. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . led the South Manchuria is the first instance of a direct sail-ing from New York to Tairen. Forty steamers will be necessary tocarry this equipment, which will approxi-mate 400,000 tons, from America. It isestimated that the expenditure for theequipment now under contract will reach$10,000,000; and the undersigned hasthought that some notes and photographsfrom Manchuria and the southern ter-minal of the South Manchuria Railwaywould be of interest to the many readersof your valuab
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . led the South Manchuria is the first instance of a direct sail-ing from New York to Tairen. Forty steamers will be necessary tocarry this equipment, which will approxi-mate 400,000 tons, from America. It isestimated that the expenditure for theequipment now under contract will reach$10,000,000; and the undersigned hasthought that some notes and photographsfrom Manchuria and the southern ter-minal of the South Manchuria Railwaywould be of interest to the many readersof your valuable journal, a journal thatI have enjoyed reading and studying fortwenty years and hope to continue thatstudy and interesting reading as manymore years by the help of the present ing discharged into cars alongside theships and transferred to fields assignedas erecting fields, or yards. So great isthe stress, the rush and push that the un- ganization is excellent. They plan, con-sider their plans and then execute themseemingly with military precision, and theway they do it is admirable. In the field. THE GREAT WHARF AT TAIREX. loading goes on apace in the dark hoursof night, aided by the light of flambeausand burning debris. Hundreds of Chi-nese coolies are engaged in the work re-ferred to and their merry song of heave-
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