Word: hackmen
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President Edsel B. Ford of the Ford Motor Co. designed a taxicab, putting on wire wheels, a clock, four doors & an Ustco taximeter; called the whole, logically enough, a "Luxford." Hackmen saw it in Manhattan, ordered 300 the first week, without knowing the price or the delivery date. The Taxi Weekly, house organ of the cab profession, describes the Luxford thus...
...pages in the Taxi Weekly are a power for good conduct among Manhattan cabbies, tabulating penalties meted out in the city's special Hack Bureau to perpetrators of prevalent hackmen's peccadillos: driving "with the flag up" (metre not recording); taking indirect routes; smoking while carrying passengers; withholding receipts from employers; forgetting license badge; charging an Englishman who undervalued U. S. currency $14 for a $1.40 ride...
...into Memorial, and the crowding and jostling, almost make us fancy that we are in a railroad station. Sometimes the student actually has to shove his way through the crowd, while the boys are thrusting papers in his very face, as if he were escaping from a swarm of hackmen. Will not some one inform these irrepressible youngsters that there must be better order and less noise...
...muslin, from whence floated the music of Wheeler and Wilson's" - sewing machine, we read it first, but it turned out to be a band, - presumably a full brass band. The "elite" and "chaperones," we are told, were all present, and, almost in the same breath, are mentioned the hackmen, florists, and opera-house and hotel managers. These stood outside the gate and "rubbed their hands with glee as the lucre rolled in." What depth of expression and of insight into human nature is here expressed. A poor, common-place mortal would have supposed those hackmen were rubbing their hands...
...parts of New England, and the wealth and beauty of Boston, were present. The music was superb. A large number of Harvard students were present, who, departing from the building, marched down Huntington avenue, making the morn resound with college songs, which contrasted well with the shouts of hackmen and the rumbling of passing carriages. The ball ended at an early hour this morning, and was pronounced by all a magnificent success...