The Behring Strait Railroad Scheme
The famous scheme to tunnel Behring Strait and so connect the Eastern and Western continents by rail seems at last to be developed far enough to include the promoters. The Trans-Siberian Railroad Company was incorporated at Trenton, N. J., October 24, with a capital of $6,000,000, including telephone and telegraph systems along the route. The incorporators are Loicq Don Lobel, of Paris, France, general delegate of the French, Russian, and American syndicates of the railway; J. A. L. Waddell, of Kansas City, delegate of the advisory board of consulting engineers of the railway; John Healy, of Seattle, delegate of the western syndicate; William H. Black, of Jersey City, and John R. Turner, of New York. The plan is to make connecting links so as to have one extended line of railroad from the Cape of Good Hope, by the way of the Isthmus of Suez, and Behring Strait tunnel, to Cape Horn. It is said that a few thousand miles only need building to connect railroads already constructed.