Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-21

agricultural show ground and all along
the route l saw carnival companies and
sideshows and amusement devices, ana
everything revealed a great similarity
to the State fairs of Missouri or Kansas
or Iowa-typical agricultural States OF
our own country. The Royal Agricul-
tural Show, as it is officially termed, is
powerful magnet to the country folk OF
New South Wales. In order to be sure
of hotel accomm oda atoms, reservations are
made weeks, sometimes months, in ad-
vance The show is the one great relaxa-
ton of the year for many of those who
live "out back" and a week in Sydney In
Easter makes bearable for many of them
the loneliness of life in the country sec
lions, to which good roads, telephones,
electric lights and other comforts nave
not yet been extended.
I was studying map of Sydney streets
in order to find small cross street
where a friend had his office, and the
diagram reminded me OF nothing so
much as one of those mystic maze puz-
zles which are published In some news
papers with prizes for those who can
start from a given point and trace their
way down through the highways and
byways In Sydney the short streets
come into the long ones at all sorts of
angles ana Cnduge udlHeS NlLhOuC thc
slightest warning at even the slightest OF
| turns.
Nv son Ben spent good hour trying
to locate one place right downtown
| within a few blocks of our hotel, and
finally discovered that ii was side
| street that had the same name as main
| street which runs at right angles to It,
| All of us found that five wanted to
go anywhere with a minimum of trouble
the best way was to get aboard one Of
the very excellent street cars, which are
operated by the State.
FIRST HORSE CARS
INSTITUTED IN 1862.
The history of public transportation
Dservice In sydney is an amusing one
The first street cars were horse-drawr
affairs, instituted in 1862. Four year.
later the rails were pulled up because
It was regarded as an infringement OF
the right of the people to have to turf
out of the road for a street car II
1879 an exhihitic was being neld Il
Sydney, and the promoters, by a ruse
laid a line TO the fair grounds. They
announced that the tracks were to b.
temporary, that the cars were merel!
to help those who did not own horse
to get to the fair. Old files Of the news
papers reveal that the effort to get thi
rails torn up again were worthy Of {
better object but they stayed and be
came the nucleus Of the present electric
system Of rs miles over which 9jO,U
passengers are carried daily. Electric
ity came. however, after cars pulled BY
diminutive steam engines had been dis
placed by cable cars.
Peculiarly enough, the street car serv
ices Of Sydney and Melbourne-somethin
that does not strike me having any
. earthly connections-are a continue
bone OF contention In the rivalry between
the cities. The argument as TO whether
Sydney's electric cars are faster thar
Melbourne's cable cars is unending. i
reminds me of the story Of an Alaskan
lumber camp. where all winter there wa'
@ bitter argument as to whether a bulle
fred straight up into the air would re
turn TO earth ms rapidly as il left II
There wasn't any way OF proving Il
and II would have done no good TO havt
settled the question. Yet some one wal
always revivinE the question.
In Taronga Park, across the bay from
sydney. is one of the best ZOOS In tn
world. 1t is modelled after the formerl.
. famous zoo Of Hagenbeck, In Berlin, Ger
many. A master mind designed that zoo
/, for as far as possible cages and bars hav
, been done away with and the sixty acre
! Of land upon which the ZOO is built ha
been divided into spaces, In which tn