The subway stairs belch a frantic crowd of wool overcoats and bobbed hair onto the damp pavement, their cloche hats casting deep shadows over their eyes like dark helmets. A young woman in a drop-waisted silk dress pauses to adjust her T-strap heels, oblivious to the newsie shouting about the city’s bursting transit lines through the autumn chill.
I adjust my lens to catch the glint of the streetlights off a dandy’s "cheaters" as he whistles a jaunty rendition of John Schonberger’s "Whispering." The silver flash of my camera pops, capturing a flickering world of beaded rayon and grit before the Sunday crowd swallows the silhouette whole.
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The Headlines
SUBWAYS' GROWTH TOLD IN STATISTICS; Increase of 325 Per Cent. in Number of Passengers Carried in 16 Years. EXCEEDS PROMOTERS' HOPES Riding Habit and City's Population Grow Faster Than Transportation Facilities.