Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-01-01
LONGEST ROUND TRIP TICKET.
It Grdles the Globe and Includes.
Twenty.Eiaht Railroad Coupons.

Round trip tickets, which are liter.
ally round trip tickets in that they
reach all around the globe, will soon
be for sale at ticket office in this
city. The route which they will cover
will be from New York to Paris via
steamships and railroad, thence to
Pekin, China, via the Trans-Siberian
railway, and from Pekin via San
Francisco back to New York. If pre-
ferred the route may be taken in the
opposite direction.
The Paris to Pekin 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 rail-
road shows that 1t consists of twenty
eight railroad coupons and nine
sleeping and dining car coupons.
These coupons, which are themselves
of considerable size, being three and
one-fourth by five and one-half inches,
book also contains 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
formidable volume are numbered con-
secutively and contain the informa-
ton that they are good on the Trans
Siberian train de luxe from Paris to
Pekin via Cologne, Berlin, Varsoyie
and Moscow.
The coupons are divided as follows:
Paris to Jeumont, Jeumont (the Bel
gian frontier) to Charleroi, Charleroi
to Namur, Namur to Liege, Liege to
Herbesthal (the German empire is
entered here), Terrestrial to Cologne,
to Berlin, to Alexandrovo, where the
train passes the last frontier, where
luggage will be examined for dutiable
goods. Examinations by officials OF
the car will not, however. cease then,
for, of course, a strict surveillance for
suspicious persons will be kept on the
train, although the Russian govern
ment has promised to modest foreign
ers as little as possible and to make
the journey as pleasant as 1t 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 Varsoyie, to
Moscow, to Samara, to Oufa, to Tch-
elibainsk, to Kourgan, to Petropawlo-l
sock, to Omsk, by which time the
traveller Is in the center Of Siberia.
The conductor will also take up cou-
pons and call out the stations from
0msk to Taiga, to Krasnoiarsk, to
Irkoutsk, to Baikal, to Missowala, to-
Mandchourie, to Soungari, to Koun-
dioulne, to Tachitchav, to lnkoo, to
Chaukhai-Gouan, to Pekin. :
The sleeping car ticket Is divided
into three coupons. From Paris to
Varsovie, to Moscow and to Pekin,
while the dining car coupons read
from Paris to Cologne, Berlin to Var
soYie, Varsovie to Moscow, to lrk-
outsk, to Mandchourie, to Pekin.
These tickets will permit the hold
er to take two months for the journey.
Return tickets will be good for nine
months. Each passenger may carry
1903 pounds of baggage free. Children
under will be allowed to travel free,
and between and 10 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
average speed will be 531s miles, be-
tween Berlin and AleXandrovo 1t Will
be forty miles. Between the last
named city and Moscow thirty-four
miles an hour mil be made. After
that the highest speed will be 23b
miles from Inkoo to Pekin, and the
lowest seventeen miles between lrk'
outsk and Lake Gaikal.-New York
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