The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-05
FRIENDS OF HACKMEN.
Outlet Company Proposes TO Help
Them in Their Fight.
Engage Counsel 10 Secure tho Men Their
Rights Through the Courts.


The Manufacturers Outlet Company.
popular with the masses contributors
time and again To funds for the alleyia-
tion OF suffering humanity, champions Of
the working classes have now espoused
the cause OF the hackmen Whohaye been
deDarred from soliciting fares ~ tbe
new Union passenger station.
First OF all the Manufacturers Outlst
Company quotes the following extract
| from the City Ordinances:
| Section ]. Regulation XIII of chanter
| Xix entitled Hacks, Omnibuses etc =.
| OF the City ordinances which NOW reads.
XIII. In any railroad station or al
any steamboat landing where drivers OF
| hackney carriages. or express wagons
! attend for passengers or freight the
mayor. or superintendent of hacks NAV
fix the location TO be occupied by such
drivers while waiting for or soliciting
| passengers or freight: and any such
driver soliciting passengers or freight
in any other part OF such railroad STA
tion. or steamboat landing than the
portion fixed as aforesaid. shall pay
the fine hereinafter provided"
IL rs hereby amended so as to read "a
follows:
XIII. The mayor or the superintend-
ent or hacks shall with the approval
OF the mayor. fix the location 10 ba &C.
cupied by drivers Of hackney carriages
while waiting for or soliciting passen-
gers at the Union passenger station and
any such driver who shall enter said
Union station 10 solicit passengers or
who shall receive or take paeeenge,s
from any person employed or engaged
In said station to- solicit passengers FOR
public hacks, shall pay a fine of five
collars and thereupon the license of
such driver shall be forfeited and void
rms IL backs up with the following
petition which is being circulated for
signatures. and 10 which have already
oeen affixed the names OF host OF
citizens:
Providence. r.. L.. oct. . 1Sgs
Hon. William q. Baker. Mayor of the
CITY OF Providence II. T..
Dear Sir-We, the undersigned mer
chants, taxpayers and residents of this
city, 90 most earnestly petition and
ask tnat your honor VIII grant the
hackInen OF Providence the privilege OF
soliciting patronage at the Union depot
~ the same manner as they have pre-
Nlously done, In order that they can
make living thereby i'm so securing
patronage from the general travelling
public. who enter this city by train
II they are not allowed this privilege
II means no more or no less than de-
priving these men Of their only means
of making a living and supporting
large family. whom many OF them have
depending upon them. Therefore. We
earnestly pray that your honor will
grant these hackmen M, liberty OF
their business in the future
as they have been doing i'm the past.
by kindly granting this request. =
VIII be highly appreciated by the un.
dersigned. Very respectfully.
AS further evidence OF their inten-
lions 10 see t1at the hackmen GEL ar
hat they are entitled to the ManufaC
turers' Outlet Co. have engaged tw,
OF recognized ability. VIII
viii carry the question involved up &
he supreme court. before which co.
ordinate branch OF the state govern.
nent they will ask for decision grant
ng TO all hackmen the right to ente'
upon the premises OF the Consolidate
road for the purposes Of soliciting PAT
'onage. The Consolidated has given p
To Billings Brothers. and b
ioirg so has practically deprived ~
outside hackmen Of all business to an
rom the trains.