Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-17

and they have their numbers in white
| paint on top, and so arranged that II
!, any of the stone should be stolen, II
could be detected. This stone is brok-
en- by the Manchurian Chinese. They
cover the faces Of the hills like blue
ants, liammering the rocks into pieces.
They break them up at some distance
from the road. and carry them down
III baskets slung to poles which rest
cmbansment is transported in the same
i way. There are no scoops and steam
4 shoves: and Chinese: cheap labor seems
tn serve quite as well. The stations
\ arc well made, with platforms and stone
facngs; and all the improvements seem
1 Built to stay.
/ AROUND The WORLD in IS DAYS.
i when Jules Verne wrote his story.
Around tile Wrold in Eighty Days .
| it Appealed to the Imagination as the
most visionary of impossible voyages.
lit was like the remark of Puck, tho
| fairy, wien he said he would put Il
girdle round the earth in forty min
utes Both of these feats have been
more than accomplished. BY the tcle- I,
graph and cable. we can outdiStar,co
Puck: and by means of tho Trans
Siberian and South Manchurlan rail-
ways can cut the time OF Phincas Fogg
down more than one-half. The trip
around the world has been made In |
forty days; and by the latest time la
bles just instituted on this part of the |
Trans-Siberian system it can be done |
n4thirty-eight. Let me take you on
II thirtS-eight-day- trip around the |
world Wo shall start in the Pullman |
sleeper here in Dalny at 5 81, N. Monday
morning. On Tuesday we find ourselves
at Hardin. and go west on the inter-
national train de luxe for Moscow. We
reach there in II days and q hours,
after starting. and take another sleeper
across Europe for Calais and London.
We are there inside IA days, or just two
weeks from the time we set foot on
tho train. Allowing six days for cross
ing the Atlantic we reach New York In
20 days. Five moro take us to Seattle
or Vancouver. and from there To-day /!
voyage on tho fast express steamer will
bring us to Yokohama, Japan. We can
cross the Island OF Hondo to Shimon-
oselii by rail in "a hours and there get
steamers which in two days will take
us back to Dalny, our starting point.
in every part OF this trip we have
had as good meals as at 81 tirst-class
hotel, and we are as safe as
In any American steamer or railroad.
You can now go from Picking to London
in one more day than from Dalny to
ana Inc CO1TlpTlS dire euudllS I
great. The Picking trains traverse the Il
province of Pechili and cut through the l
great Chinese wall where it runs down I
nto the sea of Shanhaikwan. where /
are made with the South 4
system. 81 t
The first-class faro from MulSden to 1
'eking is under SIG and from Dany I
Q Shanghai by steamer 1t is just $50. Il
'he fare to Moscow Is sl42, Including t
he sleeping berth fees, and tho meals t
n the diner are from SO cents to 81, a
nth very low a Ia carte rates. Ono s
an have full dinner at a fixed price,
L rive orders for portions at the fol-
wing rates: Soup IL cents; fried FISH
nd potatoes ~ cents; beefsteak to or !,
en-, Is cents, chicken outlets, 10 cents, =,
nd curry and rice the same. Salad !
osts only 10 cents, bread and butter =.
cents, and tea, coffee and chocolate Z,
10y be had alta nickle a cup. / give !,
lese prices that they may be com " "
urcd with the extraordinary charges "
our American diners. =,
a CITY OF MANSIONS. c,
IF you could lift up liz OF the finest ST
illas ON the outskirts of European tt
ty gardens and all, and drop them bt
own on the slope of a hill overlooking in
beautiful harbor, you would have b.
C. l..