The Progress., 1893-07-15

HO:s Colonel Pangborn, Of the RaIti more
and Ohio Railroad, Got Together One at
;h- Most Admirable Collections To Bs
Seen at the Worlds Eair-Progrcss Of
RaiIr"adiug.
WORLDS TNE. July 12.- Especial -
In the transportation building is a single
exhibit which contains whole exposition
in itself. L! We're called upon to select
ont Of the great Columbian aggregate the
most important and interesting exhibit
made hy individual, firm or corporation,
should rnhcsitatiDgly choose that which j.
grouped under the titl"--"The Worlds
Railways" H. j. one of the most admir-
able things in the exposition, 4 series O..
obiec, lessons in railroad history. and to
day the most thorough and comprehensive
RAILWAY IIu>eam and retrospective in cN-
iStcncc. Moreover. it was gathered to-
gcthrr 10y one man, and single railway
paid all the expense OF il. There is no
finer example anywhere Of what IN Amer
lean with brains, energy and means can
accomplish in a short time. for this Ii.
tOrical collection astonishes all bcholdcrs
There l. nothing else like it in the world.
and the best of it i this display i to be the
nucleus around which viii be formed a
permanent American railway museum.
How did it come 10 be- Well, Colonel
j. G.. Pangboun, Of the Baltimore and
Ohio railway. suggested To Mr. Mayer, the
president of the road, that it would be Il
great idea 10 prepare for the World 5 fair
not simply one railroad exhibit, but an
exposition of railway development
throughout the whole world The idea
was promptly adopted, and Mr. Pangborn
set to work. IIespent year in Europe,
visiting the heads of great railway cor
porations. and securing their cooperation.
BY exercise Of those arts known only to a
railruadcr and newspaper man-Air. Pang-
born i both--he obtained imperial orders
for assistance in Germany, Austria, Rus
sia and other monarchieS, as well as sim
liar orders from the great museums of
Paris. London and other cities. Then he
returned 10 America, employed staff of
artists and photographers, set up his own
machine shop, wrote 1900 letters TO rail
way managers throughout the world,
ransackcd al libraries and found all the
old prints, sketches and drawings on the
face of the earth, spent weeks unraveling
disputed historical points, secured old loco
motives. cars, tracks and appliances from
all countries, and here we have the mag
nificent result of this magnificent en-.
deavor.
: On three tracks, side by side, stand fifty
,,;,o IncoYn ivaC oP IN nIale bprp.
/ of which are perfect reproductions
| Though built of wood, every. one of tho
models is a working machine, having all
/ the mechanism of the originals. The
/ Worlds fair visitor who studies these
tiftv-ninc obiect-lessons will conclude Will
/ a better idea Of the history of railway de
/ velopment than ne could gather from al
/ the books in existence.
". let us start down one of thesl
tracks and have brief look at thcst
/ models and originals. They covert the evo
/ luton Cf the locomotive from the idea oi
/ Newton. tea-kettle on wheels impelled
forward by the steam escaping from it'
spout. to the 1O0-ton compOund-cylindei
4 "D;rector- General" finest type of the
modern passenger locomotive. The perioC
covered X 213 years, or from 1850 to the
present time. Between Newton's idea
represented by brOnzed model. and the
first actual steam propulsion, there is 4
/ gulf of cighty-nine years. But even il
this period the processes of evolution wer'
at work. and are shown here by the aid o
n large number of pictures of tramway'
on which cars were run by animal or hu
man power and the picturesque period o.
wind propulsion, in which cars were fitteC
with sails and blown along the highway:
on rude tracks.
After Newton we come to the first eX
ample of steam locomotion on our globe
1t was by Frenchman, CugnOt, in 1869
His machine is still in existence in the
Paris Conservatory of Arts, and here Z
nave ;in exact model of it. Next is the
machine of Murdoch, 1874. He was the
companion of Watt, of steam engine
fame. and was a believer in high pressure
while Watt was not. Murdoch was sim
ply ahead of his times. He was also the
inventor of Illuminating gas. Here w