Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote
To illustrate the marked atmospheric contrast between the two cities, the writer Frank Carpenter observed that in New York, a streetcar will not wait for you if you are not just at its stopping point. It goes on and you must stand there until the next car comes along. In Washington people a block away signal the cars by waving their hands or their umbrellas. Then they walk to the car at a leisurely pace, while the drivers wait patiently and the horses rest. While the capital might lack the spirit of intense energy that animated New York, Carpenter concluded that Washington, with its broad, clean streets and fine marble buildings (and its shanties generally hidden from view), offered the pleasanter place in which to live.
To illustrate the marked atmospheric contrast between the two cities, the writer Frank Carpenter observed that in New York, a streetcar will not wait for you if you are not just at its stopping point. It goes on and you must stand there until the next car comes along. In Washington people a block away signal the cars by waving their hands or their umbrellas. Then they walk to the car at a leisurely pace, while the drivers wait patiently and the horses rest. While the capital might lack the spirit of intense energy that animated New York, Carpenter concluded that Washington, with its broad, clean streets and fine marble buildings (and its shanties generally hidden from view), offered the pleasanter place in which to live.
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