. Electric railway journal . aneous rather than historical,but development and progress in modes of transporta-tion during the past decade are effectively is to be noted that much of the machinery and elec-trical apparatus is shown in actual operation, and wherefeasible mechanisms are cut in sections to expose theworking parts. Common to all the transportation ex-hibits there is the tendency to exemplify fundamentalprinciples and to bring out the essential features and beautiful and truly universal that the attendance is solarge, in spite of conditions that might have beenthought
. Electric railway journal . aneous rather than historical,but development and progress in modes of transporta-tion during the past decade are effectively is to be noted that much of the machinery and elec-trical apparatus is shown in actual operation, and wherefeasible mechanisms are cut in sections to expose theworking parts. Common to all the transportation ex-hibits there is the tendency to exemplify fundamentalprinciples and to bring out the essential features and beautiful and truly universal that the attendance is solarge, in spite of conditions that might have beenthought to lessen interest in it. At the end of the firstweek of the exposition, when this article was written,the total attendance had been 618,998, as against 253,-577 at Chicago and 325,144 at the St. Louis Expositionduring the corresponding periods. Palace of Transportation The field of transportation has perhaps more prog-ress to record and more to show that is new than mostof the departments into which exhibits are PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION—GENERAL VIEW OF GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS functions of the apparatus so as to facilitate explana-tion and study. A well-known American writer has pronounced theexposition to be the most economical of any he hadever seen, and those who heard the remark, thinking ofthe $50,000,000 which the exposition has cost and themaintenance items, such as $1,000 per night for illumi-nation, asked him to explain. He did so by pointingout that it was economical from the standpoint of thevisitor who could acquire in a short time at this expo-sition more information and a more accurate and prac-tical knowledge of modern processes and machines thanhad ever before been possible. And probably it is forthis reason as much as because the exposition is so In the Palace of Transportation are to be seen repre-sentations and examples of every phase of modernmethods of transportation, and these are designed notmerely to impress the layman but to instruct and s
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