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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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s we have all sorts of odd craft, and from the Malayan Archipelago specimens of the flying proa, that fastest of all boats, so it is said, which flashes through the water like a beam of light, and which, manned by a crew of piratical savages, has sent many an undefended boat with her crew to destruction. So, In whatever part of the world we go,we find as the most important feature of their civilization their methods of transportation. To-day, Corea,the hermit nation, is adding to its possessions a fleet of modern and first-class war vessels. Japans navy contains ships of the most formidable char- MiNK CAR. Exhibited by Sheffield Velocipede Car Co. , , acter, and a number sufficient to rank her as one of the leading naval powers of the world.It is the facility of Inter-communication between the various parts of the nation and between It and other nations, which measures to a large extent the degree of civilization which that nation may attain. One Is specially impressed by this upon consideration of
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TRANSPORTATION. 299 the recent case of Japan. It is doubtful if any country can show in its history such a rapid advance in all things that make civilization as Japan displays in the last quarter century. The United States opened the doors of Japan to the world. Since then the forward movement of the Island Empire has been so rapid that she now asks no favor from any one, but only fair treatment. It is to the grow^th of transportation facilities that a great portion of the credit for this is due. Therefore, in considering the exhibits here displayed in the Transportation Department at the Worlds Fair, the immense effect of the science of transportation upon the progress of the world should always be in mind, and it should never be forgotten that America has been the leader in the invention and improvement and adoption of appliances to be utilized for these purposes.

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