. The Chinese. travelfirst class. The average train load is sixty-three passen-gers, and length of journey twenty miles. How oppositeis the tale, and the luxurious habits it reveals, in Amer-ica! The average freight train load is three hundred andeight tons, and average haul sixty-one miles. Grossearnings averaged sixty-two hundred dollars a mile, fifty-five per cent, of this being applicable to net earnings. Theaverage monthly compensation for all railway employeesis seven dollars and a half, against forty in get forty cents a day. China is entering upon a railway policy und
. The Chinese. travelfirst class. The average train load is sixty-three passen-gers, and length of journey twenty miles. How oppositeis the tale, and the luxurious habits it reveals, in Amer-ica! The average freight train load is three hundred andeight tons, and average haul sixty-one miles. Grossearnings averaged sixty-two hundred dollars a mile, fifty-five per cent, of this being applicable to net earnings. Theaverage monthly compensation for all railway employeesis seven dollars and a half, against forty in get forty cents a day. China is entering upon a railway policy under betterauspices, and with less physical obstruction than Japan,and the result will accordingly be more gratifying in alldirections. Already the Chinese mileage is greater, andis rapidly increasing. That commerce in America and Japan is respectivelyon a peace and war basis could not be better illustratedthan by the railway policy. Government control of rail-ways in America so far is only desired in respect of. JAPAN A COMMERCIAL EXAMPLE 403 rates. Japanese control was primarily desired in respectof operation. It was found that the operation of the Jap-anese railways during the war was not satisfactory forthe movement of troops, and nothing to compare with thewonderful work which the Siberian Railway performedin carrying and feeding nine hundred thousand troops,five thousand and five hundred miles from their won only one victory, but that was a signal one,and a monument to Americas pupil. Prince Khilkoff, themaker of the Trans-Siberian Railway. On a single trackline, with rails only forty pounds per yard, twenty trainsat a speed of sixteen miles an hour were passed in thetwenty-four hours. Compare this with the best perform-ance in India of thirteen trains daily. Japan has not beenslow to admire and follow. The first 125,000,000 yenhave been transferred for the purchase of all roads au-thorized by both houses of the Diet in March 1906, andthe following roads have al
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