Evening star., 1898-10-21
7 H E CAB Sc VICE
Rates of Charges Fixed by the District
Commissioners Today.
Police Regulations Amended ReIat-
ing to the Assignment of Space
on the Streets.

1873, authorizing the District Commission
ers to locate cab service adjoining rail-
road stations, the Commissioners today
fixed the rates of charges for the service
to be rendered by the cabs of the railroad
companies, and also amended the police
regulations relating to the assignment OF
space on the streets adjacent to the sixth
street station and as to the carrying Of bag
gage.
The joint resolution in question author
ICES the Commissioners to locate on the
streets adjoining the station of any rail-
road company stand for cabs, carriages
and other vehicles for the conveyance Of
passengers to and from said stations, the
service to be rendered by the railroad COM
panies The Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad Company, popularly
known the Pennsylvania Company, is
the only one which has SO far taken advan-
tage Of the privileges granted by the joint
resolution, and about the first of the month
viii place in operation some twenty or
more cabs, which number, it is expected,
will be increased later as they are finished.
These cabs are now being built, and the
company promises that they will be every
thing the public could desire.
1t is further provided by the joint resolu-
ton that the rates of charges for the serv
ice to be rendered by the railroad COM
panies shall be fixed by the Commissioners.
and that at no time shall the schedule eX-
coed the rates in force here at the time Of
the approval of the law. The rates fixed
today by the Commissioners are somewhat
lower than those now prevailing. They are
as follows:
For Cabs and VictOrfas.
By the trip-One and one-half miles or
less, direct to CT from station, to one ad
dress, one rerson, 25c.; each additional per-
son, 25c.; each additional address. one or
two persons, 25c.; each additional passen-
ger 10c.; each additional half mile or less,
each person. Zoe.
On call, to &C to stauon-To call at any
address within one and one-half miles of
station, one person. 2"c.; each additional
person, 25c.. each additional half mile or
less, each person. 10c.
By the hou1-One or two persons, first
hour or less. 75c. three or four persons, 81 !;
each additiona. quarter hour or less, one or
two pers JAS, 2Oc.; three or four persons,
25c.
Rates for OmnibuSes.
By the trip or on call to go to station
Minimum charge for four persons or less
cne and one-half-mile limit, 81: each adli-
tionai person. 15c. each stop en- route, not
over ten minutes, SOC; each additional half
mile or less, 2Oc.
BY the hour-First hour, four persons or
less, $3.50; each additional person. 25c.:
When vehicles are not engaged by the
holr trip rates shall be charged.
When charges for trip or trips exceed
rates PEI hour charges shall be by the
Matter of Street Space.
The question of the assignment of street
space for the company's cab stand was
matter of some perplexity to the Commits
sioners, as they found that not only was
the space at their disposal somewhat limit
ed, but that it is now occupied by public
cabmen. Then, too, they found that space
must be allotted to the wagons handling
mail. freight and baggage. and that the
buses of licensed hotels must have certain
space, as well as sufficient space for pr-
Vate vehicles. AS the law not only author
ICES the establishment of cab service by the
railroad companies. but also authorizes the
Commissioners to designate the street space
for stands for such cabs, the Commission
ers concluded that 1t was their duty to re-
woke so much of the police regulations as
designated hack stands on 9th street near
the 9th street station and on the south side
of street west of the station.
Regulations Amended.
They have. therefore, amended the regu-
lations follows:
so much of section of article of the
police regulations in and for the District
of Columbia as designates the following as
hack stands, namely 'on 9th street near
the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Com
panys depot, and on the south side of B
street northwest. west of the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad Company's depot Is
hereby revoked, and that the space on 9th
street, from the building line of B street
to the south line of the depot building is
reserved as a stand for the 'busses of Ii
censed hotels; from the south line of said
building, southwark In front of the train
shed' for such use as the Philadelphia. Will
m1ngton and baltimore Railroad Company
may desire to make of 1t for its business.
including It's cabs, and the handling of
treight, baggage and mail; that the space
on b street northwest, from the west line
of the depot building, extending westerly
l6o feet, is hereby set apart for the ex-
elusive use of the cabs of the Philadelphia
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Com
pany, as authorized by joint resolution No.
ll2, approved June I, 1898, entitled Joint
resolution authorizing the Commissioners
of the District of Columbia to locate a cab
service, and for other purposes
another amendment of the police regu-
lations made by the Commissioners today
revokes the paragraph In section of arti-
Gle 8 relating to the carrying on public
vehicles of trunks or other travelling boxes
or bags. At present each passenger is en-
titled to have conveyed with him without
extra charge one trunk other travelling
box or bag. but the amendment adopted by
the Commissioners today provides that
when a passenger desires to have baggage
carried with him the driver shall be EN-
titled to make a charge not to exceed 70
cents for each trunk, or 10 cents for each
large valise or bag.
Cards bearing the rates of charges for
the cabs of the railroad companies, the
Commissioners have ordered shall be car
ried and conspicuously displayed in the We
hicles, and the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Company. in observing this
regulation, will have prepared a map of the
District, on which by means of circles, of
which the 9Th street station will be the
axis, the rates will be illustrated. The
radius of the first circle will be one and
one-half miles distant from the station,
the second two miles, the third two and
one-half miles and each additional circle
one-half mile farther away. Then, too, the
various points of interest in the District
will be designated by figures, by consulting
which the passenger may at a glance see
just what the proper charge for convey
ance to a certain point is. That there may
be cabs on the stand at all hours, the COM
pany will have extra drivers and horses.
Prohibits other Cabs.
Of course the establishment of the rail-
road cab stand at the 9th street station will
prevent the standing there of any other
public conveyances and such public veh1-
cles as are now there will be required to
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