The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-03

New York via Chicago 10 London around
| the world in less than month.
Such trip probably can be made from
Chicago including in it steamship jour
ney from Liverpool or Southampton 20
New York, so tht the journey vii. have
girdled the earth, for less than $500. Es-
timating fares on the unconstrucied lines
| on the basis already established b. the
Russian government and that already in
eistence in northern United States, the
cost would be about as follows:
Chicago to Vancouver ...............S 40
Vancouver 10 kottomangoo ........ loo
ko.tomangoo TO London ............. l1S
London to New York ............... 20
New York to Chicago ............... IS
A lOldl OF ......-..-... ......- 600
Add TO this for meals. sleeping car
berths and other miscellaneous expenses
a continuous traveller could make the
whole journey fer about $500. Think Of
that, We people who studied the map or
the word forty years ago and VINO dared
not then drtam of ever seeing the Pacific
ocean or thought that Old Mexico with
its volcano Of Popocatapeu would ever
be reached by the railroad.
The amount of traffic which viii seek
this new around t1e-world route can
hardly be realized Consul Monaghan,
in a recent letter 70 the state department.
declares that the construction OF the
Siberian railroad is an event hardly sec
ond in importance 10 the cutting Of the
Suez canal. July l, 1904, he says, will
probably see trains running from the Bal
tic sea to the Japan sea. Five thousand
miles OF steel rails have already been
laid. One year from now trains are TO
run over the Siberian road TO the Amoor
river. Thence by fast Steamer passen
gers, post parcels and freight are to DE
pushed on 10 ChaborOwka; thence in
eighteen hours, over the south Russian
section Of The Siberian road to Vlad!
vostok, making the distance from london
to the most important harbor of the
Japan sea seventeen and one-half days.
Ninety per cent of the present travel
to the far east. il is estimated, viii seek
the all-radl route when 1t is completed.
especially when the cost of first-class
ticket from London to Nladivostok vii
be but $1i9 as against the present fare
via Brindisi and the Suez Of s42S. What
this 80 per cent means is astonishing.
In 1895 21s.9SS passengers wen; via the
Suez canal to China and Australia For
political, military and other reasons the
compiler OF these statistics drops 1l7,000
from the lig OF possible passengers for
the Russian route, leaving 1929. Taking
from this 1929 pilgrims. 10000 East In
dian travellers, and adding 10000 WHO
hitherto have gone via che American
transconoinental lines, 10000 west Euro
peans who annually go &c The far east
for pleasure. and We get $4,000 mostly
arst-class passengers who viii use the
new route.
The freight over the new road to the
east and that from the wes: naturally
Will be that which pays the highest
charges-furs. gold, silver. platinum and
tea Many OF these commodities will go
60 Europe out OF Siberia itself. That
land lis rich in minerals Of all kinds, es-
pecially the Ural DISTRICT Siberian furs
are known the world over.
Much as the road may mean to Ger
many, Russia and tint rest Of Europe,
1t means more to u.s." declares Consul
Monaghan. California. Oregon, Wash
ington, our whole western country If not
our whole continent ia interested in this
road. Russia has her hands full at home.
The hands to help in the east are ours
Thtre is something more attractive in
our civilization and methods to eastern
people than in those OF Europe; al least
il is 80 asserted by eastern travellers
To develop the resources Of an empire
so vast as Russia will require the capital
enterprise and energy such as has made
US the richest nation in the world. To
equip her roads, to develop her grea; agri-
cultural, fishing. minera. and forest re-
sources Russia needs just such impie-
ments as have helped U.s. No time is TO
be lost If We are to have any par; in the
great drama that has for its plo: the de-
velopment and undermining OF the
Orient"
The commercial possibilities and bene-
hts 70 accrue 10 Chicago and the whole
northern half OF the American continen.
cannot now be estimated. out il il safe
10 predict that eight or ten years hence
will witness radical change in the d.
rection Of transportation commodities
and passengers between the old world
and the new world and ocean travelling
viii have lost !is terrors TO thousands
who would visit Europe annually out for
fea- 81 drowning or the dread OF the
racking pains OF mai-ie-msr"
II will not De long before ne pa sse7-
ger agents al the union iepo; on Canal !
stree: will announce the departure Of ex-
o..
ducto7s Will cali out:
An aboard for Siberia, Japan and /
Cersa"
Take this car for 81. Petersburg .
through without charge"
This car for Berlin, Paris and Lon
DON"
Then w come to Us Ubiquitous COM
merciai travellers from beyond Beanz |,
Strait with samples Of tea and six. while 4
our Own knights Of the roai ali invade
the sttppss .. Russia taking orders for
reapers ana harvesieTs. and the demand
tar =. CO., mile interoaaiLS f!ckA.
goo5 On al. -he railroads OF America AMI
Europe z1.; 5e a ditiicuIty Cor sulu1ou
BY me Western Passenger association
The map drawn by Rand. McN2=y &
~ - s-.-.tE asr N-ai- q -AN-- $50 ~ ,
good general idea OF ne route around TIE
world The .OSa,ion ~ TIE Siberian
railroad is correctly described. :hs ,ac-s
being secured -h-o1sn maps loensi r0-
re pIrposs oy The zsr department; ard
which took over q yea- - procure from
the Russian government Tass map
shows 10; only TIE proposed .4r.= ;arouza
British America AMI Alaska, 81; ssso
TIE Completed rocte through Russian
Asa Russia IL Europe. Germany.