64 Report of a Journey Around the World. 



a shepherd lad whose ingenuity and deft handicraft shown in the 

 little locomotive obtained for him (it is pleasant to know) a good 

 opportunity for education for which he had proved himself so fit. 



Among the cars was a very complete "Pullman", and in the 

 historical line a model of the first Hungarian-built locomotive. 

 There was a fine link-motion model in working order with section 

 of valve, valve-chest and cylinder. 



Models of station houses, notably the one at Fiume, and car 

 barns and other necessary constructions. Not only specimens of 

 the stone used for platforms and culverts, but the concrete tubings 

 for buried electric wires, and every form of insulators of the main- 

 used ; tiles used for flooring, roofs and drains in the station houses, 

 and for the same purpose brick, terra-cotta and majolica, all of 

 Hungarian manufacture. Not to be forgotten was a working 

 model of a locomotive that on meeting a steep grade picked up a 

 cable and climbed on that hold, a contrivance much cheaper than 

 the usual ratchet. I would not pass over the various lamps, both 

 for car lighting and signalling, all of which, both oil and electric 

 were well represented. 



Farther on in the long and well-lighted hall we came to the 

 travel by water, and here were beautiful models of the royal yacht 

 with paddle wheels, river boats and ocean-going steamers, includ- 

 ing the Hungarian- American liners, some of these in section to 

 show the arrangement of decks and staterooms, etc. Models of 

 sailing vessels full rigged and canoes from the Pacific with out- 

 riggers. All the modern life-saving outfits were of course present. 

 At the end of the hall under an archway was seen a beautiful 

 model of Fiume (the national port) and its breakwater seen over 

 the bow of an actual boat. A relief plan of the Hungarian harbor 

 and its breakwater was also given. Docks and canal locks ; shears 

 and cranes for handling freight were not forgotten. 



An interesting exhibit was a plan and view of the work on 

 the "Iron Gates" of the Danube, and there were working models 

 of the various and curious craft used in this work from the pre- 

 liminary measurement of the river bed, through the drilling the 

 rock for the explosives, and the dredging and removal of the debris. 

 Oh, if we had such a record of the building of the Pyramids, or 



even the more modest erection of Stouehenge! 



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