Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-04-07
Tho Palestine Railroad,

tho East, artcaarls 10 Palestine, which many
Thick has b;iian. future 10 store for it. the
moment the breath leaves the body ofthe "siok
man, who has domineercd ever Israers herit
ago SO long. Tic Ottoman empire has been
on the Tauo siGca 1926. is growing less and
less tch year, and 10 Sctiptural language "thc
great river Euphrales" will 10 short time be
entirely dried up. and the way Of the kings Of
the East" 1.-THE Jews) DO prepared. Already
there are q. 600 Jews 10 Jerusalem:
Sirco tho brief statement last month of the
Incorporation Of the Palestine Railroad We
have learned additional fscs oouccroug i.
which give the enterprise new importatc'. 1t
is c'rtsln to btc)me. when Completed, an Eff
Gent clement il E,stern pei tics. 10 case CT
paaot. it will By ct continuous b:nefs t. the
nations it conuecs; 10 o9s, of war, it will
give lmnehso sdvantsg, to tho power which
controls 1t. AS was understood when the
charter was first made Iu5l;c. tho Msssa-
chrsitts operators are small iac.or The
reel wo,k is 10 b, dore With tho fnano,sl sup
port If tao large Eogish bankiog houses,
add he charter " ~ ohtsined with the minimum
anouut OF capital aud namber cf ire rporatcrs
There are in The c,mpaby fifteen meu, With
each ono shsro CT SIC OK at enc hut drcd dclIsrs,
and only tigh. OF the fifteen live 10 Massactu
sets-Jdst enough to come within tho law. L.
Is likely, however, that the Enterprise will re-
osiVe did 10 this country, perhaps moro than
Was at trst eXpt c!ed, for within three days BIS.
ton Capitalist has sub cribad for ,wen'y-sovcn
thousand dcliuss' worth of the s;tck. Tho same
sIlnt, furthermore. which led him to subs ibo
IL likely TO b, en- iudu1enent 10 others.
Under the charter tho proposed rad will e
tend from Cairo, in Egypt, 10 Mosul. on the
llaer IlgIls, with brarcbes to Jerusalem, Jafa,
NabIus, Beirut. Aleppo. Iskenderoou, and
Elz:ronm. ii il should be judged best or rcces
sary to build Them. 10 detail the route is de-
sciibed as follows: Beginning at Cairo. the
road runs rorthward on the PeIusiac branch Of
the Nile to Pcrs Sill, the rorlbern end of the
Su'z Canal. At this point connection will BE-
possible with the lines Of steamers iunbng be-
tween toe East and Europe. Turing eastward
from Port Said, the road will psss over the
level plain near the saashoro, across the desc.
late ri c. between Egypt AID Palestine. Soon
alter entering Pacsioe it goes through GAIA,
Esdud, (tho ancient Ashdod,) and there. to
Raulob. AT Ibis pIac, the brsrches for Jsffa
aud jerusalem will leave The main line, the
Jerusalem braGch ascending tho valley of
Tho Natr Rabn and Wadi Surar. 1t reaches
tho city from the porlh and wsst of the
Gibon valley and Tho ststion will be at or near
tho Damascus gate. Leaving Ramleh. the
msln line runs north through tho plsia Of
Sharon 10 point near the ancient Bethsr,
whenca branch is proposed to Nablus, the
ancient Shccbeu. Continuing rorlbcsly from
Bathar to the Abu H,tu.a. tho road ascends
that river valley end crosses the Carmel range
through The Mcgiddo pass.
From Cairo to this point tie maximum ctale
Is twenty icat 10 a mile, AID through tho pass
It Is forty feet to lie. From tho base cs the
hill CT Nlcgiddo a branch is proposed, to luo
down the plain Of Esdraelop, and thence
nolhwsri a:org the shorc through Acre aud
Sldon, and By the ruins Of Tyre to Beyrout.
lskenderoCn lies ncrih of Bayrcus at the
northeast corner of tho Mediterranean Sea,
upon tho gulf CT the same Damc Tho main
line passes from Megiddo rcross tho plain of
Esdracou, by tho base of Mount Tabor, and
along tho West sido Ct Lake Genuesaret. 1t
Crosses tho Jordan OF or near jacobs bridge,
and follows 1p the valley, and gradually climbs
the Jebel uoish at grade IF Sky feet to the
Ellie. CIosslog tile summit and descending the
valley on the other side. it stretches across The
pain to Damascus. Thence it is protected to
the Eunhratts, to c,rneot with The Eupbrates
Valley hail! DAD, which is about to DO built by
On EoRl.sh company. From tho river it extends
to Mosu, and viii connect taero with q pro-
pcsed railroad from Diabekir and tho Black
Sea. Branches to Aleppo ard Erz,roum will
DO constructed rs soon es desired alter the com.
ple'ion Of tho main line.
Such 10 tho plau. Az it stands, it briggs
the Russian frontier ncar Egypt aud makes
connections with lodia more feasible. Ii it
should rroVe TO be the beginning Of WILDLY
extended system Of railways ftom Iuds to
Asia Minor and tho Mediterranean Sea. it will
quicken wonderfully tho older civilization of
tho Esst With the newer civilization of the
West. Ii will Strengthen the power of Fog
Han arms English customs and the English Ian.
gua2e With the influence Er gland now has
over turkey, with the island or Cyprus in the
control OF Engsnd, with railroad straight into
The continent built by English money and man.
sgad in English interests, tho island kingdom
would be moro than ever q power in the East
SUCH road As this will strengthen England in
her def ense against Russia, whenever the contest
comes betwoon tho enlsrgirg boundaries OF thu
dominion in India and the southwark creeplpp
line of the Muscovite empire
IL ID the Intention cf the officers Of the road TO
push its construction rapidly as soon az the ne.
cessary authority can be obtained from the Turk
lsh Government. This authority is expected
soon through The exertions of the probe ctors s0d
Inc English and American ministers ct Constan.
tinopie. The president Of the road will depart
Ia q te" Weeks for London, Const.n.icople and
tho Esst. Boston ADJ.