| Show GEO FRANCIS TRAIN BOUND ROUND THE WOULD WORLD IN NINETY DAYS while the tourists sail across the at lantic bantle or run out to the yosemite or spend sunday at long branch newport ort or saratoga mr train as usual distances Ni distances stances everybody by a jump round the world he left his newport villa yesterday and passed through all the nations and several return ing in november to fill two hundred lecture engagements at from to a night arranged through the american Lite lito literary iary bureau he delivered his successive lecture of his presidential course of 1000 at the bowery ery sunday night coming out strong for chinese emigran emigration I 1 on we notice that he intends lecturing in england ireland scotland and wales on the alabama question and american citizens in english jails how the telegram the locomotive and the steamship laugh at distances marco polo only got to china in the thirteenth century mungo park only saw a little of africa peter parley was only an american consul at paris put pub bub but her here e mr train goes through america asia africa and europe in three months viz new york to san francis co miles six days san francisco to yokohama japan miles awen tyone ty one days yokohama via shanghai foo chow and canton to hong kong 1700 miles six days hong kong hong to calcutta via singapore and madras miles fourteen days calcutta to bombay by rail 17 it miles two days bombay to Sue suez zvia vla via red bed sead bead sea sen miles twelve days guez suez to alexandria via calrol cairo calro miles ralles one day alexandria to marseilles soo miles six days marseilles to london via paris calais dover miles three days london to queenstown Queens town via dublin and cork miles one day queenstown Queens town to new york miles ten days total miles eight eighty two days in round numbers mi miles les ies ninety days mr train is accompanied by his private secreta secretary ry mr bemis the estimated cost of the the trip is about mr trains royalty on his street railways in england at a mile on say two thousand miles would amount to amil amii a million on sterling if if street railways were a nuisance ten years ago because mr train was a union man they are as much a nuisance now and there is a possibility that this new way of going to england may mean business as that claim for illegal arrest andrall and jail jall incarceration at cork has not yet been settled while as journalists we cannot bring our minds to the conclusion that he is in earnest about the presidency we are bound to admit that he has a strong hold of the working classes in the country and usually accomplishes whatever he undertakes new york evening globe may |
