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trucks built for the purpose, a distance of sixty miles over 
an exceedingly heavy mountain road. The se¢étion was 
sub-divided into 46 smaller seétions, some of them 
weighing 4 tons each, and eleven cars were required to 
transport the pieces from Monson, Cal., to Chicago. 
The total cost of cutting, shipping, and installing the 
seétion was $10,475. There was a winding staircase 
inside, whence visitors could proceed to the top of this 
immense wooden mass, which looked not unlike the 
hull of an old-time man-of-war. It was in the United 
States Government Building that I saw a huge “ Relief 
Map,” of South and Central America showing the 
proposed line of the Intercontinental Railway; and 
in the galleries devoted to exhibits of the “ Bureau 
of South American Republics, &c,” I noticed a large 
colleétion of enlarged photo. views, embracing British 
Guiana, Trinidad, Martinique, Jamaica, the Bahamas, 
Curacoa, Venezuela, &c. Those of Venezuela pre- 
ponderated, and as to our own colony the piétures 
were confined to our immigrant population, represent- 
ing ‘‘ Coolie Musicians, British Guiana,” ‘‘ Coolie Belle, 
British Guiana,” ‘ Hindoo Coolie, British Guiana,” 
“Coolie Magician, British Guiana,” “Group of Hindoo 
Coolies, British Guiana.” I imagine they were enlarge- 
ments of ordinary photographs, and some of the subjeéts 
being rather familiar my idea was that the originals were 
the work of NORTON Bros., sent on to the State 
Department by some thoughtful Consular represen- 
tative here while that firm of photographers was in 
business. 
Anent our timbers, it may be worthy of mention that 
a lumber-buyer for the Burlington Railway Co. once 
