Excerpt from A Confident to-Morrow: A Novel of New York Although stairways led to the ground-door of the ferry-house, the main stream of passengers swept along on the upper platform, which communicated with each of the ferry-slips. As a newspaper-man Sartain had kept up with the changes and improvements of New York, and though he had never seen a two-story fer ry-boat, he was not surprised when he beheld little drawbridges lowered at the ends of the platform on which he and his fellow-travellers were massed, so that they could cross directly to the upper deck of the boat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.