The evening world. Newspaper, June 8, 1922, Page 5

‘ TAN EXPERTS DENY PUBLIC SHOULD PAY INSURANCE COSTS Even Smaller Vehicles Make $60 Net Weekly, It Is ie Asserted, AOS PD AMET TT TOTTI: * lie to pay his $1 a day insurance. not take seriously the claim that the owners of single taxicabs Who are “ekeing out a mere existence’ will be driven out of business unless the Quinn amendment passes. cab owners have vehicles that are an- tiquated and unfit for human: occu- pancy not quite far gone enough to warrant their relegation to the scrap heap. They have not been repaired in years and their owners have established n> funds for the vehieles, of cabs will pass into the discard whether or not the Quinn amendmen: passes, well informed taxieab owners eager We Experts in the taxicab’ business do A certain small percentage of tax!- These dilapidated vehicles are purchase of new Therefore, this smal! class beth, If Alderman William F. Quinn's pro- Posed amendment to the Taxicab Ordi- mance is passed it will mean that alt least half of the 18,000 public’ hacks in this city will be able to charge 35 cents instead of 80 cents for the first half mile if not more than two pass- engers are carried, and 45 cents in- stead of 4 Ocents for the first half mile if three or more passengerssare car- . ried. Auderman Quinn, member of the Insurance firm of Quinn and Quinn, says his amendment is to enable taxi- owners to pay the $1 a day cost of obtaining a $2,500 bond under the new Liability Law, and admits the new law will greatly benefit his firm. The $2,500, bond ts for the protection of taxicab passengers in case of accidents. License Commissioner Gilchrist said to-day he believed a survey should be made of the entire taxicab situation for the purpose of learning whether or| not the Quinn amendment is justift- able. “While I cannot state now whether or not any change should be made fmt tatxicab rates," Said Commis- sioner Gilchrist, ‘I think the liabill- ty insurance Iaw should embrace all classes of automobiles that contri- bute towards the big accident tole fm the city. I am informed that tax!- cabs are actually responsible for only » $3 per cent, of accidents. every @utomobile should be compelled to farry insurance.” According to information obtained fo-day from a reliable source, even the smallest so-called independent faxicab owners make $15, $16 and $17 a day on each cab operated. Cabs of the larger companies make far more. Therefore, members of the Board of Aldermen who are opposed fo any change in the taxicab rates point out a taxicab owner making average of at least $60 net per Geek per cab should not ask the pub- Would you guard your boy from the ever present enemies of good health— the corn, the bunion and the crooked toe? Then equip him with ene as sensible as our “Westpointer or *85 Per- éenter. Especially during vaca- tion. For when a boy’s on the go, a short season will sometimes do more harm than a lifetime can correct. Our boys’ *Westpointer has the broad military toe ~—boys who’ve worn it in- sist on it, they find it so comfortable. Our boys’ *85 Percenter ts a junior of our most popular shoe for men—the “last” which orthopedic surgeons say is right for 85% of teet. Less anatomic looking than the *West- pointer, so perhaps a little more appealing to the eye. Prices very moderate for such sturdy, _all-leather shoes. For roughing it— A Scout shoe on the *Westpointer last. *Registered Trademark, Roczrs Peet Company Broadway Herald Sq. at 13th St. “Four at 35th St. Convenient Cocners”” Fifth Ave, Broadway at Warren at 41st St. AT ONCE! Do This 2k tr ham) from uy direct oral tren’ ply rau ee) diceet - ‘Avenusy Brooklyn, Ke Ss red Tar follow ov: claim, New York City nearly 16,000 judg- ments for accidents which have not been paid — a BOYS AND PARENTS GET DAM- preme,Court returned a verdict to Jus- tiee Wagner to-day awarding $10,000 damages to 9-year-old William Duncan and $500 to his mother, Mins. Edith Dun can and $3,000 damages to §-year-old William Wis his father, Stebbins against M. Moser and others, wholesale meat dealers and owners of an automo- bile truck which ran down and perman- ently injured the two boys 168th St DIES Charles Whi 190th birthd: denly to-day. burg June ville after the close of the Civil War. He was a bartender and worked at his| § trade until he w paralysis, There are to-day in the courts of decoration, AGES FROM MOTOR OWNERS, A jury in the Bronx County Su- g and $500 damages to acob Wissing all of No. 1160 venue, The verdict was in East) the girl + June &— . who celebrated his last Friday, died sud- He was born in Ogdens- 1822, coming to Glovers- Girl Scout. “You in the elghti N. J. Is Bestowed Upon a Cripple Miss mer Towley of manufacturer, capped her long service for the organization by bringing to success the plan for a Girl home in Elizabeth. Mrs, Hoover, wife of the Secretary of Commerce, broke ground at North Broad and Westfield Streets for the building, which will supplant the temporary structure, Townley Elizabeth, has walked since the age of four, but her work for the Girl Scouts of Am has won her international fame. instituted ten years ago but not hitherto awarded, can be bestowed only once in a y Miss Townley, daughter of T Miss Helen Townley of, Elizabeth, N. J., Re- ceives the First Award of Ptesident’s Ribbon. The highest honor a Girl Scout can win, the President's Ribbon, was be stowed yesterday at the hands of Mrs Herbert Hoover upon a girl who sat in the wheel chair of a cripple, Miss Helen Townley, twenty-two, of Eliza- A victim of infantile not + Mortt- a metals Captain of two stand pre-eminent United States in your work for Girl|Guide of the English Scouts, spoke Mrs, Hoover said to Miss] of ss Sibyl Canadin, troops, does most of the secre’ work for the Elizabeth Scouts and woh her decoration despite the fact that she cannot swim, run, jump or fulfil in other ways the requirements for a in out’ ‘out 1 the HELEN TOWNLEY the international fame of Miss 1] Townley. , FUR STORAGE—Remodeling and Repairing Phone 6900 Fitz Roy Jranklin Simon a C Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets FRIDAY At Largest Price Reductions Ever Made Women’s High-Class Suits Yesterday’s Prices *58. to °79.%" Changed to 28.°9 New long coat suits, blouse back models, straight line suits, strictly tailored or embroidered suits;.in black, navy blue, tan, checks and the wanted shades. 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Girl Seouts’ Highest Honor PRISONER FREE ON BAIL _|\" ARRESTED IN CAR THEFT | | Amain Released With Another Ac-[0n be Rudolph Mn East 16th berg, twenty No. 985 Longwood Avenue, Bronx, were arraigned to-day in Washington Heights Court, charged with stealing on Sunday the automobile of Joseph Stivglor, a lawyer, No, 634 West 1721 street They we Broadway and d yesterday at} yojst and Retlly, who found them tn ur, They sald a man had ted to ball in © Bernard J, Dowras, — CREW ON CROWDED CAR : BATTLE IN RUSH HOUR } wna ina Women scree as Motorman and Conductor Fimht. 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