The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-14


Klondlke in nine days!
To Pekin in sixteen daysl
around the dear old world in thirty
three days!
"Impossible!" do you say? Not bit
NJ it. The probability is that long be-
fore the mountain walls and river beds
NJ the Klondlke have been stripped of
their precious metal through trains win
he running between New York and
London without change of cars.
When the time comes it viii be posi-
HE TO board a train in the city of New
York and travel around the world in
thlrty.three days, making the entire
distance In luxurious palace cars, and
oil but about three miles OF the Journey
on land.
The Kloudlke country will more than
likely be reached directly by this, the
greatest of the worlds railroads, and
those central points In that marvellous
region about which we now hear so
much win be way stations on the road.
Dawson City win be within nine or ten
DAYS of Herald square, and excursion
tickets will enable thousands TO behold
The wondrous beauty OF the frozen
north who have only hoped to see II In
their dreams
Three Missing Links.
1t may be some years yet before this
stupendous undertaking of gIrdling the
earth by rail will be finished, but it is
only a matter of time. Day by day Eu-
rope and America are nearer and near
err 10 being Joined by railway. The
great Trans-S Siberian Railway Is al
ready more than half completed, and
when the last spike has been driven VIII
he bv FAR the longest and most costly
railway In the world. This line, with It's
European connections, will run over
tbree.ouarters of the land surface OF
the earth. To complete the all rail road
round the world there will remain to be
built only a comparatively short branch
of the Siberian road to the shores OF the
Alaskan side Of the strait to connec-
zion with the railroads in Canada anu
the United States. As for Behring
strait itself Il Is said to be an easy mat
fer to cross It. Engineers and Others
who have investigated affirm that the
strait is so crowded with Islands that 1t
can be bridged over until not more than
three miles OF ferriage viii be left and
boats can be built sufficiently large and
strong 70 transport trains across.
The directors Of the Trans-Sioerian
road. according to the london Mail, are
already figuring upon the time table
from London to Pekln, which will go
into effect July /, 1901. The journey be-
tween the two capitals will occupy less
than sifteen days, as follows;
London TO Warsaw, 1862 kilometres.
nineteen hours,
Warsaw to Batraki, 1913 kilometres,
thirty four and one-half hours.
Batraki to Chelyblnsk, where the new
Siberian road actually commences, l,l27
kilometres. twenty-one hours.
CheiybInsk TO VladIvostock, 9,2s3 kill
ometres, two hundred and twenty-one
hours,
Thus the entire journey from London
TO Vladivostock. 14,191 kilometres-a
kilometre being slxty-two hundredths OF
a mile-will occupy two hundred and
ninety-slx hours, or twelve and one
half days.
Making every allowance for the diff
culties Of high speed across the Siberian
steppes, there is a large margin for i'm
provement on the estimated forty-two
kilometres or twenty-six miles an hour
from Chelybinsk to Vladivostock. From
the latter city Peldn will be reached by
the Manchurian road.
Vladlvostock is the principal Russian
naval port on the Pacific coast. In order
to keep II open 10 navigation all the
year round two heavily armored ships,
with enormous rams, will be employed
to break open the ice.
At least one railroad through Alaska,
to connect with trunk lines In the Uni
ted States and Canada, Is already plan
ned, and, should the northwestern couu-
try generally prove to be as rich in gold
as It is now believed to be, other roads
are likely to be planned and built.
Tho Good Time Coming.
When the all rail route is open the
time table for the Journey around the
earth. starting from New York, will be
about as follows:
Days
New York 10 Portland, Ore. .............. 6
Portland to Dawson city ,..............,. 4
Dawson City 70 Behring strait ;:'; ~.
BehrlnR Strait Qncluding ferry TO Vlad-
iyostoek ...,...,.,.,,,,,.,,,',,, 4
viadyostock TO ST. Petersburg ..........10
ST. Petersburg TO London ........,,........
London to New York .....".....'""..... 9
IOtal '..'..''s'''''''''''''''''''
This time may be reduced about thir-
ty-slx hours when the Siberian road has
branch from It's main line straight
across the Behring Strait, avoiding the
necessity OF making the detour TO Nlad-
ivostOck.
This, It Will be observed. beats jules
Verne by forty-seven days, aud the re-
cord by more than half as many. Be
Sides II affords an linbroken and COM
Portable oil rail Journey, accomplished
under the most luxurious conditions, not
even dreamed OF by the imaginative
Verne or the enthusiastic Fogg, and not
seriously thought OF by any of sthe
globe trOttprB of the present,