The evening world., 1903-01-27
annual Report Of Mayors Mar
shall Shows Only 126 Com
plants Against New York
Hackmen in a Year.
STILL, THEY'RE ONLY HUMAN.
And n They See a Chance to
Work a "Fare" for an Extra
Hall, or Dollar, They Won't Pass
It by.

Verify the tribe Of Jehu has been
manigned these many years. So one
must think after n chat with George
Whitield Brown, tr.. Mayors Marshal
ana Chief OF the Bureau of Licenses,
VINO IL the legal father and monitor
OF the cabbies of Greater New YORK.
The sum OF his opinion of our hack and
coach pilots, based on twenty years OF
win bear. However. I must say h
they are no worse than are caboie IN
Other big cities Of this country and
EUROPE.
'swhen I say they are no WORSE sale
Mr.. Brown to a reporter OF The Eve
ming World to-day, II mean the caboies
on n whole. You win find good ana
-bad everywhere, but the New york
product az o general thing is pretty
decent"
12s Complaints in n Year.
In IN annual report presented yester-
Hay 10 Mayor Low by Marshal Brown
qt appears that during the past twelve
months 'only" 126 complaints were
made against hack drivers and only -FOUR
had their licenses revoked.
saow do you account for those ng-
ures Mr.. Brown, for the great reduc-
fion in the number Of complaints as
an.inst the time when they ran into
the thousands and r~evocahons OF licenses
kept pace with h numbers"
.Strict enforcement of the law
answered the Marshal, emphatically.
sThat Ia the only explanation that
cap be offered. Our New York caDpy
4, NOT such q bad sort, after all. He
A. IN the business for all chat Is In 1t
snA he Is no different from the bank,
the railroad. the trust. the corpora
zion: he will charge all that the tramc
will baer. However, I must say that
the spirit In these days among the
general run Ia to keep to the legal rates
rather than to o~vercharge.
some very White Cabbies.
eThe majority Of drivers in New York
are what we call individual owners
their all IL invested in the vehicle they
operate and they find that 1t doesn''
2ay 10 be caught at n OF the tricks
or their trade. We rave men on oui
lioense books for fifteen and INVENT,
Years who haven't got as much as on
mark against them, and then there ar
others.
'svVpli, O cabby's business helps ont
TO q good knowledge of human nature
and / won't say that ever those agains
whom complaint has never been mad'
will not take a chance to add an extra
auarter or half dollar to their earnings
Its human nature, and II they ge
the better Of the public 1t 10 simply be
cause the American people are 30 good
,natured. They never think OF looking VI
4 Guide or ordinance to see what lega
rates are-its the first thing I do in
etranse ~place-and consequently cabb!
recognizes them the m they fal
into his hands and he presses the limit
Tricks Of the Trade.
!, S.Eor instance. a cabman will wait 70
n couple of hours to work his way t
the head OF q line at a ferry or stan
and some one Will come along to engag
him. Cabby has hin sized up before h
ppens his mouth. and he wants some
thing extra from him for his positio
m the line-he wants a long haul
~sWhat will you charge to take m
40 the Waldorf the prospective patro
-aaks. oven presume that the distanc
ls inside the mile limit, for which tn
bsEsl fare would be 80 cents.)
Dollar says cabby.
SA dollar? Why, it's not n mil
Nahat's exorbitant-'
~ know IT'S not a mile says cabb
sAbut I'm engaged by another fare. an
sf = wait for It / can make a dollar
ssIhe passenger then goes down Il
line and he nnds that every cabby in
has o fare that Is coming and tn
Will nay him a dollar.
1.-THE only way for that man 20 ha,
done wa to ave gotten right into q
nrst ack without a word, simply 81
Ing hls destination. and upon arriytl
there lender 1.s the legal an raoe aS Sd f Gn
81 without q ulurmur.
Hoist by His own Petard.
srhsre is another kind OF passeng
chat always manages, to be done
speak OF the man who goes up TO
K will cost to go to a certain poir
3 Hes At cabby's. mercy at once. a
there begins a bargain and sale c.
h ioquy that end with the passeng
sgreeing TO a price: II he diseov.
legal rate and brings the cabman
for II, cabby simply say1: 1t was
" price, sir: he agreed to it,"
Mr., Brown has in view numerO
nifty years ago. that will make the /
more adaptable to the conditions u
now obtain. They contemplate a gr'
deal that Is for the protection OF
R@ssssnseri b, sRa IsH { Ss mo ais0 iu sa1t