MATERIAL FOR EGYPTIAN RAILROADS. A report of the Austro-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce of Alexandria gives the following interesting statistics: The total value of material ordered for the Egyptian State railroads in the year 1902 amounted to £760,105 Egyptian ($3,757,239). The following countries participated in this trade to the amounts given: Of the foregoing, England furnished coal (£120,000 Egyptian, or $593, 160), rails, ties, and rolling stock; the latter was also bought from Belgium. Turkey, Sweden, Austria, and India furnished mainly wooden material. Hungary furnished trucks, which are said to be better made than those from the United States, where they were formerly purchased. France supplied oil, varnish, and copper tubes. Italy supplied stones. Germany received orders for locomotives, wheels, steel for bridges, telegraph wire, and insulators. Austria also furnished locomotives. About locomotives, the railroad management remarks: LOCOMOTIVES. During the last year 25 locomotives for passenger trains were ordered-15 from a firm in Cassel, Germany, and 10 from the State Railway Company at Vienna. All these locomotives are of the system "Trevithick," but the German firm was allowed to make slight changes. The American locomotives require very large quantities of coal, although their shape is very good. CARS. The American cars are less durable, excepting those which were furnished for the narrow-gauge line Luxor-Assuan, which meet all requirements. The Hungarian freight cars give satisfaction in every way. The Hungarian passenger coaches can also be favorably mentioned, although they have a few faults which are annoying to the public and the railway employees. FRANKFORT, June 30, 1903. RICHARD GUENTHER, Consul-General. TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY SCHEDULES. According to the new schedule and tariff of the great TransSiberian Railway, which has just been issued, express trains which have been leaving Moscow heretofore three times a week will now be dispatched four times a week-that is, Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and will arrive at Moscow on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays. The trip from Moscow to Dalny can be made in thirteen days by fast and in seventeen days by slow trains. Direct communication exists at present from Moscow to Irkutsk and then to Lake Baikal; after crossing the lake, to Missova, via Harbin, direct to Dalny. The distance from Moscow to Manchuria station is 6,295 versts (4,197 miles); to Harbin, 7, 171 versts (4,780 miles); to Dalny, 8,053 versts (5,368 miles); and to Port Arthur, 8,082 versts (5,388 miles). Express trains only run from Moscow to Irkutsk; thence to Manchuria station, post and passenger trains; and from Manchuria station to Dalny, express and post trains. The new rates for traveling on Government trains, including sleepers, are as follows: |