Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-11-14
ROUND THE WORLD
BUT NOT IN EIGHTY DAYS.
NOTES BY THE WAY.
No. I.
Editorial Correspondence Of the Evening Star

PACIFIC OCEAN, September 20, 1881.
THIS ROUND THE-WoRLD TRIP Is MOI
l. exactly a globe-trotting affair, as 1t Is
undertaken mainly TO get the benefit OF the sea
voyage. and the circuit, therefore. will be made
largely by water. The principal land travel
will be from Washington to San Francisco and
from Calcutta to Bombay through India
The incidental excursion travel in Japan,
China and Egypt (up the Nile) will also be
good deal by water. and the voyage from Egypt
or Palestine to London is likely to be pretty
much Of a water trip, by way of Malta, Glib
raltar and Spain, to avoid going over familiar
ground on the continent
So my trip promises to be more like water
ecooting than globe-trotting.
For the same reason that the voyage is
intended to be a lazy, loafng affair it is not
proposed by the writer to take the shop
along" or to write more than off hand notes.
that can be scrubbed anywhere and anyhow,
serving as a sort of clog of the journey, that
may be of some use OF interest to proposing
travellers.
i left Washington September IL by the 1l:3O
am. Baltimore and Ohio limited for Chi
cago, due in Chicago at IL rs am. of the next
day. The train, however. was not on time.
bu. still left some ten hours on my hands to
see the Chicago of 1891 before leaving on the
1880 pm. train for San Francisco. One visit
ing the windy City Gas styled by Jealous
New York; at intervals of few months finds
new Chicago. The eight and twelve-story
wonders in the way of tall buildings of a year
or two ago are low-down affairs compared to
the sixteen and tweuty-story structures now
up or going up. So long there is no law to
prevent the erection of these ugly monstrosi-
ties there seems to be no reason why the COM
petition to build the latest tallest should not
result in fifty-story structures, or even sur
passing the Eiffel tower in height OF course
visited the Auditorium 5000 audience ca
pacity) and the Auditorium Hotel 600 guest
rooms) and the Auditorium tower (twenty
stories high, where the smoke prevented us
from seeing anything but the tops of the sixteen
and twenty-story houses but where an able
bodied Chicago guide told visitors all about
the Chicago greatnesses concealed under the
smoke pail, adding casually that Chicago is
241s miles long IA wide and has total area
OF IT'S square miles. This is considerably more
than the area of London, but the guide would
not take off a single square foot.
Sir miles from the Auditorium by cable or
steam cars is the site of the.coming
GREAT AMERICAN COLUMBIAN CHIcAGoAN EXPO
sITIoS.
A good deal has been done on the grounds in
the way of grading and the frames of some Of
the buildings are beginning to mount up, but
there does not seem to be any adequate prog
ress vet to indicate a readiness for the opening
in 1893 Still, the Chicagoans are hustlers,
and il anybody kin, they kin"
At 1890 that night took the Pacific linz
g.
trail Pacific without change of cars and reach
ing San Francisco at 915 a m. September %,
thus making the journey from Washington to
San Francisco in little less than five days, or,
dedueting the time spent in Chicago, in about
four and one-half days.
on THE PACIFIC.
Saturday. the 26th, at p. m, I left San Fran.
cisco by the Pacific mail steamer China fol
Yokohama. On board the China met my fel
low travellers of Cooks round-the-world party
with whom go as far as Egypt. Our party il
under the experienced guidance Of Major j. o.
Hutchinson, who is now on his sixth round-the
world trip. Including the major it numbers
twelve persons. mostly New England people
Mr.. and Mrs ]. F. ID. Paine of Boston, Mr.. anC
Mrs. G. L. Smith and Miss Smith of Provi
dence, Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas Ball (of Blocl
Island Hotel fame), Mr.. A. Benu of England
Mrs. +. L. Cutting and Miss Cutting Of Boston
and the writer. They seem to be pleasant in
telligent people, and the prospect is that tn
party will get on exceedingly well together.
The cost Of the all-round tickets is 81, 100
For the portion of the trip 1 take, from Sal
Francisco to Cairo, the cost is 81 ,625 This in
cludes frst-class transportation, hotel accom-
modations, fees for sight seeing, &c, and pro
yides for a stay in Japan Of about five weeks
o trip through the famous Inland Sea Of Japan
characterized as 1.-THE most beautiful sea voy
age in the world and on to Hong Kon
and up Pearl river to Canton; thence I
Singapore, Ceylon (and an excursion throug
that island), then on to Madras, Calcutta, Dal
feeling and the HimaIayas, Benares, Lucknow
Cawnpore, Agra, Delhi, Jeypore. Bomba,
then through the Arabian sea and the Sue
canal to Cairo and its adjacent sights Leavin
the Cook party at Cairo, my personal pre-
gram contemplates trip up the Nile oceupl
ing about three weeks G trip to Jerusalem an
whereabouts, and then a course homeward to /
determined upon later on. For the Nile trip
pay s2i5.
An INTERESTING PORTION OF oUa PASSENGER LIS
h group of missionaries. twenty-,hree
number, Who on their way to China nj
Japan The larger portion go to China, mo-
of them to the districts where the late an,
foreign riots occurred, and the promptitut
with which they are hurrying forward to Il
dangerous ground shows that the old missio
AIRY zeal which sent men and women out
every field Of peril and hardship throughor
the heather world has not died out in the
faithlsss days
or these the Baptist missionaries sent o
under the foreign mission board of the Sout
srn Baptist convention are Rev. T. W. Gree
and wife of Wake Forest, n. c., to Canto
China: Miss Nellie Miner Of Richmond. Va,
Chinkiang, Central China; Rev. l.. w. Pierce
savoy, Tex, to Chinkiang, Central China; h
W. II. Sears and wife Of Prairie Hill, No.,
Tungchow. North China: Rev W. d. King Of
ysnnah, Ga, TO Hwaashien, North China, un(
adoption Of the Fifth Baptist Church of VA
ington, DIR. @. C. Meador. pastor. This ehu,
provides all expenses Of outfit, travelling a
salary. There are some four or five Christ
Cinnamon in the steersge. La To. merit
Of the Tenth Baptist church of Oakland. @
returns to his home land TO work n missi
airy under DIR. r ii. Graves at Canton.
Two Methodist missionaries. under the Me
odist Episcopal board north. H. L. Canrig
MD, and wife Of Battle Greek, Mich, go
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