Excerpt from American Towns and PeopleUntil very recently it was possible to take a train from Boston to New York at a later hour than you could enter the subway and take a street-car for Cambridge - a fact which in the days before Harvard became a serious scholarly athletic college was Often taken by belated and cheerful students of that institution as a sign direct from God. The development Of what was known as the brass bed train between the two cities was evidence Of an almost exacerbated anxiety to make the night transit endurable to overwrought, quiv ering creatures returning to the shores Of Massachusetts Bay. New York's tango roofs and pleasure palaces are the constant familiar haunt Of Bostonians, yet it is never certain that the visitors are quite at their case there.Even for the larkish trip to New York they bring certain grave prejudices and scientific ideas as to hygiene, which look very Odd when unpacked in Manhattan. A Bostonian lady who was enthusiastic over New York's danc ing-in-public restaurants, asserting that at home it was difficult regularly to secure this excellent health-exercise, caused considerable confusion one new-year's Eve in a place Of entertainment where, for that evening, only champagne was being served'to patrons, by in sisting upon having certified milk, which was, she stoutly maintained, the exact thing which could, without harming her, keep her going at three in the morning!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.