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Although ailing of late years and compelled to use a cane, Amy Leslie still bristles with nervous energy. She appears at first nights gowned in brilliant reds and greens, frills and feathers. Her critiques can still be as caustic as complimentary. She travels only in taxicabs, often taking the cab driver in with her when an important purchase is to be made. She admits any age up to 85. Although she is reluctant to discuss her history prior to the publication of her forthcoming memoirs, these facts are known of the life & times of Amy Leslie: She was born...
...Coffee Pot," a colyum conducted by Hackman Otto Lewis. This is what he read: "The MEANEST RIDER! He rides from Jackson Heights to 52d street & 6th Ave. Just an old grouch as mean as he looks and he looks terrible. Grumbles from the minute he enters your cab until he pays you the exact fare. . . ." And so on for six lacerating paragraphs to the conclusion: "The name of the man who has the somewhat dubious reputation of being . . . the world's worst rider, is Darling...
Mortified though he might be, Editor Brown of Taxi Weekly had many a more pressing matter to demand his time and energy. As champion of Manhattan's taxi industry he had to keep vigorously alive Taxi Weekly's battle for limitation of cab licenses, for higher rates.* He had to keep a critical eye upon efforts of various agencies to "organize" the city's taximen. He had to maintain his perpetual guard against unfair treatment of drivers by police. Most difficult and important of all, he had to continue striving to hold the confidence of four conflicting...
...Virginia where he edited the student paper, he drove an ambulance in France in 1916, later joined the ist Division, A. E. F., emerged as a captain with a Croix de Guerre, six citations, and a wound from the Argonne. Later he was advertising manager of Mogul Checker Cab Co., published its house organ until the company crumbled under the strain of lowered fares. Five years ago he started Taxi Weekly against a local field of seven monthly trade papers. Only one competitor. Taxi News, survives, and it is a fortnightly. Taxi Weekly "turned the corner...
Very confusing are the ways of the taxi industry in New York. Hack stands are divided into private concessions and public stands. The former on private property (railroad terminals, ferry terminals, shipping piers) are leased to low-bidding cab companies. Most of the large private concessions in the city are shared by Yellow and Terminal-not amicably. To the Furness-Bermuda Line dock, from which Terminal Cab has been temporarily ousted, Yellow sends 120 cabs, uses about 90, to discharge a passenger list...