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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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FUBRST BISMARCK.—^HAMBURG AMERICAN PACKET CO. of Pullman. It is built to scale and is always a centre of interestfor the many who are curious to know the plans and accomplish-ment of this practical example of a perfect city. Next is a modelticket-office fitted up by the firm of Rand, McNally & Co., of Chicago,the noted printers of railway tickets, folders and maps. The centreof the building is now reached, and here in a circular open space isthe exhibit of the Otis Company, consisting of eight passengerelevators. This vertical transportation department conveys curiousvisitors to the top of the building, whence a splendid view may behad. Great Britain comes next with her colonies, Canada and Aus-tralia, occupying four sections, extending entirely across the building 276 TRANSPORTATION. and annex. The most interesting of the exhibits here is the loco-motive, Lord of the Isles, built in 1851 for the first Worlds Fair,which has been in continuous use ever since. There is also a
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MODEIv OF SANTA MARIA. complete train of English cars, with the fine compound locomotive, Great Britain, affording an opportunity for comparing British andAmerican railway methods. The marine exhibits of Great Britain TRANSPORTATION. 277 are especially fine, nearly all of her great ship-building firms beingrepresented by models. One model, that of the armored war-shipVictoria, is thirtyfeet long and cost$20,000. But halfof the vessel is thusconstructed, and it/is placed against agreat mirror whichduplicates it andthus makes thewhole vessel appear.Surrounding themodel at the water-line is a plate ofgreen rippled glass,so that the effect isproduced that theship is floating inthe ocean. It is thisvessel which wassunk by her com-panion, the Camp-erdown, in the eastend of the Mediter-ranean Sea, whenhundreds of liveswere lost. This oc-curred during theearly months of theFair, and from thattime the magnificent model was heavily draped in black and hasbeen the centre of attraction. Many of t

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