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HALLS 37, 38, 39, 40, 55, AND 54, EAST PAVILION. 
SECTION OF TRANSPORTATION. 
Nearly three hundred years have passed since Lord Bacon 
wrote the lines, made more famous from the fact that they were 
inscribed upon the Golden Door of the Department of Transpor- 
tation Exhibits of the World’s Columbian Exposition, “There be 
three things which make a Nation great and prosperous — a fertile 
soil, busy workshops, and easy conveyance for men and goods 
from place to place.” 
It has been said that “ The wheel is a dial by which can be 
reckoned the degree of progress of every civilization. When 
people learn how to make use of it, the crooked^ ways are made 
straight, the rough places smooth. Footpaths are replaced by 
level highways, bridges are built over streams once forded, inter- 
communication is accelerated, commerce is stimulated, and a 
rapid national development follows.” 
In the Section of Transportation all methods of marine and 
land conveyance are included, except the steam railway, which 
may be regarded as the culmination of the several series installed 
in the six Halls above enumerated. The exhibits are arranged in 
the order of development, beginning with the floating log and the 
human burthen-bearers and pack animals, continuing through 
methods of utilizing man and animals for traction, sledges and ve- 
hicles with wheels, and concluding with the street (or tram) car, 
which, when hauled by animals, marked the beginning of the 
present railway system. 
The objects in this section, with very few exceptions, were 
acquired from the Department of Transportation Exhibits, World’s 
Columbian Exposition. 
