The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-31
TO GET AROUND THE WORLD.
EDITOR or BRADSHAW'S PLEADS
FOR THROUGH SERVICE.
Only Ncce.sar, to Arrange for Railroad
and steamer Connections and the
Trip Could he Made Comfortably 10
Sixty Days--The American R0nte'
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SIXTY Days-Tne AmerVcuH HO"e'
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LONDON, May 3o.-Mr. Gerrare, the
editor of Bradshaws General Roiludv
and Steam Navigation cutie, points out the
fact that although there are 100 routes
for any one who wants to 60 around the
world, there is no through service, as the
trains and steamers do not connect. with
one exception
The ocean route Of 25.4l? miles from New
Zealand via Cape Of Good Hope and home
ward via Cape Horn was covered in Shaw.
Savill and Albion steamer in about eighty
five days. He points out that the time now
actually required to travel by the different
sections of the overland route ia less than
forty.fve days. but, as the services OF the
railroads and steamers do not connect,
the shortest time recorded for round-the-
world journey is sixty-three days. and that
by the long sea instead OF the overland
route.
But the different sections Of the latter
are already 80 we'll served that it is even
now possible to go round the world in sixty
days with ease and comfort. This would
be a certainty if the companies arranged
for the transference of passengers and
mails at terminals. He continues:
There are two main routes. one British
and the other foreign. The former is con-
trolled by the Canadian Pacific Railroad
and the Peninstllar and Oriental line. The
mere readjustment In the hours and days
Of sailing to and from Yokohama or Hong
Kong would constitute through mail
service. The record time to or from Hong
Kong eastward is "a days. From Hong
Kong to Vancouver it is IL, days and
from Vancouver to London II days, making
a total of e2l, days. Therefore it Ia possible
TO maintain a sixty-day service around
the world with an ample margin for con-
tingencies and waits.
The editor proceeds to point out that the
foreign route which is most likely TO COM
pete with the British service is the trans
Siberian express service which connects
vladivostock with the mail steamers for
Yokohama by way Of Tsuruga The cross
ing of the Pacific at high speed will he poe
sibe by the enormous steamers Of the Great
Northern Railway, of which two are already
ahoat The same company will convey
through passengers from Tacoma to New
York and there the ships OF the International
Mercantile Marine Company will bring them
10 Europe.
He urges the companies interested in the
British route to hasten the linking Of their
connections before a through service is
established between the Atlantic and Chi
nese ports by the other route. as the first all
round through service is likely to be the
best known and best patronized.
AS against any possible argument that
no one wants to go around in sixty days.
he points out that IL such service existed.
people would Use it as far as they cared to
60.
Quite recently man in Wei Hal Wei
posted two letters for London. One which
came by way Of Siberia arrived in twenty
eight days, the other by the western route
In twenty whine. yet trip around the world
by way Of Wei Hal Wei can only be accom-
plished in certain seasons and with good
luck in eighty days. With a si1ty-day
through service any place can be reached
Fast or West within a month