The sun., 1902-11-05

passports I'D have the same duly NIsei.
ATrans- Siberian train Of the International
Sleeping Tar Company carries one tlrst-
class carriage with eighteen places. These
are comprised III seven small compart.
nCits, with Intermediate lavatories, and
one large compartment which accoinino-
dates four persons.
There are two seconded carria ges
with tweIty-six places each. These are
cofnIrl-ed IN three small compartments
of two places each ard five compartments
Of four places each. There is also restau-
rant car with smoking saloon, and one
van ear with a bathroom ard quarters
for the officials of the train, besides store
room for provisions and storage TO, IN FOR
electrical apparatus
In the carriages Of the State trains there
are no intermediate lavatores, and the
same saloon serves for restaurant and
smoking room The International COM
pany~ train accommod ates seventy per-
sons. that Of the State siXty-six places.
The trains, as has been said leave Moscow
on Wednesdays and Saturdays They ar
rive al lrkutsk on Thur 1ays and Sundays.
Besides the hotel difficulties Of lrkutsk
already mentioned and the same applies
70 other places travellers are not unlikely
10 find that although they have paid for
hrst transportation, they may AT
times ON their journey across Siberia he
obliged TO put up with seCond-class accom-
nodation
la summer time there is daily train from
1rkutsk To Bakal, leaving at A. NJ, and
arriving at 1890 A. NJ. In the summer the
journey across the great lake of Baikal
j. made without difficulty by steamer in
four hours to Mssovaia Ia the winter
I he lake IL crossed sometimes 10y train on
an ice breaker and sometimes by sleighs.
The lake Is more than double the width OF
the English Channel at Dover. Its area is
more than 1900 square miles IL has
known depths of 800 feet and there are
unplumbed places in 1t
The ice breaker -Baikal" was built 10y
III" Armstrong; in England II has dis.
placement ~ 4,?O0 tons and a speed Of
2oi. versts or about 49,, miles per hour
through the ice, The ice breaker goes
through ice three or four feet thick Three
lines Of rail- are laid on the Baika's deck,
two for freight trains and one for passenger
trains. There is a Grew al the bow of
tn" steamer, operated by a separate en-
giEc This sucks the water away from
under the ice, which then breaks or col
apse- from its own weight and makes
he steamers progress through ii the
easier The sleighs which cross from
Mis-ovaa 60 to Pereiomna!a
Daily trains with accommodai ions for
four classes run from Mssovaia or Pereiom-
naia to Stretinsk. They leave Missovsis
At 20 p. NJ and reach Stretinsk o3 hours
and rs minutes later at rs p. VI
From Stretinsk," TO quote from one
circular Of Information, travellers TO
winter can only travel by sleighs, for which
it iS impossible to fix either fare or the time
the tourney will occupy"
Travellers for NladivostoCk, Port Arthur
or Pekin tn" latter thirty days from New
York change cars at Ksrimskaia at s.43
p. NJ, ~ hour, and 4S minutes after leaving
Nj soyaia. and take a connecting train Al
~ T. VI for the MsnchUria frontier, where
they are duo al lllO p NJ, rs hours and
10 minutes later
To quote again from a circular Be-
tween Manchuria station and Nladivcstock
ard Port Arthur there is not a, present
any regular service. But travellers may
buy tickets aud ride on mail trair.e. which
io rot run by any fixed schedule.
From Khabar0vsk "A train leaves at $50
p VI for Vladivostock where IL arrive;
80 hour later al iI5 p. VI
The summer schedule of trains from
Nissovlia for StretiLsk includes, besides
th. daily trains, a weekly compartment
train for first and sccund-olasG plV'rngers
There il daily steamer during the sum
mcr between Stretinak and khabarovsk
tho trip 10 Khabarovsk taking nine DAYS
and the Journey in the other direction
fourteen days.
From he Manchurir station travellers,
n,ly yet ,econd-clq,, tio'''. 70 Soungsri I
5yc miles, for is rouhlee 50 hopeC Ks. "On /
mi, ;o,IrNry near Toulilrdl, htweon khour |
Khoura ard T7it7ikar, the River Moni r. |
crossed The bridg" Il 10, finished, 50 |
passer ger, must cross hero afoot. In the |
winter however. special track is laid |
over the ice. on which the railway can
cross
Pa ,enga>s ma 80 scco0' class from
Soungari to Pograni' chnaia - miles. for
IT roublcs ~ k"n"'- FROM PoGranltch-
naia 10 Grudek. V, tho passenger j. carried
without charge, but he has to see 10 the
Of his own luggage over this
distance Of ten miles. From Grodpkovo
To NlGdivostock second class pnsS'pe may
be obtained for fy" rouhlcs Tn" distance
il - miles
The whole distance from Moscow TO
\ladiyo.tock il Sa37 milc- The chief
divisions of the Journey ii II hc mnde by the
special s'rvc" II tn" Government or the
International company would be as fol-
in eight days leaving Moscow at GAS p NJ
and reaching lIkutsk At 80, p. NJ Irkut,k
10 Baikal, 1920 miles uotah In three and
unc-half hours. leaving ~ stl A. VI and
arriving AZ l2CG noon Bakal to Missovaia
(bv steamer. 3,2GS miles, In four hours
Ni-sovais to karlm-kaia, S7is milcs in ,
for,y-four hours; karimskaa 20 Manchuria
or S'retinsk fifteen or twenty hours from |
Steamer every five days., to
tCl'"nsk. 5Id miles IT. five DAYS
ivdNIns al noon and arriving in the morning
ispvcohtchrusk to Khaharovsk 5oSg
ml = IN nine days aud four hours arriving
ai uuou and from Khahlrovsk to Vi,d-
ivo-tock, i23i miles, arriving, a. before
stated, al A.iS y. NJ
The ngsl-cas, tariffs for the divisions
of tn" journey are: Moscow to lrlut.k
~ roublr-, with a supplemental chnrge
Of ~ rouhl.'- lrEu'~k 70 Strs,insk % roub,es.
> rotiuSk to Khabarlvsk So rouh!cs ND |
kop"oS, and kiilhirovsk to Nladivos,ock
II rouhlos
The traveller sailing from Nldivostocl,
for hu'ne via NOtOAama and San Francisco |
would occupy five weeks, more time, and
hi, trauspo tgliuu would cost him alor,
$40 II he had rulic direct connection
everywhere AMI had escaped misnap he
would have occupied, in getting bacN to
New YORK, al al uinr W.CNs Allowing
~, slight delays hr euoUld we conpetrG
his journey IN ten weeks. lhcS.' seventy
DAYS at sll or si2 = day, inclusive Of all
cNU"n-'e, Would bring the cost Of his trip
To- $40 or $50. or s"tw,"H SIS and SIS a
week
It should rc mentioned tHat the Russian
RI lway AdGUl.t .llipi, 4 the had of
which |, the Prince hi!lkoH, who is wei
known In thi- country, Aa- az iU~cd meGi.
"9l spryice ~ connection With ,3c Trans.
siberian road SAuGid a passenger fall
III on a through train. the conductor will
wine ahead 10 the next stdtiOnand when