The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . the enormous importance of it to everyman. A quotation from Macaulay above the golden door of theTransportation Building informs us on the authority of that greatessayist and historian that of all the inventions of the world, thealphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventionshave done the most to advance civilization and mankind whichabridge distance. No one can doubt this who studies for an objectlesson our own American Republic. The United States has beensingularly favored by transportation facilities of every kind. 1 heinven
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . the enormous importance of it to everyman. A quotation from Macaulay above the golden door of theTransportation Building informs us on the authority of that greatessayist and historian that of all the inventions of the world, thealphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventionshave done the most to advance civilization and mankind whichabridge distance. No one can doubt this who studies for an objectlesson our own American Republic. The United States has beensingularly favored by transportation facilities of every kind. 1 heinvention of the steamboat was yet young when prows began todivide the waves of every river and lake where civilization hnd. TRANSPORTATION. 293 spread. Not only our traffic with foreign countries, but also ourown interior commerce advanced enormously by this means. TheHudson River system, the St. Lawrence River system, and theimmense territory tributary to the great lakes; the Mississippisystem, including the Ohio, the Tennessee, the Cumberland, the. SivKiGH.—Exhibited by Brewster & Co. Missouri, the Arkansas and the Red rivers with their millions ofacres of fertile prairie land, and mighty forests, and mineral wealth,all received an impetus never given to so great a region by anyother influence before. Villages grew from frontier settlements,and cities from villages, while States were bullded from Territorieswhile their pioneers were yet young. This the steamboat did, orat least be^an. Then the railroad came, and the iron trails wound over the 294 TRANSPORTATION. plains and through the mountains where before the earth wastrodden only by the Infrequent passing of the Indian or the States grew, out of the reach of water courses, and on everyhand was heard the whistle of the locomotive. Very often evenadvancing civilization drawn by the steam horse reached the edgeof the wilderness where fierce animals and fiercer red men disputedat every step the advance. The
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