The evening world. Newspaper, June 24, 1914, Page 3

Private Taxi Service Only a Ruse for Future Monopoly and High Rates N here Is No Such Thing As a Private Taxicab ‘There is only one taxicab service, and that is public service. In wo city in the world fs there such a thing as “private” taxicab Gere to be licensed. To change public service to “private” service is to provide for \ future monopoly. The present rates have been upheld by all the conrts profitable, and should not now be tampered with by any company. Two thousand cabs are running wishing to carry passengers in the city should conform with these 8,000 licenses. A “private” service is only a cloak by which to get higher rates. A Yellow Taxicab has no more conveniences than taxicab. Yellow Taxicab Company | Trying to Frustrate Leg- islation That Will Com- pel It to Take Out Licenses. 5 License Department Anx- tous for Every Cab That Carries Passengers to Be Under City Super- ' * vision. “By Sophie Irene Loeb. There is only one kind of taxicab) @ervice in the city of New York or any other city in the world, and that is a public one. Any taxicab operating as a “private” taxicab ts merely using the name “private” to get more money. It fs just the game as hack stands. In the words of Assistant Terence Farley before the courts, “The only difference between a ‘public’ hack stand and a ‘private’ ~ hack stand is the amount of money paid by taxicab companies for the use of the city streets to hotel com- panies.” In like manner the Yellow Taxicabs that carried public passengers before the passage of the present ordinance are t me Yellow Taxicabs that are carrying passengers now. They ‘are using the public streets for hire just the sane. Only | fore they could charge ‘exorbitant rates, but Row they cannot legally do so. ‘The Yellow Taxicabs havo not been examined, nor their taximeters tested by the License Bureau for over @ year. Th , are no different from any other average taxicab running In the elty of New York, and are just as much public as any other cab. Every cltizen that telephones for a cab should be protected as to rates, &c., under the new ordinance. When they realize the new amendment would compel them to be properly Itcensed they seek compromise. Deputy Commissioner of Licen: Rosenthal said to-day: “We cer- tainly ought to get the definition for public hacks settled. Com- missioner Bell is also very anxious for the public to be pro- tected by every cab carrying a yenger to be under the con- trol of the License Bur so we oan positively fix the blame as to overcharg and = irresponsible drivers, &c. We are taking up the amendment to-day with the Corperation Counsel and hope to get the measure before the Board. Mr. Barnard, President of the Yel- low Taxicab Company, asserted yes- terday: “It is our plan to cater Principally to the private trade and to put only surplus cabs on the pub- Mo stands, so that a general public nplated.” Yet he wants the city to legally aanction his rvice and high rates. He “The new rates will be given a trial providing the Pennsyl- \ vania Railroad Company assents to ‘ehe change.” Mr. Barnard forgets the city of New York is only concerned with the cost of operation of one cab ‘The only way for public protection is for every cab carrying passen- tee, Corporation Counsel | id considered at present rates, ind amy company y other average any company’s plane of operation in which the company must oon- sider the wishes or the contract of the Pennsylvania Railroad, or any other corporation, hotel or restaurant. THE AMENDMENT NOW BEFORE THE BOARD. On May 28 Alderman Brush at the suggestion of the License Department Presented to the Hoard of Aldermen an amendment. This amendment te now In the General Welfare Commit- It merely defines a “public” hack, The License Department has been deluged with complaints of cabs oper- ating asa “private” cabs and over- charging, and the Magistrates were getting impatient with one violation after another, Therefore, “What ie @ public cab?” has to be decided on: for all. The only r they attempted to do before this ordinance, was in using asa cloak was intended for an entirely dif- ferent purpose. Mayor Gaynor's commission framed this ordinance. I was a member of mission, The clause referred put in to protect the interests of what is commonly termed the “liv- ery stable,” which hires out carriages by the day, month or week, or for funerals, marriages, &c. This clause reads as follow: ‘This ordinance shall not apply to or govern any vehicle hired or ob- tained from a livery stable or ga age and which does not solicit patronage upon the streets; nor to any omnibus running by author- ity of any ordinance, law, charter