The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-30
AROUND THE WORLD.
he Novel Race Between Miss Bly, and
Miss Bisland.

T he Novel Race Between Miss BY and
Miss Bisland.
The readers Of the whole world are
now awaiting with increasing curiosity
the end Of the most novel race that was
ever run.
Two young ladies are making race
against each other, against time, and
against romance, with the orb of the
world as the course for this more than.
Olympic game of speed.
These charming racers are Miss Nelly
Bly,, the famous correspondent of the
New York World, and Miss Elizabeth
Bisland, the gifted and beautiful lite
rary editor of the Cosmopolitan maga-
| zine.
Miss Blyis a correspondent and re-
porter who has won fame by her enter
! prising spirit in many fields Of journal
ism. She once feigned insanity; was
arrested, examined, adjudged to be
crazy by intelligent New York ply
sicians, and confined in a mad house.
She used to good purpose the informa-
ton gained by this novel experience.
And another time she went to AL
bany to expose the lobbying schemes
going on at the capital. She was
seemingly engaged in pushing. two
enterprises through the Legislature.
Her innocent ways captured the
solons, and she entrapped them so
successfully that she got an excellent
opportunity for exposing the lobbyists
and the lobbied statesmen.
This is the greatest enterprise of her
life, and she has the pluck and resource
! to beat all previous records and will
probably girdle the world in less than
seventy-tive days.
Miss Bisland is of an old New Or
leans family, and began her literary
career by contributing to the news
papers and magazines. Her first edito-
rial work was on the staff of the New
Orleans Times-Democrat- Four years
ago she went to New York, and soon
became known by the force of her
talents as one of the leading women
journalists of the metropolis.
She is a beautiful and charming
Southern woman. There is no marvel
that everybody is taking great interest
in her swift and restless march around
the world. She writes: Every one
has been charming to me. The officers
of the Oriental and Occidental steam
ship company promise to get me
through on time. My state-room is
filled with flowers and books, and even
strangers sent me great baskets Of
flowers and came down to the wharf
to see me off: Good bye, hope to be
at the Cosmopolitan Office on the 26th
Of January
Miss Nellie BLY, was the first to start.
She left New York, going East, Novem-
Der l4th, at hours, 40 minutes and 80
seconds, a. NJ. She travelled faster than
the estimates made for her itinerary,
arriving at Ceylon ten days ahead, and
although she lost time waiting there,
was still ahead of her calculated Jour-
ney at Yokohama, Japan. She left that
port for her long trip across the Pacific
on schedule time, January 7th, on the
Oceanic, the fastest steamer of the
Oriental and Occidental steamship
company, which arrived at San Fran
cisco on Tuesday, January 2l, at $50
a. m. Miss Bly, was taken off in tug
as soon as the steamer reached the har-
Dor, and was taken at once to Oakland,
where she boarded a special train which
was waiting, and started on the over
land journey via the Southern Pacific
and Atlantic and Pacific routes.
Miss Bisland started Westward from
New York nine hours after Miss Bly,
had sailed. Travelling with the sun, she
far outstripped all previous records and
was two days ahead at Yokohama.
She sailed the Indian Ocean with
swift speed, up the Red Sea, through
Egypt to Alexandria and thence to
Brindisi, Italy, where she arrived ahead
of time. She was to take the famous
fast French steamship La Champagne
from Havre, but the schedule of that
ship had been changed since she left
New York. The Cosmopolitan knowing
this, had arranged for a special train
to take Miss Bisland to Havre and had
paid the French steamship $4,000 to
delay its sailing for one hour.
But it seems that some one advised
her to 60 around Paris and hurry on to
England, as La Champagne would not
be held for her. She fastened to En-
gland, but could only secure passage on
the Bothnia, slowest OF the Cunard
fleet ofsteamships.
This bad luck not only caused her to
miss the La Champagne, the fast ship
from Havre, but also put her on the
slow Bothnia from Queenstown to
New York.
Miss Bisland sailed from Queens
town, Ireland, Sunday, January 10Th.
The Bothnia ought to make the trip to
New York in six or seven days. Ifin
seven days this would land Miss Bis
land in New York Sunday, January