The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-26
NELLIE BLY'S JOURNEY,
The PIucky Girl Who is Making
the Circuit Of the Globe
is TWO DAYS AHEAD OF TIME
And May Reach New York in Less
Than seyepty,flve Days from tho
Time She Started she Spent
christmas In Hong Kong,

) Than seyepty'tiye Days from tho
J Time She Started she Spent
Christmas In Hong Kong,
: NEw YoRx, Dec, 25.-Nellie bly,, the
young lady who has undertaken to travel
, around the globe in seyenty,fye days
for the New York World, and who Is
going It alone, is in Hong Kong, A
Cablegram announces her arrival and
that she took her Christmas dinner
there. She crossed the China Sea In
very fast time, and IL at this stage Of her
tour two days ahead Of her itinerary,
She will have fye days for sightseeing
in Hong Kong, as the Oriental and %.
cidental steamer Oceanic 70 scheduled to
leave the Chinese port not before De-
ceMber 2s, In her message she states
that she hopes to be ut San Francisco
January 81. This would bring her 70
New York January 20, aud would cut
down the time required for the tour 10
something less than seVenty.iour days.
II Is possible that she may cross the
Pacific In quicker time than she has cal
culated upon, Leaving Hong Kong on
the 2Sth and arriving at San Francisco
on January q would involve the spend.
ing OF twenty.four days In the trip across
The actual travelling time Is not more
than nineteen days, and with tue Ocean.
10 ut the top Of its speed this time may
be appreciately cut down; so II will be
seen there IL a wide field for guessing on
this point alone-the number OF days In
which the Oceanic will Come from Hong
Kong to San Francisco.
A PLUoKY GIRL.
ItMiss Bly, could continue her journey
without interruption she would be In
Frisco January 1S at the lateset, and in
New York January IS, making the en-.
tire time OF her tour OF the world not
more than sixty-six days, What won
derlul achievement OF modern travel that
would bel To accomplish II, however,
Miss BY would BIZ obliged TO resort to
means not at the disposal Of every tray.
eler, unless she happened TO be fortunate
enough TO make connection with trans.
Pacific steamer, aud to make 1t in the
same way that any other woman who
reached Hong Kong by the steamer 0ri.
ental-which was the vessel on which
Miss Bly, had passage from Singapore
could make II, There is nothing In specu-
lations Of this kind, though regarding the |
glohe.girdler, as IL is not possible for
Miss Bly, to leave Hong Kong before
the 0ceanic's sailing time, which is De-
cember 2S, The perplexties Of the trip |
now lie between December 2S and ali |
that part Of the future projecting be.
yond that date. Guessefs, who are Of |
course most deeply interested In the re.
suit Of the tour, eau give their attention
To figuring out the speed oi the Oceanic
and ioreshadowing the day Of It's arrival
on the Pacific slope. When they have
solved this, then their only other con.
Cern need be with the exact moment Of |
Miss Bly's arrival AT New York. They
have been told again and again that
Miss BLY, was to avail herself only OF the
usual means OF transportation. She has
done thisup 10 date, and will continue |
10 do so 10 the end Of her task.
.A HOW SIZE TRAyRLs,
She went across the Atlantic in the
steamer Augusta Victoria with hun.
dreds Of other passengers, aud disem.
barked before the others on the mail.
tug at southampton, only that she might
have day 10 spend at Amiens with
Jules Verne. She travelled to Brindisi
by the Indian mail traiu, and crossed
the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the |
Indian Ocean In the regular steamers
that ply between points In that portion
Of the world. She was delayed two days
at Colombo In CeylOn, where she arrived
by the steamer Victoria one day ahead
ot time; the steamer Oriental from Cal.
cutta for China was day late in reach.
ing Ceylon, which explains the two days
spent on the island. In the Oriental
she travelled from Ceylon, via Singa.
pore, to Hong Kong. Not single
advantageous aid Of any kind has
benefited Miss BLY, In all the
II, 900 miles she has travelled at the pres
ent writing. She has been fortunate,
probably, In huding the seas smoother
and the monsoons and typhoons more
courteous aud agreeable than travellers
who have preceded her, but these are
iavors that were shared by every one Of
her fellow.travelers and that could not
possibly be indlviduallEed or obtained
by purchase. The details OF the tour
may have interesting points that can not
be imagined or suggested Just now;
there may have been rough weather,
and who knows how the ship which
carried Miss Nellie may have rocked and
dipped and tossed In the blue waters OF
the China Sea? But these are points
which do not clash with the schedules,
tunchanging and interchangeable, by which
travel In oriental waters Is governed,
and they do not vary the significance oi
the statement made when Nellie Bly,
started on her tour, that she would avail
herself only ol the usual transportation
facilities within the reach Of every tray-
eler.
TWO DAYS AHEAD or TINE.
Miss BLY, arrived at Hong Kong in
thirty.nine days from this city. She
left New York at 9:4030a. M. Novem.
Der IA. She kept ahead OF her itinerary
npto Ceylon, where she had two days
10 her credit, but. was Obliged to delay
two days. She was on time at Singa.
pore, but has again beaten her itinerary
by arriving at Hong Kong on the 23d,
where she was not due until the 18th,
As the itinerary was made out before
Miss BLY, left New York, the success
with which Bhe has made all conneo.
tions demonstrates tue comparative col.
rectness and exAutitute Of the system
upon which modern travellers depend,
II shows that man or woman can sit
down at home In any part Of the world
and calculate almost 10 certainty upon
arriving at a point 10 the antipodes, or
at any distance Ia any direction within
the areas travelled by railroads and
steamships, within lew hOurs oi a se,
lected day and date. Schedules ire,
pared months Ia advance name the time
Of AtlYals and departures for ali Inc
tertnini ol roads and steamers IA the
world. These matters will be better IN.
derstood when Mibs BY writes lie R,6ry
Of her tour. 's
From Hong Kong 10 New York "A
about 10000 miles, a,4b0 OF which stretch
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