or permit upon # fixed route through the city. When the ordinance went Into ef- fect the Yellow Taxicab Company evaded taking out licenses, and though operating as they aiways had done before, used this clause to con- tinue thelr high rates. There is positively no apparent dif- ference in their service to-day prior to this ordinance; and from the many heavy fines imposed by Magistrates for violations it has been plainly evident that their so- called “private” service, over which the License Bureau had no jurisdic- tion and over which the pussenger had no redress, was becoming a menace to strangers and other citt- zens who did not know the existence of this cloak and believed that thoy were protected from extortionate rates by the cab taking them as pas- sengers on the public streets, RIDICULOUS CONDITIONS THAT PREVAIL. ‘The conditions have been ridiculous If you are at a hotel, no matter If you just went in there to buy a cigar or a newspaper, and ask for a cab, you are given a Yellow cab, and that is called “private” # fee, and you have to pay high rates. If you tele- phone for a cab, that ts “private” service; and there you are, As the Magistrates show, you can get this same kind of a cab on the street any place, and yet call that “private” service. Therefore, this chaotic condition on the part of thie company, if to bontinug, would create d a certain num cf. our. cabs iJ and the puplie would have to prove whic! was fd in the controversy that youl naturally follow, The H Company is doing it now. | Heenae and some are p Therefore tt is deemed necassary to define “public cap” as soon as pos- sible, The amendment before the board at present fills this require- t and also makes provision for private livery service, which is for which it issues a single Ii- d is not concerned with engaged by the day, week or month, such as a strictly private arrange. ment might of fun The Famous Chocolate Laxative EX-LAX Relieves Constipation Helps Digestion - Keeps the Blood Pure me poate poe for sonatipetien in | Harris al FADED 26FPIOROAOROZERO DIG laxative recommended by foe 0 ‘on THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, a) 1914. THE WARM WEATHER HAT Use EE LEREDEDAR MEADE IAEA LILES EDEN EADIE EOD IAI ED ODODE SDE LESOOODOOE $4 neee erals, marriages, &c. The amendment reads as follows: A public hack ts a vehicl which uses the streets, hig’ ways and public places of the city for the transportation of passengers, with or without baggage, for hire, pay or compensation of any kind. it makes no difference whether euch a hack is hired on the publio streets or in a garage or livery stable or over the t bs Another paragr strictly “private” above. This amendment protect cerned. Therefore if the taxicab com- pany is really a “private” company this amendment cannot affect It. But) if it is serving the public generally, as| it certainly is now, then {t must take out a license for every cab. It should make no difference whether that cab is ordered by telephone or in the street. Its purpore is identical, —e——— CROWD WAS HURLED FROM GOTHLAND'S DECK' THIRTY FEET INTO SEA) Thrilling Rescue of Women and Children Who Fell With Boat From Wrecked Liner all con- WITH NOTHIN TEA IN HOUSE, GIRL TAKES LITTLE ONES 70 POLICE “We're All Hungry,” Said Anna, Her Father Drunk and Mother Gone. With Jimmie, the baby, hanging over her right arm little Anna Me- Gowan of No. 518 West Forty-ninth street appeared in the West Side Po- lice Court to-day to tell her story of | desertion by her mother and cruel) neglect by her father, The prisoner) HUGH ‘TOWN, Bcilly Istands, June) *t 24.—‘The saving of the paasengern of| the father. ‘The mother gave up the the wrecked Lelstan steamer Gothiand| Strussle three days ago and is either dead or trying to find a job was attended by almost superhuman fforts on the part of the officers and| Anna who ts thirteen years old, crew of the steamer and by the life.| Wa# the only one in the family to stand the gaff of misery and poverty. She haan’t given up yet and doesn't saving boats’ crews which came to the rescue when she went ashore on DODODEDDPDHESD198O94-H0 4 HEGAE the bar was Terence McGowan, | pis i Sige g NO EA NUR y | HOPELESS, DOCTOR :| TELLS COLLEAGUES Surgeon Describes to Medical Association Wonderful Oper- ations on Animals. (Rectal to The Evening World.) ATLANTIC CITY, J, June 244.