The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-01-28
NELLY BLY,.
She will Make the Worlds Trip
Inside of Seventy-FIYe
Days.

Kansas City, Jan. 23.-Nellie bly,, the
fair globe trOtter, not the soug-fauou
Nellie BLY,, who WAS in the habit Of shut
thug her eye when she went Io sleep. but
the Nellie Bly, who is p1ttiBg a girdls
round the earth, not so quickly as Puck
yet exceiling the eighty days record of
the ictiOned Phineas Fogg. will after all
not speed Eastward from the Pacific by
the Southern route, passing through KIN
sss City and ii. Louis. as has been an
nounced. Her plans were altered at mid
night.
The Worlds Nellie is now somewhe re
on the Atlantic Il Pacific between NOhsye
and Albuquerque, where she was scheduled
TO take a Santa Fe special train at mid
night last night. She shou arrive at
Trinidad tomorrow morning. The change
in her route which his been determined
upon cancels her intention to continue
journeying from Trinidad over the Santa
Re to Kansas City. Instead she will take
Trinidad a Denver Il Rio Grande spec
ial train for ID nver, where good fortune
would bring her by nit-afternoon to-day.
The distance from Trinidad 20 Der yer is
only 2l0 miles, but the grades are sever"
and the ordinary passenger serV'cT
quires niue hours to cover tie run rFJ'b
Denver 10 CounoiI Diuns is 5I2 miles oy
Uay of the Union Pacific and the best
.ctual time made by fast trains is twenty
hours, Allowing, however, for the differ
ep.e between mountain and central tim /,
and assuming that The Union Pacific spec-
ial train will crowd the record, arrival
shonld be made iu Council Bluffs fifteen
honrs after departure from Denyer. The
special should reach the Bluffs by O'Clock
Friday morning. The selected further
route, as telegraphed, is then by the North
western to 'hicago and by the Michigan
Central TO New York. Thirty-six hours
more, accidents and delays not considered,
should suffice for this flight from the river
10 the ocean. Sometime between noon and
sunset of Saturday, the 18th, Nellie should
stamp her pretty boots upon the shores OF
Manhattan island.
This is the route as now planrei, but
from the start the route has been changed
almost laily, and there is no telling how
many changes may be made in il before
the journey is al an end.
Miss Bly, is member OF the New York
World staff. She sailed from New York
at 10:40l on the morning Of November IA
beginning an endeavor to compass the
globe within seventy-fiYe days. She Is
heref ore due at the point OF departure Il
10:40s next Tuesday morning, the 18th oil
January, counting the actual lapse oil
time at New York. Yet as the intrepid
circumnavigator-s to say-will within
that time have had the sun of seveuty-six
| mornings rise :above our beads, the inter
esting question comes, how many days
will she have consumed In her journey
The admirers of the sturdy Fogg will re-
member readily that that phlegmatit
Briton won q very pretty pot amounting
to S200,00 on this very point, as be alsC
had been consistently seeking the cradle
of the morning.
MISS BIsLAND's ILL LUCK.
Miss Bisland, representing the Cosmop
olitan magazine. started westward frou
New York on the same day Miss BIZ
sailed toward the East, the former leavInI
by the New York Central railroad at
O'Clock in the evening, and she, too, thel
beginng an endeavor to reach New Iorl
again by the around-the- world route ii
seventy-fve days.
Miss Bislaud struck bad luck the yer.
moment she landed at Brindisi and starte'
through Europe to take a steamer TO
America. Misinformed by some, one abou
her chances for catching the French
steamer at Havre, she determined to cato
the swift-sailipg Ems at Southampton
This was an unlucky venture, because b.
|; it che lost the French boat. only TO Inn
that the Ems had been taken OF thre
xeeks before. Then she pushed on, mop
ing to get the Etruria by hurrying acros
the Irish sea and going to Queenstown
This hope was broken when she got I
,, Queenstown and found that the Ernri
had been taken of and the slow-goin
Bothnis had taken her place. There ws
nothing to do but take the Bothnis.
Possibly Miss Bisland might have bee
comforted If even the Bothnia had q
away on time, but that boat was deiaye
J several hours at Queenstown Sunday ate
noon, which reduced her chances th'
much. On top of these annoyances IN
delays comes the news from London tn
the incoming steamers are meeting wal
high winds and heavy seas. Miss Bislan
| 10 therefore out on the ocean in DO
whose record is ten days for crossing an
likely to be delayed more by storms thu
her rival now BY either tempest, .accide
or incident by rail.
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