New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-02
Jeers Greet
Few Voiat0xs
OfGasless. Day
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ferry. The boy threw down his bundle
of papers, then stopped and picked out
the photogravure section of The New
York Tribune and held aloft the page of
photographs of soldiers who have
fallen on the battlefield.
"These boys died for their country"
he screamed at the top of his lungs.
Cant you save a quart of gas for
yours?"
The boys shrill voice was heard
above the clatter of. cab horses and
other tumult in the neighborhood. A
crowd gathered. 1t caught the fiery
spirit of the newsboy, and jeers began
to sound all around the luckless occu-
pants of the car The man at the wheel
made an effort to explain. The men
and women behind him turned red. A
few policemen began to edge into the
crowd. But apparently they did not
feel much in the mood of salving. the
feelings of the auto party. which aban-
doned the Staten Island trip and fled
up Broadway.
Similar scenes were enacted IN other
parts of the city and out on the turn
pixies of Long Island.
Boys Busy in Brooklyn
At Bedford Avenue and Fulton
Street, Brooklyn, where in past Sun
days thousands of automobile parties
pass on the way to Coney Island, a
noisy crowd summoned squad of po-
lice about o'clock in the afternoon
1t was a fine vantage point for the
newsies and other small boys of the
neighborhood to torment autoists whose
consciences had not been pricked be-
fore they started. A large touring car
filled with men and women was stopped
by the boys.
After the preliminary greetings,
"Kaiser lover! Gas slacker!" a to-
mato which had remained uneaten too
long came hurting in a graceful para
bola down on the drivers head. The
tomato was followed by an egg, also
the iron frame of the windshield and
divided itself between the we'll pol
ished hood of the car and the we'll
creased flannel trousers Of the driver.
The crowd was getting into a fight
ing spirit when another car came
along from an opposite direction
Owing to the crowd and confusion and
the yclls, the driver lost his head and
collided with the automobile occupied
by the party which had received to-
mato omelet decoration. Nobody was
hurt, but the cars were spoiled in
looks.
Soldiers Jeered, Also
1t took seven policemen to dispense
the crowd, and while they were doing
SO q third automobile, occupied by
soldiers, came along. The men in uni
form Jared no better at the hands of
the crowd.
81 thought you were supposed to
fight the Kaiser!" yelled somebody at
the soldiers.
Nor was there any difficulty in Sc
curing taxis for purely pleasure trips.
One taxicab driver whose stand is near
the Hotel Vanderbilt contracted to
drive two Tribune reporters to Coney
Island and back for SIC. Another tax
icab driver in front of the Waldorf
said he would take the two reporters
to Coney Island, but they would have
to pay "by the clock" the taxicab me-
ter.
At the Office of the Black and White
Taxicab Company it was said that 200
out of $50 cars were in service. The
acting manager of the company said
his firm had "saved 500 gallons by
keeping fifty machines in the garages"
He said the drivers were instructed to
respond only to essential business
calls. The WestcQtt Express Company
officials said forty Of their taxicabs. out
Of total of 1913 were in service.
ave have notices posted in all our
] cars" said tina apokesmau of thu conn