The Washington times., 1905-05-07
JEHUS CANNOT
Be SHOWED AWAY
Have the "DOts' on Hotel
Men Now.
STAND IN FRONT OF DOORS
Only Have to Swear That Some One in
Hotel Has Them Under
Engagement.
STAND IN FRONT OF DOORS

Although it rarely shows above the
surface, SO that the general public is
aware of its existence there is never
theless an earnest and continuous war
between the cabmen of the Capital and
the mana cement Of the city's large
hotels.
More particularly this conflict wages
between the might '7awkers" and the
hotel men Despite the fact that both
sides have sought redress at law, the
battle bids fair to continue indefinitely.
The cause of all the trouble is the
persistence of cabmen in standing with
their vehicles around hotel entrances,
where, SO the hotel keepers declare
| they have both the law and the con-
firming sanction of the courts to main
tain their own teams
Fight to Finish.
For many months the conflict has
lasted No amount Of work on the part
of the police and the Hack Inspector,
added to cases carried into the Police
Court and strenuous appeals TO the
Commissioners, seems to have worked
the desired effect
Trouble began soon after the decision
OF the Court OF Appeals that the hotel
men had the right to maintain their
the hotel entrances for the convenience
of guests. These vehicles are not re-
CURED to ray the regulation cab
license.
1t appeared at first that these cabs
were for use of the hotel guests only.
! It soon developed there was a string to
the order. namely-that the drivers OF
hotel cabs were not required to ask If
the person hiring their vehicle was a
guest of the hestelry-
| Times Changed.
.srhings amt like they used TO be"
, has long been the cry Of the night
hawker." When this new order OF
things threatened to cut off even those
few fares from the hotels which added
to the meager reward for his night-long
Vigil the eabby set up yeritable howl.
The howl did ne good.
The hotels maintained that the per-
mission given their own teams to stand
about the hotel doors did not make the
street In the immediate nefghborhood
a public cab stand. Into this order the
cabby bumped his head several times,
each round ending only IN the Police
Court and Ia the imposition Of a more
| or less severe fine.
| Then the eabmen set their heads to-
gether. and not long were the congress
| or eab5ies in discovering that as long
as they were under engagement by
some one in the hotel" they could stand
with their vehicles at the hotel doors as
| long as they chose.
All Right Now.
| Ever since almost as many might
hawkers" as so chose have been doing
their share of business from the hotels.
Many and urgent appeals for relief
| from the hotelmen have resulted In the
arrest of scores of cabbies, bat the
trials in Police Court inevitably fail.
| The defendant cabman invariably
swcars that he was under actual en-
gagement" at the tire complained
about and mp TO the p:re3ent time the
authorities have been unable to prove
in a single case that the cabman was
not so enga ged.
As matters now stand the Commits
sionerz and the hotel proprietors are
united in an effort to find a remedyins
law. while the cdbbv. content to take
things as they come. sits in his wonted
place night by night and gathers in his
mite.