They soon found themselves in Montgomery Street, where a great crowd was collected; the side-walks, street,
horsecar rails, the shop-doors, the windows of the houses, and even the roofs, were full of people.
Two input prices are employed, the daily wage of
horsecar drivers (standardized to a 10 hour day), and the per bushel price of oats (horse feed).
During these trips, members often travelled by 'wagonette' --a small
horsecar with springs and a wooden, bench-type seat--or by motor omnibus, an early version of modern buses.
His social life revolved around his friendships with Peter Doyle, a
horsecar conductor who may have been his lover; Charley Eldridge, his former publisher (1860 Leaves of Grass) and a Treasury Department attorney; naturalist John Burroughs and his wife Ursula; and writer and Federal clerk William O'Connor and his wife Ellen, abolitionists and advocates for the rights of freedmen and champions of Whitman's poems.
Street car #594 ended an era which began in 1891." A part of the anniversary was the publication of a 48-page book, written by Stephen Carlson and Tom Harding, which traces the history, in word and photos, of transportation in the Worcester area from the early
horsecar days to the end at 1.36 a.m.
The authors note, "It]he
horsecar clearly transformed the meaning of urban space and advanced the process by which the compact walking city became the extended network city" (p.
Let the expression be the least thing in the world--speaking genially to one's aunt, or giving up one's seat in a
horsecar, if nothing more heroic offers--but let it not fail to take place" (63).
The index is only six pages and gives access largely by location, though a few topical terms appear:
horsecar, lighting, brakes, cable railways.
In 1880,
horsecar lines were operating in every U.S.
is reported to have said, "a crowded Cambridge
horsecar is the
century with the introduction of the
horsecar railway, which allowed
Don't miss the
horsecar fide by moonlight, the sunset on Glacier 3000.