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...manage prizefighters, pick losers at racetracks, lose his job when his paper went into a merger. Then he became an automobile salesman with his sporting friends his best customers. He entered the taxicab business when he turned four old trade-ins into hacks. Cabstands were located at hotels, and cabmen paid hotel-operators large concessions. Mr. Hertz took his cabs away from the hotels, cruised them around the streets, painted them yellow, cut fares from 40? to 20? a mile. He organized additional Yellow Cab companies, at one time controlled 95% of U. S. cabs outside New York. He also...
...Cabmen who motored Carl Rettich around Providence, R. I. thought he was a rich doctor or lawyer. He was a personable man-tall, robust, black-haired, elegantly dressed. Only his eyes, cold and unsmiling as a cat's, were discomforting. But most of downtown Providence thought him a "swell fellow." He had a fine seashore house on nearby Warwick Neck, a spacious Dutch Colonial mansion with weather-stained shingles and white columns only a field away from the estate of Rhode Island's rich U. S. Senator Peter Goelet Gerry. Also nearby was the swank yacht-going Warwick...
...Walker to the case of a Jewish driver who had been deprived of his license for refusing to pick up a passenger on Yom Kippur Eve. A two-year battle with the police department forced the opening of "star chamber" hearings of drivers, stamped out police practices by which cabmen had paid $1,000,000 a year petty graft. The paper has provided free counsel for cabmen, maintains gratis a "bureau of fair play" to collect fares for trusting drivers who fall victim to ruses. It is a sworn enemy of all "rackets." It also aspires to be a "friendly...
...Editor. New York cabmen, particularly when in trouble, confide in scholarly, cultured, big-framed Editor Brown. The windowless office adjoining the littered pressroom in the basement of an uptown apartment house has been sanctuary for many a strange confession. But certain it is that Editor Brown never returned the confidence by pointing to his own name (formerly hyphenated Inness-Brown) in New York's Social Register. A graduate and medalist of University of Virginia where he edited the student paper, he drove an ambulance in France in 1916, later joined the ist Division, A. E. F., emerged...
Familiar to Manhattanites, cherished by them, is the bouncing, bumping, jolting but economical 15 & 5 taxi (15? the first quarter mile, 5? further quarter miles). This landmark was last week fated to disappear. For cabmen, already handicapped by an increase in cab insurance, found themselves faced with the additional hazard of a gasoline tax. It therefore appeared probable that cab rates would jump from 30? to 35? for the first mile, from 20?to 30? for succeeding miles. Thus a five mile taxi rider would forfeit $1.55 instead...