The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-19

train. as in our country. The seats are
we'll cushioned, and as the sides are |
walled with windows the opportunities |
for seeing arc good. Tho second and |
third-class cara are divided up In the
same way, and the second-class Is al
most as good as the first.
The third class seats are bare board
benches. and they are usually filled
with Arabs, Moors and ISabyles, with
q sprinklng OF private soldiers. The
latter receive wages OF only about 1
cent per day and hence cannot travel
in luxury.
Eating Arrangements.
Within the past year or 30 dining
cars have been put on some of these
Algerian trains. others stop at the
stations for luncheon and dinner. and
at every station there is a lul.ch room.
called buVette.
The usual rate for dinner Is about
40 cents. and for that sum one gets
an excellent meal with quart bottle
of white or red wine thrown in. Lunch
cons arc often put up and brought to
the cars at cost of about SO cents
each. For that ono gets two slices OF
roast beef or half chicken. several
boiled eggs, and also cheese, sweet
cakes and fruit. There is always
quart bottle of wine put in. The Vile
Railroad Employees.
I have not the railroad wages at
hand but they must be exceedingly
low. Every station has large num-
Der Of officers and soldiers. A cross
roads depot which In our country
would hardly be thought worthy OF an
agent requires half dozen guards and
the large stations proprotionntely more.
There is always chief depot man
ager, baggage master, telegraph
operator, a ticket seller and number
OF porters. It takes a half dozen men
to start q train. The engineer whis-
Ties one of the guards rings a bell and
others run from car to car and sh-.
| tho doors while they cry, Get on gem
| tlemen, If you please" On Re cars
I themselves there are many employees.
There are engineers, firmen and brake
men galore. Every train has its mail
clerk and It's baggage man. and often
an express messenger as we'll. =
New Railroads for North Africa,
The railroads of Algeria and Tunisia
at present have length Of almost g.
900 miles The new lines projected
and In the near future the railroad
system of this part of the world Will
proba bly, be several times what It is
now. One Of the most remarkable OF
the new schemes is fathered w the
young Khedive of Egypt. His m-jesty
Is rich and he has trouble investing
his surplus. He proposes to build &
i railroad from Egypt to Tripoli, Which
| may be extended on around the Gull
1 Of Gabes and thus connect vita the
railway system OF Tunisia.
Another scheme is to build line
i through the Atlas mountains OF Moroc.
CO to Tangier the two projects com
pletinE great trunk line from the
Nile to the Atlantic. The Morocco
scheme cannot be attempted in thu
I present condition of that co try, ant
1t is doubtful whether the travel anc
freight of the region between Tripod
and the Milo would ever rake tina
part OF the road pay The length o
this trunk line. all told, would &c abou
as long as from New York to Salt LAX,
City. and fully two thirds of 1t remains
to be built. Here in Algeria and Tu
nisla there are roads running east ant
west about as far as from New York t.
J Chicago, and in Egypt the <hedive ha
: already built something like sixty 0
seventy miles from the Nile westward
On the Libyan Deserts.
A part of this route goes along tn
Mediterranean through tho Libyan des
ert. The Khedive has Travelled Of
horseback over this section and wa
, surprised to nnd that tho country ha
n rich soil and that 1t once supporte
, n large population. Everywhere h
: went he saw tho remains of tho Ro
mans. There were ruined towns an
, villages and enough stones In them t
/, build a hundred new settlements Her
!, and there he crossed rich GASES. an
! he has advanced the opmnion that hi
!, road will pay. The part already built
now doing so, and he has widened til
: gauge to accommodate the traffic.
! 1t should ever be completed to Tunisil
and the Morocco extension made
would bring Africa within four hour
OF Europe by way OF the Strait OF G
braltar. and there Will he n probabl
: connection with Asia by road viii
: might be built from Cairo to connet
y with the lines now going south throus
. Damascus and Lerusalem. 8
Q AS to Morocco, that country VT
8 eventually form a live field for rallroa
o engineers. 1t is now in such an ur
t settled state that the powers VIII hay
Q to take hold Of 1t within a short tim