wealthy brothers, S. W. and S. M. Andrews. One of the Andrews brothers was active into the early 1880s. Drivers claimed he had a net worth of $4 million but that he kept an eye on the buses to make sure not one nickel was stolen. He would wait for the last bus to check in around 1:00 a m and oversee the counting of the day’s receipts. Any driver who was short would be docked 50 cents for each missing nickel. The drivers had a special hand signal they would flash to buses passing in the opposite direction to indi- cate that the boss was out spotting. Francis A. Palmer, a bank president, controlled the Broadway line, and was apparently content to stay in his office and allow his drivers to work in peace. Efforts to replace this busy line with
