| Show queer beer transports transports t ran sports still in use the world over in od odd d contrast with modern speedy traffic washington record breaking streamline trains and giant airliners have recently been news sensations in america italy Is still applauding an air minded son who sped through the air more than miles an hour a short time ap ago and great britain Is just quieting quieting down after celebrating the victory of two of her flyers who won the london to melbourne air race modern transportation this but one can still find types of transportation facilities even in the worlds largest cities and their rural neighborhoods that were in use decades and even centuries ago cabbies tabbies Cab bies still available there Is not h a sizable town in the united states in which one cannot hall a taxi and in many of them charter a plane yet the top cabbie whose pompous figure held sway over traffic on boulevards in the gay nineties has not been entirely shelved says the national geographic society these tax imen of another era have jealously watched as new traffic lights have been installed traffic lanes have been painted to keep modern motorists from crushing bumpers and fenders and streets have been widened and trees rees sacrificed to mal make e room for more of their rivals yet they still constitute something of a traffic problem within sight of concrete 40 mlle mile an hour highways and less than a hundred miles from washington D C and annapolis md ox drawl drawn vehicles still lumber along while in the isolated mountain regions of the west lest sure footed burros and pack mules continue to be the only companions of many rugged prospectors millions of visitors arrive at atlantic city by automobile airplane and train yet to see the sights along the boardwalk they hire three wheeled rolling chairs others arrive at bermuda aboard palatial steamships but take to bicycles to tour the island on the corners comers of modern wide thoroughfares of shanghai hong kong and canton china the traveler halls a and weaves perilously through a maze of motor and pedestrian traffic in the alley like ilke back streets of the native towns however he may prefer a sedan chair to avoid jostling men and women and stumbling over children to whom these mere byways are playgrounds even wheelbarrows what traveler leaves durban natal without employing a zulu rik shaman the dark hued tribesman in gay ay feath ered headdress and scant clothing Is one of the colorful features of the south african city tn ta remote wan province china wheelbarrows which are the local transports have worn ruts in flagstone nag stone pavements ments in sumatra if one goes native he must travel in a buffalo drawn cart whose thatched top Is shaped like a sway backed horse pointed at each end in palermo sicily the purely sicilian way to get about town Is by native cart a two wheeled vel vehicle on whose side panels are gayly depleted depicted bible scenes and sicilian panoramas and in ireland the irish jaunting car on which passengers sit back to back and face outward lends atmosphere to a tour of the emerald isle llamas still carry loads in the andes and elephants still are favored anion among the tiger hunters of india in spite of progress in belgium the morning milk is still delivered by dogcart at many a doorstep and dog sleds are yet the most dependable transportation in the icy wastes of the arctic and antarctic the tired explorer enjoys comfortable travel in a hammock like ilke chair borne by native porters in central africa the mountaineers of northern india and western china employ the yak as their beast of burden the camel still plods the caravan routes of north africa arabia and central asia and the water buffalo is the dependable dratt draft ani mal of the east indian islands |
