The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-06-17
AROUND THE WORLD 80 DAYS.
Completion of TranS-Siberian Road
VIII Make This Possible.


When it became possible for the.
glObe-trOtter to get around the world
III 50 days, this feat was considered suf-
ficiently remarkable to have the Jour-
ney dramatized. Now apparently it,
will soon be possible to accomplish this
feat in so days. just how this is tol
be done is explained by the Germania,,
Milwaukee, which says:
"In the year 1900 the Trans-Siberian,
railroad will be completed and it will
be possible to get around the world in!
50 days. This railroad, which extends
from the Cral mountains to the Pacific
ocean, a distance of 5000 miles, andl
fl ON St. Petersburg to NladiyOstok, on
the Pacific ocean, a distance of 1900
miles, will be the longest railroad sys-.
tenn .in the world, and fully twice as
long as any of the Pacific systems in
North America, which hitherto had
been the longest Large sections of
his road east of the UrIl mountainl
chain and westward from the Pacific
nave already been completed, and the'
rest is being pushed rapidly. Russia
has secured permission to build the
road southwark through Chinese terri
tory some degrees south of Nladivostok,
Detailed Investigations have shown that
the inclement weather and heavy.
SHOWS, which at certain times stop
traffic altogether on the Pacific roads,
notably the Northern Pacific, are eX-
ccedingly rare in Siberia and occur only
in limited distances. The average win
ter temperature along the line of the
:oad is but very little below zero. The
atmosphere is very dry and only occa-
sonally is the snowfall very deep. Biz
Yards are entirely unknown. Prince
Hilkoff, who recently travelled through
North America in order to study the
railroad system, declared that after the
completion of this road it would be
possible to make the journey around
the world III 33 days; and when the
roadbed had once been settled to de-
crease this to 30 days. At present the
quickest route and shortest time are
the following:
Days.
New York to mpton...............
Southampton to Brindisi.................. 312
BrindiSi to Yokohama, via Suez canal
and India. ............. .....................42
Yokohama to San Francisco. ...........1O
San Francisco to New York. ............. Az
IotaI .'..'....''''.' ..'......'...'...
After the completion of the Siberian
road the journey can be made in the
following manner:
New York to Bremen .......................7
Bremen to st. Petersburg (railroa.D.... ~
st. Petersburg to NladeVerta, at 80 miles
pen hOuf. $500 ..-.'.'''' ..'.....lV
Nladeverta to San FranCiscO..............10
San Francisco to New IOrk.............. Az
Total .........................3
"Of course such a journey would be
" nat the Germans would call a 'Hetz-
j&gd,' leaving no time for sightseeing;
bit nevertheless such a quick journey
will then be possible. Evidently Rus
sia has its own objects in building this
road. 1t is significant that the rails
are two or three inches wider apart
tt an they are on other European roads,
so that the cars of other countries can
not be utilized on the Sierian road.
in case of war the Siberian railroad
can be used only by the Russian govern
ment. "-Literary Digest.