Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-03
ENGLISH CABS IN NEW YORK.

The Canary-Colored Vehicles Declared to
BE a FaiIure-The Reasons Why.
aHere, cabby! Hurry upl Acheap cab9'
"Yezzir-'ere tits, right yender.'
mo! Take me for a millionaire l wans
a canary. A quarter a mile"
There hain't non Them's gone sir"
"Gone where? When will they be
backyn
Gone off entirely. Left. Won't come
back. No more rs cent cabs in the streets
of this town. a II 'alf-dollarer? The
canaries is all painted black and doubled
their price. 'Ay onesn
Inquired and ascertained that cabby
hadn't lied. He. told me, indeed, that the
company was "buste IT, and in that trifle
he erred; but the charming little canary.
colored cabs, in which two OF you could
ride the first mile for a quarter, have fled
once more and hung out the white feather.
No more cheap cabs in New York!
Six years ago the first attempt was
made to establish the London hanson
cab as an institution in New York. Why,
shouldn't it succeed? everybody asked,
the delightful vehicle which is such a
cheerful inhabitant of London streets, and
which had received q welcome on the con-
tinent. About fifty of the cabs were in
troduced at that time, and they ran for 25
cents a mile, carrying one or two persons.
But there was but Slight encouragement,
and they were hauled off at q loss.
Two years ago last fall, Fearing Gill
rallied some stable men with horses and
some still stabler men with money, who
had sojourned in London and became arr
quainted with the many colored grasshop-
per of the metropolis, and they banded
themselves together and swore an awful
oath that they would establish the volatile
vehicle as one of the institutions of New
York. They made a most cred1table
effort. They put up the money. They
employed good drivers. They provided
Last summer the use of the cab
yisibly increased, but not enough
to justify the experiment. New Workers
would not get used to it.
A good mariy fools consider it vulgar te
ride cheaply, and wouldn't have it. A
good many old fellows rebelled against
this having your driver perched up be-
hind you We're you can't see him. Old
ladies We're afraid of upsetting in the
vehicle, quite regardless of the fact that il
was never known to upset, and on reach.
ing their destination they said, "Right on
the heels of the horse all the way! I'm Sc
glad I've got here alive I don't know what
to do. Youth never catch me in one OF
them things again!n
and while the demure girls of London
like tin hanson above all things, and get
their feet under its slanting doors as often
as they can, the New York damsel is too
madest you know, and she exelaims, q
won't ride in that again, neverl To sit
there right in front and be stared at so! 1
can't stand it'll A box ut Days would be,
of course, quite another thing
So the effort to Introduce the hanson
has failed. All the canary-colored cabs
have been fifty painted black-in mourn.
ing for the $4,000 which the experiment
has eost-and the caller of the cab vii.
hereafter pay 80 cents for the first mile,
instead Of half that. The bunch of prince
OF Wales feathers jauntily perched upor
its side is the only remnant of its forme;
splendor. Farewell to "the Gondola OF
London.n-Croffut in Kansas City Journal