So we are to have thesixpenny cab fares after all! The matter has been talked of for a long time but it now appears that it is to bocomea fact. The London Cab Associntion with a capital of £690,000, 10,000 horses and 6,000 employes, including stableman and farriers, sounds like business, and the Company exists. The men are to be paid wages varying from 36s. to 42s. a week for tivelve hours' work per diem. They will be provided with tickets which the passengers will purchase from them on the same system as is at present in vogue on omnibuses. It is proposed that books of tickets at half a should be for sale at hotels. Only union ninon and a guinea, less about 74 per cent, men are to be employed and railway cabs are not to be included, The scheme which has taken the association two years to work out seems so good that it is to be hoped it may succeed; once it does I suppose ordinary cabs will reduce their fares to sixpence for any less distance than a mile, a concession that it would have been to their advantage to have made years ago.
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