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s12 | examined by everyone interested in aids to navigation. This route to the fair is probably the best lighted channel in the world. On illumination nights a trip along this channel and a walk through the court of honor, with the search lights playing on MacMonnie's fountain, and thousands of incandescent lamps gleaming from every niche of the great white buildings, the flaming torches on the administration building, will make up a picture of light that will never fade. Even commerce is repre- sented in the great fountain by six young men on sea horses. THE TRANSPORTATION BUILDING. After all, men who live on the water, or who make money from ships that go by either steam or wind, will want to see the marine exhibit proper, which is located in the transportation building. There is no trouble in finding it. It looks as if the decorators had exhausted the supply of white-wash when they came to the transportation building, and had bought some dull Lil Orrice MARINE REVIEW. & Sons yard, Philadelphia ; the 125-ton steam hammer, made by the Bethlehem Iron Works, the greatest in the world : the 30-foot model of the unfortunate British ship Victoria, exhibited by Armstrong, Mitchell & Co., with a general exhibit of models by this same company, and a Ao-foot painting by the Harlan & Hollingsworth Company, Wilmington, Del. The weight of the striking parts of the Bethlehem company's hammer is 125 tons, five tons heavier than the great Krupp hammer. It has a full stroke of 16 feet and the piston is 4o feet long. It stands about 70 feet high, the striking space forming an archway over the main aisle of the building. 'The reason it is placed in the transportation exhibit is that it is used to forge armor plate, shafting for steel steamers, coast defense guns and war-ship armament. Another piece of forging in the exhibit of this company is a spare shaft for the Puritan, which is 39.5 feet long and 27 inches in diameter, with ag-inch hole in the center. The weight of this shaft 1s 65,900 pounds, while an ingot in the exhibit weighs 108,190 pounds. B orrice PLAN OF GALLERY--TRANSPORTATION BUILDING. " = ass eee aie | | Pa] Great Britain x Q : 7 incraneh hae OP ms ep) a =| meee e RI SHUSSIS EST Set +e] 4 SAAR SINS [= WV, Supply Cf os he vie Pe. views v eee ma Bao TS ~~ bx v. Pesan er sis bed fe 7h Wh 3 'a- | | 8- Ww: eel) fh) FP es OY) A 5 Toos Deen. | Detroit Boat 2 | 3 2m Hat . . a ee oake | [ac |S [eetteben| | ae | be Fe] Otis, Bros Son. SS BEIGE S iim ES yo" s n ; fo niece & = : : KS WAS tealia ca 2.Ce. id x, RAN Re a % Greak Brite tithe. 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It is covered in leaf shaded from gold to silver, and the plaster cast relief in the panels at the sides of the entrance are works of art showing the earliest modes of trans- portation. Willard Smith is chief of the denartment of transportation, but Lieut. C.-W. Baker has been detailed for the marine division. Ship builders or owners calling on Mr. Baker for special information will find him very obliging. His office is at the head of the stairway near the '"'golden door" entrance. 'he four great marine exhibits in the building are: The full sized section from the International steamer building at Wm. Cramp It is 54 inches diameter and 15 feet long. 'The finish on this shafting ismuch finer than that of the English work. One of the thirteen plates for the Indiana's steel barbette is also shown. It is 12 feet by 9 feet and is 17 inches thick, weighing nearly thirty- five tons. The section of the International company's steamer is from the port side, amidships, including the middle funnel. It is 70 feet long, 35 feet wide, and is equal to about one sixteenth of the whole steamer. No machinery is shown, but the fittings of the different classes of passenger accommodations is interesting. The section may be entered from either end, the floor of the building representing the water line. 'There is found the steer- age with comfortable bunks and blankets, and the young man who has been thinking of going it steerage just for fun will be encouraged. Next is the main deck with several state-rooms, and some second-class rooms. On the next deck is the dining room. 'The pannels inthe hall are gold stucco work, rich but plain, and the same hallway leads to the lower promenade deck. The ceiling of the dining room is in silver frame and green