The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-07-25
you PAY EIGHTY CENTS IN
STEAD OE FORTY.

Thus II happens that for sixteen
minutes walt or taxicab you pay so
cents wnen your fee should be 70 cents.
At $50 per hour being the legaf rate
Of wait. But the taxi companies could
charge the fun $50 for the sixteen
minutes wait II so inclined. for the
law gives the "MAXMUM' rate only
For one hour or any part thereof. Si.bo-
and Il seemingly is up to the taxicab
company to construe that law as they
see At and establish their rates ac-
cordingly
But II you call taxicab and have It
wait for one hour YOU pay 1870, for
which you should pay only $3.50 ac-
cording to the, HIGHEST RATE PRE-
SCRIBED BY LAW.
Says Raymond Il. Fosdick. Commits
sioner OF Accounts: The license bu-
rsau should be prohibited from issuing
IL license for any vehicle equipped with
II taximeter that registers an amount
in excess of legal rates. THE Ii.
cENSE OF ALL VEHICLES NOW
EQUIPPED WITH SUCH TAXIME-
TIERS SHOULD BE REVOKED.
We would further recommend that
all drivers with licensed vehicles be re-
quired to furnish a receipt for the
amount OF fare paid when request
therefore is made by passenger"
And why do tax;cab companies make
the rates? Because. as the ordinance
stands now, WE HAVE NO DISTINCT
TAXICAB RATES.
Why is this? When the question as
10 the legality Of the present ordinance
came before Judge Bisohoff. he ruled
that the ordinance was legal but the
rates were Illegal. So the rates were
cut out altogether and that ordinance
left without rates
tThe rates were low-30 cents for
half mile or any part thereof, and 10
cents for each additional quarter mile,
Waiting time at the rate OF 81 per hour
taxicab seating two persons). For
each taxicab intended to seat four per-
sons inside. and driven BY motive power.
for one-half mile or any part thereof.
10 cents. For waiting time at tho rate
Of k.5o per hour.
Therefore, the ordinance stands as Il
"a, but there are no distinct rates for
taucabs.
HAD TO GO BACK TWENTY
Y YEARS OR MORE.
Now. In order to get ANY regulations
as 10 rates, the inspectors had to go
back to the last constitutional rates
thai we're made for hackmen and horse
cabs that have been In existence for the
last twenty years or more.
UNDER THOSE RATES, THE PUB
Lie NOW PAYS FOR TAXICABS.
Therefore, the legal waiting rate OF
these is $3.50 per hour for vehicles In
tended to seat four persons, which
would make sixteen minutes cost 40
tents
paid % cents because the minimum
initial rate that these taximeters VIII
register is so cents. and as soon as the
flag goes down this initial rate OF 20
cents entities You TO eight minutes
walt or eight blocks Of a ride. accord
ing TO the demands OF the company, and
YOU pay 10 cents additional for every
four minutes OF wait. There was no
wear or waste during tho waiting
period, yet I was charged for running
time as well.
There 10 not a word In tho present
ordinance saying anything about that
so cents INITIAL rate.
Why do we have these taximeters'
Beoauss the owners Of these taximeters
have the city SO "sewed up" by the al
most life contract that they compel
drivers to Sign. that they now control
about 90 per cent. OF these taumeters
useA 10 New York City.
~. Hsary Duoasss. President Of the
Amn1sAN ,yAxfmstss Company. Vice
Yrs1osat q the Mason. ssman Trans
portsticn Corporation, also director