The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-10-09

sateu tsH 9I51,UUO, Tor The work, and
there is next to- a certainty that the
a IS2oO, 100000 mark will be passed before
tine work is done. The original esti-
m1rate was s175,o0o,0o0, and it has long
peen evident that this was going to be
gar from fro q. .adequate., And yet SITS, ,o0O,-
svoo Is not such bagatelle. II it were
IN American silver dollars and the dol
1ars were placed side by side and
touching each other, the line would
stretch along the tentire length of the
siberian railway from start to, finish.
and still leave dollars enough to make
q silver streak ninety-two miles in
.length." 81 .ts. ~ HI ,,.>< ~
4 The completion Of this remarkable
line means nothing more nor less than
an entire revolution in the freight and,
passenger business between Eu-
rope end the far East. That
1T means a - revolution in a.
great many other things is equally evi-.
dent, while the momentous possibil-
5lltles that 1T dimly foreshadows for the
pear future are truly portentous. But
IT'S effect upon traffic is sufficient. for
present consideration. j.; :.@.5. 81.
i 10 begin with, it is perfectly safe to
say that fully 80 per cent of the tray
:elers who now go to Europe by the
overseas (twenty-eight to thirty day
route will much prefer to make the
Journey in ten or twelve days at very
much less cost. This sounds very
much like the death-knell to the
steamship passenger-carrying trade
between Europe and China and Japan.
Millions of dollars that now 20 to
steamships, in other words, will then
go to railroads. Doubtless certain
kinds of freight will still continue to
take the water routes between the
Orient and western Europe, but even
Of the through freight ain enormous
quantity will go by the trans-Siberian
route 80 j..
i AS to passenger traffic, take~the cost
and time of the journey from London
to Shanghai for example Under pres
aent conditions, by the most popular
Sroute, the time is two days from Lon
don to. Brindisi and from Brindisi to
Shanghai thirty days - forty
nine days in all. It costs first class
$377.50, or second class s212. By way
sof Marseilles it takes thirty-five days
TO Shanghai and costs $347. 80. for first
$class and 1884 for second class. By
way of America it takes from thirty
-four to thirty-nine days from Liver
pool to Shanghai and the voyage costs
$500 first class. =. " 81 i 2 s-s
How will this service be by the ST.
berian route? From London to Wierz-
bolowo there is a day and a half of
travel, which costs $35 first class or s26
second class. From 'Wierz zbolowo by
st. Petersburg, Moscow, Samara, Tsit-
sikour to Vladivostok, 6,445 miles. IN
fourteen days (twenty mics an hour).
will cost only $54.50 for first class or
$32.7O second class. It will be neces-
sary to add for the extra cost of ex-
press trains $16.35 for first class and
$3.50 second class, and $925 for thir-
teen nights in the sleeping car. From
Vladivostok by Nagasaki to Shanghai
on the Russian steamboats, or the JAP
anese packet-boats takes six days for
the price of $40 first class or $37 in Sec
ond class. All the journey by this way
from London to Shanghai will thus on
ly last, twenty-five days and will only
cost $154.10 first class and s1O3.75 in
second class.
In the price by steamers meals are
included; adding then for meals on
the railroads, sixteen days, $48 for first
class passengers and $24 for those of
the second class, there will be totals
OF $2O2 and of, $12775, which is more
than a third cheaper than the Journey
by the other two ways.
Although as early as 1857 the desir-