The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-18
CHEAP CABS.
PROBABILITY THAT THE COMBINATION

A PROBABILITY THAT THE COMBINATION
VEHICLES WILL NOT APPEAR
For several weeks the HERALD has been agtatng the
cheap cab question by pointing ont the absolute neces
s'y OF some reform in the present system. The first
response TO Tho appeal for practical effort toward the
removal OF the objections ted made by the Amer
can District Telegraph Company through It's President
Mr. T. T. Andrews, who authorized the publication Of
project which would insure the people OF New York
first class, cheap cabs This gentleman SAID in this
brief prospectus that his company had about L. 900
calls or telegraph Instruments in private dwelling
houses and public Offices all OF which could be used In
the system OF cabs 70 facilitate the running and
conduct OF tho business Each person having
Scalp could use IL TO ask for vehicle from OF the
American District Telegraph Company's stands.
From time to time HERALD reporters have visited
Mr. Andrews, expecting to boar OF the completion Of
the arrangements and 10 receive a copy OF tho pro-
rramme, laws. bylaws and by which the new
system was to be governed But each time Mr.. An
drows has invariably answered that Delays were
avoidablc, but that the coming week would tho
establishment OF the new line All the cabs to the
number OF ZOO said he already upon tho streets
being the property Of livery ssabIemen who were
willing 10 enter into combination with the American
District Company Tor the purposes specified Nothing
definite has como Of all the talk and promises far
mo- mo- even ne Rar q the n n'
Park, where the experiment was to be tried first In
this section OF tho city moro than 8 900 OF tho
wcaltliest and best families Many OF them have
cas'' in their dwellings, that II thought
pcdient TO take tho initial step In this part New
Yorx But Il Is 10 be feared now that the promised
American District Telegraph Company's cheap cabs
will not appear There ID always something in tho
way To prevent the contamination OF tho project
Either somebody Ia sick who must be seen, some
body is of who have been at the meet
ing OF the Executive Committee. the members Of
which. by the way, IRE not vet known. From day TO
day Mr. Andrews has been unable give any positive
Information as to the condition OF progress Of tho
gotiaions pending between himself and Others among
whom may be mentioned Mr.. Dodd, OF the Transfer
Company. Yesterday the same stcreotypcd reply
made by Mr. Andrews TO HERALD reporter, sNothing
new to-day, but tomorrow am to meet man at ten
A. NJ, with whom important business In relation to
this matter Is to DO transacted" In short there is
much reason to believe that Mr.. Van Rapst, OF the
Astor House, must have known what be was talking
about when he offered 10 bet gentleman hat
the day before yesterday that American District
Telegraph companys cabs would not be started in
months. II at all.
now cHgAp CABS NAY BIZ HAD
Tho public has grown Impatient waiting Tor the cheap
cabs promised by Mr.. Andrews, and, finding that
nothing Is likely TO come from that direction, now
turns its eyes 10 the owners OF cabs who their
drivers There upward Of 800 Of them this city,
Hack Owners Association They are poor, struggling
men, who have embarked their little capital in hack
and team both Of which they 10 keep in the best
possible condition. These men naturally careful OF
their carriages and passengers and drive through the
crowded thoroughares with complete security. No
one who has ever been conveyed to any point In a
"public hack" can deny this Therefore the public
now asks why do not The public hack owners Of small
means combine TO break down tho monopoles Of which
they complain by carrying passengers At rates lower
than those allowed by the last Corporation ordnancc2
II they would do this there is every to believe
that tho travelling public would patronze them
hoeraly. Az any rate there can BIO little
doubt that the stands ut the City Hall, Chat
ham and Union squares and elsewhere would not
present the spectacle OF unemployed coaches and reez
ing horses in winter and swelterng brutes In summer
That the true remedy tor the cab abuses and will
BIO found In this direction later cannot DO dis
puled- Even now there Is Willingness on the part of
the drivers themselves to start something like reform
movement But their pride Is enlisted In fight be-
tween them and the special license men, who are tho
real culprits for the revocation OF all special licenses
Mr.. Thomas Boylston Secretary Of the Public Hack
Owncrs' Association, says that tho temper OF the
ganizaton such 10 warrant his saying that Il will
try to do something TO accommodate the public II tho
Corporation obliges tho special centatcs to number
their vehicles and upon the stands they do Hcre
then, Is chance for tho creation OF cheap cab
system.