— Remarkable heart operations, slicing | of windptpes and other delicate feata with the surgeon's knife, bone graft- the sick room, were some of the in- | teresting things interpersed with the highly scientific dissertations at the sectional meetings of the second day's sessions of the sixty-fifth an- nual convention of the American | Medical Association here to-day, Dr. Axel Werellus of Chicago, be- fore the section of surgery, some of the feats performed on ant- mals in experimental surgery of the taken to test the practicability of surgical interference in the vital organs of the human, not only in the case of injuries, but in aliments of the ri and Jungs that are bope- the Crim Rocks yesterday. Intend to give up. Last nicht Jim-| jaye with ordinary medical ald, 1 Members of the life saving crew| mle was howling hia head of for) yypy his most impressive announce from St. Mary'a describe the scene|#omething to eat, while Thomas, four! ment was: ‘No injury of the heart, as awful when one of the Gothland’s| ¥¢ara old, and John, seven, were Weak] a4 matter how violent, should be for want of food. One bottle of mili and a bit of breat bad kept the chil- dren alive for three days. The father lay drunk in the only bed of their tenement home, and was so found by the police last nicht small boats jammed with passengers and seamen broke away from the davits and fell thirty feet into the sea ‘The bottom of the boat was smashed by its violent contact with the waves and all were thrown into the wi considered hopeless Tho experiments, geon, all made under anesthesin, dem onstrate that injuries of the heart, seamingly of the most desperate char axserted the #ur- acter, may be successfully repatred Most of the passengers who had| The brave little “mother” had 10) surgically occupted the boat were women and| means of earning a dime or even 4) 41\4 research, he clalmed, “also dem children, and they struggied helplees-| nickel, and the lamentations of Jim-| onstrates that abnormalities of the ly in the waves. A quartermaster} mie hurt her. in 8 ir the « ntl heart, such a narrow opening between s announced finally. © gathered her ‘ ne ca 6 CO! ed mu of the Gothland sprang from the| toca about her tattered skirt and| {wo chambers, can he corrected sur steamer’s deck and succeeded In|marched off to the West Forty-|atcally and thar such conditions as saving three of the women. Several) seventh street station are found. in a #o-calied ‘bine baby,” of the life-saving crew also jumped “What's the troub asked the into the water and handed drowning children to thetr companions in the! "We're all hungry,” replied Anna rescue boat until all had bean saved.| “You sure look It," exclaimed the Meanwhile @ heavy sea rendered all| lieutenant, and he shot the doorman | ivage work perilous, but eventually | out tor milk and sandwiches l were got sufely ashore, | In court to-day Magistrate Nolan desk Heutenant The crew of the Gothland, which| had to continue the case of the! was on the voyage from Montreal to| father, for MeGows wok not sober Rotterdam, again went on board to-|enough to give his side of the case. day to jettison some of her cargo|He was put In the coo until to- of grain in the hope of lightering her| morrow, suMciently to enable her to be re-|c floated, b when he will ming to him, He is a biack nd husky, but with the t sete eel am lamandes. In_ the m nwht AS FIRE DESTROYS HOME Oi] Stove Overturns, Sets Mrs. Harris’s Dress Aflame and She Runs to Street, Mrs, Roso Harris was probably fatally burned to-day when her home TO-DAY WILSONS HAVE BEEN 29 YEARS WENDNED ° President's Anniversary Be Observed in Will, Not the White House Even Informally was destvoyed by fire at Mills Coumt, Springfield, Queens orough. The| WASHINGTON, June 24.—Con- fire started with the upsetting of an|gratulations are due President and oll stove. Mrs, Wilson to-day on the twenty- Mrs. Harris, who was in the! ninth anniversary of their marrlage. | kitchen, tried (to extinguish the| There will be np formal observance flames and her clothes caught fire. | She managed to reach the street and | neighbors extinguished the fumes about her and cared for ber until an ambulance from Jamaica Hospital ar- rived. noe fire apread to the adjoining of the day by even so much as afam- ily party, as the two elder daughters of the house are absent from Wash- ington, Mtes Wilson participating in & convention @t Madison, Wis. and Mrs. Sayre visiting in Pennsylvania, amily le, eatmated Sar of the Sam and her mother’s namesake, will probably be the only {ts th beading of ee able to offer Mra, McAdoo, the younger! daugh- | which ara now will, in the future, | the knife.” or absolutely hopel be saved by use of application to human practical pationta is the observation that in kiave Injuries to the heart the heart sac should be widely opened, as the 1 needs absolute and perf: dom of action, he satd 1 chest can be r and compara ting declaration was noval of the entire heart sac causes