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passenger railway train over the Albany and Mohawk railroad in 1831, 

 were events which made the history of New York illustrious in the 

 early struggle for commercial supremacy. The distinguished inventors 

 who have kept the State at the front, of whom the list of awards is a 

 partial recognition, were well represented in the individual exhibits. 



The exhibit by the State comprised a relief map, fifty by fifteen 

 feet, scale two inches to the mile, of the section intersected by the Erie 

 canal. This map, made under the supervision of the State Engineer, 

 showed at a glance the system of water supply, and justified engineer- 

 ing science in the location and construction of that great public work. 

 To contribute historical as well as present interest, a model was 

 shown of an original wooden lock, made at Little Falls in 1795, with 

 an elaborate model (scale one-thirtieth) of the latest standard enlarged 

 lock of the Erie canal. Photographs were collected illustrating early 

 modes of travel, by reproductions from sketches, and showing the pres- 

 ent method of delivering the immense freights floated eastward by 

 canal ; one pictu/'e represented a typical tow on the Hudson, Novem- 

 ber 26, 1892, of sixty-four boats aggregating 12,630 tons. The aque- 

 ducts over the Genesee at Rochester and over the Mohawk at Crescent 

 and Rexford Elats were shown by photographs. To the water system 

 exhibit was added a large map, specially prepared, of the extensive rail- 

 way system of the State, showing eighty-two railways, with a total 

 mileage of 8,72i.88 miles. This exhibit, donated to the State museum, 

 is the nucleus of what it is to be hoped will become a complete collec- 

 tion which shall illustrate every stage of progress in the methods and 

 appliances of passenger and freight transportation. The resources of 

 the ofiices of the Superintendent of Public Works and the State Engi- 

 neer and Surveyor were freely placed at the disposition of the board of 

 managers and much valuable material obtained from them. 



The collective exhibit at the exposition was supplemented by individ- 

 ual and commercial exhibits of great value. That of the New York 

 Central and Pludson River Railroad Company is worthy of special 

 mention. It combined the reproduction of the historic locomotive 

 '' i)e Witt Clinton " and the coaches of 1831 with a fully equipped 

 modern passenger trai.n of express, drawing-room and sleeping cars, 

 attached to locomotive No. 999, with a record of 112 miles an hour. 



The whole number of awards granted New York in this department 

 was seventy-three. 



