Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-16
THE FIAT CITY.
Port DaIny Had Been Improved at
Cost Of Over $20,000,0o0.

Port Dalny the Russian seaport on
Tallen. wan Bay. on the east coast p rtb ,me
Was intended by Russia to be the chief
commercial emporium of its eastern DO
minions. The edict providing for its CON
peror Sny ss and BY the the fully
equipped with all modern improvements,
docks, warehouses and railroad 1acillGes,
1901. No one was allowed to live in it un-
til its construction was pracucaiiy CONT
pleted. The spacious harbor. free from
ice in winter s has sufficient deP5 re ior re ee
wharves for their accommodation con-
nected with the tracks of the railway to
Russia.
Five large piers had been constructed.
each supplied with numerous railroad
tracks. immense warehouses and eleya-
tors, gas, electric lights and water, and
so that ships could lie at the piers and
load and unload regardless of weather. :,
Docks for foreign vessels, steam and
sail extended between the piers and along
the shore for two miles. There We're two
frst-class dry docks one intended for or
binary ocean steamers and the other de-
signed to accommodate the largest YES
sells of war or commerce. The branch
railway which connected Dalny with the
main line of the Chinese Eastern Railway
at Naigalin had a daily train servive to
Port Arthur and to Hardin, and weekly
trains to Moscow and St Petersburg.
The. city of Dalny is picturesquely stu
gently down to the deep and well pro-
tected bay of Talien-Wan, and is sur
rounded on three sides by a range of hills
rising to height of 500 1eet. Ii is divided
into three rarts-the Administration City.
the European and Commercial City and
the Chinese City. Dalny may be said to
have been con by the Chinese
rection of NJ. Witte, until recently Rus
sian Minister of Finance and now presi-
dent of the Council OF Ministers. Nearly
he.
work OF constructing the port and town.
Inc Emperor In the decree OF July
1899. defined the conditions upon which
the port was to be opened to foreign
trade, first of which was the right to i'm
port ana export mercandiSe of every de-
scriptlon free OF customs duties:
The city consists of the administration
portion, IN which are located railroad
shops, shops for steamship construction
and repair with various Offices of the
port steamships, and railroad; residences
of mechanics and general employees, to-
Sethcr with hotels, parks, churches
schools, clubs and places of amusement;
the general mercantile section, bat far
Their OFF: toward the hills. and on gradual
~ so, s,oping higher ground, commanding
About three miles from the foreign set
tlement, to the southeast is an excellent
sea beach. arranged for summer resort
and connected with Dalny by a fine high
way.
Mere than s6,ooO,oOo had been expended
on the harbor system before the end of
1902, and it was estimat ted that th+, cost
Of completing the works would be nearly
$20,W0G0O, but this does not in any way
represent the total cost of the erection of
this great commercial port.
asst year III steamships loaded with
merchandise and LAS Chinese junks en-.
tered the pert. and LII. s93 pieces of mer-
chandiSe. and 1914 passengers passed
The population of Dalny at the census
in January of last year was I.,O of
whom BIB were Russians. 3O7 Japanese
and Coreans, and the rest Chinese