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

Especial Correspondenceo
r AI,NY, Nlaacharia, l909.-I am !,
q the southern terminal 0f tn
Transsiharinn railroad. Til
trains 4tssrtiag here. 80 nortl,
ward through Nanchuria to the mali
line at Hardin, ana thence o., via Mos.
COW to st. Petersburg The railroad
Journey is tho longest Of thu world. It
covers about G.C9o miles, and is,5mada
in comfortable cars The South Man
ch,lria line was opened in 1903, just
about year before the war between
Russia and Japan began It was closed
for a time, but since then the service
has grown better and better. Today
one can go from Dainy to Moscow in
about IL days, and the distance to Lon
don can be covered In less than two
weeks. There are fast steamers rum
ming from hero to Shanghai, and the
road has brought TINT city and Ma
susaki within IL days OF London,
ON THE SOUTH MANcHUR1AN
RAILWAY,
During my stay in Manohuria have
taken ii number of tips over the SOUTH
ern end OF this railroad system. u
has been greatly improved by tho
Japanese, and ! doubt IL there Is an
other road so good in cast Asia. Tie
tracks and cars are far better than
those of Japan. and they compare Well
with the hest railways In America.
And why not? They are almost al
together American When the Japanese
rebuilt the system after the war. they
standardized IL and put new American
rolling stock upon the whole line. They
bought $4,000 tons of steel rails and
$500 tons of bridge materials. They
purchased also over 200 American loco
motives, " first and second class cars
and also 1000 OF 1000 box cars, fat
cars, gondoa cars and cabooses
During the past few months, a NUM- |
Der of our modern sleepers have been |
added. In going to Mukden the other
day 1 rode in an up-to-date Pullman,
which had been sent out here knocked
down and was put together at Dalny.
Tho car was lighted With incandescent
electric globes. made In Cleveland,
Ohio, and every berth had lis individu
al light 1t was cooled by electric fans
from the same establishment. Our en-
CINE was from the American locomotive
works at Richmond aud it hauled us
over rails made BY the United States
Steel trust. The car had a reading
room with the latest Aslatic papers and
American and English journals. Cons
nected with the train was u diner In
which, for &c cents, 7 got a better meal
than have ever had on any American
train. and the service, In general. was
superior to that on our best trunk lines.
N 1 wish You could see how clean the
Japanese keep these new Pullmang.
They dust them inside and out at al
most every stop. They even wipe off
he wheels and rub up the brasses,
lgain and again, during each trip.
reatiug tho cnrs like so many new ba-
oles. brought out Tor display. The road
rom DalIly to Mukdcn is now being
Iouble tracked and the new line will be
SUBSTANTIALLY built. !,
sAILRoAD BUILDING IN MAN .
CHuRIA.
The Japanese are good railroad corr
tructors. They are putting up mag {
lificent bridges with the finest OF stone i
YORK abutlnents. and are finishing then, t
With steel work made in America. The 4
Dads are ballasted with quartz and {
,ther hard rock, broken into pieces tho
We of q sugar lump. All along tho
inc from Port Arthur northward guam
tiles OF this ballast arc to be seen. ! ,
t is corded UP into mounds and rect {
angular piles, carefully sinoothed over. 4
rho piles are painted at the corners, {,