The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-05-29
AROUND THE WORLD
A0omplete Circuit to DO Made in
Forty Days
Effect OF the Completion OF the
Railroad Across Siberia

Reports from the line Of the Trans
Siberian railroad indicate that Central
Asia is soon to feel some such impulse
Of growth as came TO many parts Of
our West with the development Of
railroads beyond the Mississippi.
The cities Of Kourgane, Tcheliabinsl,
Petropavloysk, Omsk, Tomsk, and
others along the line Of the new rail.
road have already felt tho impulse.
Crowds began rushing into the eoun-
try last summer and AUTUMN, aud al
though the line to Tomsk was opened
only in December, the city now has
electric lights ia its streets, and there
and at the other cities named new
stone houses have been going up.
Even the Siberian winter could not
entirely cool the ardor of the Russians
But aside from the spectacle Of a
sudden Development Of modern ciyiliz-
alton in Asia, tue Trans-Siberian rail
road has an interest for mankind from
the fact that this line is materially
to shorten the journey round the
world. II is only about twenty years
since a journey round the world IN
eighty days seemed remarkable. 1t is
now easily done in sixty-fye days. A
shipof the Peninsular and Oriental line
sails from Brindisi, Italy, every Sun
day evening for Bombay. On the
Friday evening before the Peninsular
and Oriental express, crossing the Con-
tinent by rail to Brindisi, leaves Lon
don with mails aud passengers for the
eastward bound steamer. That steamer
reaches Alden IN nine days and Bonn
bay in fifteen days, 80 that on reach
ing the latter point her passengers are
usually sixteen and a half days from
London, as the vessel is due at 8 a. m.
These ships, though not especially
swift, are extremely regular in their
time of arrival.
Going on eastward, the passenger
reaches Hong Kong thirty-one and a
half to thirty-two and half days from
London, and Yokohama n The average
forty-three days from London. The
journey thence to London, across the
Pacific, the continent of America, and
the Atlantic, has been made in twenty
one days, so that if the traveller makes
close connections at Yokohama he ac-
complishes his journey round the
world in from sixty-three to sixty-four
days.
Most OF this journey is made on the
ordinary schedule time of railroads
and steamboats,, though the twenty
one days journey from Yokohama to
London was the result of special eff
fort. The ordinary schedule time for
that part of the journey is, however,
much faster than the schedule time of
any equal distance on the journey
from London to Yokohama, because
the ships that cross the Pacific are
swifter than those of the Peninsular
and Oriental company, while the train
service across this continent is the
swiftest in the world for such dis
lance, and, of course, there are no
swifter merchant ships than the best
of the Atlantic liners. There are no
delays at ports in the voyages across
the Pacific and the Atlantic, as in the
tortuous voyages of the Peninsular
and Oriental ships through the Red
Sea and around the continent of Asia.
There are about 140 degrees of east
longitude between London and Yoko-
hama, and it requires forty-three days
to make the journey, while between
Yokohama and London are go de-
grees of longitude, and these are
covered in from twenty-one to twenty
three days.
OF course the distance actual.
traversed in the first part of the jour
ney is nearly as great as that in thu
last part, and much less of it is by
rail. 1t is the lack of rail communi
cation across Asia that makes tn,
journey round the world SO long as
now is. Europe and Asia being trav
ersed by rail the whole remainin
water journey would be made by swii
ships with few stops.
The Journey by rail from Londo