Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-12-21 | Page 14 | Purchase Meeking Taxicab Business

PURCHASE MEEHG . TAXICABJUSIIMESS L S Manger, Will Browne and Howard H Hays to Entertain Tourists. OWN ALLIED CONCERNS Sightseeing, Transfer antl Automobile Stands Nov Under One Management Abe Mee kings Utah Auto & Tarfcab company changed handa yesterday a ton tro ng in erest n the concern having been bough by L S Marlger Will Browne and Howard H. Hays Th own ers w 1 take o er the company today Mr Marigpr s president and manager and M B owne is secretary and treas urer of the Sa t Lake S ghtseeing com pany n which Mr Hays, who is general tourist aent of he Wylie Way company of Ye owstone park is also Interest-Together Interest-Together hey control the Salt Lalt LI ery &, Transfer company They will make the taxi company auxiliary to their othr companies By the transaction, the terms of which were not made publ c, Mr Meeting re ta ns an nte est n the taxi company -t wi 1 not be actively connected with it Glen Q Sm th manager of the Salt Lake Livery & T an fer company will be man age Mr Meeting's business plans hare not been announced. Believes in Salt Lake (- Mr Hajs will be active in the taxi concern and the associated companies henceforth and win make this city his permanent home Up to this time he has lived here only during the Yellow stone park season With reference to the purchase of the taxi cab business, Mr Hays said j I have been oer this country from one end to another a great many times and I have picked Salt Lake as m home town. Fve traveled 11. 000 miles since October 1 E ery jear in connection with my Yellow-none park bus ness, I go from one end of the land o the othe but I have seen no place I like as well as this c t I am n estin my monej here because 1 know that Salt Lake will make good. While I will retain my connection with the Wylie company I expect to be active in the taxi company and th4 assoc a ted concerns I expect to spend more time here and this city will be my home. We are go ng to advertise Salt Lake City nationally as a tourist center We are going to work to Induce tour ists to tay here several davs or a week or more, and have something to show them every minute of the time This Is the end we wi be working for Then the tourist traffic will mean more to this c ty The hotels and everybody who has an i thing to sell will be benefited, as well as our companies. A Tourist Center In purchasing control of Mr Meek ings company my associates and I felt that the transfer and livery bx.. ness and, In a sene the sighiseeie bus nes were re a ed. Mr Meeking d in ix years has bu up a fine taxi " ne with twent e gh high power cars, and with stands at the Hotel L ah and he Newhoue hotel and traffic arraneemen s wilh the o her hotels. We take o er that buses at o ce and will make such Improve ments as wll be neceary with the growth of this citr as a tourist center and gateway to the YeUownone This deal has been pending since Mr Ha s s return from the east about a wee, aeo o new officers of the taxicab com pan ha e been ele ed as yet-All yet-All he pa ties o the sale are well known n business circles. Mr Marlger has been the acti e man of the eaghtsee ng companv for se eral years. Mr Browne was formerlv auditor of the Utah Light & Railway comoany having been brought here by the Harriman interests. M Hays 1 as a wide local acquaints e and is known among railroad and reso t men throughout the ountrv