Evening journal., 1908-12-09
WORLDS MODES OF
TRANSPORTATION
Interestingly Pictured by O.P.
Austin in Illustrated Lecture
at New-Century Club

o. r. Austin. head Of the Bureau Of
Statistics OF the Department OF Commerce
and Labor and secretary OF the National
Geographical Society, spoke in the New
Century Club last night under the
auspices OF the Board Of Trade on Queer
Transportation Methods IN Many Parts
OF the World" The lecture was the fruit
OF a 10000 mile journey around the world
by Mr.. Austin and was illustrated by
stereopticon and moving picture views.
Ills audience filled the clubs large audi
torium.
President r. j. Maclean. Of the Board
Of Trade before introducing the speaker
made a little address OF his own. in
which he presented the supremacy of Del
aware in leather manufacture. car build
ing. powder. shipbuiding etc. lie read
telegrams from Senators Richardson and
dupont, in which they expressed their re-
gret for inability TO avail themselves Of
the invitation to attend the lecture.
While the lecturer treated of all means
of transportation. he was most enthusias-
tic over the growing demand for larger
system of water ways in the United
States. That the realization of such a pro-
iect would be Of untold value to the
country he emphasized when he declared
that the cost OF water transportation in
the Great Lakes was but one-seventh the
cost per ton of transportation by rail-
way The cheapness of water Transports
tion was still more graphically presented
when he asserted that a worhingman of
Liverpool. was brought food and meat
srom the Mississippi valley for the
amount OF his wages for one day.
The dominant thought of Mr.. Austin
lecture was that where transportation
was highly developed there was TO be
found the greatest progress. The horse
was presented as the best exponent OF
transportation by animal power
HORSE A BIG FACTOR.
The fact that nearly all the horses in
the world were to be found in tina Occi-
dent impressed Mr.. Austin with the part
Of the horse in the industrial supremacy
of the Western countries. In the United
States, it was explained, there is one
horse to every th.$r and a half persons
In South America there is one horse &c
every seven persons; I'm Turkey. one &c
every 40: IN the Philippine Islands. one tC
every 50 persons; in Africa. one 10 ever,
$50 persons and in India, one TO every
100 persons.
Most interesting was Mr.. Austin
+ comment on the splendid canal systems
and water routes OF France Germany
Belgium, Denmark and Russia. Thcs'
countries arc far ahead of the Unite,
states in water transportation. as tn
/ lecturer demonstrated by maps Of foreigi
water routes And foreign countries, n
showed. have gone oven so far as to pro
vide electric power FOR canal boats an
other craft passing into the waterway
Thus. picture was shown or "A cans
boat obtaining its power Of looomotio
from an electric wire like trolley cal
Another canal boat was shown trans
ported by a powerful automobile. An
then the possibilities of water transporta
ton IN the United States was shown b
picture Of steamer on the MississipI
towing an immense barge containing 700
tons OF coal. 10 times as much huma
weight or baggage as has ever bee
taken out Of New York harbor by th
largest ocean steamers.