Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-01
NOW TN NEW YORK
Nellie BLY, Completes Her Task
of Circling the
World.
She Accomplished the Great Feat
in Seventy Three
Days.
The Little Lady Newspaper Corre-
spondent ut the Present Time
Attracts More Attention
Than the President.
I'm Seyenty-Three Days.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 25.-Nellie
Bly, arrived at Broad street station at
1:25 and left at l:40. The crowd to
greet her was SO great her car was
locked and very few saw her at all.
Nellie bly, sailed from New York to
Southampton November IA. She went
by rail to London, and then across the
English channel from Dover to Calais,
going from there to Amiens TO see jules
Verne. She came back to Calais and
caught the regular Indian nAk train
through France and Italy TO Brindisi,
on the heel of the boot OF ltafy.
Thence the sailed across the Mediter-
ranean sea TO Port Said, at the mouth
Of the Suez canal. From there she
sailed through the canal and
down the Red sea to Alden on the
Arabian coast, and thence through the
Gulf of Alden and asross the Indian
ocean TO Colombo, Ceylon. From Go
lombo she went across the sea OF Ben
gal TO Singapore on the Malay ponlE'
sula, and from there through the China
sea to Hong Kong o n the Chinese coasts
from Hong Kong through the Formosa
channel TO Yokohama, on the eastern
side OF Japan, and thence directly across
the Pacific to San Francisco.
Nellie BY made this remarkable tour
with no other baggage than a small
hand satchel. She left New York with
but one gown, and that upon her back.
In the satchel were necessary changes
of clothing. five copies Of the New York
World of that day, and e500in the Bank
of England notes, besides her railroad
and steamer tickets for the entire
Journey. A snug-fitting, double
peaked cap, a light plaid ulsteps with a
hood, and a pair of easy-titting shoes
completed her equipment.
Miss bly, arrived at Calais in ample
time to take the British mai train.
This train, commonly called the Indian
mail. is one of the famous trains OF the
world. She arrived at Brindisi on tim'
and took the steamer Victoria, OF the
Peninsular and Oriental line from that
point. She left Brindisi at | a. M,
November 25, crossed the Mediter'
ranean. and sailed through the Sue2
canal, arriving at lsmailia November rs.
From lsmailia her journey lay through
the Red sea.
Across the Arabian sea the Victoria
sped with its plucky little passenger,
and arrived at Colombo, on the Island
of Ceylon, December &, Here the
globe-girdler left the Victoria to take
another steamer for Hong Kong. She
was two days ahead of her itinerary, but
was obliged to spend these two days
in Ceylon.
December Is Nellie bly,, after passing
through the straits of Malacca, was at
Singapore, half way round the world.
Her eight days ride through the Indian
ocean carried her over the ruins Of
cities buried for long centuries beneath
its tossing foods. She remained in the
Peninsular and Oriental steamer which
stopped at Singapore only long enough
to permit the mails and its cargo TO be
handled, and December "a, Christmas
eve, reached Hong Kong, on the south
west coast Of China. She had her
Christmas dinner in the Chinese city.
The first available means OF trans
portation across the Pacific ocean was
the fast steamer Oceanic, OF the Occi-
dental and Oriental line. This steamer
was scheduled to leave Hong Kong for
San Francisco December 20, and
that day Nellie Bly, babe adieu TO the
Celestial empire. Five days later sho
was at Yokohama, Japan, where she
arrived January .. The Oceanic car
ries Chinese and Japanese mails
to the United States. 1t had to
wait until January z at Yokohama for
the mail. This made another five days
delay. At daylight, January 90, the
Oceanic arrived in San Francisco, and
her the fight across the continent be-
gan.