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showing the survival of ancient Phoenecian art influences among 
tl'e Adriatic fishermen. On the foresail the inscription runs: 
Peace to Thee, St. Mark, my Evangelist.” 
ON THE NORTH AND SOUTH WALLS are hung pic- 
fres from the West Coast of South Africa, Asia, and the 
United States — illustrating many prim'tive and other craft, in- 
cluding types of the highest development of wooden-bottomed 
American sailing vessels. In bas-relief are shown hulls of 
whaling vessels, also lithographs of whaling vessels surrounded 
by icebergs in the Arctic seas. 
HALL 38. 
CASE 1. — Models of steam tow boats with large tow of 
coal from Pittsburg to New Orleans. Secured through the De- 
partment of Mines and Alining, World’s Columbian Exposition. 
The steamer represented is 200 feet long, 42 feet wide, with 
cylinder 24 inches in diameter and 12 foot stroke of piston, and 
has seven boilers. The barges are each 130 feet long, 25 feet 
wide and IV 2 feet deep, each carrying almost 13,000 bushels of 
coal. The steamer and tow, when running, occupy a space of 
700 feet long and 150 feet wide. 
Model of a raft of logs in the Mississippi River, being 
towed by the stern-wheel steamboat “Juniata.” The steamer 
is hitched to the raft bow on and by means of guy-ropes run 
to the nearest corners of the tow, the steamboat is made to 
d’rect the course of the raft. The model of the steamboat of 
metal. The model of the r^ft is made of white pine branches 
cut in Northern Wisconsin. Both boat and raft are constructed 
on J4-inc scale. 
CASE 2. — Models of river rafts and boats. The Jolly Boat 
— ferry boat of the Ganges. The Donga fishing and hunting 
boats. River trading boats from Malay Peninsula and China. 
CASE 3. — Ship barometer, log books, charts, chronometer, 
comnasses and quadrants from old whaling vessels. 
CASE 4. — Wooden model of the “Santa Maria.” A piece 
of wood from each exposition building (except concession 
stands) erected before May 1, 1893, in Jackson Park, is incorpo- 
rated in this model, which is made to an exact scale. 
