| Show Queer Transports Still in Use the World Over In Odd Contrast With Modern Mod Mode ern Speedy Traffic Washington breaking streamline trains and giant airliners have Sieve recently been news sensations In America Italy Is still applauding an minded air minded son who sped through the theair theair theair air more than miles an hour a short time ago and treat Britain Is just quieting down after celebrating the victory of two of her flyers who Won the London to to Melbourne to-Melbourne air race Modern transportation this But nut Butone one me can still find types of Lion Ion facilities ties even In the worlds world's largest larg larg- est st cities and their rural neighbor neighbor- hoods hoods that were In use decades and even centuries ago Cabbies Still Available There Is not a sizable town In the United States In which one cannot hall hail halla haila a taxi and aud In many of them charter a plane Diane yet the top tOD top cabbie cobble whose pompous figure held sway over traffic on boulevards In the gay nineties has not been entirely shelved says the National Geographic society These taxi men of ot another era fOra have Jealous Jealous- Jealousy jealously ly 17 y watched as new traffic lights have been Hen Installed traffic lanes have been painted minted to keep modern motorists from crushing bumpers and fenders and streets lave have been ben widened and trees tree sacrificed to make room for more of their rivals yet jet et they still constitute something of ot a problem Within sight flight of ot concrete mlle 40 hour in-hour highways and less than a hundred bundred miles from Washington D. D C. C and Annapolis Std Sid ox-drawn ox vehicles still lumber along while In the Isolated Isolated ed mountain regions of the West surefooted sure sure- footed burros and pack mules continue to o be the th only companions of many rugged prospectors Millions of visitors arrive at Atlantic At antic lantic City by automobile airplane and train yet to see the sights along the boardwalk they hire wheeled three-wheeled rolling chairs Others arrive at Bermuda Bermuda Ber Der muda aboard palatial steamships but take to bicycles to tour the Island On the corners of modern wide thoroughfares of Shanghai Hong Fong Kong and Canton China the traveler tails halls a and weaves perilously through a maze of motor nn nail and pedestrian pedestrian pedestrian trian traffic In the like alley-like back streets of the native towns however howver he tie may prefer a sedan chair to avoid jostling men and women and stumbling stumbling stumbling bling over children to whom these mere byways are ale playgrounds Even Wheelbarrows What traveler leaves Durban Natal without employing a Zulu The hued dark-hued tribesman In gay feath ered eyed headdress and scant clothing Is Isone Isone isone one of the colorful features of the i South African city Tn In remote Szechwan Szechwan Szechwan wan province China wheelbarrows which are the local transports have hale worn ruts In flagstone pavements In Sumatra It if one goes native he be must travel ravel In a n buffalo drawn buffalo drawn cart whose thatched hatched top Is shaped like a sway sway- backed tacked horse pointed at each end In Palermo Sicily the purely Sicilian way t to get about town Is by native cart a wheeled two-wheeled vehicle on whose whole side panels are gayly Bayly depicted Bible DIble scenes and Sicilian panoramas and In Ireland reland the Irish jaunting car on which passengers sit back to back and face ace outward lends atmosphere to atour a atour atour tour of ot the Emerald Isle Llamas still carry loads In the Andes and elephants still are favored among the tiger hunters of India In spite of progress In Belgium the morn morn- lag Ing ng milk Is still delivered by dogcart I at many a doorstep and dog sleds are yet ret the most dependable transportation In the Icy wastes of the Arctic and Antarctic The tired explorer enjoys enjoy comfortable travel In a hammock hammock- like chair borne by native porters porter In central Africa the mountaineers of northern India and western China employ employ em em- ploy the yak as 81 their beast of burden the camel still plods the caravan routes of north Africa Arabia and central Asia Alla and the water buffalo burtalo Is I. the dependable draft ani mal of the East Kast Indian Islands |
