The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1922, Page 4

‘ THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1922. TAXICAB REGULATING BILLS DRYS AT ALBANY IN REVOLT, ives" 70" 0" turin ches he PLACE DRIVERS AND LICENSES PLAN A GOOD SPANKING FOR UNDER POLICE JURISDICTION BOSS ANDERSON’S “TRIPLETS”. ss ys'ses’r ain srt, on aw nae © Creates a New Bureau and Another Pro- Friends of Prohibition, Led by Machold, Doom|);. vides a New Bonding System That Will Anti-Saloon League’s Local Enforce- |; Insure Responsible Chauffeurs, and Both ment Bills as Boon to Bootleggers tame laws, would be a bootlegger's | By Joseph S. Jordan. » Will Mean Lower Fares. work that the Volstead act and the 4 | t ties, approved by the State Tax Com. | Staff Correspondent of The Evering| eet Kbnate Wavne, one of Frohibition’s best Betts By Sophie Irene Loeb. \"". 9 World. fet apparently could) ("tie Assembly, listen to him: } (Bball Correspondent of The Evening eee sic ta obtain amen SANG: Foes feesWnifatn Aue te Wwe. the bootlegiers couldn't as ' World.) Re AAT URTACG m ; : 4 a titent anti! ¢, Seiten Te vould) Ua Lie | P Y, Feb. &—Two bills have H ay sh Vie lle counsel Ha tute Superintendent of the | the fare of trumpets | eee iin of te ‘aid to them, I¢ the the regulation of taxicabs, and prom-|if passed is to take effect July 1 Waterton on) CHpieny Feith. permitted! his woul to fhow into iho | to enorce the law, don’t you think t iment law makers are of the opinion! Wnder the Steinberg bill the Mohce| Republican legislators who were! tealms of. literature pooticaily ‘ae tt neriffs and otlge county offers tliat something will be done this 8¢S-| Department | ntrol of the licens-| wont to do his bidding and eringe be-| scribing the ssity of the prope Tet ‘thet work (out: theih Gra mon to clean up taxicab conditions as “ af ion , f to irresponsible drivers and reduce Ish Of hisedey whip hays) measures, call A shonest wots don't need any niore laws,’ , number of crimes committed with COREG iia MURAD Tie te RHaHOe, HE dite Ache sentention® vejoltider of aly I MILL ER the aid of taxicabs triniers (rio of bills whieh would, - ONG) Nuchold Speaker of the House me The Steinberg vill is designed t Hacks and nabie: Yow villages and cities And tnere y ut just ty > . j place the licensing of taxicabs under] Hack Drivers eretio. and entepes) Ahele awa ofl: fa} make things pleasant, Clayton Ry Semi-Annual t the jurisdiction of the Police De The most interesting clause of that ue ee | Sie: RABANRLOAR Bis | tusk, majority leader of the Senate, i partment, and the other bil, intro-|tic Police Commissioner is charged | MaAnces for the enforcement of prohi- | 11 irg ares fay, pe is all for the proposed laws. He has SALE y Assemblyman Kaufman,} with the duty of enforcing ull Inws] tition. ‘They have approved the slo-|vyop wy assured William H, Anderson #0. He is bo sy by 4 S “3 Wee one red everybody else within wides that taxicab chauffeurs must and ordinances in relation to the pub n of Verdun: But the unexpected happened. Five| !!*, ev 4 voice, He told it to the Sli i re bonds oF policies of insurance | lic hacks and drivers, “They shall not pass.'* | men among the Republican leadere of | A&C” Of t cit . Every Slipper in i it make them liable for death or! There is to be a chief of the bY-| wie nial of Anderson haw fallen|the Assembly, men who hud youd! People of Hndleott Clty. Every Store Re- ) ry to persons or property in the | reau, who except the first incumbent | 71" und the drys in the As-| for and worked for the ratitication of | duced to Extra- ration of taxicabs. » position, is to be appointed the Eighteenth Amendment, who lad S DESCENDANTS he city ordinance under which the feabs now operate was secured Police Commissioner, who can e him, but only for cause, after thPough the efforts of The Evening }« hearing on charges, Inexed their thumbs to their facial World in a long campaign waged sev-| The present. chief of the Depart- |! romlnener und wigwagged wit! eral years ago and has stood the tests) ment of Vehicles and all of the wa. |thelr tl the signal that prohibi f ie courts. It established the city’s |bordinate emp! whose duties |ton as far as it ts going in } Power to regulate rates and reduced jare mainly connected with the [i- | tt New York with the helj ‘ them from $1 4 mile to ulmost bull | censes of public hi re transf |e lature, ; that figure. |to this new bureau under the Police m has turned. t the same time this newspaper artment, with the same. titles, | uuper” Anderson told The Evening ' succeeded in obtaining the passage of | and salariew. World that he would pass through the { a Btate law which eliminated private | t of hotels } hseek stands in fr | established in their stead the pub hagk stands of to-day | This gave a free-for-all use of the | i streets to all public hacks, and The } Evening World prophesied at the time) | of the passage of this law that thou of cabs more than were then | { runing would be the result and that) Ho rates would come with the com- | tion that would thus be opencd. | his has proved the case. tend of 2,000 cabs, the number nab grown to 16,000 and the rites aré constantly being lowere: wo;that in a very short tin one of the best taxicab Selees in the city will lower tts Sa the lowest of any now nigg, and this concern is dol } business which is “highly # { tofy,” in terms of the manacer. us the present law, has proved mést effective in developing the taxi- business and in lowering the j rales. The taxicabs are now used meére extensiely than ever before and the future will show even a larger | Pefcentage of taxi-riding populace. The trouble with the whole tax: | bubiness is that the present ordina: | is hot properly enforced, and it is he-| Meyed that if the taxicab licenses THINK OF IT ALMOST INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE DURING OUR CLEAN SWEEP-SALE Rice & Hutchins Shoes 3.85 to 5:85 OE SHOPS 14th St. at No. 6 East 46th St. at 1345 Bway. jend Stat 137 West 125th St, at 112 West 149th St. at 8rd Ave. 150th St.at 3d Ave. Brooklyn: 607 Fulton St | | } | under the jurisdiction of the ice Department the law wore more strictly enforced and all) : @ilgpidated cabs, overcharges, wid evils, would be mv.'e readily cor- ed. | ‘he other bill, which provides that i every chauffeur shall be bonded or | ingured, it is believed will eliminate \ irresponsible element among tax- fa chauffeurs—a condition nov continually complained of. ‘Phe bill prescribes that each taxi- cab chauffeur shall be bonded for $1,000, but it is believed that this| { ‘will be modified. These bonds are t+ be filed with the State Tax Comr, and call for at } st two # “mbly have turned thumbs down on the enabling triplets, ‘They have an s2 stood in their tracks and refused William Duke ir, of ne New York City and Vicinity, held their i ae ‘Ree nme, charges | MOnthY reunion ta fond. Speaker Ma-|4Partment of Dr. © | Hotel Holle; ning In the yton at the are. Mra, Washington nury t4 President of the h fost Sunday,’ sald Mr, Dake, “and) were John Alden, Fretlerick H. Prue, all had been convinesd that the An-|yres Cynthia Westover Alden, Dr. 1 bills were good law, Tam 2 Br Ae aan > talk with then again next | Maria A. Vinton Judze and Atk. Mame dP think f have arguments iry, Mra, Jolin D. Alden an convince them they are Why, these bills, If they be-/* dream.” | isinture bills wish would do the : wee And then Editor Charley Betts oy ordinary Values. 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