The Cairo bulletin., 1910-01-03

DOCu QI yer bEOtfGt FtAkS's D. a.
thew knew practically all our LIES
history, we we're allowed to proceed.
t Is rule In Russia that passports
shall be sent to the chief Of police on
the arrival at a hotel for the night.
The next morning, on calling for it,
YOU must state where you are bound
to.
LARGE Circle.
"As a glance at the map will show,
ur trip, comprising the towns OF
,iga. st. Petersburg, Novgorod, Mos,
,ow, Briansk, Kief, Warsaw and
Tracow. caused us to describe large
ircle through Russia. 1t also brought
s in touch with all the important
tiles. Hotel accommodation is ex-
,eHent in the large cities; In the
owns of lesser Importance the onl.
lace fit to stop at Is the railroad sta
ion hotel When it was necessary tc
,ass night in the villages We pre-.
erred to sleep m the auto. rather
han share a bedroom with nmnvited
uests. The scenery Is uninteresting,
he country being the --LATEST and
most monotonous in Europe, with
ong wide roads, unbroken in theiE
Uniformity except by short-arched
ridges across narrow streams. In al
he towns, however, there Is muct
hat is OF real interest to the travel
err, such cities as st, Petersburg an(
ts environs. Moscow. Riga and War
saw alone being sufficient to MAXI
the journey worth while
"The general impression is THAI
'oads are uniformly bad in Russia
This is too sweeping statement tt
make. All the highways are made
'oads. many of them, however, having
cen allowed to get into poor condi
ion. They are full OF small holes ant
overed with loose stones, mos
destructive to tires. Naturally thu
train on the automobile is create
han in France or Germany, but 1t il
most severe on tires. The highway
re generally very broad, so wide il
laces that a dozen automobiles coult
un abreast. They are fiat and occa
.ionally broken by awkward, arche'
ridges over small streams Ava,
rom the main military roads condi
| ions are decidedly bad.
Il noticed however, that larg
oadconstruction scheme, eYidentl,
or military purposes, has commences
n Russia, Throughout the country
each side of the main highways
;tones and other bodybuilding ma
erial had been brought for the CIV
dent purpose of re-making all tht
Dads. In few cases the highway!
ad recently been rebuilt. the resul
| 'eing the finest roads | have eve
'riven over-wide, just sufficient,
| ambered to carry off the rain, with
he sides neatly trimmed and formed
| intervals into V.shaped pockets
rom the point of which the waite
"as carried away. If this work /
outinued, Russia will in, q few year
ave an excellent set of main roads.
| 'ef a4t%.s No Maps.
| Before starting out we endeaver,
o procure maps. books and genera
Information on touring. Very littl
'ould be obtained. Even in German,
10 road maps were to be found. AM
1t konigsburg no one could be dis
covered capable of giving rs informa
| ion on touring conditions. We after
Yards discovered that a road map wa
rot really essential, for the roads ar
% few and so straight that it is a.
| most impossible to get astrav w
| fot very valuable assistance, however
rom the Continental Tyre Company
touring department.. They mappe
lut tour for us. giving the names o
most of the villages on the route, tn
I distances between them and the ror
nlation of all the towns, of import
ance. We did not strictly adhere {,
their route, but the list was neverthe
ess of inestimable value.
| "On starting we expected to hav,
| difficulty in procuring tires. We wer
surprised to find that in all larg
towns considerable stocks Of prac
tically every size were to be found
| and that it was consequently needles
to carry exceptional supplies on tn
anto. Gasoline could be procured a
anv drug store. the price being abou
twice as high as In France, but tn
quality always satisfactory, / sloul