The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-11-24
ARAcE ROUND THE WORLD i.
TIVE Postal Cards started in Different
Directions.


A correspondent furnishes US with
an interesting account of remarkable
| postcard race round the world. A res
ident of Shepherd s. bush dispatched
from that suburb last June two postal
cards round the world, one on the 9th
of that month to Vancouver via the
Canadian packet and transatlantic
route, and the other two days latter,
to Hong Hong via Brindisi and the
Suez Canal, with the requests that they
might be reforwarded on to the orig
inal sender, the first via Yokohama,
Hong Kong, etc, and the second card
via San Francisco and New York,
which was done. Consequently one
Travelled eastward and the other west
ward, the object being to ascertain the
quickest mail route around the world.
The result has been that the eastward
card Tor second dispatch) returned to
Shepherds s. bush on August 18th after
remarkable and uDprecedentedly
quick passage of seventy days, while
the other, or ward card, was not
received in London till September 18th
n month later, after 103 days jour-
ney across the globe. The postmarks
on the cards show that wiiileihe east
ward card was able TO complete its
journey with barely any stoppage at
all, the westward card was not so for
tunate in it's transit, for, although it
left England by the Canadian mail
on June 7th, it did not leave Voncou
yer on its homeward travels until the
Gath of that menth. The stamp of
the Canadian anu Pacific Railway and
steamship line shows that it was at
Yok ohama Ju y 3lst, aud the post
mark of that town records it leaving
there for England August 5th, arrlv
ing at Shepherds bush on Semptem-
Der 10Th. Allowing for those stop
pages, apparently tor the mail, at those
towns, which would be about thirty
seven days, the actual time taken by
the westward card IN going round the
world is reduced 20 sixty-six days
traveiing, and, allowing Tor few days
(it ANY, IN the journey ot the eastward
card, II places the transit OF both the
cards on level The estimated mile
aye that each card travelled is set down
at about %, 100 miles, and was ac-
complished at u trfliug Gust namely
at 31sd the eastward. aud Sd the west
ward, card. A third postcard was al
so sent from Dover by the same gen.
tIeman on June 22nd 10 Shanghai on
similar errand, via ST. Petersburg,
Kalan. Peking aud Hong Kong, thence
home again via the United States, thus
crossing the Russian and Chinese En-
pires in the course of its transit. This
card reached Shepherds bush after a
journey of 80 days, on September 18th,
and went its circuitous route at the
small cost of 2%d only. The dates
marked on it show AS follows: Dover.
June 22nd, Hongkong. August lst;
Shanghai, August 9th. 9th. 10th, 1lth
Yok ohnma. August 18th: Shepherd s
bush, September 18th. When We con-
slider that similar journey by two
cards going eastward and westward,
which were dispatched from Sweden
about ten years ago. occupied l16 and
III days respectively in going the
same distance, the arrangements re-
quisite TO insure the prompt progress
of these cards, the number of hands
through whicI. they passed 10 the
course of their travels over land and
sea, and the smallness of the cost of
postage, the achievement attained is
marvellous, especially be it known
that each card WAS sent round the
world without any preconcerted ar
raugement whatever London Times
October. 2.
The Rect business.