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Whiz & Whir. Harper's, like everyone else, was amazed that in the new Pullman car "you converse as you would in your parlor at home." By 1896, it somewhat sadly admitted that progress and speed were everywhere and "the hum of the trolley is in the air ... we can only have peace by moving on with the whirring, whizzing world...
...Tuesday morning I entered the city from the southwest up Mapo Boulevard. Three months ago Mapo was a bustling, cheerful sycamore-lined thoroughfare with a doubletrack trolley, grocery, wine and tea shops and a sprinkling of residences. This morning Mapo wore a different look. The burned and blackened remains of the boulevard's shops and homes sent clouds of acrid smoke billowing over the city. Buildings still ablaze showered sparks and ashes high into the air to cascade down on red-eyed, soot-faced marines...
Twenty people were injured in the Square yesterday--six, seriously--when an old type trolley crashed into a trackless trolley standing in the underground Metropolitan Transit Authority station...
...crash occurred during the morning rush while passengers were boarding the trackless trolley. They old trolley, coming from Watertown, bumped into the rear of the standing...
...fleet of 33 fire trucks converged, sirens moaning, on the burning wrecks. By the time they got there, flame was shooting 300 feet into the air and heat was melting overhead trolley wires, and turning the asphalt paving to lava. Five nearby houses and buildings were on fire. There was nothing to do but pump in water and chemicals, clear the buildings-and wait...