. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ularity, was elected assessor of hishome township, strongly Democratic,when hut twenty-two years of age. The Siberian Railway. While the Sibeiian Railway has beenbuilt by the Russian Government primarilyto protect its political interests and to de-velop its great commercial possibilities,that line will ultimately have a somewhatunexpected and far-reaching effect, not road, which we have come to regard as anunbroken and completed line reachingfrom Russia to the Pacific coast termini,has severa
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ularity, was elected assessor of hishome township, strongly Democratic,when hut twenty-two years of age. The Siberian Railway. While the Sibeiian Railway has beenbuilt by the Russian Government primarilyto protect its political interests and to de-velop its great commercial possibilities,that line will ultimately have a somewhatunexpected and far-reaching effect, not road, which we have come to regard as anunbroken and completed line reachingfrom Russia to the Pacific coast termini,has several iinks not yet finished; and itmay be two years or more before the lineis completed and carrying on permanentand regular traffic. The undertaking hasbeen stupendous, and the labor thus farexpended has cost more than 90,000,000days work. Nearly twenty miles ofbridges have been built across rivers andother streaiiis, and several miles of tun-nels will have been bored and cut ere thiscolossal project can be stamped Finis,and Russia receive in the fullest treasurethe due congratulations of the -»*7—Tolal-Whcel-Basc— Rnilwny ^ Lcconiotivei THE LARGEST ENGINE YET BUILT. scarcely thirty years of age, whose shortlife has been one of unusual activity. Hewas born on a farm in Livingston County,the son of parents in very moderate cir-cumstances. He was one of those youngmen not afraid of honest work, havingfilled the position of hired help for sometime and one season worked as a sectionhand on the Chicago & Alton economical and having saved thegreater part of his earnings, he entered theGrand Prairie Seminary at Onarga, at-tending there one year, and later the StateNormal University at Normal for twoyears. He taught for several years inLivingston County. He was later appointeddeputy circuit clerk of Livingston County,which office he filled for two years, resign- originally contemplated, in binding to-gether in closer commercial relations thegreat nations of th
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