The morning call., 1894-05-29
is A RUSSIAN ENTERPRISE.
Connecting With the Great
Siberian Railway.
vLADNOsTOCK TO SAN DIEGO.
Further Details of the Work Being
Done by the Agent Now
in This State.

SAN DIEGO, May 28-Count L. j. Tel
eky. young Austro-Hungarian who is
financially interested in the scheme to
establish a steamship line between the
Russian port of Vladivosrock and San
Diego and San Francisco. has been in the
city for several days for the purpose Of
Incorporating his health. The Count, who
has been living incognito here, is polished
young gentleman, much Travelled. and con-
verses in very pleasant manner. To an
Associated Press correspondent, this even
ing. he gave further particulars of the
plans of his company, which were pub
lished some weeks ago.
1.-The plan to establish steamship line
between Vladivostock and American ports
has long been the desire of SibirakOv, the
great Russian fnancier and capitalist"
said Count Teleky. HE is the Rothschild
or Russia and principal stakeholder in the
Siberian TTanscOntinental Railroad, W hich
Is TO connect VladiyOstOck and St. Peters
burg, distance of 10000 miles. Three
thousand miles or this road is ar present
IN operation across Siberia from VladiVo-
stock, other sections have been built be-
tween the inland terminus and St. Peters
burg, and the whole line will be finished
in 1895. according to the terms of the con-
tract. The 5000 miles already stretching
inland from the.Paeifie have DEVELOPED a
great amount of business. steadily increas-
ing in volume. and Sibirakow and
Szewoloff, his principal associate, are de-
termined to inaugurate the protected
steamship line TO San Diego and
San Francisco with as little DELAY
as possible. An expenditure of $4,000. 600
at this port for docks and warehouses is
contemplated, San Diego having been Sc
lected as the principal port at this end of
the line. Last year Ivan Gavetsky, an
eminent Russian civil engineer, was sent
to Chicago to make overtures to certain
American capitalists for the purpose of
enlisting capital in the enterprise.
Gayetsky's mission was not very success
full, but the New York aud Chicago CAPT.
tallsts who were induced to become inter
ested cannot come. Suffice it to say that
Gavetsky and the Americans organized in
Chicago the Russian-American Direct
TRANSPORTATION Company with q capital
OF S31 100000. After its orCaniZa-
ton last October Gavetsky returned to
FladivostocK to report to Sibirakow,
while !, who have come out from Europe,
and Gavetsky in Chicago, came on to San
Francisco to await his return, and Incl
dentally to inspect the Union Iron Works
plant. Gavetsky writes that the company,
as organized in Chicago. met with the un-
qualified approval of Sfbirakow and the
Russian Government. and that the actual
establishment of the line will follow the
arrival in San Francisco about July Is Of
Ivan Makejew, who has absolute author
ity from Sibirakow to contract for new
vessels and buy steamers already afloat.
as may be deemed most practicable"
Count Teleky will leave tomorrow or
next day for San Francisco to await the
arrival of Gavetsky and Makejew He is
charmed with San Diego and Coronado.
and is greatly improved in health in con-
sequence of his sOjourn here. He expects
TO return in the latter part of July and
spend some time here.