The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-25

thusiastic of manner, speaking fair En-
glsh, and, as learned through the sor-
row of subsequent cefeat, . good chess
player.
"Ahl o letter writer!' he said. Every
veil; you shall tell your American people
this autumn-this fali-they shall come
! here and not ride donkeys or old carriages
| shy more, for they shall be carried all the
bay from Chicago to Jerusalem by steam.
The grading is about done; the rails are
nearly laid; and the--what you call it,
the rolling stock is already here"
"When do you hope TO run the first train
sp to jerusalem 2" asked.
ut is not hope; it is fact, he replied.
&"The road will be fully equipped in
august. and We shall run the first train
|sp to Jerusalem in September, opening
With grand display--the Sultan. perhaps,
aud all that Any time after warm
weather diminishes you shall ride up to
| The Holy City. Allons! Hurrahi"
Another thing" no added, after q
minute, .'all Of our cars aud engines are
American--ali from Philadelphia. We
have bought five engines-locomotive
rou call them-and ten passenger cars
Hong Yankee cars, all in one room-social.
Your locomotives are rs cheap as the
fEnglish. and they are more easily moved
around sharp curves"
"WelI." I said, "and about the length
Of road, the grade, the gauge, ETC.: give
me some figures for my American papers,
please"
Length of road, fifty-two miles. Mar
row gauge; thirty-nine inches IL somewhat
cheaper and better fitted to this billy land.
Our heaviest grade is 10 feet to the mile
not very serious, your Yankee engineers
think"
"What company is doing the work 7"
"A Turkish company-the stock is
owned by Frenehmen."
This government is a tough customer
to deal with, they say ?"
He cast at me quick glance. shrugged
his shoulders, and said. "Ah, no! mol
The best in the world !"
Jerusalem is your ultimate terminus!
'Yes for the present. The plunge be-
yond down TO Jericho-an average OF
nearly 90 feet TO the mile-is somewhat
appalling to capital. But two other
branches are already suryeyed-one of
south 10 GAIA. and the other north to
samsria. Nazareth, Galilee, ETC. and
these will probably be built within two
years. And that to Damascus is begun.
AL OF these railroads. under the charter.
PISS into the possession OF the Turkish
government gra;uitoasly in seventy-hve
years"
Can you give me the reasons which
nav, aase induced capitalists 20 pene s,s 'ua'
tais road I'D 10 Jerusalem will pay T.
Certainly; with much pleasure. VI
coarse, We began by making an estimate
OF the regular traffic. The government
owns this turnpike between JANA ana
Jerusalem aud collects tolls OF everything
Wat passes. Every camel that passes
PAYS Ia the government piastres-about
~ cen;s-and every carriage % cents.
!here are about 100. 600 passengers year
sad i5,oo0 tons OF freight The pasha, who
seieeis tolls for the government, receives
aoat 10000 francs year, say SZu,oh'
III Ua!ing sne busy season there are more
Fl saan 200 esmels on the road every day.
II As We spoke a caravan went oy--ten
ssnsls and four dininutive donSeys.
lac afst camel had u rider, who guided
am, perched forward upon the cargo,
sAa the others were teIhered Ia each
oshsr with ropes fore and att, while three
% Tour drivers hurried along on foot by
sae side OF the procession. l have no
9oaet. by the way, that this dragging
tsH~is ~ tae chin Is the evolutionary
.ssea Why every one of these hump
a - "'sSFs va Assc ucsSis say eN' -
use horizontally as he walks. eievates hfa
hsIseuTg lip ~ Warner Miller calls II
aao sri kc> a permanent attitude with DIS
ueAa hsi IS naughty and lu6lcrous. These
caravans are chief element of pictur
ssqseness and novelty N these Eastern
aAnaseares. | estimated that We passed
aeafiy i,Uocamels between Jsiis and Jeru.
salem
81 lie pilgrim 10 Jerusalem this year
1s.sees, shortly after leaving Iaffa heap:
isesn earth upsossed and the inquisitiy,
I sasaeriean eye follows the suggestion q
4 s.o newly graded bed of the railroad climb
sas up the slope towards where Jerusalem
SINNERS In the sun on the hills forty mile,