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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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any. Hereare displayed nine models of their best steamers. There is a won-derful contrast between the Britannia, built in 1840, with a ton* MODEI/S EXHIBITKD BY CUNARD S. S. CO., SHOWTNG COMPARATTVB SIZES OE EIRST AND LATEST VESSELS. nage of 2,050 and 405 horse-power, and their last, the Campania,built in 1893, with a tonnage of 13,000 and 30,000 horse-poAver. Itis the proud boast of this company that never in its long career asa carrier of passengers has it lost a single one entrusted to its care.The Westinghouse Air-Brake Company and the New York Air-Brake Company are neighbors, the former showing the operationof air-brakes on a train of one hundred cars, the largest train ever TRANSPORTATION. 279 operated by a single system of brakes. The visitor now passes theexhibits of Austria and Russia, and some other minor displays, andreaches that of the Pullman Palace Car Company, a magnificenttrain of cars of their latest style. The Baltimore & Ohio Railways historical exhibit deserves
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STEAM SHOVEI.. Exhibited by Marion Steam Shovel Co, special mention. This is the oldest railway In the world, havingbeen opened to general traffic from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mills, adistance of fourteen miles. May 24, 1827, six months earlier thantiie Liverpool & Manchester Railway, which was the first in Europe.The York, costing $4,000, their first locomotive, is shown ; alsoa strap-rail track and other features of that day, as well as the latestimproved types of engines, trains and appliances. The Pilot Com-mission of New York, in another special display, shows the model 28o TRANSPORTATION. of a pilot boat, and oil paintings illustrating the perils of the ser-vice. Among the marine curiosities is a bateau, found on the bank ofthe Upper St. Croix river, and used before Illinois was organizedas a Territory. It carried eighteen men and one ton of freight, andwas employed in Indian trade. Canadas exhibit shows somecurious boats, birch-bark canoes, large and small, such as were used

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