New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-23
4 CHANCE FOX THE EASTERLY CURRENT

4 CHANCE FOR THE EASTERLY CURRENT
The maxim which teaches that " the longest
way round is the shortest way home has
hitherto been considered the especial property
of that interesting class OF young people 10
whom an added half hour of starlight com
munion is worth q week of wOrkday mon
otony. But if Vienna dispatch which we
find in London paper is founded in fact,
much wider significance will at once be given
to the adage. great many Americans
abroad are now looking for the shortest way
home. and a Mr.. Wells claims that this can
literally be found in the longest way around.
He proposes to leave Vienna III balloon
some time during the present month to 20 to
America by way of Asia. Mr.. wells would
evidently see no Joke in that reply OF the
New England pOsitivist, who said to way
faring man who asked him the distance to
Watham, If you 20 as you're gong, us
"abaout twenty-five Thousand mile. IL you
turn araound, you'll make it in a mile
There are plenty of excellent reasons why
the scheme of Mr.. Wells should be popular
among our fellow citizens on the Continent.
Most of them are now at Vienna, with all their
means Of subsistence comprised In the ample
assets of Messrs. Jay Cooke and Henry
Clews. They feel perfectly sure of ultimately
touching the principal and interest OF their
deposits, but in the meanwhile, the day re-
ouires its daily bread. In Vienna 1t requires
it's daily Semmel and Hiihnersehnitzel, Its
nightly Strauss and Sperl Life in the Kaiser
stadt is all easy and sOciable state, where If
Won spend the guldens freely the kreuzers
e. A nd
able folies WOO the unwary. The Graben CLEANS
with seductiOns of Russia leather. Marvellous
meerschaums lie in wait in every window. In
the gathering twilight the Rothenthurm street
il filled with the ieneS suSurTi nOctis mentioned
Inv Horace. The result of it all is, that after
the generous stranger has spent few months
there, he is in no condition to receive with
calmness the news that his bankers propose 10
carry on business on the new plan, OF paying
no old scores. but merely taking IN all fresh
deposits offered. You get the worth OF your
money in Vienna" said one reflective Amer
can, "but if you stay there long you will have
"no money to get the worth Of"
To all such as these. what delicious
promise must shine forth in the programme
of Mr. Wells. The question of return is
his. "A fco for the world and worldlings
"base; | sing of Africa and golden joys"
The bills which lie in wait Ill Paris, the
reckonings which make him shudder when he
thinks of London, can all be sponged from
the tablets of his memory. With that wild
| fight over the Orient he dissOlyes all CON
| nection with former terrestrial interests, and
enters upon new account with the world.
| No vessel ever went to sea freighted with so
rich a cargo of what Mr.. Venus would cali
| Uumans-yarious." There will be news
paper correspondents of an inventive capacity
| of which the world is not worthy; commits
sioners, who however they may quarrel among
themselves, yet agree in the one essential
| thing and like lovers hearts, beat" as one
restaurant keepers, who have given all theiI
profits TO the Commissioners and have nothing
for the steamer swells who have exhausted
their cash in buying meerschaums and theli
wind in coloring them and to add tender
grace TO the company, young American ladies
| who have not married Counts, and who therefore
cannot hold up their heads again on the decl
of a Cunarder. These will sail like fainean
angels over Tartary and Cathay. spreading
| CONSERVATION below them. and leaving perhap,
| and a new art TO emblazon their passage upor
fans and tea-caddies. And coming in at the
| Golden Gate they will realize the vision OF
| Tennyson, who
| Saw the heavens I'LL with travel argosies of bapk
| rupt swells.
Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with
! Captain Wells.