The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-03-14
BIG ROUNDTRIP TICKET.
Transpo ration slip That Will Take
One Around the World First-
Class Fare.


Round-trip tickets. which are lit.
orally round-trip tickets in that they
reach all around the globe, will soon
be for sale at ticket Office in this
reach all around the globe, will soon be
for sale at ticket Office in this city, re-
ports the New York Times of recent
date. The route which they will cover
will be from New York to Paris via
steamships and railroad thence to
Peking, China via the Trans-Siberian
railway, end from Picking via San Fran
cisco back to New York. If preferred
the route may be taken in the opposite
direction.
The Paris to Picking section of this
ticket is quite an elaborate affair. A
sample of it which was recently re-
ceived by the general passenger agent
of the New York Central railroad
shows that it consists of 20 railroad
coupons and nine sleeping and dining
car coupons. These coupons, which
are themselves of considerable size,
being 3A by 5H inches, are all bound
in small book. This book also con-
tains brief description of the trip
in five languages, namely, Russian,
German, English, French and Chinese.
The conditions under which the ticket
is sold are also printed in these five
languages.
The coupons which make up this for
midable volume are numbered consec-
utively and contain the information
that they are good on the TRANSIT
berian train de luxe from Paris to
Picking via Cologne, Berlin, Varsovie
and Moscow.
The coupons are divided as follows:
Paris to Jeumont (the Belgian from
tier) to Charleroi, Charleroi to Namur,
Namur to Liege, Liege to Herbesthal
(the German empire is entered here),
Herbesthal to Cologne, to Berlin, to
Alexandrovo, where the train passes
the last frontier, where luggage will
be examined for dutiable goods. Ex-
aminations by officials of the car will
not, however, cease then, for of course
strict surveillance for suspicious per-
sons will be kept on the train, although
the Russian government has promised
to modest foreigners as little as pos
sible and to make the journey as pleas
ant as it can be made.
For the purpose of control, however,
that part of the ticket through the
Russian empire is subdivided as fol-
lows: Alexandrovo to Varsovie, to
Moscow, to Samara, to Oufa, to Tche-
libainsk, to Kourgan, to Petropawlo-
sosk, to Omsk, by which time the trav
eler is in the center of Siberia. The
conductor will also take up coupons
and call out the stations from Omsk
to Taiga, to Krasnoiarsk, to Irkoutsk,
to Baikal, to Missowaia, to Mandchou-
RE, to Soungari, to Koundiouline, to
Tachitchav, to Inkoo, to Chaukhai-
Gouan, to Picking.
The sleeping-car ticket is divided
into three coupons. From Paris to Var
sovie, to Moscow, and to Picking, while
the dining-car coupons read from
Paris to Cologne, Berlin to Varsovie,
Varsovie to Moscow, to Irkoutsk, to
Mandchourie, to Picking.
These tickets will permit the holder
to take two months for the journey.
Return tickets will be good for nine
months. Each passenger may carry
los pounds of baggage free. Children
under five will be allowed to travel
free, and between five and ten they
will pay half fare. There will also be
issued yearly tickets good on express
trains. These will include board. but
not wines.
The average speed of the train will
vary according to the condition of the
road. From Paris to Berlin the av-
erage speed will be 53H miles, between
Berlin and Alexandrovo it WI be 40
miles. Between the last named city
and Moscow "a miles an hour will be
made. After that the highest speed
will be 23E. miles from Inkoo to Picking,
and the lowest IL miles between Ir
koutsk and Lake Baikal.