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Show ADD HANSOM CAB TO LONDON MUSEUM London, June 15. The new London museum has shown Its enterprise by adding a hansom cab to its collection, although there are al least 400 of theso "vohlcles still in use on tho London Lon-don strcots. But the last maker of hansoms closed his doors threo years ago and the museum authorities are no doubt anticipating its rapid extinction. extinc-tion. In 1905 motor taxicabs first appeared appear-ed on the streets under the humblo title of "Clarences-Mechanical Power," Pow-er," there being 19 of them as compared com-pared with about 7,000 hansoms. In 1910 the hansoms had declined to 2,-003, 2,-003, while the taxicabs had risen to 6,397. The exact figures for today have not been compiled, but It is safe to estimate that there are at least 11,000 taxicabs to 400 hansoms, Intermittently Inter-mittently employed. Tho refusal of the hansom drivers to accept the taximeter tax-imeter acceleratod their end, for if thoy had accepted it they might have made a longer fight, as tho Paris fiacres fi-acres aro doing, Decorativoly, the London streets have lost by the passing of the hansom, han-som, for the tall, delicately poised carriage, car-riage, shiny black, with tho driver commanding cab and horse from his lofty seat and with the slender whip rising abovo all, was an outstanding picture of London traffic, |