The evening world., 1908-10-05
TAXICAb OWNERS
AND CAAUFFEURS
IN CONFERENCE
Company Officials Send Out
Invitations to "Talk 1t
Over" Men Accept.

meeting. at which II Is hoped the
differences of the 500 striking red taxi.
cab chauffeurs and the New York Taxi.
cab Company may be settled, il in
progress this afternoon in the Sixty
second street headquarters Of the COM
pany.
The call TO the meeting was sent out
by Harry Allen OF the company, who
invited William Craven and a commit
tee of five other striking chauffeurs and
Delegate Murphy, of the Transfers
Union, to attend and talk the situation
over. The men replied that they were
willing to meet him and discuss peace
terms.
Strikers Wilo Ride.
One Of the most spectacular feats OF
driving ever attempted with Red, or
any other kind of taxicab, delighted all
eyes on Ninth avenue this afternoon.
from Forty-fourth street to the stage
door OF the Colonial Theatre. After
lodging in and out OF posts, wheeling
round street cars, and performing
graceful evolutions generally, Red
taxicab came to rest in a group of as
sorted variety artists, All were more
or less damaged by the sudden arrival
in their midst OF the machine, while
Percy Williams offered the driver,
Charles Mack, three weeks straight IL
he'd come inside and repeat his per-
Torrance.
Mr.. Mack. the driver of the eccentric
taxi, Is one Of the striking chaufreurs
of the New York Taxicab Company.
whose offices are on West Sixty-secoud
street. right opposite the stage entrance
of the Colonial.
Mack, who had put In the morning
liquidating his troubles. came upon the
deserted cab at Fortyfourth street and
Ninth avenue. where a crowd that
had chased away the strikebreaker
driver and his detective body guard had
started to build a bonfire under It.
stop" said Mack TIN loyal
man. I am. I'll take that cab home"
He Jumped on the box. and slouting
TO the crowd to scot'o- be IN MS
hurricane ride. He wniZ1cl up the
street at fully twenty-five n.ies All
hour and came to grief at the turn into
street.
After Mack had been picked out OF
the jumblcd vaudevillains and he and
the cab was found to be uninjured. he
was arrested charged with "intoNica-
ton. disorderly conduct, reckless driv-
ing and resisting an officer"
Fight on Broadway.
A few minutes later a red taxi driver
~, b,y
Wright. the driver OF big sightseeing
auto at anchor outside the Metropole
at Broadway and Forty-second street
The detective sitting alongside the
strike-breaker was up in two jumps TO
wright's side and dragged him from
his seat. Several men came to Wrights
aid, and there was fight in which a
big crowd took great delight. After
the police arrived Wright was arrested
on a charge OF 'inclting to riot"
The New York Tsxicab Company
started out to try to break the back
bone OF their chauffeurs' strike In earn
est to-day. Ali night police pickets
we're thrown abou: the concerns
garage on Sixty-second street. between
Broadway and Columbus avenue, and
several suspected strikers were held up
and ordered out OF the ne!ghborhood.
Early in the morning a furniture van,
from which were taken dozens Of iron
cots and some cooking apparatus, was
backed up to the garage and sort OF
barracks for the strike breakers estab
lished. Soon after this a stream OF red
taxis started out to take up their po-
sitions al their various stands before
hotels and restaurants.
About dozen of the vehicles. each
manned by a chauffeur and a Pinker-
ton body-guard. drove TO the corner Of
Broadway, and there formed q sort Of
flying wedge, in winch formation they
proceeded downtown.
The masslng OF .le VC..Icles, IL was
explained by an Official OF the COM
pany, was designed 10 foil the attempts
Of unionized teamsters and caDmen to
"b!ock' and cut out the strike
breakers.
At the Offices Of the Tax!eab Com
the strikers would be open 10 them til
Tomorrow Al noon, after that they will
ca Og are concerned.
James Murphy. president OF the Chaut-
feurs' Union, says not more than four
teen Of the taxicahs were IN opera non
yesterday, and that they as good as had
sIrike won,
THE company cannot get It's men
back or EMPLOY 0Ompetent men to take
their places" he said. land We Will
beat IT, just as we d.! the transporta-
ton company two years ago. We have
plenty Of money and are not worrying -