Evening star., 1932-09-12
PLAN TO PARK CABS
NEAR FIRE PLUGS IS
FOUGHT AT HEARING
Debate Is Stirred by Pro.
posaI Made by Independent
Taxi Owners Official.
SEEK TO AVOID INCREASE
IN STANDS FOR HACKS
Drivers Would Be Compelled to Sit
in Cars While Waiting
Near Hydrants.

=. proposal to permit parking of taxi
ehps near IRE hydrants produced live
y debate at the public hearing today
.allea on reN cation of the Districts 72C
hack stands.
The hearing, held before the Public
Utilities Commission. was called owing
to the change in control of hack stands
from the District Commissioners to the
joint board by the recent license act
The fire hydrant proposal first was
made by Harry C. Davis Of the 1nde-
pendent Taxi Owners Association, and
was supported by H. E. Young of the
Central Business Mems Association, and
Albert w. Jacobson, representing the
City Cab Co.
Must Sit in Cars.
Under the fire hydrant plan. taxi
drivers would be compelled to sit in
theiI cabs while parked next to fire
plug so as to be able to move In
stantly in case of a fire.
Chief Engineer George S. Watson OF
the Fire Department, said this would
represent a distinct menace to fire
fighting and urged the commission not
to put it into effect Davis said that
allowing taxis to park next to fire
hydrant would obviate the necessity of
creating large number Of extra hack
stands and that it would also serve to
keep private automobiles away from
the forbidden zones.
Statistical information introduced by
Capt. Walter Dunlap, assistant en-
gineer of the commission, showed there
now are 834 street stands Of which
720 are for taxicabs, IA for sightseeing
automobiles 7 for horse drawn hacks
ani for eynroSc frIIrkS
Requests had been received before
the hearing for the creation of % new
stands and the morning session was
given over to hearing proponents of
the individual stands.
Stands Recommended.
The stands recommended are IA
Fourteenth street northeast, 1245 D
street ncrtheest. west of entrance to
Ambassador Hotel on K street west of
Fourteenth, front of Kennedy-Warren
north side CT Pennsylvania avenue east
Of Fifteenth street, west side Of Fiji
teenth street north and south Of H
street east side of Twelfth street north
of G street, east side of Second street
north of Pennsylvania avenue, east side
of Fifth street between Florida avenue
and S street, west side of Fifteenth
street south of the entrance to Colonial
Hotel, east side of Connecticut avenue
south of the Mayflower Hotel, north
side of Emerson street east of Georgia
avenue, east side of Fifth street north
east, north of Florida avenue: south
side of r street west of First street,
east side of Eighth street north of
M street, on Connecticut avenue in
frcnt of Stoneleigh Courts, south of
entrance driveway to Chastleton Hotel
south of entrance to Stoneleigh Courts,
Alabama avenue and Ainger place
southeast, north side of Belmont street
east of Fourteenth street. south side
of K street west of Ninth street, and
Florida avenue west of Eighteenth
street.
Joseph C. McGarraghy. representing
the Hotel Mems Association, will oppose
any effort to open the so-called CLOSED
stands" in front Of hotels leased by
the hotels to individual cab companies,
so as to make them public hack stands
An effort to get this business by the
taxicabs which now have no leasehold
interest adjacent to the hotels is eX-
pected to form a prominent part of the
present hearing.