practically no disturbance and « ones can be manufactured from tissue covering the Intestines.” Stab wounds, even multiple” an nounced Dr. Werelins, “and entiely through the hei re observed to wins only temporary tumultuous 1 and knife ines re quired sewing, but healed rapidly.” nis deseribed an experiment where eart chambers were eut Inte and iin aut sewed. ‘Their interior wan ¢ y the finger and even by th ley wer put back and resumed nor Another the alle ing the windpipe saver ance, It wae reunited and took up Jive duties awain Thi war far more dangerous than the work,” conelided Dr as some of | ances: "to 1" is. This as wel ler work has nave Sight dist the lattampted towed the haart work. Some of the; lanimais Jumped up and down the} table If an hour after the opera- tion, showing the o 8 recup- erative powers of HUMAN N Fe. From the Voliwiva (Mo) Herald’ Statemman,) tt is funny bow © young man will have patiently around the church. door for an hour © 96 te his air) home |.’ and kick up a wo later if his wil + ees lingto prop up hunchbacks, spursir| new Joints and correct club feet, pub- | lic health movements and the new thoughts In the value of foodstuffs 'n | related | heart and Jungs, & research under- | PIREALDADOAAD EN GENGDA NEEDS FAROOR DEED D NER HE SE +b ERED DDGOOOD 144996 FOOF- FG OSH ETDS PODODGDPD FPDFGDOS GD G-D FD OG OF F54 EOODID ENG SCTIDE SOLO OTODETODD IRE RISEON ANO ‘Gor BIB YES AKITHEN SIT DOWN AND READ ABOUT IT Everything Jt Does Means Something, and It’s All Explained Here. Have you a baby at home? Does he (or ahe) mputter and equawk and cry all day long? Hann't he smiled or even grinned since he arrived? Does he awake at gravevard hours and monotonously and unintelligibly chant his troubles so resonantly that your friendilest next door neighbor will Paan you by without a nod next day? Inasmuch as you were never a baby and never cried, this tn terrible to have to put up with. Like many mere, married men you religiously be- Neve the very young baby ts a sort of a wrinkled, red-painted imp sent by some evil spirit to add to your tribulations, Up at the Health Department, where they understand all about bables, they are sending out Ntere- ture to-day to the mothers. read thin carefully you wll not be | too hard on the babies, There ta a | reason for everything the baby does, \they will tell you, If he ifte bh large toe, or looks cross-eyed at a fly on the ontatde of the acreen, or | crooks hia lef! index finger, or makes a sound ike # drowning cat, this has yeal alenifiernce, And If he waew his right ear, amecks his Ips and pleats his skin like the folda of an aceor- dion, that means the 12 o'clock whistle | should blow for If you \uneh, There are | other marvellous things about bablew so marvellous that vou would not!) eredit them tf your mioin an eneyelopedia, Rut the alth De | partment haa all these facts for you | por eit? Well, suppose you Fawked Dr Sarih J Baker, head of the Division of Child Hygiene, what byou would do if vou had a baby on vour bands th daya to two weeks f age, and e mother couldn't | be renene he formula for the mee ia mills feeding a baby one tablespoon, and at horlew w ' tablespoons Feed the haby two tablespoons at frat and Increase until full amount, two J ounces, {6 given at the end of two The baby should be fed every Tf the child ts three to nonths three ounces of milk anid two b urs Jay: Nurse the baby regularly “= RICH MISS MIL ON HER KNEES BEGS ATTENTION OF JURY, Overcome With When Counsel Says She Stole Chauffeur’s Affection. CRIES OUT HBR DENIALS. Accused by Counsel of Dis- charging All Servants and Keeping Chauffeur Alone. Mies Kisanor A. McGill, whe ts be- ing sued for 960,000 in the Supreme Court Jersey Cfty, Mre. Mary Mayer, the wife ef Mise MoGill's chauffeur, Walter Mayer, oreated a sane im court today when Alexander Simpson, counsel for Mrs. Mayes, be- wan to un up for the plaintiff. Misa McGIil, who bears }er. maiden name by virtue of « court fuling tmoorpors ated im @ decree of divorce she ob- tained from ber husband, was not in court when Mr. Simpson began bis remarks, The lawyer did not mince words tn his descrtption of Miss McGill. He called attention to the fact ttat ohe {a thirty years ald and das Been mar- red and dtvorced, although she looks Nke @ young gir. “Posing as an tnnecent girl,” shont- from her and from hia five-year-old son, I want to recall to your minds, gentlemen of the jury, some of the facta testified to In this case. “You remember that when Dr. Mc- GIN, the father of the defendant, died there were séven servants in the Mc- GIN household at No. 16 Gifford ave- nue. The defendant discharged all of them excep} the