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...address to the ex-camoufleurs last Fall, before his departure, Mr. St. Gaudens said his aim was to connect Art with the ordinary life of the people and to stimulate a more general appreciation...
...Road. It is almost a century since a charter was granted on Feb. 28, 1826, to the Mohawk & Hudson Railway, to connect the Hudson River with Lake Erie. In 1831 the first train was sent between Albany and Schenectady. In the next few years, there was a huge demand by promoters for railroad charters. Gradually the Hudson-Lake Erie route was built, by seven independent companies. In 1853 these and three additional roads consolidated as "The New York Central Railroad...
...Huntington, builder of the Southern Pacific. Today the system includes a trunk line of 597 miles, with 58 miles of sidings in Guatemala and Salvador. It is planned to construct about 100 miles of new roads from Zacapa to Santa Ava, Guatemala, and to extend the lines to connect with properties of American corporations. With the 100-mile gap completed, the road will furnish a direct route from the east coast across Central America to Touseca Bay on the Pacific shore, where the U. S. Government already has concessions for the establishment of a naval base, to protect the Pacific...
...contrary, few white men have ever penetrated it. Here are the scenes of all sorts of fantastic romances, like Conan Doyle's The Lost World and W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions. Here is the fascinating stream called the Casiquiare, reputed to flow both ways and to connect the Rio Negro, largest northern tributary of the Amazon, with the Orinoco. Here nations have not yet ceased to dispute each other's boundaries, for no one is quite sure of what is here. To bring order out of this geographical chaos is the chief purpose...
...largest bridge in the world is shortly to be built over the estuary of the River Elorn to connect Brest with Plougastel. The length will be six miles. It is to be made up of two approaches, one-third of a mile long, and four spans of one and one-third of a mile each...