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Updated: September 21, 2025
"Where did you leave the young lady?" he asked the chauffeur. "In Broadway, sir. She left me and boarded a cross-town car." Quest nodded approvingly. "No finesse," he sighed.
And break of day impended visibly in grayish shades that stole westward through the cross-town streets like clouds of secret agents spying out the city against invasion by the serried lances of the sun. A garish twilight washed Forty-second Street from wall to wall by the time the car swung round in front of the Knickerbocker.
"If you were George Dewey himself," was the reply, "you shouldn't get by here without the pass-word." We bid adieu to our poetical conductor, take a cross-town car, and are presently pushing at the revolving doors a draught-excluding plate-glass turn-stile of a vast red-brick hotel, luxurious and labyrinthine.
He folded his arms and began to review in cold blood the circumstances which had led to his present situation in a cross-town car.
Some of the cross-town cars were beginning to run again, with a policeman on the rear of each; on the Third Avenge line, operated by non-union men, who had not struck, there were two policemen beside the driver of every car, and two beside the conductor, to protect them from the strikers. But there were no strikers in sight, and on Second Avenue they stood quietly about in groups on the corners.
We left our belongings in our state coach and started for that stroll in Spain which I have measured as two up-town blocks, by what I think a pretty accurate guess; two cross-town blocks I am sure it was not. It was a mean-looking street, unswept and otherwise unkempt, with the usual yellowish or grayish buildings, rather low and rather new, as if prompted by a mistaken modern enterprise.
Silence, which he felt was as hard for them as for him, lasted until they were at the entrance to the quiet little hotel on a cross-town street where the Ewolds were staying; and having the first glimpse of Mary's eyes since they had started, he found nothing fathomable in them except unmistakable relief that the walk was over. "Thank you for showing me the Velasquez," said the Doge.
We were standing on the corner of Lexington Avenue and a cross-town thoroughfare, and ever after must that spot remain in my mind as the actual turning-point of my fortunes indeed, the very turning-point of my whole life.
On account of the extent of the work embraced in this contract, and the dangerous exposure to compressed air required in most of it, it was divided into three residencies; two of these, including also the cross-town tunnels, have been described; the third, with S. H. Woodard, M. Am. Soc.
Didn't I reveal to you that a big straw hat and a pretty summer gown " "Confound it!" almost shouted Smith, "There are about five thousand cherry-colored cross-town cars in this town. There are about five million white hats and dresses in this borough. There are five billion girls wearing 'em !" "Yes; but the wicker basket" breathed Brown.
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