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Show PASSENGER TRAFFiG ' BY MAT WES "The taxi business, did you say?" remarked J. Y. Rockefeller of the M-TaxJ M-TaxJ company yesterday. "Well, it oc curs to me that In this era of good roads and rather cramped railroad facilities fa-cilities the motor vehicle -for passen ger transportation is inevitably coming i to ho forefront. "Traveling in a comfortably arrant-. ed auto car, closed in the winter sea son and open In the summer time, Is as pleasant and accommodating as traieling in an electric or steam pro-l pelled car, the motor car having an advantage over the other cars from thel fact that it needs no rails upon which to go and it may be readily driven lo any tection of the country, over highways high-ways and byways, starting on the passenger's pas-senger's own schedule and returning at Mveir own convenience. "To say, as some do, that the taxi is going to entirely supplant other mepns of traveling is going too far, in my estimation, but it is very certain cer-tain that the motor-propelled car for passenger traffic, as well as for freight purposes, lias a place of no mean im-porlanct im-porlanct on the traveler's map. These passenger autos. under modern ar-j raugementB, are pleasant vehicles in which to ride and, with careful drivers' at the wheels, are perfectly safe au-topiobile au-topiobile accidents are being minimized minimiz-ed to an interesting extent. I think! the time is not far distant, if, indeed, it b nol already here, when people will travel more in automobiles than, in electric and steam cars, especially over short distances. "The taxicab Is not the rival of othe-mean? othe-mean? of travel but it Is co-operatIv and will eventually take care of thci superenumerated public The railroads rail-roads can no longer handle all of the' pasrengcr traffic and they need the help of the motor car that there maj bo no stagnation. "Mind you, 1 have said nothing ofi the flying machine, which is Deing demonstrated as a feasible medium for, carrying passengers. This airship wi!l ' no doubt .form an important part, some' day. in making up transpoj tation fa cililies for the country, but it deserves! no special consideration at this time! on that score; it has not yet even' been perfected to the point of suffi-' clot-' capacity and safoty. However. I wo'ild not ob.ect to taking a sail dt one-of one-of 'l eni." I nn I |