The evening world. Newspaper, November 3, 1921, Page 4

MORE LIGHT SHED “ON DEMAND FOR ~NEW TA RATE Driver Who Wants a “City Standard One Rate” Gets a Fair Answer. CHARGED ~UNFAIRNESS Present Ordinance Meets Com- petition and Cheaper and Better Service. By Sophie Irene Loeb. ‘The Evening World printed an ar- MHeles on Oct. 28, actting forth the ef- forts of a group of.taxi men calling themselves the City Standard One- Rate Taxi Owners’ Association, to Fatee present rates at which cabs are fun in the City of New York. have come from 5 ing that some of ade by The Evening are not true. These letters @lso cast aspersions at some other groups of taxi men. With this latter Quarrel certainly this newspaper \s ‘wmooncerned. Here is set forth, however, one let- fer from a man signing himself Henry Unger, the criticism of the ether taxi groups, of course, being xpurgated. Answers to the question follow: “Your article in The Evening World of Oct. 29 on taxi monopoly is @lmed at a one-rate drive. I wish to @ay, as a taxi man of long standing, that you are misrepresenting the facts. We are not asking for 50 ents per mile for two people and an extra charge of 2% cents for each person. We are only asking 40 cents per mile, which is going downward, mot upward.” Answer: The exact statement of fates desired by the above-mentioned erganization was printed in their folder calling for a mass meeting held tem Oct. 19, 1921, as follows. “New rates shall be for all taxicabs fm Greater New York. Fifty cents for ©@ fraction of a mile or the first mile, @ cents a mile thereafter, plus 26 ents for two passengers, plus 50 cents for three or more passengers; trunks @erried, 50 cents each; hand bags, two earried free and 2 cents each for all ethers.” petition, the same as the Twentieth Century rate in New York. “Keep up the good work, Miss Loeb, for you may rest assured* that the public and all honest taxicab owners are with you.” MAXIMUM AND NO MINIMUM INCITES COMPETITION, Further questions asked by Mr. Unger on behalf of the City Standard One Rate Tax! Owners’ Association continue as follows: “In the bill which you wére instru- mental in having passed, you know that 60 cents was a maximum and 40 cents the minimum fare, the same as one of the organizations you lauded, the Independent Tax! Owners’ Asso- elation.” Answer: A maximum rate has been set by the ordinance. Any man is at perfect liberty to re duce the rates as he wishes, which is the very thing that makes for compe- tition and consequent lower rates. “Can you show me a city in the world where the public can ride a cer- tain distance for three different rates as they do in New York? Do you think that is fair to the public? Don't you think that a standard rate would be fair to all, both the public and the tax! man?" rates. People are permitted to choose what they want—the blue, the red or the yellow, all at different rates, Al of Europe has low rate taxicabs, and at the time the ordinance was passed many of the innovations were adopt- ed here, The rate made by the pres- ent ordinance was high enough and flexible, so that any man could re- duce it'In order to get business, “Kindly answer this qu What would the result be if ever in the city would be operating at 80 cents per mile?” Answer—In a city of 6,000,000 peo- ple, with a 80-cent rate, nearly every- body would ride and the demand for taxicabs would be enormous. The lower the rate the more use for taxi- cabs. That tallest building in the world was constructed on a 6 and 10- cent business with a constant turn- over of money. Mr. Unger further asks: “You well know it would be a case of the sur- vival of the fittest, as no taxi-man can exist at that rate. If every cab in the city were operating at 80 cents a mile how long could any tax!-man exint?” ‘Answer: The law of supply and de- mand would ye:tle It. No man would stay In a business in which there was no livelfhood, and the keener the com- petition, the better for the public, “Be fair, Miss Loeb,” says Mr. Un- ger. “You know ws are not asking too much when we ask for forty cents a mile, All we want 1s a chance to earn a living, a fair livelthood for our wives and families.” Answer: Ths maximum legal rates are much higher than forty centa n mile to-day, Any man has a right co legal rates or reduce {t an far as he likes, What 1s really wanted is to stop the othdr :1an from reducing hte rates and therefore taking away his business. The -Evening World wants to be fair to taxi men. It wants to be fair to the public. ‘There are hundredsm of taxis run- ning in the city at a lower rate than these men woul't want put ds a stan1- ard, and a most paradoxical situation Answer—Paris has three different ||| \ THE EVENING WORLD, would be create’ for the city to rats» auch rates to pleas any one group. EVENING WORLD [8 FAIR AND PRINTS CIRCULAR. Following is a circular recently isaued by the same group that wants a standard taxicab rate. The Eve- ning World is “fair” enough to print it. It reads as follows: “To the taxi men of Greater New York: The Greater New York Taxi League invites all taxi men to at- tend an open meeting to be held at Bryant Hall, Sixth Avenue, between sist and 42d Streets, Oct. 81, at 8 P.M. sharp. Doors open at 7 P. M. “This meeting is especially called by the league for the purpone of gauging the sentiment of the public hackmen in favor of one standard rate and the limitation of the num- her of taxi licenses to be issued. “We believe 90 per cent. of boys are in favor of our . We want you all to come to this about the ate. HELP US PUT IT OVER. YOUR LIVING DE. PENDS ON OUR SUCCESS. “The rate we ask is fair for the public and the hackmen, 30 cents firat half ‘mile, 10 cents each suc- ceeding quarter mile, That's fair, hoys. This will be a real meeting. number of good you. You can or sweethearts too, pring your wiv \f you denire. “All taxi drivers who belleve in one standard rate and limiting the num- ber of taxis In New York City are invited to contribute sums of from 60 cents up. Our collectors will show || you their credentials upon demand. They must give a full receipt for any amount you donate. A full re- ort of all donations will be pub- [shea in the Roll of Honor in “Taxi News’ We ask you to contribute whatever you can afford.” SAYS HE SHOT SELF, * BUT GUN IS MISSING Mane Found Wor jed Believed to Be Shielding Assaliant. ‘Thomas Mullen was found lying face downward to-day at Montauk and Pit- kin Avenues, Brooklyn. He told Pa- troiman Adolph Cromer, according to the police, that he had shot himself in the abdomen. Dr. Howard of Brad- |, ford Street Hospital found that the wound waa serious and removed Mul- len, to Kings County Hospital, | ‘atrolman Gromer said Mullen de- ¢lared he found a revo! n He said there were no powder marks on Mullea's clething, and the police believe he was shot by another man and does not want to reveal the Mullen live No, 25 Sheppard Ave- and formerly was a nue, Brookly: baseball player. 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