The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-22
B Herbert Corey.)

Here is a small example of arith-
metical acknowledgements OF
the sort the camel used when he got
his head through the tent door.
When taXicabs were first introduced
mere the charge was 40 cents a mile
md pile on all the passengers you
chose.
Then the taNicab companies leased
the city streets of the hotels, and paid
them half a million dollars a year for
them. The a charge went up to 60
cents a mile. The independent cab
companies made money at the old fig
urc. In order to protect" themselves
against this nn-Amcrican competition
the pauper taXicabs that had no
hotel stands--the big companies form
ed a left-handed alliance with certain
officials. as shown by the investiga-
ton o going on. These gave the
independent chauffeurs what is tech
nically known as the buns rush
whenever they appeared on prescribed
streets. No one has suggested that
this are for a vested interest would
standing unless a little jingle were
drifting his way. The charge for a
clock cab rose to so cents a mile.
Sometimes extra charges were made
for baggage or for Il third passenger.
There must be some other improve
ment in sight. Because the cab COM
panies now want to charoa p solid
buck for the first mile and boost the
price for the second passenger.
Two men from a western city called
on a real estate broker to rent a store
on lower Broadway.
Come with me-" said the broker.
Il have just what YOU want"
1t covered almost the space of an
ordinary city lot-say 25 by 100 feet
and was light, airy and in a good
locality for the daylight trade down
town.
And the RENTAL said the broker.
o onIH ss5 h5o hands and beginning lis
That s. said the western man,
for a year--twelve months?"
Precisely" said the broker.
Mister" said the western man.
were looking for just the sort of q
business that will stand a yearly pay
ment of $4,000 for rent. AS soon as
We find it We'll take our store.'
There's a difference between auto
mohilists and motor boats. On one of
the supply docks gasoline for motor
cars costs 20 cents a gallon. The same
gas" from the same tank, sold by the
1871 AAAp' l'iAiPCd pN lilS SIIlls puIllt
costs motor boaters 1e cents a gallon.
The salesman is an oiled philosopher.
Gas for a motor car" said he, "is
either bought by the chauffeur who
doesn't care what it costs, or by the
owner who has so much money he
doesn't Worry. or by the owner who
has so little money that he has to
Chuck a bluff. No inotor;st ever COM
plains at the cost of my gas"
How about the motor boaterso."
Mister" said tine salesman. there's
sc something about a motor boat that
curdles a mans temper. They'd holler
IL l gave it to EN-"
The effort to renumber Barclay
street-on which thoroughfare the
early settlers seem to have selected
numbers because Of their decorative
possibilities for euphony, and for no
more practical reason-calls attention
to the oddities OF other old New York
streets. There's that tangle in China
town. for example. wherein Pell and
Mott act like a pair Of enraged fish
worms. And Waverly place the only
street with three ENDS. For some por-
ton of its length it has the same
numbers on both sides of the street.
Pearl street crosses Broadway twice.