The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-23
A LONG JOURNEY From Tokio to New York by the Long Siberian
 Route. INTERESTING AND CHEAP How Two Missionaries Had Good
 Time and Saw
 Much.
INTERESTING AND CHEA|

 in mind to travel from Tokio to New York. One was missionary going home on his first furlough, the other was missionary going home to mar ry his girl, the writer was the less for, tunate of the two
 There are three possible routes from Tokio to New York. the ancient TO- mantle tropical route by the way of India and the Mediterranean sea, the ultimate ambition of all missionaries. IS the longest and most expensive way and was, therefore, not considered. The shortest, cheapest, everyday route is across the Pacific ocean to San Francisco or Seattle and then across the continent The new mys- terious, enticing route is across Si- beria, and its expense is an unknown quantity.
 Tickets were bought from Tsuruga to Vladivostock and from Vladivos- tock to Moscow from the agent of the Trans-Siberian railroad in Yokohama. Japanese money was deposited in the Yokohama specie bank in Tokio to be drawn out in London in English mon- ey. All other money was changed successively from Japanese to Russian, from Russian to German, from Ger man to English, and from English to American. But the last was not a very extensive transaction An emergency amount of American gold was carried intact throughout the trip in a safe place.
 The baggage was packed in such shape that it could be easily handled, and in case of necessity by the tray elers themselves. It consisted of a big satchel, two suit cases, a small hand satchel, a roll of rugs and pillows. and two baskets. One basket was fill- ed with books and papers and the other was lunch basket packed with tea, coffee, cocoa, sugar, raisins, tri- cult, etc, and few cooking and eat ing utensils This arrangement of bag gage made possible a great saving in time and money along the whole jour- ney
 There were seven stages on the Journey from Tokio to New York. The first was down across Japan from Tokio to Tsuruga, port on the west coast. We left Tokio Friday night June 14. and travelling second class arrived at Tsuruga Saturday after noon. On the way good sized group of foreigners accumulated on the train, whom as our fellow travellers we afterward differentiated as Aus tralian. French, English American nd so party of Japanese capitalists or their way to London and with them several Japanese ladies and numerous clerks and interpreters.
 When we arrived at the Tsurugs station promptly gathered our bag gage together and piled 1t in rick. shaws and jumped in other rickshaws and headed our rickshaw toward the wharf. In the meantime a group oi Japanese hotel runners were politely but firmly corralling the rest of the foreigners and insisting on takine them to hotels and tea houses for { rest None of them wanted to go and the last we heard was the voice oi an English lady In high English ac. cent protesting that she wanted to gc Ion bo'ad." We left them to thei, fates, knowing that they would b, treated with the most charming DO liteness, that they would have tea tt drink and harmless bean paste cake, to eat, and that eventually they would reach the ship, and in the meantim, our Japanese friends would have few more sent to help them pay for tn, Russian war. As for ourselves. we hat already paid our share for the Rus sian war and so we headed directl, for the wharf, and there we called , sampan and got ourselves and bag gage carried out to the boat where ", chose a good stateroom at our leis ure Before the rush arrived
 The second stage of the tourne, was on the boat from Tsuruga up t : Vladivostock The boat was offensive ly Russian. It was old and slow an, In need of repair and not over clean We were due in Vladivostock Monda, and we arrived there Tuesday Tn most offensively Russian thing of al , was the food The soun looked lik a market garden with pieces of cab haze as big as your hand in it. Tn Russian priest poured his glass ful of vodka and emptied half the peppe box into 1t and drank 1t down with out a culver An old toper of a American who had knocked about tn Orient for 30 years gazed at this pro cess in envious amazement. Tn fortunate one of us was seasick, an the other one was so near the edge c that existence lost it's charm. Alto ,, gether this was the one miserabl part of the whole trip. A choice piec of Russian English was the answer ( = one of the ship officers, Wait lii . tie by-by.''
 We slowly reached Nladivostock 2 last and there had our baggage es amined and passports inspected fc the first time. Our baggage was UT der examination twice more before W :. reached Moscow There was no trou | ble until the officials found our pil d of New York newspapers and thos :, they declared we could not take int
 the country. Our passports had to
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