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that the name implies, the cars are short and remind me of piano boxes on wheels! The taxis are few and far between on account of shortage of petrol, and on some cars the big coal gas bag on the roof make the [[strikethrough]] c [[/strikethrough]] ^[[machine]] look like a balloon. The drivers mostly are men who are eager for tips and who smoke dirty pipes while driving their fares. Street cars do not appear on the streets till one is on the outskirts of the town (maybe that is downtown Boston's deliverance, for surely Washington Street and its narrow relatives could well afford to have the surface cars removed for all time.) All in all the 'bus lines are way ahead of our own in New York and if there were more of them I believe they'd be better than any