Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . Hankow. RAILROAD SYNDICATE. A fourth concession is to an Anglo-German syndicate for aline from Tien-Tsin, through Shantung, along the line of the GrandCanal to the Yang-tze-kiang river, opposite Chingkiang, where con-nection will be made, probably by ferry, with the English line toShanghai. The only other concession made is for a system of linesconnecting the c
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . Hankow. RAILROAD SYNDICATE. A fourth concession is to an Anglo-German syndicate for aline from Tien-Tsin, through Shantung, along the line of the GrandCanal to the Yang-tze-kiang river, opposite Chingkiang, where con-nection will be made, probably by ferry, with the English line toShanghai. The only other concession made is for a system of linesconnecting the coal fields in Shan-si and Shen-si, granted to anAnglo-Italian association, usually spoken of as the Pekin Syndi-cate. For all of the above lines surveys are either in progress orhave been made. The line between Pekin and Tien-Tsin a distance of eightymiles is double-tracked, and has its terminus at Machiapu, a fewmiles from Pekin. They are running on an average of three trainseach way per day, two being ordinary and one express. Foreignersprefer the express train which completes the journey in three hoursand forty minutes. When the line was first opened, the first-classcars were cushioned and made as comfortable as circumstances. 370 ADVENT OF THE RAILROADS. would permit, but in a very short time this had to be altered, as thehabits peculiar to the Chinese soon rendered these carriages unfitfor use by cleanly people, even though they were not too first-class trains are now provided with wooden seats, madeas comfortable as the nature of that material will permit. Theexpress trains run a postal car under the control of the ImperialChinese post-office, and as these are considered the private propertyof Sir Robert Hart, a part of the car has been upholstered and isreserved for such foreign travelers as choose to make use of it. Totravel by these reserved cars it is not necessary to take the ordinaryticket, but each traveler when seated in the car is provided by thefo
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