The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-12
NELLIE BLY, BEATEN.
a Trip Around the World in Sixty
Minutes That Breaks the Record.
From he C1ticaqo Tribune.

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Minutes That Breaks the Record.
From the CHICAGO Tribune.
CHICAGO, Jan. IA, 1890. II A. Nam just start
ing for trip around the world. My baggage
consists of an opera-glass, a couple Of oranges
and 10 cent cigar.
NEW YORK. 11:G2-Reached this city by pneu-
matte tube. Only special feature of the whirl
across the country was a momentary smell OF
coal oil while passing through the state Of Penn
LONDON. 11:10-Lost nineteen seconds in New
YORK on accounts of having to stop and sub
scribe to the Grant monument fund, the me-
norial arch fund, and the Greeley monument
fund The fellows said it was the custom for
every body-outSide of New York-to drop a
few nickels in the slot for those funds and get
card OF thanks. They were confident the mon
uments and the arch would be built within the
next 40 years at fartbest. l came TO this city
Dy the weil-known Skyrocket route. Got here
four seconds behind time, having had to dodge
Two cyclones and pair of trousers belonging
70 an English tourist The trousers mad dropped
from rocket train just ahead of us, and were
gyratlng wildly through the air on their way
down from the clouds.
PARIS ll:19-Am four minutes and half be-
mind time The lazy longs tramway that
runs to this city by tunnel under the English
channel and overland the rest of the way was
not sufficiently creased, and it took us nearly
llVe minutes to make the last fifty miles. This
lack or grease shows that the French couldn't
run political campaign in Ohio to save their
lives
ROME, 11:27-Nearly ten minutes behind time,
The passenger bomb in which travelled to this
point scraped against the sides of the sheet-iron
vacuum rainbow it was fired through, and we
mad TO put on brakes to prevent hot boxes. l
nave just hired an Italian brigand to go out be-
hind the Coliseum and swear as long and as
hard as he feels justified in doing for 81 65.
CALCUTTA, 11:3O-my time is half gone and
am not yet half way round Came from Rome
by the Electric Inclined-Plane route. The cars
are huge lignum-vtae balls that roll down the
hollow tube through which a blast of air is
forced by powerful dynamos. The sensation of
travelling in this way is novel, but not particu-
larry enjoyable.
Hone KONG 1140-Ten minutes behind sched-
ule time Came from Calcutta to this place by
the famous Catapult line. There was a delay
of several minutes in cutting the cable that held
the spring down at the western end of the line
A sacred white elephant was standing on the
trap and nobody liked to take the liberty of
asking him to move off.
SITKA, ALASKA, 11:50-The Chinese at Hong
Kong have their old time hatred of foreign
devils. They fired me out of there by the Pro-
Qectlle route to Kamtchatka where 1 took the
Electric TOboggan slide. Came from Petro-
paulovski to this place in a large hollow iccle,
the slide being laid across Behring strait, which
IS fortunately frozen over. The icice was very
much worn and haggard by the time it got
there. Only ten minutes now to get to Chicago.
SITKA, 1l:50.-Haven't got away from here
yet Went out and caught seal and a bad
cold while waiting. Have just made bet of
CHICAGO, II M.-Was deayed at Sitka till
II in consequence of slight change in the
time table. Stepped into the ar-tighC tube of
the Great Overland Rubber Band Air Line
route at that exact moment, the catch was
loosed and the gigantic elastic robe, made of
the best Para rubber and stretched to its utmost
tension, whisked me across the country, more
than $500 miles in direct line, in the twink
ling of an eye. Reached here with more than
half a minute to spare.
1t isn't difficult job to go around the globe
in sixty minutes. All you need beside your
tickets is q fan, an overcoat, a bottle of lung
balsam, and a small bottle of the other kind of
balsam to counterfeit the effect of sudden
changes of climate.
Anybody can go around the world in sixty
minutes.
In the old-fogy days of 1890, 200 years ago, it
was thought wonderful thing to make the
trip in seventy-twO days, six hours and eleven
minutes. This only shows that the people of
that by-gone age were not really sensible of
their misery. They thought they were pretty
smart. Let us regard them. my countrymen,
with feelings of sincere compassion, rather than
contempt.
My little jaunt has made me hungry. 1 must
go TO lunch. Y. KNOTT.