The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-11-19
The Russian Railway ReveIaflors.

ITO the Editor OF the u. : Gazette.
The statement IN regard 10 the railroad from st Peters
burg to Moscow recently published your paper pur
porting TO be copied from the London Daily Nes OF oc'o
Der l6 having produced IN the ,eegaphc despatch
OF the news by the Indian, printed your columns this
morning, (Which last, have founded
con muncatiorto the Ioudon TINES Of October % from
It's correspondent at Vienna OF October 16)
think proper 10 suhu,t the following facts The para
graph from tie London Times follows
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the d,ssnA from 81 reesbgrg MOSCOW to 6o vecs!s
: ssrsi sss ss
s 0rs o 81. had not M N yeo
tune discovery In order 70 make out the GOT yers all the d
The you can ssS s ne B
mon honesty OF men of high rank is n jeopardy.
The Times correspondent says
The american company OF which am I'M me@be3 which
at s events 'se par. Of that sun
This looks as if the American company were about
to build road from ST. Petersburg 70 Moscow whereas.
the railroad between these two cities finished and
opened IN 1850 and has ever since been in operation
The American company had any contract for build
ing the road their contracts from December ls44 and
still existing being exclusively for the construction and
repair Of the rolling stock Nor have the company
had anthing to do with working the rolling stock OF the
road In regard to the "exraordinary revelations con
corning the fraudulent OF the road beg
submit extract from the original report made to hin
Colonel Kron, dated Sept ID, ls4l, from copy IN my
possession, which says
is proposed adopt shortest line leaving Novogs
from SIS versa along The high road 500 vests crossing lie
s that s :, n ss;
making go have been reckoned, being
Of 70 rs o the dsvaons from the direct line and Is
will be seen by the above extract that the length was
originally estimated at 500 between the two Cities
that allowance for from the direct
of thirty yerss made which would have brought the
road TO go verss Conscientious railroad engineers
rs well known rather disposed to shorten the original
length Of projected road by revising the surveys than
to engthcn IT. and this is just what the Russian engineers
who projected the st Petersburg and Moscow road did
the road when finished beng bot GOA versts and
versts the s'reveatiOns make it, Thus engineers
only appropriated fourteen vests OF the allowance for dc
vatons instead Of thirty, which they could taken
and then have been within the length laid down in the
port to his Imperial Majesty This certainly docs not look
like fraud on Their part, does look they
dreamed Of such thing As trying to make the road APP
pear to be longer than really is. The road
worked Goa versts long, and has been rated
longer shorter since its completion.
The above extract from the original report with the eK
plantations have made, ought 10 be sufficient refutatos
OF the charges OF the English press against the original
projectors and engineers Of the road who Russiaa
officers OF high standing at home, and who
bered here high toned and refined gentlemen By many
Of citizens VINO frequently them during their stay
IN this country In regard 70 the in the heading o.
the article in the English paper of Brother Jonathan
Some Of his Tricks" and which it itaicses a sufn
Gent answer to say that Major George w Whistler tina
first American who ever had anything TO do with railroads
in Russia left this country for the first time there
June, 1912, whilst myself and Mr.. Thomas Wnans Of Bal
timore members Of the American company did
Russia until the part OF May l843 SO thai the
fraud pretended have been brought light by the
astronomical surveys OF Professor Strive hardly
charged to the Americans who have been ID
Russia sasmuch Is they not present un,: very
long time after the approximate length Of the road
had been fixed by the report 10 his Imperial Majesty
which approximate length only thirteen
creator than the called fraudulent length, the actual
finished length being three versts shorter than the figure
in the revelations" is curious fact that the "rcvc
atons appeared in the London Dily Ne,os October
TO- and the letter in the TINES OF October 20 also dated
Vienna october To- and purports to be extracted
from the CARTE de Cologne This news, from its word
ing, seems have come all from the source and
apparently by rather crcuous route from st. Peters
burg My letters from firm at 81 Petersburg up
to October and would have given about the latest
from which the English press could copy October Is
II these revelations rife at St Petersburg at tka
date OF my correspondents letter he would hardly have
omitted speak OF them. He not only says nothing
corning them but informs that "all matters go,ns
satisfactorily" JOSEPH HARRISON, JR,
lHLADEIITIA, Nov. 2, 1853. R.iienhou,e square,