000			01699nab a2200229 4500
999			_c11075 _d11075
003			OSt
005			20201228172301.0
007			cr aa aaaaa
008			201228b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
100			_a Anderson, Donald N. _936020
245			_a“Reconstructing the Jehus”: How the Telegraph Tamed “the Hack Nuisance” in San Francisco
260			_bSage, _c2019.
300			_aVol 45, Issue 2, 2019 (265-278 p.)
520			_aIn the late 1870s, the American District Telegraph (ADT) in San Francisco introduced an intra-urban telegraph network, marketed to businesses and upper-class homes. Subscribers, needing no knowledge of telegraphy, used dial-to-order preset services, such as messengers, police, and coal delivery. One of the service’s most noted innovations was the ability to summon hired carriages through the call box. To provide hack service through its network, the ADT bought up many of the city’s carriages and consolidated them into the United Carriage Company (UCC), one of the first dispatch-oriented cab fleets anywhere. By controlling cab dispatch, the UCC also promised to reform the unruly occupation of hackdrivers. Although the telegraph box was soon supplanted by the telephone, it had put in motion a reorganization of the city’s cab industry, which quickly became intricated with the politics of class and control in public space.
650			_aurban transportation, _936021
650			_a hacks and hackmen, _936022
650			_a American District Telegraph, _936023
650			_a San Francisco _936024
773	0		_011044 _915476 _dSage, 2019. _tJournal of urban history
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0096144218766017
942			_2ddc _cART