Broadway!Was it possible?The change was absolutely appalling!In place of the roaring thoroughfare that I had known,this silent,moss- grown desolation 16.Great buildings had fallen into ruin.The place was soundless.Not a vehicle moved. There were no wires overhead-no sound of life or movement except,here and there, there passed slowly to and fro(7)human figures dressed in the same asbestos clothes as my acquaintance 18,with the same hairless faces,and the same look of infinite age upon them. Broadway! Was it possible? The change was absolutely appalling! In place of the roaring thoroughfare that I had known, this silent，moss— grown desolation(16). Great buildings had fallen into ruin．The place was soundless. Not a vehicle moved. There were no wires overhead—no sound of life or movement except, here and there, there passed slowly to and fro(17) human figures dressed in the same asbestos clothes as my acquaintance(18), with the same hairless faces, and the same look of infinite age upon them