Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-31
NELLIE BLY, AGAINST RECORD
She Circumnayigated the Globe in Just
Seventy-Two Days.
Safe Ending of a Plueky and Unusual
Undertaking.
The Merry Little Woman Will Reach
New York Today.

CHICAGO, Jan.-NelLle bly, arrived at |
the Union depot shortly after I o'clock |
this morning, two hours ahead of schedule !
time. At Joliet she was met by small
delegation of representatives of the press.
Upon her arrival she was driven TO the
rooms of the Chicago Press club. where
she held an informal reception until
Gas.
Miss Bly's skin is tanned by eastern
suns, but she looked pretty in iauntv
cap, and large checked ulster which COW
cred her blue dress. Her teeth are per-
feet and of dazzling whiteneSS. In man
ner she is cordial. frank and sprightly
We'll, as to my entire trip, she said
Il will say 1t has not appeared to me to
be such gigantic undertaking. ] have
Just come right along without misadven-
lures. | have lost only fifteen days since
left New York. / lost one day at Amiens.
which | spent with Jules Verne. | was
detained five days at Colombo. waiting for
the steamer Oriental to take me TO Hong
Kong. Then was at Hong Kong FIVE
days and at Yokohama four | experience
ed nothing but kindness throughout nv
trip. At Hong Kong | had delightful
time. We spent Christmas day in Canton.
We visited the great temple of the dead and
heard the weird chanting and masses.
We reached Hong Kong on the 23d and
rode all about the city III a sedan chair
with four coolies carrying it and a Chi
nese guide. | was particularly struck
with the court house and jail Just in
front of the Jail a fan tan game was run
ming, and inside we saw an opium Smok-
ing place, where Chinese were louging
and inhalng the drug. The popularity
of their jail is that they don't close the
doors. That struck me as funny. The
dOOls were wide open, but the prisoners
were i'll the cells Just the same, and looked
as if they were likely to stay there. They
had theit heads stuck through holes in
the great heavy pieces of timber. which
just fitted about their neckS A great
deal of attention was shown me, and Con-
sui ChaS. Seymour. of Canton, sent me
many beautiful presents, Chinese work
silk handkerchiefS, pieces of finely carved
ivory. and other things.
AT Yokohama the first night | went
to all the theaterS, and in the afternoon !
rode around the city. The second day we
went to kamakura, and saw the idol
Diabusta. 1t is sixty feet high. We had
our photographs taken standing on the
idols thumb at the time The third day
we went to Toxic. which is eighteen miles
from Yokohama. The sightseeing there
was superb We visited many beautiful
| temples, and were amazed at their number
and grandeur. Our trip across the Pacific
was uneventful.
Il started to do the trip around the
world III seventy-tive days, and beat Jules
Nerne's hero, who made the journey in
! eighty days. There is no fear, | think
| but that | shall do it, If had wanted to
| beat time | could have done it in sixty-fve
| days. | have relied solely on the facilities
afforded ordinary travellers ! did not
charter special trains, but simply travelled
as an ordinary traveller would. Miss Bly
at 1870 departed on the Pennsylvania ax-
press for New York.
Nelly Bly, was sent out by the New York
| World and sailed from New York Novem-
! Der 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 mail train
through France and Italy to Brindisi. on
the heel of the boot of Italy. Thence she
sailed across the Mediterranean 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 across the Indian ocean
to Columbo, Ceylon. From Colombo she
went across the sea of Bengal to Singapore
on the Malay peninsula. and from there
through the China sea to Hong Kong on
! the China coast; from Hong Kong through
| the FOrmOSSa channel to Yokohama. on
the eastern side of Japan, and thence iii =
rectly across the Pacific to San Francisco
| The New York Cosmopolitan is furnish
ing the funds for Miss Bisland's trip and
she left New York November IA on the
| New " DIRK Central and Went ey that road
| and the Lake Shore to Chicago. there
| she took the Northwestern to Omaha and
thence across by the Union and Central
Pacific roads to San Francisco. From
San Francisco she simply reversed the trip
of Nellie BY, going to Yokohama. Hong
| Kong, Singapore, Colombo, Alden. Port
Said and Brindisi. From Brindisi she
| took the Indian mail train to Calais and
across to Dover. Then she went to Lon
don by train and crossed England to
HolIyhead, took the ferry across the Irish
sea to Dublin, caught the Bothnia at
| Queenstown and sailed for New York.
Nellie Bly, had nine hours the start of
Miss Bliland. but it looked for a long time
| as though the latter would arrive in New
York first. Crossing the Indian Ocean
however, Miss Bisland was much ANNOYED
to earn that the fast German steamship
Ems, which she expected TO meet at South
| amptOn had been taken off The Bothnia
at Queenstown was the only boat obtain
able, and it is a slow one. and will
bring her to NewYOrk too late
Nellie BLY, made this remarkable tour
with NJ at bAr hl,r,r,,a +h,,,
satchel. She left new York with but one
gown and that upon her back. In the
satchel We're necessary changes of clothing
five copies of the New York World of that
day and $500 in Bank of England notes.
besides her tickets for the entire Journey.
Miss BY arrived at Calais in ample
time to take the Brindisi mail train.
This train, commonly called the Indian
mail, Is one of the famous trains of the
world. She arrived at Brindisi on time
and took the steamer Victoria, of the
Peninsular and Oriental line, from that
point. She left Brindisi the morning of
November Is. crossed the Mediterranean.
and sailed through the Suez canal arriv-
ing at lsmalia November %. From Is
malta 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 If Cev-
lon. December 8. Here she left the Vic
toria to take another steamer for Hong
Kong. She was two days ahead of her it.
lnerarry, but was obliged to spend two
days in Ceylon.
December IS. Nellie Bly,, after passing
through the straights of Malacc, was at
Singapore, half way around the world.
Her eight days ride through the Indian
ocean carried her over the ruins of cities
buried for long centuries beneath its
tossing floods. She remained in the
T. q o. steamer. which stopped
at Singapore only long enou Oh to permit
the mails and its cargo to be handled. and
December oath, Christmas eve. reached
Hong Kong, on the southwest coast of