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Show AROUND EARTH IN FORTY DAYS. Banker Eapct to Accomplish Trip In That Tim. P. M. Silencer, prealdont of the Cleveland (Ohio) National bank, who, above all thlnga, takea delight In travel, haa tinder contemplation an attempt to go around tho world In 40 day. The preaent record for a complete com-plete Journey around the world la fifty-four day and aeven hour, but Mr. Silencer believe that the long Journey can be accomplished In a Utile ovor a month. The plan ot Mr. Spencer have not been arranged aa to detail, and before the date of departure I decided upog every effort will be made to get the route ao laid out that only the unexpected unex-pected will prevent delay. The pro-poled pro-poled globe glrdler la now In communication com-munication with persona In different parta of the world, and the courae of the Journey la bolng gradually put Into shape. Ah haa been the raao with all per-aoua per-aoua who have tried to circle (he world In record time, Mr. Spencer an-tlclpatea an-tlclpatea tho moat tllftlcult part of the whirl will be through parta of liiianhi. If he can niako gixxl counecllona In Huaala he doea not nee anything In tho way of an accompllxhtuent of the trip In forty dnya. With gixjd luck In tho matter ot connection It I rouithly figured that the trip can bo made from Yokohama, Japan, to Moscow, Ituxala, In eight daya; Moscow to Vlndlvoatok, twelve daya; Vladivostok to Nlcho, two dara; Nlcho, to Yokohama, a half a day; Yokohama Yo-kohama to San Francltu-o, twelve daya, nd San Francisco to Cleveland, four and one half days. If this schedule can he adhered (o (he trip will be made In a llttlo over thirty nine day aud all record badly broken. |