Arizona republican., 1905-05-22
WORLDS RAILWAYS
The Work of the Inter
 national Congress
An Exhibit Showing the Great Pro. greSS Which Has Been Made in RailrOading.

Washington. May 2l.-(Specfal.-
 The delegates to the International Railway Congress. who have left here on tours of the country, enthusiasti- cally proclaimed the American session of the consess Co be the most success full ever held. Every five years, for thirty years, the International Con gress has met in some caCital of some nation: it remained for America to eclipse all competitors in the Ieccp- tion, entertainment and instruction of the delegates ard visitors. All conn tries where railroads are operated were were reprsntd: England, France. POr- tugal, British India, Australia, Ger many, New Zealand. Greece, Finland. Spain, Switzerland, Italy and others. even China being partially represented by the Chinese minister.
 EAnquets and receptions, excursions and dinners followed each other with rapidity, but by far the most interest ing outside feature of the congress was the exhibition of railway appliances, for which Congress granted the use of the White lot, immediately in the rc aV of the White House.
 At first it seemed as though the ex- 1 hibition would be a failure, only a few hundred people visited it each day, but within a week a cOrdon of police was required to restrain the cowd, and on the last night the throng was so dense as to render the sightseeing irksome in- stead of a diversion. This growth ot interest is not remarkable in view O1 the fact that the exkibition cost ap- proximately one million dollars, and is conceded to have been the finest of its kind ever held. It included the bcsi products of American inventive sst and genius, applied to transportation by steam and electricity, and con. ! prissd the choicest specimens exhibited 1 at the St. Louis Exposition. with th' later triumphs. No value can be se ! Cn the machinery exhibited, but thu I fact that the American manufact urers were willing to spend one mil | lion dollars Cn an exhibition to b. 1 open only ten days. aside from th' value of the exhibits caused the for eign visitors much astonishment
 l THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
 Numerous railToad presidents wert | in attendance-the congress was tn ! guest of the American Railway Asso | ciation--anc so interesting was tn ! exhibition, that from a ''sideshow," al
 it was first termed it grew until i surpassed the congress. and the engi
 neers and mechanical men Of the nor l important railroads were summoneC l by their chiefs to attend and inspec | the exhibits.
 The social features of the congress l were largely in the hands of Samue | Spencer president of the Southerl l railroad; Stuyvesant Fish, president o l the Illinois Central, and George West | inghouse. MT. Spencer and MT. West | inghouse maintain establishments il l Washington, and MT. Fish, who
 president of the American Railwa, | Association took a house here for tn
 occasion. For the entertainment of tn
 delegates a most elaborate series O | functions was provided. In addition
 to the receptions, dinner parties, etc
 given at his residence, MT. Nesting
 house erected on the White Lot
 structure almost as larre as the mai
 exhibition building. to house the eX
 hibits of the parent companies and tn ! twenty-tw two constituent cCmDanie
 scattered throughout the world. In tn ply to a compliment passed upon tn
 exhibit, Frank H. Taylor, an office
 of one of the great industries c
 Pittsburg stated that Mir. Nesting
 house had entered the exhibition in hi
 usual broad and liberal spirit, and ha
 made the costly exhibit for demon
 stration and instruction and not fo
 profit. To assist in such demonstra tion he summoned a corps of fifty ex
 perts from all parts of the world an
 Speaking all languaGeS