The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-04

TIE Prices 20 No Arranged According to
Esues Laid Out from Jersey City - . Centre
Each Cab to Have n Goat or Arlnsn
Consulting OF tho Railroads. Trade MARK.
The Erie Railroad, following the examples o.
the Pennsylvania and the New York Central.
has decided to establish q system OF cheap cabs.
The service will be started Just as soon as the
Mathematician of the Fries general offices at
81 Cortiandt street can figure out the tariffs to
be charged under the system which the road is
to introduce.
About twenty-five cabs will be put on at FIRST.
OF these about half will be hansoms. The 9TH
ers will be large. roomy coup6s. with extra seats
opposite the regular seats, so that four persons
II necessary may ride in a coupe. This Is the
plan upon which most Of the coup6s in Phila-
delphia, after which, in a measure. tho Erie
coupes will be copied, are constructed.
The Erie will follow the example Of the New
York Central in dividing the city into zones or
sections. The charge for service will be made
by zones. The charges will range, probably,
from 25 cents to so cents. A feature of the
Fries cab service will be that the zones will be
laid out from Jersey City as a centre. Under
this plan a passenger on ono of the Erie trains
may leave the train at Jersey City, step into a
cab, and not leave 1t. unless he chooses, until he
reaches his destination.
The company will establish cab stands in Jer-
sey City, at all OF its stations on this side OF the
river. at its office at Twenty-third street and
Fifth avenue, at its Harlem office, and at its
Brooklyn office, 1888 Fulton street. The cabs
will not in any sense be for general hire. but a
patron OF the road either arriving or departing
from New York may take a cub at any one of
the stands. and make any calls that he may care
to on his way to or from the trains. For this
extra service n nominal extra charge will DO
made. based upon the time consumed in making
the, calls. Each cab will be provided with a
farif IN I'd uirinD thn r ntaa hv o. nd thA
rates by the hour. The schedule of time charges
has not yet Teen decided upon. but they will
probably be Il xed at about 10 cents an hour.
FoS the further convenience of the patrons of
the road the cabs will carry whatever pieces OF
cabs to carry. A passenger from one OF the Erie
trains, or a person about to leave town on the
Erie; having a small trunk or several pieces of
ferred to or from the station. For this a small
extra charge will be made.
The Erie officials do not believe, however.
that. with the now system for transferring bag
gage which they have established. any OF their
patrons will have need to turn the compauy's
cabs into baggage wagons. BY this new system
a patron OF the Erie may check his baggage at
dence at the place OF his destination.
General Passenger Agent Roberts said yester-
day. b. two thing, that ". have str,von to- :,
our cabs are comfort and inconspirnousness.
Our cabs will be the best that we can buy. They
rubber tires. They will be painted black, with
dark blue trimmings. They will look as much
ike any other nrst-ciass cab yor see on the
street as possible. There will be nothing about
the cabs to attract attention. so that a person
hiring one will not feel AS II he we're part OF u
circus parade. The coachmen will wear dark
blue liveries. AS it is a custom nowadays for
Smith or Jones or Brown 70 have his coat Of
arms on his cab or carriage door, so we shall
have ours on our cabs.
The coat OF arms OF the Erie Is what is
familiarly known as the black diamond. It is
a black disk. upon which. in letters OF white. Is
the word Erie. Surrounding the disk is a dia-
moud. shaded of in n tint light enough to set
Off the hlark disk This IN the anlstA rGDallv
occupied by q coat Of arms and no larger, will be
the only distinguishing mark OF our cabs