Show THE CZARS BIG ROAD IT WILL revolutionize THREE continents will make tt it for a man to around the world in thirty days host progressive bation in europe HE R 11 s s I 1 an n 9 T r a it s siberian the be greatest railroad in the world and the only anly one I 1 4 1 4 that has an emperor 0 tor for a president Is fast acar ln it g a 0 in p cletion when it is running nin which will be in about three years it will be easily caell possible to make the trip around the world in n thirty five days probably after atler a time when things get lo 10 running smoothly four or br fire days will be knocked lott even this record then you will be able to put a girdle around the globe within the month jules verne doubtless thought that lie he had cut to the lowest limit the time necessary for a trip around the world when he sent PIl phineas IDeas fogg on the journey in eighty lays days nellie bly the worlds special courier proved that the trip could ile be made in seventy two days but soon one ene will be able to go eo twice around the world and beat phineas fogg by ten days and miss aliss bly by forty eight hours in their trips once around the trans siberian railway divides into two prongs out towards the eastern end of the line one prong goes straight on to the russian pacific port of vladivostok the other strikes down through chinese Alan manchuria churla in a southeasterly direction to peking a shorter cut to the sea by miles than the vladivostok line and terminating moreover in a port which Is open all the year round lound vladivostok Is tightly covered up with ice fee duri ng the winter but the vladivostok line is much nearer completion and will soon goon be open dy by this coming fall fail it is 13 expected that trains will run to the amoor river then by fast teamer passengers mail and freight are to be pushed on to thence in eighteen hours over the ussury section to vladivostok making the distance from london to the most im important t harbor on the japanese sea in seventeen and a half das dais it Is estimated that when the road is repaired after the first few years of traffic and the contemplated branch tp pekin is completed a train t ravelIA 7 at t the rate of the pullman service between new york and chicago will be able to make the journey between st petersburg and peking in f five ve days it Is now possible by the nord express to go from lo 10 london ado it to st two days and four h hours ours it will w ill therefore e be possible to reach peking from london In seven or eight days but even with the thelow low speed of twenty three miles in 1111 hour which is pretty sure to be a averaged while the road is new and stiff it will be possible to reach japan in sixteen days and china in seventeen days the journey by the sh shortest oriest cut at al present that is across the atlantic across america and across the pacific takes from thirty to thirty five days even with the he best ot of luck the total length of the siberian toad load proper is miles and of this nearly milis miles already hive have been built and equipped with stations and baler ater tanks already has tied tor for the work and st 4 there here Is next to a certain certainty tv that ali the mark will be passed before the work woric Ig done the or original brigina igina asti mate was and it lias has long i been evident that this was going to be tar far irom from adequate and yet is uch ih a bagatelle it it if were in american silver dollars and tho the dollars lara were placed side hy by side and touching each other the line would stretch along the entire length of the siberian railway from start to finish and still skive dollars enough to make it a 1111 streak ninety two miles alleg in length the completion of this remarkable line means nothing more nor less jess than art an entire revolution in the freight and passenger business between europe rope and the far east that it 11 meang a revolution in a great many other things Is equally evident wit while lie the momentous possibilities that it dimly foreshadows fore shadows tor for tile die near are truly portentous J ut its effect upon traffic Is sufficient for present consideration to begin with it is perfectly safe to say that fully ful lySO 90 per cent of the travelers who now go to europe by the overseas over seas twenty eight to thirty day route will much prefer to make the journey in ton ten or twelve days at very much less cost this sounds very much like the death knell to the steamship passenger carrying trade between europe and china and japan millions ot of dollars that now go to steamships in other words will then go 90 to railroads doubtless certain kinds of 0 freight will still continue to take the water boutes routes between kllc orient and western europe but even of the through fi eight an enormous quantity will go by the trans siberian route As to passenger traffic take the cost and time of 0 the journey from london to shanghai for example under present conditions by tile the most popular route the time Is two days clays from loudon london to brindisi Brindl sl and from brindisi to shanghai thirty seven days forty nine nille days in all it costs first class or second class by way of marseilles it takes thirty five days to shanghai and costs for first class and for second class by way of america it takes from thirty four to thirty nine days from liverpool to shanghai and the voyage costs 9 30 first class ilow how will this service be by the siberian route front from london to boloso there is