Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1910 — WOMEN STILL FAVOR HANSOM [ARTICLE]

WOMEN STILL FAVOR HANSOM

Americans Shopping in London Do Not Like Way Taxis Count up —Spoils Pleasure. London.—American women shopping in London this season have brought grist to the min of the needy drivers of hansoms who have been badly hit by the popularity of the taxicabs. American women have discovered that the hansom cab is the cheapest vehicle In which to go shopping. "It’s the women who want the hansoms for an hour or two’s shopping.” said a Strand hotel porter. “They kno jr where they are with a hansom; half a crown an hour Is the rate they pay. But a taxi goes flickering on twopences all the time, and it makes up at least four shillings an hour,- even while it’s standing still. The women feel the pleasure of shopping is spoilt when there is a machine outside making them pay for every second of it.”