Mower County transcript., 1904-04-06
TRANS-SIBER|AN TRAVEL
Service Between Warsaw and DaIny
Happy Combination of Many 4
Good Features.

From Games w. Davidsons The Great Siber-
ian Railway in the April Century.
The passenger over the trans Siberian
route may travel either by the Russian
Government express or by the train OF
the International Sleeping Car Com
pany. The latter is private corpora
ton maintaining SERVICE on the
Continent and across Siberia and
Manchuria, with terminals at Dalny,
Vladivostok and even Peking, which,
in it's general excellence, can be COM
pared only with the best American
trains. The traveller in Europe finds
that the first-ciass service Oh most
trains means small car on four or six
wheels, with compartments resembling
very closely the stage coach Of our
grandfathers. TO he confined in such
close quarters for long distance would
he almost unbearable. The ordinary
type of the American Pullman would
likewise become Wearisome after some
days. One tires of continued packing
and unpacking, of undressing in sit
ting posture on ones bed, or standing
in the aisle wrapped about with the
curtain, in a space not much more
cOmmodious than that afforded by
straitjacket.
! Both the international and the
Russian trains have avoided the
| irksome privacy of the European car
. and the unremitting publicity of the
/ Pullman by the construction of car
which has the good features of both.
! The service at present consists of six
classes of trains. We may mention
first the strain de luxe Siberien,' which
{ will run once week between Warsaw
! and Dalny, via Moscow, and will con-
meet with the northern express now
running between London, Paris, Berlin
and Warsaw. This train will offer the
quickest service between all European
points and the far East. Passengers
from London will be met at Ostend, on
the Belgium side of>.the English
\ Channel - by a Representa- tive of the
International Sleeping Car Company
familiar with all the principal I'm
guages, who will escort them aboard a
special car of the train deluxe service,
which will convey them to Warsaw,
where change to the through train will
be made without loss of time. Pas
sengers from Paris will be likewise
cared for by a through car to Warsaw.
No change of cars will be necessary
until Lake Baikal is reached. At this
point passengers will change into a
train the exact counterpart of the one
they have just vacated, and will occupy
they same coupes in the new train
Porters supplied by the company will
make the change of baggage, including
hand-baggage, at no inconvenience, as
it will necessitate merely the crossing
Of platform. Until the completion
Of the railway around Lake Baikal
passengers will cross this very
picturesque body of water by steamer
Dalny, the South Manchurian terminal
will be reached without further change
Of cars and the entire journey from
London or Paris will require about
fourteen and half days, and to Picking
onIv q faw hO,1rc moro
The train de luxe will consist of first
class cars only and will be made up of
a baggage car, two sleeping cars, a
dining car and drawing room car
The latter will contain two or three
large "cabins de luxe" containing each
brass bedstead and toilet room, and
will have in addition a large general
drawing room containing piano, library
writing desk, with, at the rear, an open
end for observation purposes. There
will also be in the train bathroom
which will contain gymnasium par
aphernalia. In summer the cars will
! be cooled by electric fans and in winter
heated by steam and the lighting will
be by electricity. An extra charge is
made for this train, but it is calculated
that the fare from Paris to Dalny OF
Peking will not exceed $3.50, including
the cost of sleeper, food and incidenta!
expenses. 1t was the intention to put
this train in service during the oming
summer.