The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-05
MUCH CAB RIDING
THOUSANDS OF NEW WORKERS
 WHO NEVER WALK.
Many Rich People Whose Feet Rarely Touch the sidewaIk--sIore Tkan One Hundred Thousand Never
 Use . Street Car.

New York, April 4.--More than 7.- 100000 pounds of human beings. or over 3,75o tons of humanity are trans ported through the streets of New York every day in public cabs. In other words. more than 50.o00 differ ent people used hired vehicles every day to take them about the city on business or fin search of pleasure. Moreover. according to the cab people who have made study of the situa- tion. there are fully 10000 people. exclusive of babies and invalids. who never use the street cars, and of these, at least 5000 could not tell from per- sonal observation what the inside of trolley car Is like and have no con- ceptfon of the rush hour in the sub way. Many of these people never walk on the street except to cross the sidewalk to get from their homes or hotels into their own vehicles or pub lie cabs, and the longest walks they ever take are from those vehicles through the aisles of the fashionable stores. the corridors of the hotels, or around the semi~circular passage back of their boxes at the opera. They are New York's cab using public, who think as little of hailing cab for a ride of block or two, as the average man does of hopping on street car. Many of the cab users hold that it is really cheaper for them to use tax ameter cabs. For. in addition to sav- ing the strain on my lady's nerves. a trip in a cab does not subject her fine clothes to the jostling of the crowd. does not make her iewelry att tractive to the covetous fingered. and minimizes her chance of losing her ieweled gold vanity bag or other cost ly knicknacks. Moreover. my lady's Pomeranian or Jap spaniel can ride with her in a cab.
 As one rich woman puts 1t: The other day, because Charles had been talking hard times. I took & car to save the cab fares. I saved just forty five cents. and the crowd crushed seven dollars worth of orchids so that I could not wear them to dinner that evening. When Charles had to get more flowers, he begged me not to be economical any more"
 But there is a rush hour for the cab users just as there is for the traveller on the more plebian car line. To be sure the cab user is not crowd ed and push cd and hauled and told to step lively. but nevertheless he. too, has a rush hour. when more people are using cabs than at any other time in the day. In fact, at some Of these ruSn hours In6 pressure oh saAO service is so great that many cab users cannot get into a cab at ala far more disconcerting situation. for him than crowding into an already filled car is for the Harlemite. This hour, however comes only on race day Saturdays, when. between l and o'clock, it is practically impossible to rent any public vehicles in New York and the streets are deserted, while the road to the race tracks Is one string of motor cabs, horse cabs. and. in fact. anything that will go for hire and car ry passengers down to lose their mon ey. Sometimes there comes danger ously near being a cab famine on win ter nights
 This is when Madame Einalti or Signor Lowaledgeri is to make adebut at one of the opera houses. Then are the cabs busy, almost the whole 2,bOO of them, and there Is not "ro Hire flag to be found on a taxameter cao far or wide.
 The first rush for cabs. according to the starter for the New York Trans