The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-17
ROUND THE WORLD
Trip Will Be Made on the
Moons Schedule.
Jules Verne Discounted No Air
ships to Be USed-How It
VIII Be Done.

PangDOrn has arrived in Baltimore
from Europe He crossed the ocean in
the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse when
she broke the record from Cherboure
breakwater to Sandy Hook, averaging
twenty-five and third knots an hour.
1t took the ship just five days and
twenty hours to make the trip from
port to port. ''The truth is says the
Major, progress these days is so fast
and we travel with such rapidity that
We don't see the milestones, as it
were, and are at a new destination be-
fore knowing just how our arrival
has been effected
eff [ live three years I expect in
company with Prince Hilkoff, the Rus
sian Minister of Railways, to 60
round the world on the moons sche-
dule-that is to say, in thirty days
How? I will tell you.
First, let me give an idea of the
distances, the route and the proper
tion of rail to water travel, the latter
an important point, as land transit
means the lessening of time en- route
fully half over the very best a ship
can do.
Suppose we start from Baltimore.
Via the Baltimore and Ohio, the Mil
waukee and ST. Paul and the Great
Northern it is, say, $3.50 miles to Seat
tie; thence via the Pacific to Yoko-
hama, 1900 miles, whence to Port Ar
thur via Nagasaki it is 1900 miles more
At Port Arthur we leave ship, and,
going ashore, take train on the Man.
churian extension of the Trans-Sibe
ran Railway for st. Petersburg, $500
miles; thence by rail direct to Berlin,
1000 miles, and ON to London, $50
miles. Ship again, Unis time on the
Atlantic to New York, 5000 miles, wind
ing up with the Royal Blue Limited,
the concluding 200 miles or less. From
this hasty summary of mileage in
round figures it will be noted that the
total of rail travel is 10,700 miles, and
OF water 5000 miles, am aggregate Of
900 miles, or, for good measure,
make it 10000.
can average of 40 miles an hour by
train and 20 by ship would insure the
transit within 80 days, or, as [ have
already figuratively described, between
one new moon and another.
prince Hilkoff declares said the
Major, that with the completion of the
great Siberian line to Port Arthur and
Ta-Lien-Wan in 1902, he will make the
time from London to Shanghai IA days.
And he will, have no doubt OF it, al
though l know my English friends,
upon hearing this, will be most incred-
ulous. But why should they be? To do
it will only require an average of 25
miles an hour by rail and Is by ship,
the water part of the trip being some
thing less than per cent. of the whole,
or 600 of the 5000 miles
There have been many changes for
the better in the construction of the
Siberian road the past two or three
years; seventy-pound rail has been
substituted for the original forty-nine
pound; nearly 80 per cent. greater num-
Der of ties or sleepers per mile have
been added, and the roadbed through
out given an attention to which it was
at first more or less a stranger. From
a purely military or strategic railway
the conception has broadened out on
commercial and developing lines.
"The shortest and quickest way from
London to Shanghai at this stage Of the
proceedings is by rail TO Dover, the
transit of the channel to Calais and rail
across France and Italy to Brindisi, the
distance from London to the latter
named port being 1860 odd miles, and
the time by the special weekly express
the most expensive train in the world
TO journey upon-forty-five hours, or
an average of thirty miles an hour, in
elusive of the steamer trip across the
channel. From Brindisi via the Suez
Canal to Shanghai it is $3.50 odd miles,
all water and the fastest Of the PENN
sula and Oriental-the crack line
ships make it in SO days, or, whole
time London to Shanghai 80 days The
ship speed thus averages 101a knots
per hour.
make it Is per hour, which, for the
canal delays, harbor stops, and general
conditions met on SO long voyage in
tropical seas, would be equal to IS, If
not indeed 20 knots straight away, as
on the Atlantic or Pacific, and the 39
days are lessened to % and a half,
making the total time about % days.
Evan Horne, the American President
of the Canadian Pacific, once made a
phenomenal run with the English mail
from London to Yokohama against the
record time of the Peninsula and ORR
entail steamers, and, despite the fact