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TO LONDON BY RAIL.
AN ALL ROUND THE WORLD ROUTE
WHICH is PRACTICABLE.

sian Government Already Helping.
Could Distance Jules verne's Travellers.
It is quite probable that some Of those who
cad this page will make an all rail journey
rum New York to London, or from London
Z" New York; A recent writer has been
arefully thinking out the whole escheme. How
all this ever be when 5000 miles Of Atlantic
sean separate the two places3 he asks
England lies to the east of the United
states, but to reach it by railway the trav-
Ter will start westward, and, riding day
,fter day and night after night until he
reaches the opposite side Of the globe, where
vest and east meet and separate, and then
xeepng on still westward, he will arrive at
London. having well nigh traversed round
the world
This is no idle fancy. The scheme involves
no ocean ferrying, no stupendous and i'm.
practicable bridge building. From the east
ern shore of America to the western border
ot England there stretches continuous dry
land. with the exception of the narrow and
comparatively shallow straits of Behring,
hrtween America and Asia, that are small
obstacle. the narrow English channel, only
twenty miles across, and the rivers which
science already knows how to span
The English end of the projected line, how
ever. is OF comparatively small Importance
The real problem lies in spanning the tre-
M ndous distance that lies between tho north
", stern boundary of the United States and
the eastern frontier of Europe
TIE PROPOSED ROUTE.
From New York to n little beyond the
northwestern boundary of tho United States
continuous rail communication is already
olcn by way of the Canadian Pacific railway,
which will soon be supplemented by the COM
plrtion of a connection between the Northern
Pacific and the British American line.
Europe, from the Atlantic ocean to the
Ural mountains which separate it from Asia,
is now crossed by tho locomotive, its eastern
border being reached by two great Russian
railways, one terminating at Orenburg and
the other at Ekatcrinburg, which last lies
nearly due east from Moscow and southeast
from st. Petersburg. The vast Russian en-.
pire in ASIA stretching from tho ural noun
tains to the North Pacific, and far up almost
to tho Arctic circle at Bchrins straits, II
distance or thousands of miles, has not as
yet one solitary line of railway 1t is across
this prodigiols stretch of country, much of it
well pcopled, but much, also, an unknown
wilderness. locked n large part Of the year in
the embrace of tho Arctic winter, that the
trans Asiatic line must penetrate.
But a great step i'll this direction has already
been taken. Tho Russian government feels
the necessity of railway communication
across its Asiatic empire, and the car has
sanrtioncA IA project for the gradual construc
tion of ,-elway from the Ural mountains
to the waters of tho Pacific Mt Vladivostocli,
the extreme southeastern point of tho Rus
sian empire. lying about latitude AZ, directly
opposite the northern, most of tho chief
islands in Japan When that great work is
. romplishcl. central Asia will be brought
into much nearer correction with America
than now, rs Vladivostock lies almost due
west from Portland, Ore, and tho distance
between tho two continents is much less than
it is farther south
But this will not do for our all rail route,
which must be made by n line branching off
from the great Russian Pacific railway at
some point perhaps thousand miles west of
Vladivostock, and running northeastcrly
through Siberia to Dehring straits.
The crossing of the Behring straits is de-
rlnred by somo experienced travellers to be
entirely practicable. In tho narrowest place
they arc said to be only ten miles wde and
while Cor part of the year boats can easily
ross, it is asserted that the straits arc dotted
with islands, by means Of which, and inter-
vening bridges, continuous passage could
he effected
Alaska does not, 1t must be admitted, offer
very encouraging field for railway build
.ng, so far Us either climate, Typographical
caturcs or productions arc concerned, but
II interposes no obstacles which money and
+lill could not overcome.
Z 'F9f R THE DISTANCES.
a The distances over which the railway would
! syst to be built to carry out this great scheme
ARE, tn rot ID numbers, a1odt as follows:
Miles
United States boundary to Behring straits 200
Sthrrt, traits to junction with Russian
Pacific railway 200
Junction to European line at Eksteripburg -a,5o
Total yet to be constructed s,--. ~. -. 7,uc
This looks like tremendous IsnxtH II lin
to build, and yet about an equal Amount d
railway mileage was probably built n tn
year lSSs in the United States alone, and il
! one recent year almost double that milcag,
was constructed.
Some of the distances by our great railway
| and its connections would be about as fol
| lows:
Miles
He" orH to Port Moody British America) $50
Port Moody to Behring straits . 200
Dehring straits to Cral mountains ... $50
Crnl mountains to London .......... 800
Total New York TO London. oil rail 400:
This would be a pretty long rail journey
but it would be short compared with many
ocean voyages that are now made; in fact, Il
would DO only about three and half time.
as long as tho journey from New York te
San Diego, which is undertaken every day.
Allowing the moderate average of twenty
iiTe miles an hour, tho trip from New Yorl
to London would take about twcnty-thrct
days. Then the tourist might add seven
days sail from Liverpool to New York, and
thus accomplish trip around tho world in
thirty days, which would beat Jules Verne's
travellers out of sight.-New York Journal.
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