The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-03
NOVEL GLOBE GIRDLER
A Man Making the Circuit Of the
Earth on Horseback.
4 TWO YEARS and A HALF JOURNEY
Taking in Every Continent but South
AmaFica-A Novel Way to Advertise
a RRilroad-The Daring Tourist u
Cowboy from Nebraska Named II. j,
Taaner-The Route he has Selected,

All the bicycle and pedestrian and
other long ditauce travellers who go
around the world or simply cross the
continent, pass through Wheeling, be-
cause it is on the best road to travel.
The old National pike from St, Louis to
Cumberland is an ideal road for their
uses, Yesterday, though, the most
novel OF all these tourists rode MIDTOWN
on horseback, On horseback he intends
to make a circuit Of the globe-that is,
so much Of it as Is not water.
Heis R, j. Tanner, OF Nebraska. He
Is accompanied as far as New York by q
young fellow who joined him in Iowa,
and 10 caring for the luggage. He ex,
pects his tour to occupy in all two and
a half years, and having left Lincoln,
Nebraska, March Is, he is due back
there from the west about the middle
Of September, 1895. He 10 not trying
to make any special time. but to see the
world as he circumnaYigates it. lie
stopped one week in Chicago and took
in the World's Fair.
Mr.. Tanner rides q seven.year.old
horse, half Arabian and half Oregon
stock, an intelligent looking animal,
well made for endurance. The rider
is twenty-three years old, and a cowboy.
Beth he and his horse arc ACQUIRED in
typical cowboy style, with n novel
additional Kodak amera With this
he expects to secure many n pleasant
sou venir OF a trip which must prove
eventtul. He will ride tho same horse
throughout ii possible,
To an INTGLLlGENoER reporter who
accosted him, Mr.. Tanner handed his
card, which besides his name and
"Around the world on horseback" con-
tains the legend, "When not on horse
back, take the Rock Island route" The
reverse also contains a neat advertise
ment OF that road, and Mr.. Tanner is
making the trip partly to advertise the
railroad, but mainly for the experience.
He says he has spent his life from
childhood in the saddle, never knowing
anything else. He anticipates no spec
ial difficulty in getting through.
In answer to inquiries he said he
would go from Wheeling, via Cumber-
land, to Washington City, where he is
to deliver to President Cleveland in
person q letter from a nephew Of the
Presidents, q. L. Hastings, Of Lincoln.
From the capital he will 90 to New
York. whence he is to sail for Queens
town. He will then ride through
Ireland, England, France, Spain, Switzer-
land, Italy, and sail from Naples for
Alexandria; thence on horseback
through Egypt, the Holy Land, Arabia,
Persia, India and China, and from Hong
Kong by vessel to Japan, and after
t%raversing Japan on his steed he will
again take ship and go to Australia.
and after an equestrian tour there will
sail from Sidney for San Francisco.
Once back on this continent he will
ride home to Lincoln via the Yellow
stone National Park.
He aims to ride from G a. m. to s or 6
p. IN. When he finds hotel accom-
modations handy for the night he stops
there, but has already had to camp out
once or twice.
He put up here over night, and will
start early this morning for Cumber'
land.