The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-08
DANIEL wEBsrER's CARRIAGE.

DANIEL WEBSTER'S CARRIAGE.
tation have not been neglected, as can read.
lily be seen by even a casual glance about
this Worlds fair collection, where vehicles
of all ages, climes and kinds have been
brought into such instructive j~uxtaposi-
ton.
The tarantass of Russia, the volante of
Spain, the queer travelling kroba of Turkey,
the heavy numbering cart of India, the tai
lyho of England and the sulky of Ameri-
can speed tracks may all. be studied and
compared, and the sleigh and the omni-
present bicycle are not omitted. Neither
is railway transportation neglected, and To-
comotives and cars from all the European
countries enable even those who have never
been abroad to decide upon the relative
safety and comfort of the foreign systems
and u own.
Steamships and men-of-war, in models,
illustrate the means of water transporta-
ton, and all sorts of small craft from all
sorts of people punctuate the periods of de-
velopment since the first drowning mao
clutched at q plank and discovered that it
would sustain his weight. Among the war
vessels is a model of the i'll fated English
cruiser Victoria, the largest and most com.
plete ever constructed. 1t cost over $50, 900.
1t requires the mounting of a short flight
of steps leading to a platform erected in
front Of it to be able to survey the decks.
Among the relics of especial interest to
Americans because of their association
with historical p~ersonages is the carriage
of Daniel Webster. President Folks car
rage is there also, but is in such a dis
graceful state of decrepitut that it makes
the beholder wonder why it was preserved
at all. Webster's carriage is in much bet
ter preservation. It is smaller and was
evidently much less p~retentious than that
of the president. Its extra strong springs
and the Insight of the body from the ground
are good indications of the horrible condi-
ton of the roads in the days of the great
statesman. In the French section is a Sc
dan chair of the seventeenth century that
is so we'll preserved as to a~ccentuate the
shabbiness of the carriages of the Ameri-
can statesmen.
An examination of the vehicles, especial.
ly of the fine carriages In the American,
French and English sections, naturally sug.
gests horses. and for the past month it has
not been a difficult thing to step over to the
live stock show of the agricultural depart
ment and find out just what sort of animals
the different nations prefer to hitch up to
their various means of conveyance, and also
what sort they prefer to use without hitch
ing. In horses all the we'll known breeds
are represented from the big Percheron and
Clydesdale stations downto the little Shet-
lands, of which there are nearly 100 entered.
There are draft cattle, though, as well as
horses, and cattle of far more value for beef
making and dairy purposes. All of the
choicest pedigrees have registered repre-
sentatiyes. and no such collection of the
aristocrats of the animal world was ever
got together before. Think of cattle with
a pedigree antedating the Christian eral
That is just what the pedigree of the sacred
cattle of India does, and tradition has it
that they were once objects of worship and
were stalled in temples and fed from gold