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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - There was unwonted bustle in the
usually sleepy and dignified New York offices of the Southern and
Transcontinental Railroad Company in lower Broadway. The
supercilious, well-groomed clerks who, on ordinary days, are far
too preoccupied with their own personal affairs to betray the
slightest interest in anything not immediately concerning them, now
condes-cended to bestir themselves and, gathered in little groups,
conversed in subdued, eager tones. The slim, nervous fingers of
half a dozen haughty stenographers, representing as many different
types of business femininity, were busily rattling the keys of
clicking typewriters, each of their owners intent on reducing with
all possible despatch the mass of letters which lay piled up in
front of her. Through the heavy plate-glass swinging doors, leading
to the elevators and thence to the street, came and went an army of
messengers and telegraph boys, noisy and insolent. Through the open
windows the hoarse shouting of news-venders, the rushing of
elevated trains, the clanging of street cars, with the occasional
feverish dash of an ambulance - all these familiar noises of a
great city had the far-away sound peculiar to top floors of the
modern sky-scraper. The day was warm and sticky, as is not uncommon
in early May, and the overcast sky and a distant rumbling of
thunder promised rain before night.
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