The Contributor, Vol. 14

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Excerpt from The Contributor, Vol. 14: A Monthly Magazine, December 1892The cab system is exclusively for the living. It is also divided into three classes, distinguished by little tin flags on top of the cab. First class, charging one dollar an hour, is painted blue, second, seventy-five cents, red, third, fifty cents, yellow. On finding that the cabmen's proclivity to cheat is unconquerable, even in Mexico, and that the cabmen supplied themselves with ¿ags of all three colors, the government ordered the wheels on the cabs of the respective classes to be painted to correspond with the ¿ags. This is the best remedy for the cupidity of cabmen I ever saw.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.