The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-12
ASSURE AMPLE BUS
SERVICE NEXT YEAR.
Three New Companies Are Hav-
ing Work Rushed on Many
Automobiles.
PRICES TO BE REASONABLE.
Liyerymen Are Adding "Four-
Wheelers" to Their Equip
ment to Take Care Of
Hotel Guests

Patrons of the new West End hotels and
other prospective Worlds Fair guests.
who will desire special service. will fiEd
adequate transportation facilities aside
from the street cars in getting to and from
the Exposition grounds next year.
Just as at Chicago and Buffalo. there
were persons who desired sleeping car &C
commodations at times when they could
not get Them said the manager Of a
large livery establishment yesterday, so
will there be days in st. Louis next year
when there vii, be great trouble In Sc
curing carriages. Those are exigencies
which every reasonable person will un-
derstand. AS for the ordinary demands for
cabs. broughams, automobiles. tally-hos
and the like. there is every reason to be-
lieve that they will be fully met. Every
arrangement is being made for that end"
Three new automobile companies are al
ready in the field to render public service
to guests at the hotels and stations.
Aside from these the Keyes-Marshall Bros.
Livery Company has arranged for the
construction of Il large number OF omnibus
automobiles. such as are used by the
Seeing New York. Equipment Company
for tourists and at least one West End
hotel, the Washington, has arranged for
private automobiles that will put the
guests of that hotel beyond the necessity
Of depending upon the public companies
for transportation.
The Imperial Transit Company. Of which
Thomas VI. Jenkins, formerly of the st.
Louis and Suburban Railway Company,
is the manager, will institute public au-
tomObile bus service consisting of thirty
or more vehicles of the-double-deck style.
each capable Of seating forty passengers.
These will be run on certain schedules
from the hotels through Forest Park to
the Exposition grounds.
MANY CABS ORDERED.
The Worlds Fair Automobile Transit
Company. of which L. G. McNair Is presi-
dent. ard Of which Joseph Ramsay, W. 8.
McChesney. Il. +. Winchell and W. W.
Tracy of Chicago are directors, enjoys the
exceptional privilege of running their au-
tomobiles into and through the Worlds
Fair grounds. and as these large cars will
make regular trips from the hotels to the
Fair grounds. carrying from twelve TO
forty passengers each. their patrons will
have special means Of enjoying the Expo-
stion.
The Motor Car Fast Transit Company,
now being organized through the cooper
alton of the Mississippi Valley Automobile
Company. end John N. Drummond. Jr., 4
Co., will cater to a somewhat different
trade.
This company recognizes the fact that
there will be many visitors to the NE'air
who will demand a quick private service,
not caring to wait for larger parties and
not compelled to waste any time picking
up passengers.
This company proposes, therefore. to
provide something like twenty automobile
runabouts. seating two passengers and 4
driver. ten double-cylinder ten-horse pow
er machines, seating four passengers, and
ten dOuble-cylinder cars seating four pas
sengcrs, with closed brougham bodies
The prices for these more exclusive ma
chine; will be about the same as the tally
he seats-that is. about SIS passenger
When ii is remembered that Chicago
charged s1.5o a seat for talIyhos this Is
rot exorbitant. 1t is, in fact, the same
price that the New York tourists are pay
ing every day for seats on the sightseeing
automobiles
Liverymen say that the hanson cab cam
not he made popular in ST. Louis. Just why
this vehicle. SO popular in London. New
York and Chicago. does not meet with pub
III favor hare. Is not explained. Ladies
sometimes seek them for shopping tours.
but many clubmen. who are supposed to
have appreciated their utility elsewhere.
in ordering carriages will take care to
stiru!ate to the iivcryman not to send q
hanson.
Reyes Marshall Brothers have decided
to add to their equipment the one-horse
broughan!. known as the -four wheeler
and has been made familiar to the travel
ing public by its use by the Pcnnsyf-
vania Cab Company in New York. Many
Of these will be in service in 81. Louis
next summer.