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Once a inexhaustible inventor-millionaire Taylor Barnum came vigorous-looking man and asked for money. He offered to work in response to one and a half dollars a day, handed five bricks and gave the following country-specific directives:
One should put a brick on the sidewalk where intersects Broadway and Ann Street, the second - at the Museum of Barnum, the third - across from the museum on the corner of Broadway and Veasey Street, next to Esther House, the fourth front of the Cathedral of St. Paul, and the fifth in hands had to walk briskly from one brick to another. One place, the other brother. Each same time punch clock on St. Paul's Cathedral, followed go to a museum to show the ticket and get room for the audience. After this manipulation of the bricks were to be repeated.

The worker began his rounds, and after half an hour, five hundred people were staring at his mysterious movement.
"What is he doing? Where the bricks? Why he runs around? "- Poured in from all sides, but he remained silent. By the end of the first hour all the sidewalks were crowded with curious crowd. A worker who completed the tour, went to the museum. There he spent a quarter of an hour inspection of all rooms and returned to his bricks.

And every time he came to the museum, a lot of onlookers bought tickets and followed him in the hope to unravel the meaning of his actions. Day by day the number grew curious as to the cause not the police intervened, concerned about excessive pandemonium. "KIRPICHNIKOV" was recalled, but he and his work served as an excellent advertisement museum.

It was after this story, as claimed Taylor Barnum, Broadway became the busiest streets of New York.