apartments and favorite cabs to get a rakeofl om cab calls, Appeals by hotels and restaurants to the courts aghinst the city taxicab erdigance are practically academic in view of this new State law. The stranger coming to the cit @eo difference in colors of cabs Is now nssured of obtaining only pablie hack rates at public cab stands, Other cities of the State suffer Row taking steps to conform with lies, | ‘The taxicab ordinance which The World has so long advocated Bed been in effect scarcely a month When it became apparent that, in as mech as the power limit of the Board @f Alermen could not go so far as to| q@eate & proper penalty for the viola- Gems of the new measure, these had @iready manifested themscives. | Therefore the passage of a measur fm the Legisiature to make much abuses eanors seemed expedient. | Aaron J. Levy, majority leader of the! Agsembly, presented the bill and Senator Patten of Queene introduced it in the @enate. Gov. Glynn issued an emer- @ency message and the vill went through fm record time. PUBLIC HIGHWAYS FOR USE OF ALL. ! emergency message: “This ix a good | QI in that it creates a use of the . Levy stated: “This is the last bill father as Assemblyman before | Up my new duties as Municipal Justice, and I am glad to have @pportunity to do ao. I advo: ha Dill last April, but ite pas- delayed. been in close touch with the ot New York City in regard te Back stands and I believe this meas- ‘ aE Faz? the one measure needed ree the city ordinance.” Wagner and Speaker | epoke enthusiastically about this law at this particular iitated its passage. i srbics eS oa ation to contracts for nt to use w portion of | 5F t E public ay as a private hack etand.” , 38 deals for the ‘ese of streets praceribes, i i suit i E i TEL GUESTS FROM! “PRIVATE GARAGES.” view of this law, which the legis- keenly alive to and unanimously in boti rf 3 In the taxicab cases: “Tho passage by the Legislature of the few makes the contention of the @empanies, who seek injunctions | egainet the city, practically academic, Don’t Put-Off relief frem the illnesses ; defective action of the or- of digestion. Most serious sick. get their start in troubles of liver, bowels—troubles le safely, surely relieved by BEECHAM’S : PILLS 880, |! y and having no knowledge as to ing under the same conditions are the new law and abolish monop- Whether the Taxicab ordinance, which abolishes private hack stands and per- mits the olty, without the consent of the abutting owners, to establixh public hack © constitutional or not, ‘8 Are absolutely ferbid- * law, from making any contracts whereby the taxicab com- nes are granted the use of the streets of the hotels for the purpose of THE BVENING WORLD, Tite mach, since the hotel propricter may not enter into any arrangement with any company for profit to serve the patrons, ‘ Another abuse which has been of long standing will be wiped out in the can of apartment houres, It has been tho), custom for bellboye and Janitors of apartinent houses to enter into a agreement for a rake-off op calls ema- nating trom the apartment house. As bigh ae forty and fifty conte @ call bas been given to bellboys by favorite cab drivers, and in the oad the apartment house dweller had to pay this raft im high rates. Hepectally Lae this practice af- 11 fected unauspecting women 4: ers of apartment houses. Phe ing iv a sample letter of any received by The Evening World as to this extortion: “1 have followed your fight for cheap- er taxi rate with Interest, and wih to add my thanks to you for the outcome of this work, which I am sure will in- sure to the users of taxis not only)” But | hotels will iB revenue o by renting wane to favored taxt compa we who live in the Feeldent section are still in the ye hallboys in the apartment the taxi companies in viving @ very low ie past six months, next Mpossitle for get one of thene cabs. [ investi- gited the matter and found the solu- tiot . The hal! boy of our apartment was getting from one of the emall taxi com- panies thirty-five cents for every call he sent to them, payable when the cab came, These cabs were badly wei, never clean and drivers tnsolent, but all the tenants of thin apartment were obliged to patronize thia company or in- cur the displeasure of the hail boy who by various means could make it un- pleasant. “L tried calling up one of the big com- Cheap and Easily Made, But Ends 4 Cough Quickly How to Make the Very Best Cough Remedy at Home. Fully Guaranteed. This pint of cough syrup is easily made at home and saves you about $2.00 as compared with ordinary cough reme- dies. It relieves obstinate coughs—even whooping cough—quickly, and is aplen- did, too, for bronchial’ asthma, spas- modie croup and hoarseness. 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