Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-01-26
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NELLIE BLY'S TRIUMPHANT TRIP.
She Arrives in New York City Yesterday
Afternoon.
WELCOMED HOME BY THOUSANDS
Dense ThrOngS Of People Await Her Arrival
at the Depot.

NEW YORK, January 25.-Nellie BY
has completed her flying trip around the
world.
The moment her feet touched the depot
platform in Jersey City ten guns doomed
a welcome from Battery Park and ten guns
roared salute from Fort Greene Park,
Brooklyn.
This morning at o'clock special train
left Jersey City over the Pennsylvania
Railroad, carrying
WELCOME PARTY
to Philadelphia. The regular East bound
train, On which Miss BLY, was passenger,
was due in Philadelphia at lbs p. NJ, and
started for New York at AS o'clock. The
run to jersey City was made according to
regular schedule, and when the train
reached lis destination Mayor Cleveland
received the young circumnavigator in
brief address of welcome.
At precisely at 4:15 this afternoon the
carriages of Miss Nellie Blye's party er-
rived at the World office, in front Of which
more than five thousand persons had con-
gregated. The carriages moved briskly,
but despite this they were accompanied by
shouting, seethipg mob of people. In
ten minutes there were fully ten thousand
people in Park Row, cheering and
waving handkerchiefs aud stopping the
immense traffic of that thoroughfare. The
scenes at the Pennsylvania railroad depot,
at the ferry aad in the strests, thence to
the World Office were of like description.
Very few persons have received 80 fat!er-
ing
A POPULAR WELCOME
in New York as Nellie BLY, this day. L,
being semi-holiday and the arrival OF
the little lady tolerable certain, probably
ad led to the enthusiasm, good nature and
size of the crowds.
The young woman, it is found by use OF
figures, consumed 72 days hours and II
minutes in circling the earth. TGe name
she uses is not her own. She
CAME TO NEW YORK
from Pittsburg, Pa, where she was known
as Elizabeth Cochran.
As there appeared to be strong pro5a-
bility that Nellie Bly, would reach Chica-
90 Friday, the guessing contest OF the
New York World as to the time consumed
in her trip around the world came to an
end the moment the telegraph announced
Miss Bly's arrival in the Lake City.
Every ballot received after Miss BY
reached the city of Chicago was destroyed
without examination.
The tack of sorting, classifying and ex-
amining over $50, 600 ballots is necessarily
tedious, but it will be accomplished ss
quickly as
A PROPER ATTENTION
to the rights of the contestants will per-
NIT.
When the winner is found public an
nouncement of the fact will be made
through the World. The successful com
petitor will be entitled to free trip to
Europe at the expense of the World. The
best accommodations obtainable On
first class ocean steamship
will be placed at the dig
posal of the winner, and the necessary
railroad transportation in England ard
board at first-cass hotels will be included.
As there will be other incidental expenses
which cannot come under the head oi
board or transportation, the World will
present the prizs-winner with
BOOK OF CHECKS
of the Cheque Bank of London and New
York. good fer ESQ in cash wherever the
traveller desires to make an exchange. The
prizs, trip, checks and everything else is the
property of the winner and can be assigned
by him or her to any other person.