The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-09-23
Big MEN In LITTLE PLACES.
A Gotham Cab Driver Planning a Tolk
Celebrities | HaYe Driven For"
DR.. DEPEW'S TIP IS "a QUARTER. !"
big Bill" whitney Knows How TO Tip amp
George Gould Has No Wheels in His
Skull-Morton and G,rry
Have Way,

Manhattan Island off and on for a score
of years. Il believe i should write book
and name Il Celebrities / Have Driven
For 10 would be an interesting vol
ume. honest lnJun. for in my time / have
carried almost every New Yorker really
worth knowing, besides a heap Of big
bugs from the outside. And I've found.
as most drivers would tell YOU. too III
you were 20 ask them. that. as a rule the
bigger the man the more cOnsiderate he is.
And 90 own up. m writing one now.
Of never had any trouble with really
big mau-ncver It's the no-accOunt
chaps that make the trouble They like
to assert themselves when they put on
Tugs and order "a carriage and they al
WAYS have "a lot Of fault 10 find. and no
matter how many times you may carry
one of them. he'll never recognize you on
the street 4 Dee meets YOU by chance.
Now. 70 isn't so with the men who
amount 20 something, Take our Chaun-
please He's been I'm my cab fifty times.
at least. The second time drove him be
recognized me- and now II he meets me
walking ON the street he bows and says
'Q0Od-dav' 10 me just as polite as IL /
was worth "a million instead Of being
moor devil that can't ind no way Of MAX
ing "a living only by sitting up on the
box and handling the ribbons.
WILLIE X" AND BIG WHITNEY
you supposed COL Depew had his own
horses and carriages ana dldn use hired
Oncg2 Well hc does have his own rigs,
of course but ne doesn't use them when
he wants TO hack about on business, and
neither DO the Nandcrbits as rule,
though I've carried none Of that family
for some time. 1 used 10 carry MT VIII
he X "a good deal ana j always Hhe0
him for passenger.
Everybody who over drove him liked
him. At first maybe. ~ was because
his regular Tip was a half dollar but
before you'd had him in your cab many
times Won got 10 know he was right
good fellow, with mo- nonsense ABOUT MN;
oh yes he'd call YOU down AN neht III
won were late or deserved roasting
for any other cause, but that al right
40 good. lcycl-headed driver KICKS az
that when he's 10 blame. DepeW UP
a quarter and Jolly good night always.
"Did / ever carry William G. WhitIcy
Big BIZ Whitney. do YOU meanf why
cert. and he's "a good fare. ZOO Every
old cab driver in New YORK mas carried
Big BILL and they an like him' lie
knows how To tlp George Gould is au-
other chap We AN like 10 drive. his UP
isn't often often bigger than a. quarter
ANA ne doesn't often make much CONVEX
sation with n driver. but ne ID decent
sort Of fellow. with no "hee.7 lh i''S
f.. p MORTON A FAVORlrE.t,
'Alavbc the man / like best OF AN U.s.
Low T. Morton. the Governor you know
] used 90 carry hiin away back Wen ne
had his whlskers with him. re AWAY
likes To- have % talk with driver II me
can. Sometime he'll talk politics. ana
sometimes the latest news, and once ln
awhile the weather. But, now come 10
think of 10. he doesn't do much taking
himself He just asks questions most
specially when politics is up. NO me-
never tried TO make me think ll Eood
thing TO be a Republican. lie never
asked me how ] was going 10 vote. hul
he always found ont all knew "bou.
how nv friends and acquaintance meant
90 cast their ballots.
"Thc Governors practice of pumping
me that way was what first madc me
have some respect for him as pull-
fician lie did 10 $50 quiet like Tor tne
FIRST few times that ] didn't get onto
him. The Governor never iofeets 10 UP
the driver but me never hands out nus
half or his quarter with the manner OF
a. man who is making you "a present no;
indeed. Governor Morton makes you i'.l
MS IL Won were entitled 90 your up Wi'h
he gives 10 to YOU and that Us true. TOO,
Of most members of the The Ola Gents
Walking Club What's that? Why. the
Union League of course. J thought ev-
crybody knew IL hy that name.
CLUB MEMS PECULlAklTlES
mo. We haven't got special name
for every club I'm town but we can zen
pretty sure 10 what club man belongs
b, his talk II man says. Here my
card: come round with the blll to-mor-
row we set him down as hnickeipock-
er club man.
John. 20 and get O. drink on me-. the
mans pretty certain TO belong 90 the
Union club.
university Club mon almost always
say. when they meet you. What do you
know to-day. John2'
"rhc millionaires club. the Metropoii-
tan2 why. thcy say That's all. John.
on. yes. they tip ail right but they are
NOT very sociabo ike to the drivers
Yes we have some pretty well-known
mon spotted. but they aren't really big
men. not one of them. man doesn't
ALWAYS have 90 tin heavily 90 keep the
cqbman's GOODWILL We like the tips
of course. but we like TO be treated as
if we were men and good citizens good
"Commodore Gerry doesn't tip strong
nowadays. bus he always looks out TO
SEQ that sick driver who wants 10 get
into the hospital has q good show, II
he's asked TO- Gerry ucsd 90 Tip more
than De docs now. Years ago hc and his
fathcr-iu-iaw. Robert Livingston. used 90
ne driven pretty regularly from down
and ho always made 30 s. and said Keep
Che change One night ] took Livingston
home alone. DE gave me dollar /
told him real polite and nice that Mr..
Gerry generally gave me -
on. he does hey? Well. he's got "a
rich father-iu-law and ] haven't
CABMEN CAN KEEP SECRETS.
"Clhmen keen Sccrofs2 Wei. | guess.
n they couldn't thercd sometimes be
moro new for the yellow journals than
there Is now. Why, Cdbmln who would
60 on the stand in "a Iivoree case. for ln-
stance. and testify against customer
wouldn't stand as nigh as % pug dog with
the rest of MS.
There was an exceedingly well-known
man lew years ago who wanted 10 ma
out whom his wife went driving with.
he knew or thought he knew. that a GER
tain Young cabman had often been on the
box. with her and "a man friend Tor tares;
and he offered this driver thousand colg
bones To give the woman away. Noul9
he do ito Not much. lie didn reel
called upon TO help ANYBODY get a divorce
BESIDES. the woman In question always
cave the cabman dollar tip when she
used his cab and whoever was Win heT
always tipped him we'll too.
"Ir tho course of time the woman was
divorced and the trial made great big
stir but there was no cab drivers testl-
rnonv against the woman, YOU bet your
life.
"Peonle I'm middle life look down on a
cabmau. but milhOnaires appreciate MIN
and as FOR the cabby himself. ne knows
hos I'm a good Job. and he holds ON 10 II.
is now writing Celebrities / Rave Driven
For)
THE POTENCY or CON-.
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