The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09

ingston and Nicholas Roosevelt, Fulton was granted for his Clermont the ex- elusive right to navigate the waters of New York and New Jersey with steam craft. a right which. challenged. and leading into the famous case or Gibbons vs. Ogden. settled the general legal powers of states in regard to the regulation of interstate commerce.
 The exposition is essentially mart-. time one and in furthering this mari time Idea. the National Museum has gotten together a score or so of models illustrating the boats and crafts of the American Indians and other abor- igines arranged in geographical order from Point Barrow in the Arctic to the Straits of Magellan at the southern most tip of the continent. These var ious modes of water transportation pie ture in a vivid way the influence or climate upon life. From the north come the Eskimo Kaiak and arctic skin canoes, types of Pacific dugouts. and the birch bark Canoes of Canada and the Great Lakes. The United States proper is represented by canoes of the Virginia Indians dug from single tree trunk, the hide coracle or 'sbuifEbuat" pf, the Sioux used on the Missouri, made of skin stretched over crate, and reed cane floats of the very  rafts, a sea going raft of logs with platform. cabin, and sail. and a rough bark canoe of a single piece. are shown from Peru, Brazil and the Amazon reg ion. From the far south comes the Fuegian bark canoe frequently made in sections for portage.
 There are also included in the Mus cum collection, drawings. photographs and models of John Fttch's steamboat
 khn nnla in 1TS7, and of Robert Fulton's steam CT Clermont which op August II. 1907 made It's famous trip on the Hudson from New York City to Albany, one hundred and fifty miles, in thirty-two hours. Additional boats shown are the Savannah. the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, leaving Savannah Georgia, on her historic trip May 2z. 1919, the steamboat Phoenix. the first steamboat to navigate the ocean, which made the trip from Sandy HnoF to Cape May on her way from New York to Philadelphia early in 1SeS. the "R. F. stockton" 1899, the first steam vessel with an iron hull or screw pro peller to cross the Atlantic ocean. ana number of others
 The exhibit of the Budeau of Fish cries shows in a thorough way the work of government supervision or this industry The United States Bur eau of Fisheries is more completely -ou,pped and accomnlishes more than any other government fish commits sion in the world. Together with models of the bureaus exploring ship Albatross and some of it's originaI equipment. and of different methods or fish egg transportation and distriou- tion, the story of the bureaus Work Is told ly sets of photographs
 The origin of the Bureau of Flsher- les. by the way, is traceable directly to fish cultural and other experiments conducted by the Smithsonian Institu- tion. and pr. Spencer F. Baird, the sec ond secretary of the Institution. served as the first United States Fish Com missioner in it's organization as sepa- rate department of government Werk.
 In the contributions of the United States Reclamation Service are photo graphic enlargements of the resutts accomplished on the more important irrigation projects on the Salt River. Arizona, the Roosevelt dam, and pro- jects in Colorado and Nevada
 An object of especial interest In the Isthmian Canal exhibit is relief map of the projected lock canal with a summit level of eighty-five feet, the construction of which will be re- markable feat of engineering. There are besides. enlaFgements. panorama" views, and photographs of Culehra Cut the employees club houses the shovelS at work, etc, Las Cascadas. the Co., macho Dam, views of the City of Pan anna, and the Commissions buildings
 Models charts, and photographs DOT tray the work of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, which IS more thoroughly equipped than the survey bureaus of any other govern ment Official tide tables and coast charts are shown and also nine Ves- sells engaged in survey work in var tous parts of home waters
 As at Jamestown on this side of the ocean, so at Bordeaux on the other, there has been planned an international naval display before the President or the Republic and other dignitartes. There will be represented the navies of England. Russia, Japan, Italy, Me1f- co, and others, and President Roose- welt has directed that two American ships shall proceed to take part in the display The President has appointed pr. S A Daudelin of Worchester as United States Commissioner at the ex- position.