There, from one side started the cars for Boston, and from the other, the cars for Albany.

Cars, not trains, for horses were the motive power as far as Thirty-second Street.

There engines were attached in the open street.

Later, the horses ran through the tunnel as far as Forty-second Street where the Grand Central Station now stands.

In the Square the Worth Monument had been erected in 1857, and on the east side of the park, then enclosed by a high railing, was the brown church which dated from 1854.