The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-10-11
OUR FRIENDSHIP.
Is What Russia Seems to Be
Working For Now.
Publishing Exhaustive Reports
in English.


Consul General to Russia. DR.. John Mar
tin Crawford of Cincinnati
CNcNNATI, Oct. 10.-Dr. John Mar.
tin Crawford, a distinguished Cincin-
NATHAN who is now serving as United
States consul general to Russia, has
been highly honored by the cars gov
eminent. which over a year ago in
trusted to his care the preparation of a
voluminous English report on the re.
sources of the Russian empire, to be
sent officially to the worlds Columbian
exposition at Chicago.
The report is printed in five elegant
volumes. The first two volumes are
Manufactures and Trade with a gem
eral industrial map. Volume III treats
of agriculture and forestry, Volume "
of mining and metallurgY, and Volume
V of the great Siberian railway. An
extraordinary amount of new informa-
ton concerning the Russian people and
their extensive domain is Compressed
into the ], 1925 pages contained in the
five volumes, and the work will at once
take rank as the most important and
exhaustive one ever undertaken in the
Russian field.
Thousands of facts concerning Rus
STA which have never before seen print
in the English language, are laid bare
In the Crawford volumes.
The masses of material for the Co
lumbar report were gathered by the
direction of the Russian minister of
finance, who In turn gave the material
to MIR. Crawford to put into English
for the exposition at Chicago
1t Is understood that the Russian
government viii ship thousands of the
volumes to Chicago for distribution to
the American people. Crowford labor
ed 10 months every night in compiling
the volumes, and was obliged to read
all the proofs, as no English proof
reader of sufficient eduction could be
found in all Russia.
a preface to Volume /, written by "
i. Kovalevsky, director of the Russian
department of trade and manufacture,
clearly explains the scope and difficulty
of the work. and among other things
says;
Russia. inspired with long felt
sympathy, tending to unite the Amer
lean and Russian peoples, has answered
with the liveliest interest the invitation
of the friendly government of the
United States. and. has taken part in
the great exposition by sending various
exhibits to represent the principal in
dustries of the empire.
THE translation of this work into
English was fraught at the beginning
We're no translators at hand who knew
English and Russian sufficiently well
and who were at the same time thor
oughly acquainted with the technical
terms of several industries under con-
sideration. Furthermore, skill and ex-
perience in writing were requisite to
think out and select the proper express
sions correctly to represent in English
the many idiomatlc and technical
meanings of the several Russian au-
thors.
'.All of these difficulties were, how
ever, happily overcome through the
Kindness of United States Consul Gen
eral j. NJ. Crawford, who consented to
supervise and edit the entire series of
volumes on the industries of Russia,
embracing more than !, 900 large octave
pages. Still further is gratitude due to
the co. 8 Il general That he willingly
undertook tins very difficult task, know
ing that the time necessary for its ac-
complishment was exceedingly short"
The political significance of the five
volumes is that they are an official ex.
preston by the Russian government,
indicating its policy in many lines, and
asking for closer affiliations with the
United States.
It gives an exhaustive review of the
origin and progress of the TRANSIT
berian railroad and clearly indicates
that the Russians are after a goodly
share of the Chinese trade, which has
heretofore been monopolized by Great
Britain.
The following significant sentences oc-
cur in chapter on the ''Great Siberian
railway"
There is no occasion to dwell upon
the political Importance of the great
Siberian railway. Its significance is
clear, from the fact that when the line
is completed Russia will not only nomi-
nally but actually occupy that position
in the east of Asia which it holds
among its friends and enemies in Eu-
rope. AS the line shortens the distance
from European Russia to the east of
Asia. in like measure will the power
of Russia increase in the east.
Finally the opening of ra lway line to
the Pacific ocean will enable Russia to
carry on more direct intercourse with
the United States"
Vhe foregoing SENTENCES and many
others of a political nature, will at
tract the careful attention and study
of English statesmen as well as Amer
leans.
The threat of monopolizing the trade
of Asia, now enjoyed by England, is
breathed throughout the remarkable
volume devoted to the Trans Siberian
railway.