Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-04-20
CHINA AND JAPAN
EXCEL EUROPE
IN RAILWAYS
SAYS VISITOR
Kansas City Man on Limited
Discusses Travels in Foreign
Lands Believes Tiresome
Trip to Pekin Worth Cost.
RODE ON ONE TRAIN
FOR TWELVE LONG DAYS

China aud Japan excel Euror,
when DO ,omcs To railway travel ac-
corllr1 Go ralph Harms. <ansus
.tItt real estate dealer. who was tu
route hum, from "a tour "t uu" world
vui iuc santa Fc limited H. regard
cu nis iAun, from Moscow tn rekin
among IA. most interesting Is we'll ts
tho most Wrarisomc ct hts experience.
'u his fifteen months tour lie saij
eu American Pullman wits % luNuy
compared tu some coaches ON which
~, had ridden IN the past few months
Twelve days uf stead, travel b. re-
quircd 20 go from Moscow 1" Prkin.
MI Harris satd sleeping ears ana
dining ears are carried Oh tho train
bat they are tho grumuod quarters ot
continental railway carriages and ~
sand drives through the loose castings
IN streams Tho sleeping cars are
under tho management ut the French
Wagon company and the attendants
ON them speak French The uthci
members OF the train crew are Rus
slams 10 their queer white shirtCua' IS.
rh. through trains run ouly twice a
.o,k.
Russia proper has Mirly prosn,r-
! ous looking wheat farms. bat when
/ Iberia ie reached there U.s. little farm-
| 800 to b., erou Th,r, are no farm.
| houses m, residents ave in lit't,
! Villages consisting ct clumps ot
| thatch.d huts Practically no live
! stock ls to hc seen just an occasional
small horse. Thv wheat and flaN 81
iu lUl, fields The country g. upt
! like the short grass districts of kag-
| Has, ana there ar, practically no en-, Be-
For miles TIA, train does not conn.
within sight nt a house. \ .aN
scraggA trees willows aud birch
are to- Dee seen along the little ere, -.
NJ lrkutsk w., changed from rui
train to another Ike IL except uf
slightly different gauge, and went on
To- Hardin. a drearN diYcoUr1 sing
Httlc place win uupuVed streets.
There We turned south into Mao
churia. also q farming countI, rp
which sort of sugar onue app-ari
t. be- the main product, u Il drill,r
ina crooked rows So the rvtl HiIt.s
viii lct tangled aud los, ia a. Nn
occasional group or double hnmrvd
caiu.is was to hc seen. We remainrd
on "a, crampod russian tram init
1--we reached kNunchcu1co, trayci-
stained aud ur'd.
AN hour before we got To KWan-
Ichonzcp uniformed Iapan,sc train Of
uciuls boarded our cars Ia look az
our tickets and ABRAMS" Tor our ace
Dommodutioua from Mukd,u ON They
were AN bows umlles ana poitcncss.
S,rI, of them spoke English and 9TH
cas- spoke French and German.
And whom Vr got to i<NHuchruzco
,hrr, vas train %, real American
Pullman cars b,hiud q shining new
German locomotive that had q
health, urU AND ana American sound
=, lug whistle instead of tho uncarthN
.liulo scrcr,u that had been ringing IN
oui ears from thr time $50 lctt Mos
uun That was tho Japanese train
num EWuu.h,uzc, Go Mukdrn and
1t was one ot tine finest trains ever
rode on.
AT Muklcn We bptrdrd @ Chinese
train IN, car, were made 40 china
after the fashion cot compartment
slcrp.rs int this couu'r unlS not so
, long ThcN V,r, uatN lmsh'd aud
7 clean ius bette. cham the Russian
3 trnin aud 40 100. rear oi the To d
wa. a lNrau D upholstered Dol
leather That rus t1o train that tuot
as 20 Pcklu.
ON IN. uip through siberia NW
struck hN the SCARCITY ui tr"ighl pr
casiunnllN We stW q car ut cpal hn
that Sc,mrd to be about am. There
s was not owen amy local freight Nu'
the passengers consisted larsclN 90
! German commercial travellers. t.us
3 l'fhmcn on their way to their post
I'm India. European engineers cWplul
! cd bon Japan and china and tourists
P Comparatively few Russians wero II
the train ~ th, rear of the tai.
! 1a- th, private car of Jar"ii"s'
wn,.
, ~ Japanese army officer toll m'
3 Inns countr, was erratlN surprised al
Ga, speed Win which the Russian g'I
I rrupY. To- Manchuriu IN thu Russo
j. jan war n was found later tht
+ tho troops we're rushed through H.
I any KIND ot cars that could Doe '"ur'
| ana th, cars tH.u we're Abandoned 81
, as not ,o have the track blocked p,
pluu, compliment Where sidctrack
t..IH mot .lya4iaHl, the cars sta pN
: ,.r, pushed ou and dlsmantled, =
many cases they wore used a. fl~i nI
Z IA. SHORTCOMINGS amy dining 10 get thop
,nut of che way so that others coul,
cot m With r,-intorcrmcnts
J. M Harris married Mss Grac'
Mc,r in Pasadena CAT. year nn'
a half ago and went round the wor.'
on honeymoon trip
Mr.. anbo mex, morunsj Nancy