A decade later D&H began buying fast, high-horsepower locomotives in the interest of lucrative bridge-route traffic.

[I]t [opium] is a double-edged sword, a divine gift in the hands of a master, a poison in those of a mere routinist—a medicaster—a demi-physician.

Moran, picking up what Jennings is putting down, agrees.

I looked to the right, where velocipedes with huge art-nouveau wheels and draisiennes with their flat, scooterlike bars evoked gentlemen in stovepipe hats, knights of progress pedaling through the Bois de Boulogne.