The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-12-20
TRANs-SGBERIAN ROAD STARTS
NEXT MAY.
Special San Francisco Agent Aboard
America Maru TO Make Arrangements
For Connections at That Place.

Beginning with May /, the famous
semi-weekly service from Paris to Pc
king will be inaugurated by the Trans
Siberian Railway. Jules Clerfayt who
Is "a passenger on the America Maru, is
returning To San Francisco from the
Orient to establish an Office at San
Francisco for that company. He Is
Just completing journey around the
world which he began last May for the
purpose of consulting with the direc-
tors and managers ~ the new line for
the Inauguration of their system Of
transportation.
Mr. Clerfayt is also the general pas
senger agent for the International
Sleeping Car and European Express
Trains Company and the International
Palace Hotels Company, which he Will
serve in connection with the Trans
Siberian Company. He has been in the
railroad business for a number of years
i'm San Francisco. He was with the
Burlington Company at that place and
for the last seven years was with the
Pennsylvania railroad office In San
Francisco. While in the latter position
he received the offender from the
Trans-Siberian people and, in company
with his wife. left last May 10 go to
Paris to consult with the managers Of
the European-AsiatiCl line.
He is very enthusiastic over the pros
poets of the new line. In speaking OF
the Inauguration he said "On May f.
we will inaugurate zach way between
Paris and Peking, a semi-weekly ser
vice whereby passengers will be taken
i'm the luxurious carriages of the inter-
national Company the whole way for
the sum of tifty-tWO pounds sterling,
food and everything included At first
there will be two breaks i'm the journey
one at Lake Baikal, where the passen-
gers have to cross by steamer until the
M hta of II
pleted, which it will be later on in the
year; the other at Yingkou New
chwang). where the difference Of gauge
between the Russian line and the Inn
perial Chinese Railway, and the un-
bridgable river Lao necessitate a
change of carriages. 1t is possible
change of carriages at Lake Baikal
may be obviated by their being taken
across on the steamer; but i'm any case
the whole distance from Paris to Pc
king will be done in the International
Company's carriages.
For the convenience of passengers
to and from Central and South China
and Japan, Dalny and Port Arthur Will
be served by sections of the same train,
and it is understood that the Manchu-
r'an Railway will put in a line of fast
connecting steamers between Dalny or
Port Arthur and Shanghai, 50 that we
shall be within three weeks or so Of
London. The International Palace Ho-
tells Company is proceeding with the
construction of a grand modern hotel of
one hundred rooms at Peking and an
other at Yingkou for the benefit of pas
sengers who may wish to have a nights s
rest on terra firma before changing on
to the Chinese railway. 1t seems pretty
certain too. that before very long the
journey will be much shortened by the
construction of a line northwest from
Peking to the Trans Siberian through
Kiakhta.
1T is at Hardin where the Siberian
eastward and our route turns to the
perial Chinese railroad down to Tien
be made in "a days. Our coaches are
magnificent and will surpass anything
in use on the American roads, and will
be somewhat similar to those on the
New York Central line between New
York and Chicago. Our line runs from
Paris through Berlin, Moscow and st.
Petersburg.
I'm establishing the special agency i'm
san Francisco ii is the intention of the
company to sell tickets completely
around the world. | am unable to state
at present, whether the company has
made an agreement with any particular
steamship line across the Pacific but
do not think so. | dined with United
states Minister COnger recently and he
said that he had been informed that
| the arrangements had been made with
/ the Canadian Pacific line, but | hardly
credit this report"