Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1882 — Hansom Cabs in Philadelphia. [ARTICLE]

Hansom Cabs in Philadelphia.

The liackmen of Philadelphia are distressed by the announcement that within a month the Pennsylvania Railway Company will exclude them from their Broad street station, inside which twenty hansom cabs and ten “fourwheelers,” owned by the company, will have places. The vehicles are nearly completed and after English models. Seventy horses have been purchased in Michigan to draw them, and the horses and vehicles will be let to reputable drivers at a fixed price per day, the rate of fare being also prescribed by the company. The price for » hansom cab holding two persons will be 25 cents for a mile and a half or less, and 20 cents for each additional mile or fraction thereof. The charge per hour will be 65 cents. The price for the “fourwheelers” will be 35 cents for a mile and a half or less, and 20 cents for each additional mile or fraction thereof. The charge for a trunk will be 10 cents, and for each valise 5 oents. Persons can carry hand-baggage free in hansoms. The chief purpose of the vehicles is to convey passengers from the station to their homes, but they will also carry to the station all 'persons who hail them while returning.