midday
Mr. Searles , we will try to use the afternoon for your pleasure . Driver , please take us to the Windsor Hotel , via the Produce Exchange . '' The colonel having left the Waldorf did not wish , under the circumstances , again to enter his name on its register . The ride down West Street , New York , at midday , is anything but enjoyable , as few thoroughfares are more crowded with every kind of vehicle conveying merchandise from ship to warehouse , and from warehouse to ship and cars . However , the ride impressed Searles with the immensity of the trade of the metropolis . West Street leads to Battery Park , the Produce , and Stock Exchanges , which Colonel Harris desired Mr. Searles and his daughter Gertrude to see in the busy part of the day . Colonel Harris explained that here in Battery Park terminated the Metropolitan Elevated Railway .