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Show TRANS-SIBERIAN ROAD OF COMMERCIAL VALUE. Opinion of American Railway President Presi-dent of the Line. NEW YORK, Feb. 16. Henry Clark Rouse of this city, president of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway, who was with Gen. Mlles'a party on its tour of the world, returned Sunday. While abroad he investigated the construction construc-tion and equipment of the Trans-Siberian Trans-Siberian railroad, making the trip from Peking to Moscow In the record time of seventeen days and nineteen hours over the East Chinese & Trans-Siberian railroad. Mr. Rouse believes that the road will be of great commercial value. He finds It well constructed and well conducted, and believes it will soon be possible to make the trip by rail from Berlin to the Pacific coast in less than a fortnight. |