The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-22

road the journey can be made In the FIJI,
lowing manner: ~ III
New York 10 Bremen .........
Bremen to ST. Petersburg .......... y.
st. Petersburg TO Viadeverta at 80
miles an hour ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IN
Viadeverta TO San Francisco -0
San Francisco to New York ........ a.
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. %
This estimate gives to the Russian ran
road speed of but thirty miles an -
Engineers estimate that when the r1s5
has been in operation three vears -
average speed of passenger trains Win 10
far greater, and that the journey frou.
the North sea TO the Japan sea NAV h.
easily made in nine days and two bo,,r
The construction of the proposed Rritis5
American road will cut down the tir,
between the Japan sea and San Francs
co at least two days, hence It will be mo-
sible to make a trip westward from Ne7y
York via Chicago to London around tra
world in less than a month
Such trip probably can be made From,
chicago, including in it a steamship iour
ney from Liverpool or Southampton III,
New York, so that the journey will bava
girdled the earth for less than 500 NJ
timating fares on the unconstructed Inns
on the basis already established hv t1s
russian government and that already Ia
existence in northern United States. tha
cost would be about as follows
Chicago to Vancouver ........ e,
vancouver to KottOmangoo ............ 1ol
hottomangoo TO London ................. 1iq
London to New York ...........
New York to Chicago ......:....... ~
A total of ................ Soea
Add to this for meals, sleepinp ~
berths and other miscellaneous expense,
a continuous traveller could make tr,
whole journey for about $500. Think ~
that' We people who studied the man or
the world forty years ago and who d9rei
not then dream of ever seeing the Paol4e
ocean or think that old Mexico with its
volcano of POpocatapetl would ever In
reached by railroad
The amount of traffic which will sasl-
this new around the-world route can
hardly be realized. Consul Monagbao r.;
a recent letter to the state department
declares that the construction of the s
berian railroad is an event hardly second
in Importance to the cutting of the Sue
canal. July 1, 1904, he says VIII proba
bly, see trains running from the Ralti,
sea to the Japan sea. Five tho1s7r4
miles of steel rails have already been lai1
One year from now trains are IN IN,
over the Siberian road to the Amor ri
er. Thence by fast steamer passengers
post parcels and freight are to be nusb
ed on to ChaboroWka; thence, in eighteen
hours over the south Russian section ~
the Siberian road to Vladivostok, makipg
the distance from London to the most I'M
portant harbor of the Japan sea, III DAYS
Ninety per cent. of the present travel tn
the far east, it is estimated, will seek tba
al-rail route when it is completed es
peclauy when the cost of a first-cl9ss
ticket from London to Vladivostok will he
out SIG, as against the present fare via
Brindisi and the Suez Of $42S What dis
80 per cent. means is astonishing.
In 1885 216,938 passengers went via the
Suez canal to China and Australia. For
political, military and other reasons tie
compiler of these statistics drops ll7N
from the list of possible passengers for the
Russian route, leaving IS, 299. Taking
from this 1928 pilgrims. 10000 East In
dian travellers, and adding 1000 who
hitherto have gone via the American
peans who annually go to the far east for
pleasure, and We get 10000 mostly first
class passengers who win use the new
route.
The freight over the new road to the
east and that from the west naturally will
be that which pays the highest charges
furs, gold, silver platinum and tea Many
Of these commodities will go to Europe
out of Siberia itself. That land is rich
in minerals of all kinds especially the
Ural district Siberian furs are known
the world over.
Much as the road may mean 10 Ger
many, Russia and the rest of Europe il
means more to us, declares Consul Mon
Afghan. California, Oregon, Washington,
our whole western country, if not our
whole continent is interested in this road.
Russia has her hands full at home. The
hands to help in the east are ours. There
is something more attractive in our civil
cation and methods to eastern people than
in those of Europe; at least it is so assert
ed by eastern travellers. To develop the
resources of an empire so vast as Russia
will require capital enterprise and energy
such as has made us the richest nation
in the world. To equip her roads, to de-
velop her great agricultural, fishing, min
eral and forest resources Russia needs
just such implements as have helped us.
No time is to be lost if we are TO have
any part in the great drama that has for
its plot the development and mOdernizng
of the orient.
The commercial possibilities and bene-
fits to accrue to Chicago and the whole
northern half of the American continent
cannot now be estimated. but It is safe
to predict that eight or ten years hence
will witness a radical change in the di-
rection of transportation commodities
and passengers between the old world and
the new world, and ocean travelling VIII
have lost its terrors to thousands who
would visit Europe annually but for fear
Of drowning or the dread of the rackns
pains OF mal-de-mer.
j will not be long before the passen-
ger agents at the Union depot on Canal
street will announce the departure Of eX-
press trains for the Orient. The conduc-
tors will call out:
IAN aboard for Siberia, Japan and ko-
rea."
Take this car for St. Petersburg
through without change"
This car for Berlin, Paris and Lon
don"
Then will come to us ubiquitous COM
mercial travellers from beyond Berins
Strait with samples of tea and silkwhe
our own knights OF the road will invade
the steppes OF Russia taking orders for
reaDers and harvesters, and the demand
for a 25O00-mile interchangeable ticket
rood ON oil the rallrnnle Of AraDrL.l mn