Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-03

or $4,000 miles less than those in the
United States alone. Asia has $1,000
j miles. Africa II 900. and Australia and
the adjacent islands of Oceania IL, 800
The estimated cost of construction. OF
capital cost of principal railways is
given for Europe at II billion dollars
for 10000 miles for which statistics
/ are available; and for the remainder
of the world. II billion dollars for
! sos, 900 miles for which statistics are
available. the figures with reference TO
the United States being: cost, as given
by Poor's Manual, II billion dollars
| for 213.O0O miles for which figures are
available.
Many interesting facts are disclosed
by the distance figures companylng
the map. One fact of especial inter-
est at the present moment is that the
sailing distance from New York to
Punta Arenas at the southern end of
South America. via the Panama canal.
Is SIT miles less than by the route
which ships passing between those
two points must now follow. The
tables show distances from our own
ports via the Tehuantepec Railway and
ll0 1dHdII1i EIillNdy VI SdIiStl sto NSii
as via the Suez canal and the Cape
of Good Hope and Cape Horn routes
and via the railway lines across the
North American continent. The dis
lance between New York and 9oho-
hama is shown to be via Suez canal,
13,O4O miles, via the Panama canal,
10O93 miles: via the Tehuantepec
Railway. e,243 miles: via San Fran
cisco Gland and water). 1921 miles.
and via Port Townsend Gland and wa
teri, 4 439 miles. From New York to
Shanghai the distance is given via
Suez. 1880 miles. and via Panama,
1885 miles. To Hongkong the dis
lance via Suez is 11,610 miles and via
Panama, 11,410 miles: and to Manila
the distance is shown to be II, 556 miles
via Suez and 1856 miles via Pana-
ma From Chicago the distance to
Hongkong is, via New York and Suez.
1852 miles: via San Francisco. S,365
miles; via New Orleans and Panama,
HAP miles, and via Tehuantepec, TO-
229 miles.
From New York to San Francisco the
distances shown are, by rail across the
continent, 3,191 miles; via Tehuantepec,
4,415 miles; via Panama, 5,305 miles,
via Punta Arenas, 1909 miles. and via
Suez and Singapore, 1852 miles. From
New York to Nome, Alaska. the dis
lance via Port Townsend is $685. miles;
via San Francisco, 1896 miles; via Te-
huantepec. 1880 miles; via Panama,
SOLO miles. and via Magellan straits
1880 miles. The length of route from
Vladivostok, Asiatic Russia, to New
Orleans via Magellan straits. is Ii, AS
miles. while the distance from Vladi-
vostok to New Orleans via San Fran
cisco and thence by rail is but 7,18S
miles. The distance around the world
via the Trans Siberian and our own
transcontinental railway lines is shown
to be 1897 miles, being: from New
York to st. Petersburg, 1882 miles;
from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok,
$500 miles: from Vladivostok to Port
Townsend, 4,357 miles, and from Port
Townsend to New York, 3,199 miles.
The sailing distance around the world
from New York via SueZ. Singapore,
Manila, Guam, the Hawaiian islands,
and Panama canal to New York again
would be 23,O92 miles; being in detail,
from New York to Singapore, 1910
miles; thence to Manila, 1886 miles;
thence to Guam, 1906 miles; thence
to Hawaii, 1887 miles; thence to Pan
anna. 1866, and thence to New York
2,02S miles.