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Last month Editor Hugh Alwyn Inness Brown of Taxi Weekly, Manhattan, returned from a business trip, was greeted by a process server, shown a copy of the paper published in his absence. Pop-eyed with amazement Editor Brown flipped pages to "The 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...
...Brown pocketed the summons, to answer one Herbert T. Darling's $50,000 libel suit, no less distressed by his paper's breach of etiquet than by the fact that the "meanest" rider was not Mr. Darling but a man employed at the same address. Last week Taxi Weekly printed a lengthy retraction and apology, but despite the good-natured advice of the court, Mr. Darling continued his suit, which pends...
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...
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...
Public stands, on the other hand, frequented by independents and small operators, are confined by law to corners ''where they will be out of traffic and of greatest service to the public." To taxi men this law merely defines an unprofitable place to park. They yearn for stands in front of the Paramount and Lafayette theatres after the midnight show break, Small's and Connie's Inn (Harlem night clubs) after 2.30 a.m., and lower Fifth Ave., but at no such spots are public stands allowed. Enterprising independents instruct their drivers how to creep...