Our Philadelphia . ergrown trolleysleft in the narrow streets. I am not sure that it was notthis mounted policeman—unless it was the coloured police-men and the coloured postmen—I had most difficulty ingetting accustomed to. I came upon him every day, oi-almost every hoiu, with something of a new shock. Canthis be really I, I woidd say to myself when I saw him inhis splendour, can this be really Philadelphia? IV The difference I deplored was not confined to thecrowds I did not know; it was no less marked in the peopleI did know, in their standards and outlook, in the wavthey lived. It is hard
Our Philadelphia . ergrown trolleysleft in the narrow streets. I am not sure that it was notthis mounted policeman—unless it was the coloured police-men and the coloured postmen—I had most difficulty ingetting accustomed to. I came upon him every day, oi-almost every hoiu, with something of a new shock. Canthis be really I, I woidd say to myself when I saw him inhis splendour, can this be really Philadelphia? IV The difference I deplored was not confined to thecrowds I did not know; it was no less marked in the peopleI did know, in their standards and outlook, in the wavthey lived. It is hard to say what struck me most, thoughnothing more obviously the first few days than that flightto the suburbs which had left such visible proofs as thosesigns For Rent and For Sale everywhere in thestreets where I was most at home—a flight necessitatedperhaps by the inroads of the alien, but only made possibleby the annihilation of space due to the motor-car. Once, when a Philadelphian set up a carriage, it lARKET STREKT ^^•KST OF THE SCHUYLKILL AFTER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY 493 the announcement to Philadelphia that he had earned thefifty thousand dollars which fulfilled his ideal of a my day Fairman Rogers four-in-hand was the limit,and but few Philadelphians had the money and the reck-lessness to rival him. Now the Philadelphian does nothave to earn anything at all before he sets up his motor-car, and it is the announcement of nothing except that heis bound to keep in the swim. Our children begin wherewe leave off, as one of my contemporaries said to has a motor-car. Everybody who can has onein London, I know, and there also the signs To Let and For Sale in such regions as Kensington and Bays-water have for some time back explained to me the way ithas turned London life upside down. But in Philadelphianot merely everybody who can, but everybody who canthas one, and the Philadelphian would not do without it, ifhe had to mortgage his house as i
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