The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-30
MORE CHEAP CABS COMING
TO Run ALE OYER THE oITT FROM
THE GRAND CENTRAL.

They Will Also Call. on Notice. Tor Persons
Desiring to so to the station-This Will Ne
the Third system or Cheap Cat Service
TO No Operated by Railroad Companies
The cheap cab service which New York has
talked about year after year Ia likely to como
into being eventually through tho railroads.
The Now York Central and Hudson River Rail-
road Company Is to put q service Of the kind in
operation in a very few weeks, and this will be
the third system established In tho city. While
all OF them are for the benefit of persons
using the railroads that supply tho cabs, this
means n very largo proportion Of the perma-
nent and transient population Of New York,
and tho amount Of business which by
reason Of these railroad cab systems will
fall way from the ordinary cabs and coupes
may cause a reduction in fares generally, II not
tho establishment OF regular ranks Of cheap
cabs In the business part Of tho city. Prepare
lions for installing tho New York Central cabs
at the Grand Central Station are well under
way. Just as soon as the cabs and horses can BIO
obtained tho service will begin. President De-
pow said last evening that the cabs would DO all
ready in the autumn for home-comers from the
seashore and mountains. and tho inland lakes
and rivers. and the farms. "If they haven't all
come in already with this weather. he added.
The cabs will all DO new ones and the horses
Will w OcpCSiehis vi thAo " AhS
drivers are to DO uniformed. politeness is to DO
required of them under all circumstances. and
no tips will be permitted. The cabs are not for
luggage. Only hand baggage may be carried In
them. There arc to be hansome and
ers. The space between the two buildings that
form the Grand Central Station will be given
oyer to tho cabs; that is. that part OF 1t
along Forty-second street. where now lie the
tracks connecting the. station with tho old
Harlem road, now the Madison and Fourth ave
| phalted. The space is now rooted over. For
merly cars of the Fourth avenue surface line
werc run In there at certain hours Of the day to
I'VE are going to establish a cheap cab
manded. We don't expect 1t to pay. We feel
equipments of a modern railroad service. 1t
has como to be that tho people demand certain
things of a modern railroad and what
they demand ;e n,y has or got not. to we've Be- 'qhp aa /
limited cab service for several. years al
the Grand Central, but it's never been much
but only a few people, used them; The new scr
cluslvely for the patrons OF the road. The cabs
will take people from the Grand Central to any
the station; that is all. The city will be divided
for purposes of a schedule of charges into zones
For the interior zone the faro will be % cents, anS
increase probably by limits Of twenty blocks
The northern boundary Of the hrst one 10 to bt
Fifty.ninth street. l think the southern boun
but cannot give the particulars no. =. as havt
not looked into them fully. The Long Island
Railroad has had q cab service in operation
here for several years, a h~Est-rate one"
The Central's cabs, DR.. Depew said, are to b
run by Westcott, who now has the city baggage
express business OF the road. and also operates
drivers are to be distinctly Of the New Yorl
Central.