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[[centered and double underlined]] Conclusion. [[/centered and double underlined]]

It is said upon good authority that the total value of the Transportation Exhibits will approximate [[inserted line across blank space with 'x' over it]] millions of dollars. It is interesting to note in conclusion that the first synoptical exhibit illustrating the development of the art of Transportation ever made at a general exposition was made by this section of the National Museum collections exhibited at Cincinnati in 1888 - only five years ago; it occupied less than a thousand square feet of floor space, and while it illustrated the development of every phase of transportation, beginning with human burden bearing and leading up to the locomotive and steamship, ^is cost only a few hundred dollars. Thus has interest rapidly grown in the historical as well as the material side of the art of applying the generated forces to the development of our great transportation systems - on land and water-that made it possible for this, the greatest of expositions, to be held and visited by the thousands, who passing through the "golden door" of the great Transportation Building exclaim with Bacon - "There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous, - a fertile soil, busy work-shops, and easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place".
[[footnote referring to line with 'X' in first line]] (X This amount will be inserted in proof. Chief of the Dept Mr. W.A. Smith will furnish it if I am absent EW.) [[/footnote]]