The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-25
DALNY IS NOT
POPULAR NOW

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. S.-Details
of Finance Minister Whites journey to
the Far East are beginning to arrive
! here by post. A letter dated October
18th describes his stay at Vladivostock.
The principal matters laid before him
| there were petitions for a free port for
ships at Vladivostock, for exemption of
all Chinese goods from customs duties,
for commercial and naval schools at
! Vladivostock, for freedom of commerce
in transit from customs inspection at
Vladivostock and for various minor re-
forms in the customs inspections in the
interests of passenger traffic. 1t is gen.
orally realized here that the abolition
of the free port at Vladivostock has
dealt a most severe blow at the city s
prosperity; nor are voices wanting in
the criticism of the scheme of the Min
lister of Finance in the modern and cost
ly new city of Dalny. The Dalny Vos-
took of Port Arthur not only throws
doubt upon the necessity for fountains
and parks in a city which so far has
no inhabitants, but pronounces the
choice of the site for the new city most
unfortunate. Dalny has no natural har-
Dor lying on the open sea where the
water is shallow. The artificial har-
Dor had to be connected with the sea
by canal two miles long, which it
is dangerous to approach in even mod
erately windy weather on account of
rocks and sand on both sides. Up to
February s6,500,000 had been spent at
Dalny of which only one-half was for
the harbor. Work on the harbor had
to be stopped half way because the APP
preparation had been exceeded, large
sums having been expended for the
identification of the site. The splendid
looking brick and stone houses, how
ever are believed to be exceedingly in
convenient and cold, the architects hav-
ing as is usual with Russian architects
subordinated the interior arrangements
for comfort and convenience wholly to
supposed exterior beauty.
The Dalny Vostock declares that In
kou, on the river Lao, should have
been selected as the principal shipping
port of Manchuria, the Chinese transit
trade having taken this route for ages.
Ice breakers can easily keep this har-
Dor ice free. Dalny is no longer an ice
free port since the moles of the arti-
fetal harbor cause an accumulati ton of
ice foes that were formerly swept
away by the wind. 1t is feared that of
fetal favor will never be able to make
Dalny a genuine competitor of Inkou,
which is over $50 miles nearer the Man
churian market
The report of the Minister of the In
terror on the famine relief of 1901 is
considered an important document M.
Won Plehewe admits that the Central
Government did not distinguish itself
in this work, which it withdrew from
the hands of the Zemstovoes in 1900,
many local officials taking action only
after the need was very great. The
Minister recommends a partial return
to the old system, declaring that no
form of relief is comparable to public
works and only the Zemstovoes can
take such work.
M. Plehewe also admits 1.-The famine of
1901 not only had extremely unfavor-
able results for the afflicted districts
but testified to the general deterioration
of the condition of the peasants"