The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-04
AROUND World
N Y Days
How Figures of PhineaS Fogg
Have Been Cut Down.
TRAINS MAKE DIFFERENCE
Trans-Siberian Railway and
lis Part in Reduction.

New York, Jan.S-The New York
World says:
Around the world in twenty-seven
days.
Thirteen and a half times in one year!
Ten thousand eight hundred miles OF
land and 1850 miles Of water travelled
in less than four weeks.
such an astounding fear OF globe-trot-
ting IS now Tor the first time shown
To be possible by the speed achieved by
German steamships and American loco
motives.
swift travel such as Jules Verne and
Nellie BLY, never knew is today not only
possible but to a large extent realized
fact.
The twenty-hor express between New
York and Chicago. distance sf almost
one thousand miles. has now passed the
detrimental stage and become per-
II: nent feature of American transporta-
ten
In ocean travel the twerty-six- mile
an-hour seed attained ythe great
steamships Kaiser William der Crosse,
Deutschland and Kronprinz Wilhelm has
Made ii "a commonplace fact TO cross
from New York to Hamburger less
tLan seven ard three-quarter days.
4 traveller may thus cover the distance
from Chicago to Hamburg-morc- than
one quarter the distance around the
earth-in nine and a half days, allowing
two r3urs st New York to transfer from
thin 70 steamer II Is easily possible
e make the transfer in half an hour.
the dock
From Hamburg to Vladivostock 7.5oo
nils across Europe and Asia. the rail-
road is already built. The Trans-Siberian
Railroad. built by the Russian govern
ment and now practically completed. is
the longest lire of continuous railroad
in the world ana stretches 5000 miles
from Moscow to the Pacific Ocean.
II is a mistake to suppose that this
siberian Railroad is inferior in point of
construction to any first class American
road. Taking George KEENAN, as an
authority. the new Siberian railroad is
Superior H. equirment'and in the smooth
ness 81 its road-bed to any railway in
existence. whether American or Eu-
ropean.
At present its system of express service
is poorly organized. and the fifty-mile-
an-hour average speed attained on Amer
lean railroads is not known. except for
short distances.
But the important ract TO remember
Is that the railway tracks are already
laid between Hamburg and Vladivostock
q continuous line Of 1900 miles. and that
is is now possible for American-built
locomotives to cover the distance in six
and quarter days.
Between Vladivostock and Seattle. the
longest stretch OF the journey, lie 1909
miles of the Pacific Ocean At present
this voyage requires eighteen days or
more. but fast steamer making &c
miles an hour would cross in ten and
quarter days
From Seattle back To Chicago is a dis
tance OF 2,S10 miles and might be tray
e:ed with a wei organized express sys-
ten in two hours less than two days
Thus, without requiring any aid from
Imagination of the Inventions of the fu.
ture. with the locomotives and steam
ships already in regular service. with the
Railways alceady built and the ocean
routes already tIaversed. il is possible
to circle the. globe distance of - 500
niles-in twenty-seven d;.ys,
i viii pat q gifdle around the earth
fl forty minutes were the words put
into the month Of Pnck in Shakespeare's
play. A Midsummer Nights Dream
Little dill the great Gramatist ar any
one Of his generation. dream that in a
few short centuries men would sirdle
the earth with trains ana steamships in
fewer days dian there are IN The short, st
month ol the wear
Mr.. James J. Hm is the latest Of the
great transportation KINGS To help along
TIL world -s.ciing process There are
nov being completed At view LONDON.
Conn. the two largest steamships ever
tEilt n American shipyards which are
destined iy 1Ir. Han 10 ply between Sc
attic aud Asia.
Each of these new vessels viii have
5Deo0 tons displacement l5.l39 tons more
thar that of thc Naiser Wilhelm der
Crosse. Their Iength is 63o feet and
breadth - feet. those NEE urenents he
ing only slightly smaller than those oI
the Cedciy which is the largest vessel
snoat The plated OF moulded depth of
The NV LONDON vessels : nearly seven
feet greater thsn that of the Cedric OF
airy other vessel now in existence
Accumulation VIII be provided 70,
IL iTst-c.ass p2sseng r. 100 secoaG-claSs
1pV third class and 1909 Storage. There
are also quarter for ;he aoconrnoda-
ton of l.eo troops. besides total cargo
capacity C. 9n.G0 tons
ha ,,sr,e- ,.,,,.,-...,.7-
made especially high. allowing the ras-
sengers to LOOK Gown upon the waves
from heishl 81 s. feet When it IS
remembered tast the biggest waves g,
tho ocean seldom Attain a greater height
than - feet. the safety Of the upper deck
of one of these new mammoth vessels
as a poirrt Of uaservatlo-l aill be readily
seen
IN every respect Hr. Hilra great steam
ships viii be equal 10 Tie best 81 theIl
kind that ply between America and Eu.
rope
And Yet the new Steamships have not
been named. beiBe known amons ship
builders as The New London ships
Neither is Il known 10 What ports they
will sail from Seattle bus il is quite Ger
tasn AiA0> M t-44a i.SS otAAttsoteiS III NlcN
e the connection betvreea his Great North
era Railroad, which has rs terminus al
Seattle. and the new Trans Siberian
Ra.lroad which reaches the PacinG
CcsaH a. VisGivassocA.
'filus the g.rdie around me earth vii
iH e short tire %, completed IN every
particular. Nothing VIII remain ia II,
done except t9> Increase the speed and
= Regularity az tfls service.
She foregoing estimates ~ speed srC
made on the basis OF what Is now ar