From a delightful book,
The Englishwoman in America, copyright 1865, and written by eyewitness Isabella Bird:
Regarding Broadway in NYC, 1854:
"There are streams of scarlet and yellow omnibuses racing in the more open parts and locking each other's wheels in the narrower - there are helpless females deposited in the middle of a sea of slippery mud, condemened to run a gaunlet between cartwheels and horses' hoofs - there are loaded stages hastening to and from the huge hotels - carts and waggons laden with merchandise - and "Young Americans" driving fast-trotting horses, edging in and out among the crowd- wheels are locked, horses tumble down, and persons pressed for time are distracted. Occasionally, the whole traffic of the street comes to a dead-lock, in consequence of some obstruction or crowd, there being no policeman at hand with his incessant command, "
Move on!" "
^..^ Julie
