An Enemy to Society a Romance of New York of Yesterday And to Day
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Of art, music, and literature, he was still as igno- rant as he had ever been. IJis personal tastes were still those of the middle classes, with the exception of a recently developed hobby for carved jewels. Some one had per- suaded him to build a great country house in Westchester 176 AN ENEMY TO SOCIETY County, but he used it only when he wished to golf; his city home was still the old Janissary house on lower Fifth Avenue. When Canby Kernahan first read the story of John Gra- ham's fight in ...the Council, it had never occurred to him that, at the end of the long coil of corruption, he was going to find Amalgamated Securities. The story, in itself, was big enough without springing from so gigantic a root. "Before the street railways were amalgamated under one head, " his city editor had told him, "there was a surface car that ran along Broadway from Bowling Green out to Harlem. But the minute all of them got together, it was arranged to take this line off, and pretend that there were two rival companies, so that the Broadway cars ran out Seventh Avenue to Fifty-third Street, then into Sixth Avenue and so on and so on; so that if you wanted to ride out Broadway farther than Forty-seventh Street you had to pay two fares.
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