Iron County Record | 1936-04-30 | Page 3 | Taxis Replace Old Charries as Vehicles in Holy City

Taxis Replace Old as Vehicles in Holy City The last Il of or Jerusalem's Jerusalem's famous fleet neet of ramshackle open hor horse e drawn cabs has been relegated to the Junk heap In tn their place modern taxicabs will con convey VI the citizens of nf Jerusalem and iS visitors tip up and down I wn the precipitous slopes of the Holy City Practically every ery visitor to JeruSalem Jerusalem Jeru salem u used eil to take at Rt least leut one drive drle In one of these hor horse e cat cab or ghar rice ries They seemed as 81 typically a 11 apart apart part of the Jerusalem scene as gondolas gon Kon dolas In Venice or In Shane Shane- hat bal Unfortunately for the cab drivers however ye the steep city CUl streets recently re re- Gently were ere asphalted for tor the benefit benent of ot automobile traffic As a It result the cab cah horses bors s continually slipped supped nn ant l fell Th lh Society for the Prevention of ot Cruelty to Animals Intervened and made representations to the gov govern government rn ment bent resulting In the withdrawal of horse drawn cabs cab from the streets str ts