New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-07
RIDING IN CABS At CHEAP RATES.
SUCCESS OF THE CHEAP CAB sYsrEM-FAREs AMI
DISTANCES.

SUCCESS OF THE CHEAP CAB sYsrEM-FAREs AND
DISTANCES.
The experiment of running cheap cabs, it is
said, proved The rate which the drivers
pay for the cabs gives the NewYorA Cheap Cab Com
pany good return for its outlay and at the same time
admits Of fair Of wages for the drivers The public
appreciates the convenience, and the sign Reserved
On the cabs IL displayed much more frequently than
To let" The difference IN the price tor the old and
cabs may bo seen from the following Under
the city ordinance governing hacks aud cabs the rates TO
charged for conveying passenger more two
miles or uu g. one dollar for distance exceeding
and not exceeding three miles II so; between three and
four miles 81; between four and five miles. - so;
five miles at the rate OF fifty cents for each mile part
Of a mile BY the hour the charge Is 81 for the first
hour and fifty for each succeeding half-hOur
portion thereof Each driver carry his vehicle
one piece baggage but for extra baggage he may de-
mand extra compensation.
The tariff OF charges by the Cheap Cab Company in the
district south Of Chambers-st for twO-seated cab is
twenty-five tcents or four-seated cab fifty
Outside the district the Is twenty-five cents mile
fraction thereof for twOseated VEHICLE or fifty cents
mile for a four-seated The time charges seventy
i've cents an hour for passenger in the small cabs
81 for two passenker and III % an hour for or
more passengers in the four-wheeed vehicles For
stops Of lei five minutes no charge Is made for be-
tween five ,and fifteen minutes twenty five cents IS
charged, charge OF twenty cents Is made for
each succeeding fifteen minutes or traction thereof
twenty five cents for each trunk, and ten cents
FOR each parcel
attempts made part OF the old caDOies 10 modest
interfere with the black ana tas A. they term the
cabs They nave come 10 me cOhcuslOn thbt Ihe
New-YOrk Cheap Cab Company has come 10 stay, and
are disposed In most ~ submit to the inevitable
with good grace. They say that except for short dis
tile cabs are little cheaper than the Old ana
that their as cheap now rs they can have them
and make a decent living.
In the matter Of distances the established rule that
twenty the north and south blocks between the
bered streetskmak HhN, ana seven Oh Ine east ana
blocks between the numbered or ettered avenues
Dor example It is one mile between % - ana
Thirty 0urth-s, or one mile between second ana Nlnth
ayes Taking the City Hall starting point, the mile
fbirfv- nint6 Fifty 1uinth-st- Seventy nnth-st.
Ninety-nnth-st One-hundred acknowledgements, etc
hotels the Metropolitan. Grand Central, etc,
10 the Grand Central Depot would be two
would De fifty cents. The charge would be made
from the hotels the Pennsylvania Railroad Ferry
a woman a shopping trip would be twenty-1y cents,
prov lei did not retain the cab while attending 70 her
I0uItu-st to Thany's. From Forty-second 81 10 tho
Academy OF Music would be hfty cents The residents OF
tween seventh and Third ayes. can gO to the Metro
politau Opera House for fifty cents person living on
% Central Park IN OF the new cabs for nrty cents
traveller arriving In the city by he Erie road can 90
% the Fifth Avenue Hotel for twenty-five cents. III ne
the Prnnsy ANA road the fare To the hotel
Will De h'ty cents; to the Metropolitan 1t would be
blocks and Of the long blocks % The mile any OF
tue patrons ~ the cab company who wish to travel IN
tie district above FOurteentu-st may nnd out exactly
what Oh" fare the ride viii be. Any ordinary TIP
below tOuFteenth-st. should cost not more Lhah uIty
cents.
The New-Yor1 Cheap Cab Company have had printed
for the Use OF their drivers ana patrons card containing
the distance. In the city from the Battery the custom
House aud CITY Hall 10 one hundred aud twenty sixth
the streets at intervals or One-quarter miles being
given The card also contains the location Of ferries and
the measurement and avenues IL Is INTENDED
pl one Of these card, each % the cabs that
there DE No Oyerchargc. Mr. RyersOn, one OF the
OF company, said that he had mad one or
complaints Overoharging and that the charges
proved offenders promptly dismissed the
service OF the company. IL Is the Intention OF the COM
pany advertise the charges and distances so that Il
Will be- impossible for the drivers 10 Oyerchsrgs.