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...Hertz's Horses...
Screaming their mad cries in the streets of great U. S. cities, swooping, circling in angry and despairing arcs, manned by a rude, desperate soldiery, taxicabs are to be seen, making indirect money for their inventor, John Hertz. With this money John Hertz, propelled by the gracious irony which controls the careers of capitalists, buys himself horses. Some of the horses he gives to his wife, a lady Republican of note; he keeps them in his Leona Stables, at Gary...
...rapidly; and it was in Chicago last week that Yellow cabs waged with their rivals. Checker cabs, a fierce, fantastic warfare. The cause of the war was of course to be found in business and labor rivalries. The Yellow cabs belong to the Yellow Cab Co., of which Mr. Hertz is president; it employs drivers, giving them a percentage of their cab earnings. Oldest in Chicago, it has the best and most numerous stands. The Checker Cab Co. is newer, has poorer stands; it leases its machines to drivers, who are unionized (Chicago Yellow drivers are not); the drivers must...
Reigh Count, a speedy racehorse belonging to Mrs. John D. Hertz, was ridden from New York to Chicago in 20 hr. and 50 min.-in a private car attached to the Panhandle Express of the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...leading. The first time the field passed the stand Reigh Count was in the little group that had been forced to the front. At the eighth pole Misstep still led the wafting line of color moving through the grey air opposite the stands. In her box Mrs. John Hertz of Chicago, owner of Reigh Count, stood with the tears running down her face watching the yellow shirt of her jockey, Chick Lang. As the horses moved into the turn Reigh Count swung out wide around Misstep, then pulled away to win. Toro was third and the rest of the field...