New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-13
CARBIES AFTER LESS PAY.
ro ASK THE ALDERMEN TO REDUCE
LEGAL FARES.
NOT WHOLLY AN M;TRulsTlc PROCEEDING. HOW
EvER--vIEws OF ONE OF THEM NOT


rvER-vIEws OF ONE OF THEM NOT
IN THE UNION
whats thiso What's this?" YOU say "Cabmen
rant TO reduce the legal scale of cab fares?"
Fact; they do At leas, Of them do. They
ee,d so in resolution adopted At the meeting OF the
Hackmen's Union held on Sunday night To be
sure they said 80 by only small majority. but
most OF the opponents Of the reduction were after
ward won over by the eloquence Of their fellows.
whose pleas for al;ruism most touching and
effective.
ANYBODY who knows ANYTHING at all knows shat
the cabman is a hustler. He demonstrates an axiom
when he makes 1t clear that he prefers to work
more for more ,ney than to work less for less
money The resolution appointing committee TO
wait on the Board OF Aldermen and request them TO
reduce the rate of fares adopted by vote Of
Dto 81. The now schedule proposed would make the
rate 25 mile instead of 80 cents and % cents
an hour instead Of 81. The committee will probably
present their request 10 the Aldermen their meet
ING this afternoon. The Aldermen will probably
refer the matter IL committee who will give q
public hearing to all persons interested
Everybody knows that cabmen extremely
public spirited class of persons. They are always
looking 10 do something pro bono pubco They
buy the fines, discarded carhorses they get
hold OF. They try to make their carriages palaces
on wheels They make long etours in order to
drive on the smoothest streets They hide the
printed schedules of legal rates of fare under the
cushions of their carriages in order that their pas
sengers may not be worried by looking at them
They are always trying 10 DO the public good-not
20 say well.
And yet IL Is not 10 be averred that the action
they have taken toward reducing fares Is wholly of
an unselhsh character. 1t has been borne In upon
them that Russell Sage and George j. Gould and
others are getting much of the patronage that used
10 come 10 them. They are therefore making a bid
for some of the business that goes to the ele.
waited trains. lighted by exhausted wicks that are
fed by respondent oil, and TO the cable-cars viva
clOus. but erratic.
t. ]. Healey. the Mayors Marshal. who oversees
the granting Of licenses told a Tribune reporter
yesterday that he thought the reduction proposed
thought II improbable that the Aldermen would be
unkind enough to refuse the philanthropic Request;
that the Hackmens Union did not represent the
sentiments of the cabmen of the city.
A Tribune reporter talked with a cabman yester-
DAY who does not belong to the union He DOESN'T
think much of the scheme.
"Spose," said he, leaning down from his seat
"s'pose l git fare the Battery what wants L
go Z Washinton Heights. TEX i'm there an he
gives me 90 Then l have to come all the way back
good days work fer a horse on the pawn stones
He hadn't orsr go amSther step mat DAY: s Two
month fer board my horse These here air
tires COS go for the frs pair m $40 fer the sec
here spat across the street and transferred his quid
10 the left cheek.
bout 9. o'clock: Bout u. say. the theatyre lets
out n git a fare; lie lives half a mile away n
gone-theatyre shut. | git quarter for two hours
Now f any guy tells you en- mex a Twin like
that You tell him he's daffy. On the level now.
I'm sick t. tn devil O. this bloody business any
how. My hansom's git'n on n bum-cos $500 fer
another outfit. I'm goin' L quit.
Hey there, Keb. sir. Keb.