chauffeur, Mayer. There wan no one tn that house but the defendant, Meyer, the chauffeer, and the defendant's aunt, who is seventy years old and almost blind. RICH, BUT DID ALL HER OWN HOUSEWORK. “We have had teatimony here that the defendant, whe has an income of $80,000 @ year, did all the housework and made up the beds, inoluding the bed of Mayer, the chauffour. Miss McGill, gowned tn a btue tal- lor-made suit and with a bonnet of the poke variety, fastened by velvet strings, furnishing @ charming frame for her pretty face, had entered the room and was about to take her seat when Mr. Simpson reached thin stage of his address, Inetend of sitting down she thraw herself on her knees in front of the Jury box, with tears streaming down her cheeke “Don't believe that,” she screamed “I didn't do that! [t's a lie!’ Hor counsel, Mr. Collins, sprang to her and lifted her to her feet, urging her to be calm. It was some time wefore she recoversd her composure Mr, Simpyon did not modify the bit- terness of bis attack ax he proceeded with his address to the jury Previous to the sperches by coun sol three Witnesses were called by the plaintiff to rebut testimony given yes terday for the defense. Mrs Mayer testified that her husband's statement that he had been foreed to marry her and never loved her was untrue Khe produced # her by Mayer in 1908 married, The letter w full of en- doaring terms, but Justic oor would | not allow it to be put tn evidence. LAVENDER PAJAMAS A_ ®OS8- SIBLE CLUE. Party fn the trial it was testified witness that a 1 rhavey sinas Was fot s M m, Misa M stant . 4 th must ry three hours. Give only six! favor in pajamas?” asked Mr. Simp: fecdings In twenty-four hours. ‘Two| son of Mrs, Mayer tablegpoona make one ounce From{. “He never wore anything but six to alne months, milic six ounces, | Ayyender Puan replied Meru barley water three ounces, Feed every) vp formerly a aery four hours, last at ten o'clock in Household was also ‘Ten hottie babies to one of the nd. Mayer, naturally fed infants dia every year Babies should be nursed by mothers particularly during hot wanther, Here| 3 | ore some of the other cautions tssued | Mins Matoney doniod Mayer's stata: | never oftener than ry two hours turing the day, and four hours during eh! Do not nurse every time eit oonty goed rmitk, pre actly an doctor directs he milk alwave cold and cay i. Do net ask your netghbor's wdvice pbout feedings ak your doe tor ‘The baby feels the beat more than you do. In hot weathe f ite clothing. A | ind naokin are eno " Wash tha baby whenever other changes ure made. In hot weather give it a cool 6 bath Keveral times a day, Give tt plonty of clean, ¢ ' t water to drink Fresh wir day and night. ‘The danger of tuberculosis Is gretuer than pnet The baby should, whe Noise or unnes jthe baby | feeding and Send tor your ductor at once, or notify the | Department of Health, whose offices jare ated as follows Manhattan Centre and nicer atreet, telephone 6280 Franklin; the Bronx, ‘Third ave- nue and Bt, Paus's piace, telephone 1975 Tremont; Brocklyn, Flatbush | avenue aud Willoughby phone 4720 Main; Quee: street, Jamaica, telephone 1200 Jae ica; Richmond liorough, 614 Bay eton, telephone 440 ment with all would py and volunter she had not the emphasis the court f uw Maver te motion | TR.OUETOOAY, | AGAIN IES E | AE WILL NOT RUN But State tea’ Still Hope " to Force Him to Head Ticket This Fall. ‘There ts to be no conquering-here- comes stuff on Col, Roosevelt's ar- rival thie time, and when be gets in on the Imperator to-day or to-mor- row those who want to talk politics with Bim, or hear bim talk polities, will have to go to Oyster Bay la- stead of the pier. Capt. Kier sald by wireless the-Bm- © perator should dock early to-night unless held up by fog. It'te fedhia . she will be delayed by fog Ng come im until to-morrow, The wpatch eat the Colenel had considerable time preparing speech be te to @aliver in ——— June 00. ‘The Colonel has had no —) : weveral days, aad the abip’s 4 Delieves he has got ever the Col, Roosevelt sald in reply s cowepeper waale -quatien had “never said to a living seuF"Me fare, Sse “Lam not to be (4 George W. Peskias wil meet ' gressive leaders who will we Colonel before he readhes OvterBem. Mr. Childs te on the a&ip, Col. Roosevelt will leave Quarantine and the Colonel vill taken straight to Oyster Bay, he will rest up for several daya, ——_— Care Blocked on Orftge A DeKalb avenue trolley car ound for Manhattan jumped the trades om * Brooklyn Bridge just this side of the. ~ Manhattan tower at 9.0 o'clock to- day and blocked traffic across the structure for twenty minutes. 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