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Show 3 Tho London. OaTt w To Uie public vehicles ',0 attached machines thatjjj register the distance youjj and the fare that, you .61 A contrivance like that idjg methodical and precise for character. In .London youl distance. The " consequencl cabby is habitually oveji anybody going out to ding theater or returning homej thinks of handing to the8 his legal fare. In anyJ when you are not quite sui tance, the almost unlverss to add sixpence or a stil statutory sum. IB And yet with all this thai od depression In the cabc serious possibility of sJ main reasons are given M Ono is the growth of coq other Is the fact that tn many cabs on the streets? Two-penny Tube, electrlc.si increasing use of teleph'o'ni sion of the district mess! have all hit the cabby ; And then, again, even support the enormous soms and four-wheelers i&i There are today some'J drivers, 7S0O hansoms, .'f four-wheelers. Of these pj driven by the men who own 3000 are "privileged" thafcfl stead of plying the streets) pay a small sum per weekH companies for permission! their stand In the depots the railway trafllc. A caJj has placed tho number of J sufficient for London's more than 2000 loss thanji In business at the presw Sydney Brooks In Harper's |