Homer guardian., 1889-11-29
WOMAN AGAINST WOMAN.
Two Girls to Go Around the
World Ill Less Than Eighty
Days.
The New York Press Of Nov,

says:
| 1t is an instance of woma,
against woman.
John Brisbean Walker, the mil
lionairc proprietor of the Cosmo
polltan Magazine, walked into hi
office yesterday morning with s
longer stride and heavier treat
than usual, and started his en-
ployes by the sharp query:
"How quick can q woman g
around the world?"
| Mr.. A. D. Wilson, the business
manager, SAID that Nellie Bly, o
the World had just sailed on tht
Augusta Victoria and PROPOSED
to make the trip in seventy-tve
days. Mr.. Walker said he had
seen the announcement and he felt
confident the time could be short
ened. He sent Nj. Wilson fol
tickets and dispatched q messen.
ger for Miss Elizabeth Blsland, q
contributor for the magazine
She arrived before the tickets had
been purchased, and after a short
talk with Mr.. Walker she agreed
to attempt a race with Nellie BLY,,
but decided to go west instead OF
east. She asked for half hour
in which to prepare for the jour
ney, and Mr.. Walker proceeded
with his arrangements.
"Miss Bisland was ready in the
specified time,'' said Mr.. Wilson
last evening, "but could not leave
until 6 o'clock. A large number
OF friends went to the depot with
her. She took the Chicago limit
ed and will sall from San Francisco
on Nov. 81 on the Oceanica, the
same vessel that Nellie BLY, expects
to take on her return. Miss Bis
land will reach Yokohama, Japan,
on Dec. II, and will be in Hong
Kong five days later. We have
cabled for a government boat for
her use in making the last trip,
and the expense for this part of
the journey alone Will be $4,000.
1t is in this transfer from Yoko-
hama to Hong Kong that we ex-
pect to gain time, as Nellie BLY,
must walt over at Hong Kong four
days for the regular boat"
The rest Of the journey is com.
paratively simple for Miss Bis
land. She will sail from Hong
Kong Dec. II oy the Peninsula
and Oriental Line, ard land at
Italy, where she will
take the steamer for Marseilles,
arriving on Sunday, Jan. 81, 1890.
If SIZE arrives on time she will
sail from Havre on Sunday. If|
she is day late she Will sail on
Monday, Jan. %, from Southamp.
Ton, arriving Jan, 80.
Mr. Walker and the proprietor
Of the World have wagered $1,000
IN the result, and the money of
he loser will go to some charita.
Die institution.
Mics Bisland is a French Creole
rom New Orleans, and is said to
oe only % years old. Miss Cor
'oran (Nellle Bly, is in the neigh
Of 80. Both young ladies
laye been writing for New York
papers and magazines for some
ime past. They travel without
escort.
Concerning this same newspa-
yer and magazine contest the !
New York Tribune, of the same
late, says:
An epidemic of globe -galloping
'roke out in these parts yester-
lay, and already has three victims
rying hard to get home the long
st way round in the shortest
lme. The New York Worlds
oung woman reporter, "Nelly
Bly," sailed On the steamer
augusta Victoria With the loud
trumpeted intention of racing
round the globe against the
imaginary record Of eighty days
lade BY Jules Verne's hero. She
alculates that after seventy. five
ays Of rushing she will ''bob up
ercnely" in New York. Not
lany hours after the departure Of
ne steamer it was whispered in