enthusiastic Englishmen stormed the stadium gates to see the Americans compete against one another. -Popular Mechanics Railway Trains to Rival Airplanes Frank H. Alfred president of the Pere Marquette railroad, believes that by building a thick concrete roadbed and equipping locomotives and cars with roller bearings, a train may compete in speed with airplanes. A section of this new track is to be built near Detroit. The new-style roadbed is to be a slab of concrete, eighteen inches thick by ten feet wide. The rails are to be carried on steel trusses which will be imbedded in the concrete and, in addition to forming a place to which the rails will be attached, the truss will distribute the weight of passing trains evenly throughout the heavy concrete roadbed. That, says Burton Holmes, the great travel lecturer, is the greatest sight on earth today, and so he puts it at the head of his list of the seven most marvelous things he has seen. Out of his thirty-four years' experience he compiled a list of the seven greatest sights he has ever seen. One of the seven is in the United States-the Grand Canyon of the Colorado-and he puts it fourth on this catalog of wonders. First of all come the ruins of Angkor-a vast city of magnificent stone buildings that have stood empty and alone in the midst of the jungles since The Yomiemon, or Gate of Beauty, of the Japanese Shrines of Nikko, Marvelous Piece of Gold- Lacquer Werk, Called by the Natives the "Sunrise to Dark Gate" Because it Takes All Day to Admire it High-Speed, Three-Cylinder Freight Locomotive Developed by Union Pacific Railway to Haul Mile-Long Freight Trains at Filty Miles an Hour; it is More Tuan 102 Feet in Length Interesting Places in the World At Angkor, in Cambodia, a province of French •Indo-China, are the ruins of the Khmers-a vast, lost city which once held more than a million people, who disappeared, where and when no man knows, and left not the slightest trace of their destination behind. their inhabitants, for some unknown reason, went away some eight centuries ago, never to return. Second he puts the pyramids of Egypt, probably the most familiar man-made monuments in the world, and follows them with the Taj Mahal, acclaimed by artists and architects as the most perfect building ever erected. |