Lands of the slave and the free: or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada . oof, with a noose in the end, which Jehu puts on his one wishing to alight pulls the strap ; Jehu stops ; and,poking his nose to a pigeon-hole place in the roof, takes thesilver fare ; and, slipping the noose, the door is open to thehuman fare. Doubtless, this effects a very great saving,and dispensing with a cad in this country might enable thefares to be lowered; but I question if there be not very manyobjections to our adopting the plan; and I should miss verymuch that personification of pertness and civilit
Lands of the slave and the free: or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada . oof, with a noose in the end, which Jehu puts on his one wishing to alight pulls the strap ; Jehu stops ; and,poking his nose to a pigeon-hole place in the roof, takes thesilver fare ; and, slipping the noose, the door is open to thehuman fare. Doubtless, this effects a very great saving,and dispensing with a cad in this country might enable thefares to be lowered; but I question if there be not very manyobjections to our adopting the plan; and I should miss verymuch that personification of pertness and civility, with hisinquisitive eye, and the eccentric and perpetual gyrations ofhis fore finger, which ever and anon stiffens in a skywardpoint, as though under the magic influence of some unseenelectro-biologist whose decree had gone forth— You cantmove your finger, sir, you cant; no, you cant. I have onlyone grudge against the omnibuses in New York—and that is,their monopoly of Broadway, which would really have a veryfine and imposing appearance were it not for them: they. TOWN RAILWAY. 27 destroy all tlie effect, and you gradually begin to think it isthe Strand grown wider, despite of the magnificent palaces,hotels, &c, which adorn it on each side. The last means of conveyance to be mentioned is the rail-way carriage, which—the city being built on a perfect fiat—is admirably adapted for locomotion. The rails are laid downin a broad avenue on each side of Broadway, and the cars aredrawn by horses, some two, some four. Those that are usedfor the simple town business have only two horses, and willhold about twenty-four passengers ; the others run from thelower end of the town to a place where the engine is waitingfor them outside. The town railway-car may be called a longomnibus, low on the wheels, broad, airy, and clean inside, andexcessively convenient for getting in and out. There is abreak at both ends, one under the charge of Jehu, the otherunder the charge of the guard; s
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