Besides, it tells you everything.

Horse-racing, baseball, steamers, births, deaths, and marriages; corn, wheat, tobacco, and cotton.

Nobody can live here without a ticker." And after this they went out into the street again, and Mr.Scratch took off his hat to Claudius, which is the highest token of unusual esteem and respect of which "the street" is capable, and in a moment the heels of his boots were seen disappearing into the dense crowd.

Claudius and Barker walked on, and crossed Broadway; a few steps farther, and the Doctor was brought face to face with the triumph of business over privacy--the elevated railway.

He had caught a glimpse of portions of it in the morning, but had supposed the beams and trestles to be scaffoldings for buildings.