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Above: Horse cab drivers presented a formidable target for robbers. Below: Also, horse cabs made so little money that they weren't worth the risk of robbing. Here William H. Lake, a Chicago grain dealer, pays his cab fare with a coin.

Source: Top: Livery drivers' strike [1903], man driving a horse drawn carriage with a sign about the strike on the side of the carriage seat. (DN-0001719, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum. Bottom: W. H. Lake paying a cab driver sitting in his horse drawn carriage (DN-0008289, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum). (Search the photo ID numbers at the American Memory web site for more information.)