The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-18


where he insisted on opening more
wine Landlord Walker asked MI:
Jacobs who his distinguished friend
was but Mr.. Jacobs said he didnt
know. having met him only a rev
hours previously on the tram from
Butte. Mr.. Walker, however. thought
the man must be all right. because ne
looked like IL, and more wine was
opened The next day. Sunday. II oc-
CURED to DIR. Richter that he wouiu
like to take his friend, Mr.. Jacobs out
for a sleigh ride. so he gave Mr. walk
er an order for team.
How many horses do you want!
asked Mr.. Walker.
-Four" was the reply with an air
of a man who never rode behind
smaller number.
The livery stable man, however.
could only spare two horses, but they
were the best team in town and DR..
Richter, Mr.. Jacobs and several others
enjoyed a drive, and afterwards dineu
and drank more wine at the doctors
invitation. He next asked to be direct
ed to a cable Office as he wished TO send
a message to his agents in Paris ana
Berlin.
The next day Mr.. Jacobs received a
note from Manager Walker of the Hell
ena, informing him that DIR. Richter
had left for parts unknown, that ne
had borrowed SO from the night clerk:
had failed to pay SIC hotel bill and
left behind two empty valises. Mr..
Jacobs was shocked. but the shock be-
came more severe when the manager
of his Helena Office told him that the
doctor had obtained from him thou
sand mile ticket on the Northern Pa
cifc with a promise to pay for 1t as
soon as he could get a draft cashed.
and he had any number of big drafts
in his pockets. Mr.. Jacobs had not
yet recovered from the second shock
when he received a bill from the livery
stable man for the team and sleigh.
However, he did not consider himself
responsible for Dr. Richter's bills, as
he had studiously avoided introducing
or recommending his new acquaint-
ance.
1t appears that the 1,000-mile ticket
had originally belonged to a DR.. l.. w.
Hoenock, and Richter had no trouble
in assuming the identity of the latter
person and a few days ago he turned
up in Seattle under that name, and
was interviewed as a great parsonage
| by the Post-Intelligencer. The inter-
view Is interesting as showing the va
| riety of harmless characters the i'm
| poster assumes. and the fact that he
| is a well-informed man on many sub
| jects. The interview in the Seattle
paper is as follows:
| DIR. L. w. Hoenock, who registers
| at the Rainer-Grand as from Paris,
| France, is the chief engineer of one
| of the divisions of Russias great rail-
road, returning to his point of duty
| from a visit to his mother in the gay
| French capital. Speaking of this great
| est railroad of the world, of which he
| is chief engineer of the line from Irk-
| utsch to Vladivostock, he gave these
particulars of the mighty enterprise:
1.-The total length of the line he
said. is $500 miles,, and then he
paused with a gracious smile for the
reporter to recover his breath. 1T is
going to be built in five divisions, and
each division will be built from both
ends of the line so as to complete II as
early as possible. The distance / have
mentioned is from Vladivostock to the
Ural mountains. and then we have
| a line of 260 miles over the mountains
| This will run from De Cathrinburg as
the point on the Asiatic side to Nichol-
asky on the European side. We cross
the mountains at a height of about
1880 feet, or a few feet higher OF
lower, and we shall have no tunnel
but winding ascents. such as you have
at Leadville and elsewhere. At Nicol-
asky we shall have connections with
the present railroad running to Mos
COW and st. Petersburg.
lon the line we cross three rivers
the Obi, the Genessey and the Lena
which empty into the Arctic ocean
and over these we throw suspension
bridges. The other river, the Amoor
we run alongside for 500 miles. 1t will
be a great line
land is there enough business fol
such an immense enterprise?'
what an American idea! This 1.
built as a great strategic line to brinl
Russia near to the center of the Asiati,
powers and right at the door OF India
When the main line is finished we will
build feeders. The Russian government
now has an understanding with tn
Persian government to run a line Z
Herat. We will have another brancl
line running into Afghanistan over tn,
, Thibet mountains. A third line will &,
into Beloochistan, between Afghanis
tan and Persia. In short, as / said
when these are completed we shall b.
in the center of thoNe Asiatic dominion
and India will be - our mercy
What is England's attitude towar,
this encroachment?'
Please don't ask me anything poll
| teal i may not answer you. L am al
engineer. the only foreign engineer oil
the work. and of that / cannot speak
, The scientific and the more importan
| work on the line is done by three mel
! who have been sent especially from tn
neighborhood of the Don and the Dnie
) per, the province of the Don Cossacks
, while the common work Is done by con
, victs under the guard of soldiers w
ballast the line partly by wood an,
! partly by gravel
? what is the approximate cost o
the whole scheme?'
2 II cannot judge of that. The cost
no object. The emperor has severa
times expressed himself In the mos
\ emphatic manner that the line is no
! built for commerce alone; commerce
e only secondary; the military feature
: come first. The object is to check Eng
{ fish aggression in Asia. The whole lin
< is being built in the most substantia
] manner, and is, from point to poin
q practically straight You know the In
e cident about the plan of the first Rus
e ian railroad? Several engineers lai
|, before Emperor Nicholas l.. the great
y grandfather of the present car, plan
e for a railroad between those Nv