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Show HORSE CABS IN NEW YORK. The nation's metropolis seems to be the first to take up new things and the last to discard the old. It .is said that New York was the last city to entirely do away with horse-drawn I street cars, and a recent writer states that there are still 27 horse-drawn cabs in the big town. He names Benjamin Solomon, now old and bent, as dean of the surviving Fifth Avenue cabbies. Among his customers cus-tomers were the one-time world's champion heavy-weights, Sullivan, Corbett and Fitzsimmons. Solomon has driven a cab since he was 18 and his father was a cabman before him. But Solomon's son drives a motor j taxicab. It is just 100 years since J. A. Han-1 som introduced the vehicle which af-1 terwards became known as the "Han-1 i , som Cab," for the patents on which he is said to have received $50,000, a ' tidy fortune in those days. In much j less than a century from now many of the marvels of the present will be as I obsolete as the once popular "Hansom Cab." |