The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
.aUTOISTS MAY LEAVE MISOvSK.
Get Permission TO Use Railway Bridges
Over Flooded Rivers.
Special CdOle Despatch 10 The SUN

LONDON, July THE Telegraph corre-
spondent pa nying Prince Scipio Borg
hese in the Pekin To Paris automobile race.
t~elegraphing from Misovsk. on the eastern
shore of Lake Baikal. whittier they we're
compelled to return owing 70 flooded rivers,
says: 1t is n strange life at Misovsk. Seeing
ms seated round a samovar, intent upon drink
ing innumerable glasses of tea and consume
ing all kinds of Russian delicacies. nobody
would believe we had started on "A motor
race. We are guests in the modest log house
Of the starosta. and are treated IKE boyars
with patria rChal hospitality.
An the local tut horitieS come Tn visit VS..
The prlstav in long beard arrives. The
magnates Of the country come and keep US
with respectful curiosity upon the threshold
Even the automobile. which rests in the court
~telugas and tlrtntasse-, receives visits
II Is Consta ntly surrounded by fur capped
and high booted mouJiks, COssa cks and hoys.
Everybody who passes along the road enters
TO look Mt the strange vehicle. Outside the
enclosure there are always horses ard carts
awaiting our departure: Through the small
horizon. bounded by the shining exranse OF
Lake Baikal.
upon the steamer leaving to-day for the oppo-
site bank. The proposal was made by n lew
i-h shipping agent, but we will only give
ro,inding the lake. Meanwhile we await the
reply of the Governor OF lrkutsk to our
request for permission TO use the railway
III ONfI NlNFI Nihl wv = NIl-
passable. This morning we made an attempt
to travel by another more billy road. bur found
q impossible, as the trees interlaced, their
10 find II possible to cross the rivers further
away from their mouths. 10 il impossible
and primitive inhabita nts Of Taiga when
awakened by the horn Of the automobile.
They stood amazed. let their tools fall from
the flight OF their frightened horses. While
passing q small. miserable village We saw
the inhabitants rushing madly toward the
engine has esca ped from the railway They
had taken the car for a winged locomotive.
rAcC3TdinG to tsIssTSms from kiaEhtn
our successful crossing Of Mongolia and the
Gohi Desert as an epoch making event and
automobile transport service between Kali
gan and Kiakhta They will use a special
type Of car and, win try 20 bring back the
to the Transmanchurian Railway. I per
sonally believe the project Is quite feasible
provided mat q road Nv sn mSds T bst as eH quite
and Kiakhta. When the Chinese Govern
ment finishes the railway from Pekin 20
Pekin TO yerEhni Tdinsk in nine days. IL
now IN likes twenty-five.
"Cormier and Colignon with the De Dion
Bouton ara, and GODDARD. with the Spyker
car, left Kiakhta yesterday afternoon st
2 o'clock. Their journey from Irga In many
t hTce1 mo lT1Dwea shs our reached seIensa close close
10 Novo Selenginsk. They crossed the river
in q boat. We do not expect that they will
be able To reach Verkhni Udinsk before 10
morrow and Misovak the day after Two
Genda rmes have iust called. thus arousing
-tih further. the. curiosity OF the inha bitant-.
a. such a visit il not always n good auRury
in siberia. We got M 10 show our paperS,
which one must always have ~ hand here.
hut II was they who presented pa pera 10
us. permits from the Governor-GpnPral ~
Irkutsk for u~ to cross the railway Bird ges
We will leave ,o-morrow, and hope to succeed
IN reaching lrkutsk on Monday"