240 What We Lose and Gain 



noticed. The cause is obvious. New York has 

 the dirtiest streets of any city in the world, except 

 Constantinople and Canton; and, moreover, it is 

 surrounded by oil-refineries, which sometimes for 

 days poison the whole city with the stifling fumes 

 of petroleum, so that one hardly dares to breathe 

 at all. 



