The New York herald., 1877-08-29
TEN CENT CAB EXPERIMENT.
PASSENGER rRArPIo-wHERB THE STAGES
MISSED THEIR OPPORTUNITY.

GREAT INCREASE THE SECOND DAY IN THE
PASSENGER rRArRIo-wHER8 THE STAGES
MISSED THEIR OPPORTUNITY.
The second day Of the experiments With the new
cabs between the Elevated Railroad Forty
second and the Grand Central Depot proved
cusvsly thai the thing just what needed and
tnat Il 10 . success beyond all doubt The correct re
turn Of the number Of passengers taken from the
depot TO the Elevated road Monday eighty dye
and on yesterday, 3i7 On each day about halt the
number here gwen brought by tha cabs from the
Elevated road 70 the depot When the s:26 A. N.
Saratosa train In yesterday the number Of
cabs was found insufficient to accommodate the pas
sengers atty in a applying for transfer town 10
tAs Elevated road, 30 Two large omnibusss were en-
ploycd 70 supplement the capacity Of tho csba This
simple fact must have dawaed on the minds Of the
hack drivers and stage owners like revelation The
latter are particularly rrtated and viii not soon DO
lous Their omnibuscs have $1,000 daily for long
time past In front OF the Grand Central Bepot 10 receive
tered their heads that bg bonanza right their
very bands and by running lne OF stages over the
business large again they do st present
No wonder they got mad and called on the Mayor
70 Complain ,nIt the Elevated Railroad was operating
1857 providing that NO stage or omnbus route.or
thority 70 run stages or omnbuses, shall be granted
BY the Common Council unloss mojorty OF the own
Of property on the streets through which the
stages ruu shall have consented hsrcto ana that scr
permission or Common Council has been gotten
the privilege to operate the snail be disposed Of
by public auction to the highest bidder. This
locking the when tho steed was stolen The
Mayor, IL 10 believed, favors the Elevated Rxfroad
and Corporation Counsel Whitney, TO whom the suo-
ject has been referred VIII give an opinion in day or
two, which the Elevated Railroad anticipate will
be IN their favor
Mr. Cowny, secretary und treasurer OF the Elevated
road, said:-"we have no apprehension Of the result
Corporation Counsel Whitney fsvors our view Of The
part OF our line and does not come under the pro.
Visions oi the law oi 1851 IN regard to stages These
cabs stop take up passengers stages do
aud should be considered legally as simply literal
projection OF the Elevated road.
'Whsrs next do you intend to establish cab
stands2n
'weli they thinking OF having cabs between the
Windsor ani Buckingham hotels ana Stswsrts and
"Are you satisfied with the result 30 iar?n
Eyes; The result has been quite gratifying"
'Wno are the people VINO operate the pue OF cabs?"
don't want be known"
Tho cabs belong to Dodd, of Dodds Express, No. s44
Broadway, ana were lying idle Tor somo few years
past but DOW have found ther proper sphere Of
~ ness.
Depot said be expected eacn cab would s. day
and carry hity passengera The expense OF running
and tho feed Of the horse and all other expenses at
81, would leave margin VI 80 SO profit Yester
day the five cabs carried back and forward each fully
fifty passengers and that about the OF their
capacity. The work Of the day Is about twelve hours
between u quarter seven A. n. and eleven miuutos
past seven =. n. Alter i've r. NJ. there little
work for the cabs. Tho morning. up to half.psst
eleven. embraces the chief business Of the day. BY
the end OF tho week thirteen or fourteen cabs viii be
running
An old policc ohcer standing on the sidewalk In
front oil the depot said:-sI think they could dc bet
ter than that by getting two great long omnibusss
that would carry thirty passengers six Is
o head. and there would no less expense and more
room Tor the passengers You see when big fat man
gets on6 ot these cabs he ns 1t up IL 10 good
enough for two, but when four in it'c 4 regular
answer 10 the question whether his business being
injured 0y the new line:-"I guess it is
tive old customers Of mine that used 10 pay me
dollar each tor driving them 10 tho Elevated road
take these yere crystal cabs this mornln'" aud he
shook his head despondingy aud would not be com.
torted. "When man Is in u hurry he continued,
'nnd wants TO get say to Desbrosses
Liberty or Chambers street ferry he don't mind
paying me u dollar TO take him over 10 the
when he hears fellow inside there the platform
singn out, cabs Tor the New York Elevated RsiIroaJ,
only ten cents' think lbs blamed outrage that
they should bs.altowed to 20 there Rnd hoer and
tout for cab and we've got 10 stay here and
pick up what can It's just as 1 tell you-capital
agin labor" Then no paused, and the gloom on his
face appeared to vanish he reoollected "Wel IT'S
bad enough on US, bu; s worse ON them stages over
there iraI
Everything went or quistly, though the feeling Of
the hackmen against the innovation 10 rather ntcusl
fed than otherwise. rho cabs backed right up to
the curbslone, aud the very ground pfeemptsd by
tho old caba This Seemed TO be adding insult 10 in
Jury, and there wers muttered imprecations on the
heads Of the offending intruierA