The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-11-04

The allies are now marching into
Russia from the north. They are al
ready far south Of A%rchnngel. where
our marines Joined them. The der
mans nave again called upon Fin
land To move against them presum-
ably, IN any case the Germans them
selves viii try to attack. And, from
She map, the new Murmask railroad,
paralleling the Finnish border as IL
does for almost It's entire length. seems
TO ofter the most vulnerable Of open
TANKS. ,
But the Germans themselves know
better han hat The Murmansk rail
road Is about ~ far as possible from
being an open flank. And lust now
there ~ at least one man la Ameri-
GA who Is la u position to tell why
That is Vladimir Goriachkovsky. the
big Russian engineer who built il. II
was built In less than eighteen month";
when after nearly two years of war.
RUSSIA found the absolute need OF
having an i%co-frcc port on the Arctic.
tortaChkoVsky WAS chosen for the lob
because hc was an engineer who had
already solved many problems his
last work had been a railroad along
the foot Of the Altai mountdins-and
II WAS known that the Mur7nauSk
would be a road OF many problems
And when Il was planned and located
never Tor a moment was Il forgotten
that u was a railroad which sooner OF
later might De a would be object OF
attack
Deliveries on Schedule Time.
i'ut, first. To- look VI II only as a
railroad u runs from svanka. the
main line junction east Of Petrograd.
siN hundred miles north To Kola. us
last Two hundred miles * within the
Arctic circle. and koll II the worlds
only Arctic railroad terminus. To
build the Murm1usk ~ q year and a
halt IL WAS finished IN November.
1871 TOO, 600 men mia 5000 horses
were put to work, And In one sense
II ~ an American railroad For II
was built with American materials.
Three years before the marines
reached the White sea. our ships and
our freight handlers were going there
with rails and construction machin-
cry. When ne pick would open M
frozen ground. great fires We're built
10 thaw il Tor brigades OF American
steam shoNels. when It was found
impossible To- get supplies through
from the south for the construction
camps, America was drawn upon FOR
the needed flour ana bacon And.
from FIRST To last, II was found possi
bile Ia let everything rest and depend
upon American business system. In
this way.
when a railroad is to hc built in
record time. work must begin SIM
"ultanc0usly along almost The whole
line, n the tools and rails. the
bridge work aud supplies must bc de.
liVcred as near as IL in any wise possi-
hle to the particular section for which
they are designed. Well. when the
right Of way was located. II was found
that at various points on the road
there were adjacent points on the
coast Of koia bay and the white sea
where II might be possible for ships
To make a landing u they could do IL
ana make their deliveries exactly as
per u previously arranged schedule.
whole months could zoe saved And
our ships ala It. Despite German sub
marines waiting for them outside. and
tcebctEs impeding traffic Within. they
made thelr deliveries as per schedule
Not a dag was inst. nor "a meal IT,,
bacon ana the steel arrived together
II h Murmausk now promises TO Ice
one of the most useful roads ON earth,
America can claim II al least u part
of the Creuit lor It's being there
Icindccr Traits aud Marshes.
o. Iut WIZ can n nos be thanked and
cut from Finland The answer lies
in the nature OF the country. II Is alb
s%olutely wild and virtually impassabic.
II IN much like northwestern canada
There is the same amount 90 game