Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-01


there they have telephone installed
in a sort of sentry box arrangement,
and when vehicle is wanted one can
telephone hack stand and have any
driver he wishes to wait on him.
THAT is done in nearly all cities
said the man from the East, "and out
in San Antonio, nearly every plaza
has its hack stand and boy is paid
by the combination of owners to at
tend, to the telephone. They have
night and day men and horses so.
that neither are overworked. especial
ly the animals, for that is one thing
the general run of Texans won't stand
for-cruelty to a horse"
"And at those stands" said Badly,
zone never sees dilapidated, dirty
vehicle, broken down horses and
patched up harness, for everything
even to the driver himself, is neat and
clean-and in most cities all the dItv-
ers are white men who are at least
polite to the people they wait on
Another thing is noticeable in
most Southern cities where such a
system is in vogue" said Fatty, and
that is, a negro seems to know in,
stinctively that certain cabs and GER
tain stands are for the use of white
people only, and you could not per-
suade one to even ask some Of those
hackmen to take them for a fare"
'tThe system here is a dandy" said
the Man from the East, If you want
OBJ, you ring up some mans place
of business and tell him you want a
hack, and he is expected to go out
and get you one. The old saying that
custom makes its own law, or some
thing to that effect, is exemplified in
this matter, for there is hardly man
in Hattiesburg with nerve enough to
turn these frequent calls on his time
and patience down
II know one place in this town.
said Badly, where the telephone Ii
constantly ringing from early morn
till late at night, bringing in request
after request for hacks, and in 9
number of instances the people have
the gaaf to ask that certain mum
berer hack sent, expecting thai
the people at the other end of the
phone win leave their business ant
go out and hunt up certain hack
possibly. because the party wants tt
stand the driver on for the ride
For that very reason" said Fatty
there should be hack stands, regulat
ed by the police, in certain place.
about town, and each stand SHOULD
& be compelled to have phone, so tina
business houses will not be eternal.
bothered by some one ringing up witt
a request for hack. It's all wei
enough TO oblige a customer. but tel
times out Of eleven. the people VIII
are greatest nuisances in this respec
never spend cent In the hans hous
and never VIII
TT may be long time before tn
hack nuisance Is regulated as
should be- said the Man from tn
Fast, but there is one thing the ps
lice could do, and that is to at leaa
make the drivers blockade the street
less by backing up to the curb in .
proper manner. When one goes t
I any Of the depots now he has to threa
his way through tangle Of vehicle
and II one arrives on a train and take
q hack. It is always some minutes b.
fore the conveyance can be extrica
ed from the mass of hacks gathere
around. If the drivers were forced I
back the vehicles into the curb in th
manner in vogue elsewhere, theE
would be none Of this disagreeabl
confusion and delay
eBesides that regulation. the polio
could 40 another thing that would !
not Only c6fry1ne out the spirit ii II
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