Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1905 — Modernization of Egypt. [ARTICLE]

Modernization of Egypt.

With a trolley towing plant established on the banks of the Nile to draw dahabeahs to and fro, the Modernization of Egypt may be considered as tolerably complete. The forty centuries which, as Napoleon told his soldiers, stood on the summit of the pyramid looking at them as they marched past are no doubt still there, keeping their long vigil, but whatever may have gone by beneath them they have never looked forth on an electric trolley and towing apparatus to multiply from ten to thirty times or more the flotillas and commerce of the Nile, exceeding all the efforts of Amenhotep or Psammenitus. The apparatus may not be so spectacular as the pyramids, hut it promises to be much more useful to Egypt.