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opens for a moment, and in lie goes. Oddly enough, the policeman 

 always happens to be looking in the opposite direction, so that 

 Sunday is a profitable day with the force. The police, however, 

 dare not go into , a bar themselves. So, when relieved, they go in 

 the ferry-boat across the Hudson into New Jersey, where the pro- 

 hibition law is not in force. 



One very neat dodge was discovered lately. A portion of a 

 brick wall was taken out, and replaced by a wooden door painted 

 like bricks. It was not adjoining any bar-room, so that it was not 

 suspected. But it opened into a passage which gave access to a bar 

 on the other side of the block. Everyone knows that prohibition is 

 a farce, and yet the officials are forced to make the law lest they 

 should lose the vote of the teetotallers, who are as noisy here as in 

 England. 



Returning to the above-mentioned meeting of 

 " Scientists," he goes on to say : 



In the evening I went to the meeting ; very interesting, but all 

 the describers were wretched speakers. The only good speaker was 

 the Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Trinity Church ; which reminds me that 

 the American Prayer Book is almost entirely the same as ours. The 

 Marriage Service is cut down quite three-fourths, and the Office for 

 the Visitation of the Sick is also mutilated. The Consecration 

 Prayer is essentially the same. Considering the strong Puritanical 

 influences of the place, the book is most praiseworthy Wash- 

 ington Street is all shops, and is three miles long. Most of the 

 shops are upstairs. Locomotion here is almost entirely managed by 

 "horse-cars." Cabs like ours do not exist. There are two-horse 

 carnages called " hacks," but their charges are exorbitant, i.e., two 

 shillings for the shortest distance for each person, so that four people 

 would have to pay eight shillings. Hence the horse-cars. Luggage 

 is conveyed by carriers (" express-men," they call themselves). 



They have the oddest names here. Plumbers are called " sani- 

 tary engineers " ; and a lift is an " elevator " The railway 



station is called the depot pronounced " deep-oh," and you can buy 

 railway tickets almost anywhere except at the station, and if you 

 don't want to travel you can use the ticket as cash. It looks odd to 