a lay day and a halt half 0 of travel which costs 3 35 5 first class or 26 second class from by st petersburg moscow samara to vladivostok rallia a fourteen days twenty mies an hour will cost only for first class ur or second class it will be necessary to add for the extra cost of express trains 1635 for first class and second class and P for thirteen nights in the sleeping car from vladivostok by nagasaki to shanghai on the russian steamboats or the japanese packet boats takes six days for the price of 0 40 first class or 37 in second class all ali the journey by this way vay from london to shanghai will thus only last twenty two days and will only cost first class and in see second ond class in the price by steamers meals are included adding then for meals on the rall railroads roads sixteen days 48 for first class passengers and 24 for those oi of the second class there will be totals of and of which is more than a third cheaper than the journey by the other two ways although as early as 1857 the desirability of 0 opening a way of communication through siberia was recognized and surveys were made with that end in view it was not until match maich of 1891 that the present route and plan of the great siberian railway was approved two months later on slay may 12 the work was formally inaugurated at vladivostok under the personal supervision of the then who Is the present czar nicholas II 11 wheeled away the first barrowful of 0 earth and laid the first stone of the mighty work the construction of the road was placed in the hands ot of a committee of which tile the czar was and is still the resident president and the rapid execution of the colo colossal I 1 project Is largely due to his great interest and enthusiasm an army of MOD men besides officers and engineers has been constantly employed in good weather on the three sections into which the work was divided and they have built bul t an average ottlo miles a day considering the difficulties encountered and ana in many instances the primitive methods employed this la is very rapid work every sleeper has been sawed I 1 bously by hand in old fashioned saw pits with one waa maa above and another lolow below in the consi construction ruction of 0 high embankments bank ments tho the supporting piles have been driven iu in by a most prim ithe contrivance this consists of 0 a giant wooden tripod olier oer a pulley on top ot of which runs a rope with a heavy flat bottomed stone attached this stone is raised and dropped on the pile until it is driven into the required distance As this method has been used on each pile nn an idea can be obtained of 0 the immense amount 0 f t time im a a and nd labor that has been expended expanded on this feature of the work alone it is a matter ot of serious interest to the united states and the whole world that russia is preparing to become one of the great maritime powers of the PacI pacific evidences have long been multiplied of dussias Rus sias definite purpose to talce take a leading part in pacific affairs since the strong military and naval occupation cu of 0 vladivostok that policy Y lias has been s early bearly growing more man manifest it has been greatly emphasized by the recent energetic progress of the trans alberian railway that road has already become the highway of 0 a vat vast current of russian immigration into the fertile re regions ions of 0 central siberia of greater immediate importance to io dussias Rus sias alms aims on nn the pacific will be the tha provision by means of the great rest railway ot of rapid transportation tor for military forces and supplies over an interior route absolutely removed from hoelle ho interruption iler her great fortress vladivostok di and the other fortresses which she will all create crate cr ate on the fi will lie he placed rapid communication in time will create in the armoor and other back country near the pacific nil all the sources of such supply that she will need not only ol of provisions iid find men hut but of munitions of 0 war at al the forts will be built the needed and the pacific fia a arsenals r e will manufacture the armor aud and the guns itt at present her domminica tion with vladivostok Is remote remo a and tedious as nell as costly th tha new r railway will remove this difficulty one of dussias Rus sias first and most important stepi towards the I 1 he proper establishment qt it her maritime power on the pacific is to secure rater letter seaports than she now lias has in vladivostok the chief ports port available to her use for that purpose lre re those cl cc the dentri sula ot of coroa with dussias Rus sias otherwise magnificent and appo opportunity ot of becoming cowing be a first class commercial power n the bacille Pa cilc cille it 13 s not t to be expected that she should forego any opportunity to take ps possession session of 0 those corean iverts or ot of the whole peninsula to which they bel beling ng such occupation is manliest manifest cle in those harbors ry russia asla will mid find all that she requires to apen the rord roi d for hr her unimpeded as a firse class naval and commercial power on the mightiest of 0 oceans she can then enter upon equal terms into competition with thi tha three other great powers whose territories border on the north pacific Tn angland gland the united states and japan such a mighty quartet oi of naval howera ought halt a century hence to mk the pacific a busy scene of 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