The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-12
TIE BEER THAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS (

road was the probable lack of fuel. It was said that we should have to cut down the forests to feed the engines. The prospects are that we shall have plenty of coal for all time from the beds along the line of the road. The coal we are now using comes from deposits near the track Some of it is excellent coking coal. and near 1t are large deposits of iron, so that we expect to have a manufacturing in A Look at the Trans-Siberian Road.
 here asked some questions about the improvements of the Trans Siberian rail- road and lis excellency took me across the room and showed me a number of maps in illustration of his talk. car only give the glst of his conversation. The road when completed with it's Man churian branches will be 5542 miles long and the route from ocean to ocean, that is, from Havre to Vladivostock will be 7,500 miles in length. At present it takes a little over two weeks to go from St. Petersburg to Port Arthur, and the time will eventually be cut down to ten days. Geperal Miles made the trip from Pekin to St. Petersburg in eighteen days, and he told me that travelling was very com fortable all the way through. Within short time we shall be able to go from London to Paris to Shanghai in sixteen days instead of in the thirty-five days required by railroad and sea via the Suez canal. The latter trip to Shanghai costs $450. The Trans-Siberian fare Is $160, making a saving of $29O. in addition to the twenty days. There is no doubt but that the most of the travel to the Far East will be by railroad in the very near fu- ture.
 understood that the trains are good The express. which goes once a week, has sleeping cars. dining cars, library, a gymnasium and all the comforts possible to railroad travel. The trains go at a good average speed, and everything Is done for the comfort of the passengers.
 The Lake Baikal Extension.
 At present the cars are ferried across Lake Baikal. but there is talk of build ing railroad along the banks of the lake and connecting the two ends of the line. I asked Prince Hilkoff what he thought of this scheme. He replied:
 T do not approve of it. As 1t is now. we cross the lake on a steam ferry. The distance is only twenty -fcur miles, where as if we extend the road it will mean q hundred and fifty miles of new line and this well have little advantage over the lake as 1t will take longer to go by train than by ferry. The great objection has been that the lake is covered with ice in winter, but this can be obviated by ice breakers We had one from America which worked well for year or so when its paddle wheel broke This stopped the traffic for a time and was the cause of the proposition to build the railroad around the lake. Several good steam ice breakers would keep the lake open the year around and they would be infinitely cheaper than the new railroad, which would cost millions of dollars"
 The Growth of Siberia.
 What is the railroad doing for Siberia your excellency?" I asked.
 Tt is opening up the country and it will result in its development. Numerous branch lines will have to be constructed and in time there will be a great empire out there inhabited by Russians. The territory is enormous. Siberia is two and one-half times as big as Russia in Europe. It Is half as large again as the whole European continent and considera- by bigger than the whole United States with Alaska and your new colonies added The northern part of 1t Is not worth much, being composed of polar marshes the subsoil of which Is always frozen, but a little south of that there Is a vast belt of pine and fir tres and farther south the wide strip through which the railroad