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rush-hour service, but the Commission
ers and Police Supt. HesSe denied that
they proposed to interfere in any way
as long as the taxi operators comply
with the law. The Commissioners and
Mai Hesse take the position that the
entire matter is one properly for the
Public Utilities Commission to handle.
In order to avoid possible police in
reference. Davis has given careful in
struction to the drivers to obey all traf-
flc regulations and not to pick up any
passengers along the routes. but TO
carry only those persons who enter the
cabs at the legally constituted hack
stands from which the cabs will start
on their journey to the Government de-
partments.
The 100 cabs which Davis plans TO
put into the rush-hour service at the
outset are the best of the $40 available.
Some he describes as taxis de luxe.
Designation signs have been printed
and distributed for display on the front
of the cabs. In addition to the desig-
nation they also announce IN letters
of corresponding size that the fare Is
10 cents.
Davis proposes to start the cabs from
10 designated points. They Will oper-
ate one hour only each day, between
8 and 9 am, on the l0-cent fat rate
basis. The points from which the CABS
will leave and their destinations follow;
Seventh and H streets northeast to
the Treasury.
First and B streets southeast to the
Treasury.
Seventh street and Florida avenue to
Capnnff aud n xfraofc enaYfhucet
Fourteenth street and Park road to
the District Building.
Fourteenth and v streets to the Bu-
reau of Engraving and Printing.
Sixteenth street and Columbia road
to Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue.
Sixteenth and U streets to the Navy
Building.
Dupont Circle to Twenty-first and B
streets.
Twenty-second street and PennSyl-
vania avenue to the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing
Connecticut and Florida avenues to
Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue.
Eighteenth street and Columbia road
to Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue.
Eighteenth street and Florida avenue
to the Navy Building
Even though the independents sue
coed in operating the rush hour service
without its formal approval. Utilities
Commission attaches predict that 1t will
be an improbable venture and soon
abandoned 1t has been figured that
should each of the cabs carry a full
capacity of five passengers on each trip,
for total fare of so cents. they will
suffer a potential loss of Is cents, as
the meter fare between most of the
points TO be covered would amount to
rs cents a trip.
For this reason chiefly. 1t is said. the
Black and White and Yellow Taxicab
companies are not planning to join with
the independents In running special
rush hour service. Officials of these
companies have so advised Earl v.
Fisher. executive secretary Of the COM
mission.
No other city In the United States
with the possible exception Of Column
bus, Ohio, has q fiat-rate taxi service
such as the independent operators have
planned to establish, according to
records In the Utilities Commission.
In Columbus the taxis operate within
q zone with a radius of six miles for
a fat fare of IS cents, but this service
Is not confined to any particular
period