The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-05-08
GLOBE CIRClERS.
Edwin Graupner's Graphic
Description of His Trip
Around the Worlu -AdVen-
lures CT Two Guthrie Lads

who LETT Guthrie in "a end made @
trip around the world Both lads ere
under age Following Is NJ. F.'s &C
count Of the trip, taken from the Rep
resentktive:
Being asked TO writo a sketch oi our
trip around the world / take pleasure
in penning the following rs best ] can
from memory. Tor I took no notes.
First, should prefer giving The rea-
sons for taking the trip am about to
describe. ! left Guthrie the 8th of
July, 1899, Tor Cambridge, Mass, where
intended going to Harvard Univer-
sity, for ] craved a liberal arts educa-
ton. When starting, / walked TO
Tulsa, Creek Nation. where | worked
Tor fortnight so as TO have q little
none With which to travels from there
wept direct to Boston. arriving there
August 4th, and in two days found
work, which lasted until school opened.
l discovered it would be necessary to
have a more thorough preparation to
enter Harvard, so remained in the Cam
bridge Latin School until we left Bos-
ton NV brother Edwin came TO Cam
bridge in August, 1896, to attend school
but in November we found that times
were too hard for us to remain longer
for we could not earn enough TO meet
expenses, so | proposed, as recreation
and rest, a trip around the world.
On November 18th engaged passage
on the "Norseman" of the Warren line.
to Liverpool, England, and on Friday,
November 18TH we sailed, with snow
falling heavily After clearing the
'narrows' we ran iato heavy seas and
stiff breeze, with snow which turned
| 20 I'm trn fa4Ky tc
tinued the entire voyage. and TO make
it, more disagreeable b ship was
| heavily listed To starboard when we
| left port, but shifted about from side
to side during the voyage. While in
mid ocean. still listed to starboad, the
seas were striking us on port side roll
ink us heavily; several monster waves
struck us and came near capsizing ua,
and all hands were thoroughly scared
| from the captain down. This was
caused by the ship being top heavy
for we had several thousand sheep
! aboard mostly above deck, together
with the list, but after this experience
the captain ordered several hundred
removed below decks, which eased the
! ship little. We fed the cattle. or
rather some of chem, for our passage
over, which was anything but delight
I
through a narrow alley way with the
ship rolling and heaving was difficult
task, and ofttimes caused us to do some
heaving too.
AS to food, it was very poor, and we
could sleep wherever we could find a
dry and fairly clean place. The cattle
a sheep twenty three OF
four-were mostly thugs and thieves
and were on the lookout for such as we
TO steal whatever they could, but we
were too sharp for them; besides we
kept away from them and compelled
them to shift for themselves.
The first English soil we saw was the
Bull, Cow and Calf,-three islands of
the Irish coast - this was Novem beI
cath. We went up st. Georges Chan
mel and into the Mersey River to Liv
erpool, arriving there Thanksgiving
Day and thankful that the trip wa,
ended.
We were told that England was q
cheap place to live, but we soon found
the contrary to be Co true. ;or we coulC
not get any sort Of good meal for les
than a shilling - twenty-five cents
neither could we could get a good bee
for less than IA shilling q night w,
saw many places were they claimed [,
give a good meal for six pence tl2 t-2c
but they gave us potatoes, ca bbage an'
meat on plate then the waiter woulC
say, have some bread and butter, haY'
some tea, etc, which was all extra.
We remained about five days in th'
city v,hen we started TO walk to Lon
don for from there we had bette
chances TO get TO Australia The FRS
day OF our overland trip was pleasant
but it rained the remaining eight davs
we got wet and cold and my feet, oi
rather all the muscles Of my feet ant
ankles were so sore / could hardl.
walk, and nv brother in nearly as ba'
condition. While there were man
opportunities for riding, the farmer
would not permit us to ride with them
claiming that the laws forbade it 70
even a short distance.
At last we arrived in London, tina
great city, where we remained for tie
days seeing the sights and getting on
bearings. At last we 'stowed away
ON the 5. 5. Hubback for Sydney, Aus
tralia. That was our only alternativ
as we could get no opportunity to wOr
our way. We left London at noon o
} December rs, just after one of thos
famous London fogs which fairly tur
day into night, had cleared away.
heavy fog and much rain had continue
most of the time we were in the grea
city. This prevented us seeing man
sights we should have visited. As
was we saw the great London bridg,
the tower bridge and some other scene
Of interest. We had considerable OF
d portunity 10 witness the wretched POI
s erty of the poor of the worlds comme
cial center. But 10 the ship.
While the crew treated us fairly we
they made us do all kinds Of work an
stay at it. We were not allowed nes
all the privileges that the crew wa
- nor as many as the ordinary passag'
worker but we TOUCHED il through an
were glad 10 get the chance. We ha
: good weather till we got TO Las Palma
|, Canary Islands, where we took on h'
hundred tons Of coal, as we we're M
20 10 coal up any more till we should a
rive at Ade iaide, Australia, over eleve
thousand miles away. This was 4
Christmas day and on the day follow
ing we had Christmas while sc
About a week alter this our supply
fresh water gave out and from there
Australia we had to accustom ourselv
TO condensed water This was rath
= hard for us.
All the land we saw until we reach'
Ada aide was the Marion and Croze
\ Islands, three in number. These a
supposed not 20 be inhabited but 70,