The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-14
PHIL SANDS NO CLAIMANTS MARK
WORM FROM HARVARD TURNS
--CALLED HIM A YALE MAN.
After Tapping His Pocket Many q Time
and Oft-Suit for Defamation, Suit
for False Arrest, and Complaint to
Mayors Marshal ON His Programme.

After Tapping His Pocket Many . Time
and Oft-Suit for Defamation, Suit
for False Arrest, and Complaint to
Mayors Marshal ON His Programme.
Philip and joshua Sands have begun
an effort to find out just how far cabman
can 60 In having his fares arrested when they
dispute with him over the amount OF the
cab fare. That's on the score Of false ar
rest. Then they are going to find out
what right a cabman has to tell people
that his fare Is member Of the Yale Club
when the fare happens to be an enthusiastic
member of the Harvard Club.
Guess that's defamation Of character
all right" said one Of Phil Sands's Harvard
friends yesterday.
Phil Sands happens to be in such posi-
ton that he doesn't have to worry over
small money matters, but he thinks that is
no reason why every cabman should pick
him out as an easy mark
For years have been stuck by cabmen
in this city," he said yesterday. II didn't
get on for a long time. used to Jump In
cab near my home, in Thirty-third street
and ask the cablnan how much he would
charge to take me to the Long Island
u
catch train for the races
dollar and a half the cabman would
say.
was dollar That opened my eyes. When
ever / went out in a cab after that made
a practice OF asking the driver for his rate
card.
"A good many Of the cabmen never havs
one. These fellows who drive the electric
NhnEN rot
through your ride with one Of those chaps
and ask him for rate card he never has
one. II YOU are in any public place he
will abuse you until you are ashamed Of the
racket and pay him TO keep still.
If he's in a place where he thinks he
will get licked in a fight he begins to yell
for help and when the policeman comes up
the cabman swears that his fare has been
punching him. Then you re arrested.
1.-The only chance one has with one of
those fellows is to have the scrap in some
dark lane far from the police.
orbitant cab hire It's shame, the way
those fellows charge. Every time these
cab drivers have tried to bunco me recently
| have pinned them down. All of these
electric cabs driver know that and they
have got 1t in for me. That's why there
The trouble occurred last Wednesday
night when Mr.. Sands hired an electric
cab at Sherry's He went in II to house
in Twenty-ninth street then to Kid Mccoy s,
in Broadway, where he met his brother.
Joshua, and then to Forty-fourth street
and Fifth avenue. Altogether the Sands
BOYS saw. the trip consumed about two
hours. The cabman demanded $3.50. Phil
Sands said he was willing to pay the $3.50
but wanted an itemized bill from the cab
man first Mr. Sands thinks the bill would
have made an interesting document for
the consideration Of the Mayors marshal.
The cabman not only refused but, accord
ing to the Sands brothers, began to kick
I'D a row. He wouldn't have stood much
chance in q real row because Phil Sands
used to use his Q feet 2 to play football
at Harvard and his brother Josh weighs
292 pounds and ia as hard as nails. How
ever, there was enough of a rumpus to
bring policeman. who arrested the Sands
brothers on the complaint OF the cabman.
The Sands brothers were discharged
in the police court next day and the Magis-
trate scored the policeman for trying to
help the cabman collect debts. Every
thing might have been forgotten even
then. but the wicked cabman went and
told people in court. it 10 alleged. that
Phil Sands was member of the Yale Club.
Il might have stood for being called a
Princeton man." said Phil Sands, but a
Yale man-never"
Now Phil Ia threatening to sue the cab
mans employers for false arrest and defa-
nation Of character. Likewise he's going
to see the Mayors marshal about exorbitant
cab hire.