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Show FIFTEEN MORE COUNTRIES BEFORE IOUR COMPLETED Jfj. aad Mrs. Charles J. Gliddea of Boa-ton, Boa-ton, together with the big touring ear in which they twice encircled the world, have returned from the orient. The cyclometer registered 38,000 miles, which took the tourists tour-ists through thlrty-flve countries. This remarkable soar was started in 1901. To make the long drive they traveled 44.766 miles in sixteen steamships. r The distent points reached were the Are- tie circle in Sweden in 1903, the most southerly south-erly road in the world in New Zealand in 1905. The most novel ride taken by the globe drivers was upon the rails of the Soo and Canadian Pscifir railway from Minneapolis to Vancouver. The 1803 miles were covered by cjuoging the rubber tir;d wheels and using 'a upecially eonitrnrted railway flange wheel. The motor ear ran at a special train under telegraphic orders and made fatter time than the regular express trains. There were, timea wnen the lives of the tourists were in real peril. In passing through the famons Khyber pass In India, they were accompanied by military escort as far as tho Afghanistan frontier. Mr. and Mra. Olidden will spend the snm- mer in Boston snd will remme their tour of the world in the winter of 1906-7, in Algeria. Al-geria. Tunis, Tripoli and Egypt. The tour as planned in fifty conn trie . will be completed com-pleted in 1911, and will be the longeat drive over highways ever recorded. |