The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-25

j is easy 70 censure. IL is impossible
not 20 criticize. the administrative m;a-
takes and miscalculations which tar
uIshrd and nearly marTcd brilliant
conception. But j. is still more easy,
as one iraycrses III forty.eight hours
countries which len wears ago would
have baffled the tailSomc marches OF
many weeks. TO underraie the Difficult.
tics in which uus yoidahle ignorance and
astonishing conditions plunged the pio-
u"ers. Through veTy:hing-through the
forests, thorIgh tho rayines, through
troops Of narauding lions. through
famine. through war. through five
wears Of cycogiatirg parliamentary lie.
bate. muddied and marched The railway;
and here at last, in some more or less
effective fashion. j. is arrived al its
goal. other nations project Central
African railways rs lightly aud as easily
rs hey lay down naval programmes;
but heTc Is railway. like the British
fleet: in being not paper plan or
an airy dream. but an IRON fact grind.
ing. along through the Jungle and the
pialn waking with It's whistles The ST.
lcnces OF the Nyan2a. and startling the
tribes ont of their primordal naked
ness WIN AmcrlcaEi' piece goods
made in Lancashire.
Let MS, then, without waiting in Nom.
- ,i,'"E'' 'uau u necessary 10 wish
u wei and 20 admire the fertility and
promise Of The coastal region. ascend
inns rallWET from the sea TO the lake.
And tlTst, whs, Il road il IS, Every
thing IS IN apple pie order. The tract,
j. smoothcd and wecded aud baIlasted as ,
II II were the London and Northwest !
crn. Every telegraph post has its nun.
Der; every mile. every hundred wards.
every change of gradient has lis marx:
In =
but IN hard. wCji-painted iron. Con,
sihu' Lahor has steadily improved The
grades and curves "f the permanent
w"r. and th" iTaiu-cue Of those com |
Portable. practical Indian trains-TolI4
along as evenly as upon a European
line.
Nor should it be supposed that this
high standard of maintenance is not
warranted by the present financial 10.
sitlon OF the hne; The Uganda rail
way IS already doing what il was
never expected within any reasouabjo
period. 70 do. II Is paving It's way. i
IS beginning TO yield a pTofit-albeit a
small profit-upon It's capital charge.
Projected solely as a political railway
TO reach Uganda, and To secure British
predomi SSnce upon tho Upper Nile. IL
mas ailSaaY achieved commercial
value. Instead of he annual deficits
upon working expenses which were
regularly anticipated by those most
competent 10 Judge. there is already
substantial profit of nearly eighty
thousand pounds year. And this Is
but the beginning, aEd an imperfect
beginning: for al present the line is
only trunk, without its necessary
limbs and feeders. without its deep.
water head al Kilindiui. without lis
full tale OF steamers on the lake: above
all, without its natural and necessary
extension 10 the Albert Nyanza.
Riding in Front Of the Engine
We may divide tho Journey iu1o four
main stages-tbe lungles. the plains. the
mountains. and the lake for the lake il
an essential part Of tire railway. aud a
natural and inexpensive extension 10
Its length. In the early morning then
VIC start from Mombasa station. taking
our places upon an ordinary garden
seat fastened on TO the Cow.catcher of
the engine. from which position the
whole country can be seen For quar-
ter of an hour we are still upon Nom
basa island. and then the train. cross
ing the intervening channel by a long
iron bridge, addresses itself in earnest
10 the continent OF Africa. Into these
vast regions the line winds perscvcriur-
~ upon q stiff upgrade. and the land
uDfolds itself ridge after ridge and val
lev after valley. till soon. with one fare
well glance at the sea and AT the fight
ing tops OF his ma]esty's ship Venus
rising queerly amid the palms we are
embraced and engulfed completely. All
day long the train runs upward and