MODEL-MAKER'S TRIUMPH.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18184, 22 September 1924, Page 11

MODEL-MAKER'S TRIUMPH.

AVORK OF AN EX-NEW ZEALANDEB. A canvas cover rises, the lights go on, and behold, a region of green and yellow mountains full of rushing railway trains, cages bringing coal to tie pithead, barges plunging into tho darkness of underground rivers, and other manifestations of man's ingenuity and industry. Such is the model (says a Sydney paper) which Mr Or. A. Julius is showing to tho public at hi 3 home to aid the funds of Boys' Week. It is not merely a glorification of the clockwork models one sees in shop windows about Christmas time. In every detail tho scientific principles governing large-scale construction have been observed, so that to have tho mechanism explained is .to take a liberal lesson in engineering. The tower of the transporter, which carries buckets of iron ore across the gorge, for instance, is. built upon tho principle of the inclined plane', providing for a compensating tension on the wires at each increase of the load depending from them. Everywhere on the. railway lines are electric safety devices, causing immediate stoppage in the event of_ a mistake with the points at termini and junctions. A crane picks up tho iron ore by magnetic force, and automatics lly dumps it into a chute, whence it passes into the waiting barge, which then goes whirring away into the bosom of th« earth. Everything is worked by electricity, Iu the obloug wall space at the back', some 15 feet by 7, four men have their time fully occupied attending to the signab which comes flashing into coloured glass bulbs, and connecting the corresponding power points. At ca.ch session, the various activities are explained in ' dfitaiL First come's the raising of tha coal from where, a light glows in lonely radiance from .the structure's fonndation. A railway truck receives theioad, is taken ur> by an engine on a turntable, and rattles olf to dump it into a store. There is a passenger train, too, with a headlamp on the engine, which rushes in and out. of tunnels, stops at the station, and waits for..the signal to • fall,.' to the intenso joy.of children. At last, day gives place to night, j the ■ lights flash pff, leaving only, the internal illuminations of the little the more brilliance of the hotel, and tho lighthouse" that turns continually. Again, . thero ara vari£gated'fairy lights over the landscape, with columns of soldiers on tha march through the-steep defiles o! tiut mountain. ' •i■ «.