CHAPTER XI

The Second Tree § I Broadway was a wedge of cabs and cars heading from hotels and restaurants toward theatres. Fifth Avenue was nearly as bad. Sixth Avenue, as the most congested artery serving the heart of the city, presented a solid mass of vehicles, since the New York taxi driver will go many miles out of his way for the mere joy of finding himself jammed in this impassable thoroughfare. A cloudless summer sky glowed as the skies glow above Stromboli or Vesuvius in eruption. Fro…