Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
CARTS AND BOATS
Of Every Shape in Transporta.
ton Building
FROM THE YEAR 81 DOWN TO DATE.

Curious Articles Used in transportation
from All Parts of the worId-Greatest
Collection Ever Under One Roof-Fun
with Carved Mirrors-A Few Foreigners
''CiviIize'' Too Rapidly.
WORLDS FAIR. Sept. T. lSpecial -
Evolution is the leading idea of this age
and many are influenced by it much more
thar they suspect. In nearly all the main
buildings here one will find the exhibits
so arranged as to show the slow develop
meut through all the ages from the cave
of the original t~raglodyte to the palaces Of
Fifth avenue, from the rude dug-out Of
the autochthon to the wonderful. ocean
steamer and from the wooden-headed
Gods of Alaska to the lovely creations in
the art palace. We have here the races of
mankind from the cultured Brooklynite
down to some Africans who nave no word
for any number beyond a hundred; where
man ends the trained animals in the great
p~laisance show take up the links, and
Professor Gernier has sent from Africa to
the congress of sciences a promise that by
the next worlds fair he will have the Ian
etN5t VI thC apNS ht w dllh
give us an outline of their civil constitu-
tions and forms of government.
Those who nave read the new Genesis,
according to Tyndall, Huxley, Spencer
and Darwin will remember the statements
("interesting, but tough" as Huck Finn
said, that when the primordial ape had
assembled the family tree so high that he,
in a measure, got rid of his tail he de-
scended to earth, organized the primitive
commonwealth, developed into an anthro-
I poid and by natural selection and survival
1 Of the fittest evolved the anthropomorphic
1 primordial types-the b~omunculus, the
I p~rognathus, the trogfodyte. the autoch-
thon and the tarregen. These were the
I generations of primeval man, and terragen
u was the father of the aborigine. Well,
we have them all here, alive or stuffed or
shown in rude carvings by the first men,
who were contemporary with them, and
in the transportation building we have
the history of their progress in that line.
And the order of the use made of animals
was evidently this: First, the dog and
then the OK, the ASS and the horse in sue
"a c~ession, with camels, llamas, buffaloes and
elephants in their native regions.
az The visitor entering hat building at the
3snorth end comes first upon an all-wooden
8kMexican cart with two of those long
zhorned oxen hitched, and the whole get-up
Is so comically natural, so exactly like the
vehicle as / saw 1t in Mexico, that l almost
Unexpected to near the shrill "Carambal
k}Viejo, cabron, ca~rramba,n as one hears it
lin Mexico. In these carts one finds what
was undoubtedly the primitive form of the
\ f~wheel-that is a cross section cut ont of a
Y ftree, the toughest wood the barbarian
could find of course. It was a great day
{ flor civilization when some man invented
3 a way to hollow out the center of the
\ wheel and make it much lighter while re-
n Gaining it's strength; but when hub, spoke
Nfand felloe were completed there was civil
ffzation, indeed.
81, In the same line is the bullock cart from
MHSiam, the rude country cart from Turkey,
I2fhe heavy wheels from Santa Domingo
a. hnd the specimens from Malacca, upper
India and South Africa. But all these
NJ have hub and spokes, though Of very rude
"a construction, which increases the wonder
hat the solid wheel should still be in use
8sfn Mexico. In brides, saddles and spurs
ffkIl these nations show far greater inn
improvements, which may be due to the fact
II hat they used them long before they did
IL fehicles. But the interesting fact is that
sn water transportation they reached per-
~ection, that is on a small scale, almost at
the start. The light boats of the Malays,
is he canoes of the South seas, the caiques,
IN he little Siamese skiffs and even the
fikajak (they spell it in several other ways)
III @f the Esquimaux are about as good for
fSfheir purposes as civilized men could
fs3&aake.
United States Consul Merrill. Of Jerusa-
sEem, has sent a boat used on the sea Of
fd ~Fallilee which he maintains is of identi-
y 4hlly the same pattern az that used by the
~ *postolic fishermen Of the year % and
s. hereahouts. IL so, Peter and Andrew
hlhust have been very skillful boatmen, for
Il should hate to trust myself in it. He
I Jas also sent a complete Jerusalem trans
A ,fortation exhibit, consisting of the leather
&ottles for carrying oil, wine and water,
Xt kater jars to be carried on the head,
taterskins, small land jugs of terra Gotta,
n other covers for the vessels in
4Afhich food is carried, and a variety Ct
Baskets and panniers as used by hucksters.
il fhe absence of ornament on these things
TOLLS to my mind the alleged fact thai
A here has never been a time when art
a. burlshed in Palestine and raises the
f~iestion whether the prohibition SO long
Aforced among the Jews and tacitly ac-
,tr pied by their successors has wrought an
'A& tganic change in the people. i do not
st now remember the name of any great
wish painter or sculptor, though there
Il. tay be such.
,Az Far more interesting are the palap-
&4Shins, sedan chairs and other appliances
S53 ed where man il the carrier of man and
e oman, and of all these the most interest
'{JD Is is the Madagascar ~palanGuin used by
a.' hdame French-Sheldon in her long jour
10y in Africa in 1897. During most of the
'<Y $ne she went afoot. directing the course
3ff the column, and only used this palan.
.3Bf In when sleep or rest became a necessity.
&3< is at nee light and strong and her four
Alwart carriers bore her along with ease.
}&8 hiced States Consul Bannister, Of st.
ui de Loanda, has also sent a palanqnin
&{36ed ON the west coast and enc Of the
Noes Of the Iatiyes there- Other curl.