The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-11-02
OUR TRIP.
IHs REFORM PRESS ASSOCIATION.
CHICAGO AND The WORLDS FAR
Niagara Falls, Watkins Glenn, and the
National Capital.
No. 2,
(THE FAIR CONTINUED

through most of them, but canno
even undertake 10 describe those tina
We did examine. There is one build
ing, however, and its exhibit that de
serves considerable attention, tha
is,
THE TRANSPORTATION BUILDING.
This exhibit is not only interest
ing for what is on exhibition, but
also tor the mighty issues that il
suggests for settlement in the neal
future. You cannot walk through
it and look at the mighty agencies
of modern civilization there on exhi.
bition without being impressed with
the great transportation question
that it is destined to play an import
ant part in future political cam
palgns. There is all article in the
September number of The Cosmo.
politan Magazine, that not only dis
Cusses and describes this building and
exhibit as well, or better, than we
can do it, but also expresses our SEN
tlments on the necessity for nation
alizing the highways of the country.
L he ablest thinkers of the country
who are not party servers, are begin
ming to ralize and to have the man
hood to say, that monopoly thac
effects the interest of everybody,
should not be used by private indi-
viduals for private gain, but by the
public for public good. We clip the
following article from The Cosmo-
politan Magazine:
"At the left of the superb arch
which gives entrance on the lagoon
to the Hafl of Transportation is a
relief which shows an ox-cart, its
cunbrous wheels dragging slowly
along through the heavy sand, and
on It's seats the most uncomfortable
of travellers, who look upon the
journey us an ordeal, a forcible pic
ture of the discomforts of travel in
ages gone by. On the opposite side
of the porch, in strongest contrast,
is a luxurious section of palace car,
its occupants reading or looking out
through the plate-glass windows, an
attentive porter serving their lunch
eon-in word. travel made pleas
ure and delight.
"Higher up on the archway are
two inscriptions, one from Macaulay:
'Of all inventions, the alphabet and
the printing-press alone excepted,
those inventions which abridge dis
tance have done the most foi civili-
zation,' and one from Lord Bacon:
There are three things which make
a nation great and prosperous, a fer
tile soil, busy workshops and easy
conveyance for men and goods from
blaze to place Standing in the mas
sive doorway beneath the inscriptions,
between these pictures of past and
present, one catches glimpse of the
development of transportation from
the ox-cart to the palace car in ten
thousand exhibits. He is impressed
with the idea that just at the present
time this question of transportation
is probably the most important of all
others to the people of the United
States. Neither Bacon or Macaulay
thought that methods would SO soon
be invented which would surpass the
widest dreams of their days and gen.
erations, which would be replete with
possibilities for human happiness,
but which, under the peculiar sys-
tenn of the times, would be used to
enslave commerce and almost threat
en- the existence of free government.
They saw only seeds of invention
from which would spring great plants
of beauty and riches, but containing
within the kernel of the fully ripen-
ed fruit a worm which, if not de-
stroyed, will consume plant end flow
er."
What a wide world the word trans
portation has been made to cover un-
der one roof. A great section of the
hull of one of the modern steam
ships rises up sixty or seventy feet
into the air, significant in the strength
and perfection of engineering, in the
splendor of its furnishings, and in
skill shown In the construction ot It's
parts, of every modern art. Every
thing has been brought into play for
the comfort and safety of the ocean
traveller, every device, from the
most complicated of triple expansion
powers down to the tiny electric
cars.
A little beyond this stands the ex-
hibit of another kind of transporta-
ton, the transportation of energy
through a mighty forge hammer
from one of the great steel works,
which have sprung up in response to
the needs of naval construction.
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