The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19

open gamblin' house on pretty near every
Diock. Iney all did big business. an when
nackman that drew him home.
Inc dog lights an the prize fights, too,
s Mas dirsauenI an profitable, for six gents
aged about $40 each. I've seen as many as
Do carriages at prize fight that the police
tf. on they didn't know nothin' about. But
lhem days is gone. There's a lot of laws
agin prize fightin an dog fightin'. an the
ponce mas to enforce 'em now
Funerals too, amt what they were, even
as Iate as twenty years ago. There amt as
many carriages goes to funeral, an mon
ey amt spent so free.
In the old days we went slow in process
SION 10 the buryin' place: but after the
service at the grave was over, we raced
through the cemetery gates to a tavern
Wnere 1t was the fashion for all the MOURN
S 49,, 10 get out an liquor up. We was al
Ways invite In, too, an had our fill; tho
LOT me, L never was much of a hand for
orlnkln. just little goes long way.
VOW the mourners just rides TO the grave
an pays on the carriages there; or If they
rides back to the city they don't go near
the tavern. As 1 said, / don't have no
preJudices, an these new ways may be all
II don't seem respectful to the dead to go
away without drinkin' their health.
started hackin' in Manhattan when i
was sixteen years of age, raw Irish lad
only week landed from Ireland. 1 was
standin' in City Hall Square in the after
noon wonderin' If 1 would ever get work,
me IL knew about horses.
stable''
Come with me-" says he; "the boss
He brung me to livery stable in Center
street, near the Tombs prison, an in half
an hour was drivin' a hack for $50
Gay an all 1 could make over in tips At
the end Of a week the boss changed the ar
rangement so that I had to turn in S. day
10 him an could keep all over that that I
1 didn't know street in the city at first.
out New York Is soon learned. In two
weeks l thought knowed the whole thing
AL about hackin'-but was wrong. I've
Deen thirty-five years at the business now
an. know amt learned it all.
that's why the trolleys can't never run
On the trolley car all the passengers is
treated alike; but in hackin' a man has to
STUDY his fare an treat each party &C
cordin'
Supposin' a handsome young couple gets
In an tells you to drive about for an hour
or two. You don't want to run 'em through
EN- fair an easy through the quiet streets
10 the park. pickin the smoothest track an
never lookin' back at 'em.
Don't never let on that you see nothin'.
The dummy cabman is the one that wins
out Those young people don't want to be
disturbed. nor to be looked at. When the
drive is over, IL you done the right thing
by them, the man will do the right thing by
you.
l don't never raise disturbance before a
lady NO gent would do such a thing. If
man has made hard bargain with me, say
to take him and his lady to Coney island
Tor 20, l don't make no outcry, but just
quietly drives EN- down there. Then when
ives there / takes the man aside an says
l.: please pay me now, fer I've got to feed
my horses. He gives me the money, an
then says: you've made a hard bargain
with me, an I've got my money. Now I'm
goin' back to the city unless you pay some
more. l can pick up a fare here, but
don't want to be hard on you. It'll be s. for
Then says he: But you agreed to drive
us down and back for Sc"
mis sPea bsa eas To SAYS there's els. lady
my legal fare. the mileage that I'm entitled
to. Here's a policeman over here. Let's
leave the matter to him, an what he says
goes"
That generally settles 1T. fer it's pretty
mean man that will have dispute about
money while he has a lady with him.
lights fer to make e rows before LADIES', be- be-
cause they don't know their business
There's no money into it Treat all people
right, says 1, fer in the long run it pays.
You may lose a dollar to-day, but it'll come
back tomorrow That's what 1 tells my
son, who's drivin a hack fer now.
close as If they amt got dollar, but I
always keep a civil tongue to 'em, an
don't lose nothin' by It,,
Don't say nothin', but watch your people
an treat 'em accordin'. Them's my motto
stout dark man took my carriage at
the bridge entrance one evening about three
Central Park. When we got up there ne
stepped out an, walking up to tree, put
rope around a limb.
Whats thiS?' says /.
"oh," says he. I'm tired of Twin, an
I'm goin' to hang myself"
without payin your fare?' says I.
II have no money" says he.
mo fare, suicide" says I; an I took
| the rope an put the man in the carriage
an drove him to police station. 1t turned
y troube Sn his he w was gon
without payin' his fare. Sure there's all
sorts of queer people in the world.
One night man stopped me in Park
row an told me to drive him to the house
of a big doctor up in Sixty-second street.
When we got to the door the man got out,
an says he to me very quiet:
II want you to wait fer me. I'm goin' to
| kill this doctor, an then We'll drive to One
| Observation-Disclosures street where
| there's another doctor must kill. an there
Says 1: Eyes, sir. How long will you want
the carriage altogether. sir?,
Maybe the rest of the night" says he.
| | had the butt end of the whip in my
hand. but he had his hands in his overcoat
| pockets, an 1 knowed by the way they
bulged that he had a revolver in each of
them
Would you please pay me my fare now,
sir, till o'clock" says /. After o'clock
We'll make a new DEAL
L
| It'll be $780," says I.
He hunted through his pockets, an the
| most he had was S. bill.
Says /: with a gentleman like you, I'm
| always wilin' to give credit. Your note'll
| be good as the money. Let me drive you
/ to the hotel at the corner, an you can make
out an /. o. T., sir"
| He got in the carriage again an I drove
| him to the hotel, an while he was writin'
| the I. o. u. told the detectives on duty,
| an they grabbed his arms as he was goin
| out.
He was an escaped lunatic that the police
| was huntin' for. He had two revolvers all
right, an a list OF people that he was goin
to kill.
| / got the s. bill; an the doctor that he
went after first give me $40 the next day
J when he heard the story.
| A couple of years ago, when was drivin
along Riverside at o'clock in the mornin
| man came out of an areaway with a
| black satchel in his hand an signaled me
| He was a middle-sized man, with dark
| mustache, an 1 wondered what he was
| drove him TO the elevated railroad, an
| when he went upstairs / tipped a police
| man, who ran up and tipped guard on the
train that took him away. He got off the
| train at Cortlandt street to go to Jersey
CITY, an was followed all the way till he
| went into a house. Then the house was
| watched and a telephone was sent to the
| notice at Riverside. They inquired, and
| found that he was burglar who had
| robbed the Riverside place and got about