in britannia

Today, I think it would be appropriate to pause in rememberance of Henry Bliss, the first person in America to be killed by an automobile. It happened, where else, but in New York City, where Mr. Bliss was stepping out of a streetcar at W74th and Central Park West. As extraordinarily bad luck would have it, he was run down by an electric taxicab, the driver of which was eventually acquitted on the charge of manslaughter. That's driving in Manhattan.