St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-13
EURO Fan pathways.

Germany Leads, with ENGLAND
France. Russia, Austria and ,,atu
Following.
London Times.
AN important document has recently been
puo'lshed by the International Railway
commission, OF which DR.. Won Bracelet If
VIENNA the head of the statistical dapart-
ment OF The Austrian ministry of commerce
Is the president, and which consists of rail-
way ENGINEERS and official statisticians an
pointeo by the various European states If
- Ine lrst report (prlnted in German and
frehcn) or the commission, and contains
comparative international railway statistics
LII an appendix to the report are given the
mileage OF the railways of every E'urnnaaro
country. and its proportion to their arass
ana populations. The report only deals
win The railways I'D tn ths
end OF 1888. The Carmen
Empire had the greatest MILEAGE
open at the end of that wear namaIv.
So I49 klometers. Great Britain and Ire.
lana follow with So O5S kilometers: then
France. with 29,469 kilometers: Russia
with 23.9 $40 kIlOmeters; Austria. with
~ $50 kllonleters; and, at long distance,
uaiy' with only 1902 kilometers. The
other countries dealt with in the report had
Che ioilowing mileage at the end of 1889:
opaln' S'25l; Sweden, 5000; Belgium.
4. oSo; switzerland. 2. 79S; Holland. Ills:
denmark l'ol7; Norway, 1852; Portugal.
L l. oSo' hounlana lob; Finland 1.1Sl:
European turkey, LIS; Bosnia and Her
aoso',nd' o40' Luxembourg, 366; Bulgaria,
@@@, 1feece. % kilometers. Relatively,
that IS to say. compared with the
area of the various countries RpIoium
was best provided with railways, havin1 at
the end of 1888 one kiometer of railway
to every 6.S square kil0meters of area it
was followed by Luxembourg with one kilo-
meter OF railway to every seven souare
kli0meterS OF area; Great Britain and Ire
iand' to lO.4 Switzerland. to 14.S: Ger
iiahy' 10 l5.l square kilometers. The
otller countries are ranked in the following
ordef: Holland one kilometer to each 1913
square kllometerS; France, 17.9; Denmark.
~ ltaly' 29.0; Austria. 3O3; Portugal.
OIL; SPAN. els; Sweden. GIL: Ron
mama, S6.S; Bosnia and Herzegovina
HOS; European Turkey. 17S.S: Norway
2037; Russia 209.5; Bulgaria. 2SS.1: Fin
land. 1868; and lastly, Greece with one
kilolneter OF railway to every 9. 94O.4 square
kllometers of area. The proportion of rail-
way mileage to the population was at tie
END OF 1883 most favorable in Luxembourg
zone kllometer of railway to every SIP in
habltants). The second place was occupied
by Sweden, with its thinly scattered popu-
latlon; the proportion being one kilometer
TO 997 inhabitants. Switzerland was third.
with l.O32 inhabitants to each kilometer of
railway. Denmark, fourth. with Lis:
Great Britain and Ireland, fifth, with
l, 1874; Norway, sixth, with 1,226;
France, seventh. with 1878, and
Germany, eighth. with l.2S3 inhab-
ltants. The proportion in the remaining
countries was as follows: Belgium. 1924:
Finland. 1,S14; Austria. 1889; Holland.
l. 995; Spain. 2. 04S; Italy. 8. 021; Portugal,
3.091: Bosnia and Herzegovina. 5000;
Russia, 1904; Roumaaia 8. 553; European
Turkey. 900; Bulgaria 9.O44; and Greece,
9l,Hl Inhabitants to each kiometer of
With the exception of Greece
ana Russia, where railway construction has
lately been active. especially in the latter
country Tor strategical purposes, the pro-
portions to area and population have not
changed much during the last two years.