Ogden Sun | 1905-08-08 | Page 5 | Gustave Laurent is Walking Round World

LAURENT IS WALKING ROUND WORLD an interesting character struck ogden in the person ofgus tave laurent a frenchman hailing from marseilles ho Is walking around the world for loic of adventure and although possessed of means started from his native heath two years ago with only car fare to the neighboring village in bis pocket he farst look a steamer to china working as a coal stoker and walked through the celestial empire meeting with many peculiar and dangerous experiences perien ces he declares he found it easier living in china from a financial standpoint than in any of the other countries he has traveled through from china he went to japan and was there when the war broke out in fact he was leaving the country when he was arrested on suspicion of being a spy through passports he finally managed to get out and walked through asia until he reached russia he found the russians the least hospitable and liberal people of his travels and left their country as soon as he could from russia he went 0 o roumania Rou manla then through austria then to germany holland belgium and england he walked through these countries and found it hard to secure the means of getting to the united states but finally managed to get aboard the steamship st paul through the good office of an of the united states legation la london he intend walking across the continent to san francisco and then traveling mexico and across panama and south america then he will ship to austria from austria lie will go to africa and from africa he will turn his weary footsteps homeward he started in 1902 and counts on reaching home by 1907 he has a scrapbook which Is most interesting it has certificates as to good character in every kind of language photographs of himself showing him in temples woods steamships etc one of tho mot peculiar circumstances of his trip is the fact that laur ent nothing but his native tongue but Is learning the language rapidly Lauren fc will leads in adew days for bis long jaunt westward