Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-10-30

CTS at one time were of aa sand lst than the feeble population 1sse, ~ ns could supply. Penal labor v, S Sl6i cessfully employed in the v;. was ss Irkutsk, but did not worl, SinltI But. thanks to the nomadio S,sssaP the peasants of Russian F,. aaoli supply of labor has never 0ae fs;''. customed to leave their eonn,sq for the factories of Mosss aoa Raizan, and to be away fro wives and families for two Sl laa years. they have quite as willins, 'a' to work in siheria, re tts,.r ri,ipg s. ts 7 se1 visits in the winter. UT saa
 For six months work on r.
 interrupted, owing to snow and e f9ad Over much of the line inc ~. lio' perpetually frozen and tbawse t. .ouod tance of eight or nine feet in ,o' ad making troublesome mud e. s1,lae ditions make the rapid progrsss s s3 e9 meritorious, especially as mnob N work was given to local cont.. whose implements were primitive g road bed has been much eriticiss5 foreign engineers. They comnIa' light ties and insufficient balIas. lI these conform to what is cons;s good practice in America. and 1s abled the government to carry oss my 2 main idea of rapid completion
 leave time for improvements later T. 1s most notable constructions ara
 bridges, and from a technical no;n. view they demand more than nsss. attention. The massive stona n;. have to resist great masses of ics m length of the great bridges is aIso markable. Those over the Chi arai tirsch are over 2.800 feet long wbils. Yenesei and Selenga bridges are ors 5000 feet in length,
 The swampy condition of the Ann. valley caused the engineers to eoS slider change in the line, and tbr arose project that has acquired v, JOlAtt%hi LII fiOl ldltC.
 No mere statement of the factse., give any idea of what they mean R 1895. as a reward for her interyentio.z in the Japanese war, Russia obtaiDs from China permission to cut acros1 Chinese Manchuria and to occupy Al territory 10 protect the work. IA surveyed. the line will leave the Tram, BaiIai division al 0non, 100 miles Weal of Strietensk, and join the UssuFi dil vision at Aikolsk, 70 miles north ol1 Vladiyostok. This completes tRa| through line from Europe 10 the Pa cific and creates the "Eastern nHl way Of China" This most interestipgl corporation was chartered after s| Russo-Chinese conference in septen.| Der, 1s96-a Chinese stock comBanr| but none the less in the hands oftbs| Russian government. The stoekholdl CTS are none but Russians and Chinese The charter runs for 80 years dating from the opening of the road The president is appointed by the Ghinese government, but he is a mere figure. head bonds may be issued at the con sent Of the Russian minister of finance when needed. The vice president-a RussIan-contro1s the affairs Of the company, and all appointments must have lis consent. as well as that of the Russian minister of finance Thus it will be seen that if Russia is not boss. she has a great deal to say about it. The details of the international conference of September, 1896 were kept secret, and there were several things that England and Germany would have given a great deal to know. Was anything said aboutPort Arthur?" etc. The events of last spring would make that question a foolish one now. The Russians now oc- cupy Port Arthur and Talienwan as well.
 What will come next? Russia will soon control great railway, milf tary highway running only 300 miles north of the Gulf of Petchili and Peking
 The 200 miles of the Manchuran dl vision lying in Russian territory art now building; the whole will be com pleted in 1904.
 Within the next six years the irol horse will carry from the Atlantic the Pacific, in another hemisphere anu the 1000 miles from Paris or Dover Vladiyostok will be covered p through trains, necessitating only change of trucks at the East Prassia frontier, for the Russian railways nav five-foot gauge. For time unu the roadbed is made smoother II IS " believed that it will be possible U 2, a' tain 8 speed on the 4,100 miles ol s sn Trans Siberian greater than II lnn' an hour. This will stretch the JouIns from Paris to Vladivostok to 10 gay
 At this idea the travelling pupilc Europe stands aghast. Fifteen eonssr .V utive days on railway trainl .., \ one could stand it." they cry, Bu'ls. s safe to say that the trains of the m l' orient express that have just oeepsV, p,. tracted for with a prominent Flu, ,, pean car building firm, to run wesn =, from Paris to Vladiyostok, there ~, meeting with fast steamers toT, a,,'; lg Arthur, Japan, Chinese and fna. a,