The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-14
PILGRIMAGE TO EGYPT
Elk Mayor Thompson Will Go
With the Shriners.
WILL LOOK UP PRIMARIES
Steamship Chartered for a Trip Around
the Mediterranean and to the Holy
Land-win Be Back in Time
for the Races.

E.x- Mayor William Thompson will
leave early next month on pilgrimage
to Egypt, the Holy Land. and other
Casters points of interest. Ever since
last springs election Mr.. Thompson has
taken a deep and absorbing interest
in religion and the opportunity now
presents itself for him to see the lands
whence religion came
Mr.. Thompson is going on an excur-
sion of ShrineTs, who want to make an
Eastern pilgrimage. They have char
tered the Elba. a German-Loyd boat,
which will take them out of New York,
through the Mediterranean, and back
again To New York. The pilgrims Will
sail from New York about the middle
of January and get back early in the
summer. in time for the races.
Mayor Thompson has not yet been
able To get anybody else TO go with him
from Montana, but is working on Judge
a. II. Barrett and stili has hopes OF
persuading him TO make the trip.
There will be pilgrims from all over the
United States.
The excursion is to be very mucn like
the famous one Mark Twain took a
quarter of a century ago and which has
furnished so much information and en-
tertainment under the title of limo
cents Abroad" Mr. Thompson doesn't
intend TO write a similar book. He is
going for rest and recreation and will
make a particular study of primaries
and party conventions among the Be
douins and Mahdlsts.
AS contemplated, the trip will he
mainly confined to the ports on the
Mediterranean. Gibraltar will first be
visited and then Marseiiles, Naples.
Alexandria, Cairo, the Isthmus of Suez.
Jerusalem and other points of interest
in the Holy Land. constantinople, Ath-
ems, Venice, the Island Of Sicily. Malta
Algeria, Morocco and the other Bar
barry states. Pilgrims are given the
privilege OF spending five days in Egypt
and ID in Palestine, or Is in Egypt and
five in Palestine. The five days in
Egypt Will be sufficient to see Alexan-
dria, Cairo and the great pyramids, but
for a trip up the Nile Is days Will be
required. Mr.. Thompson has not yet
decided whether he will make the short
or the long stay in Egypt. He has
heard of a great mayor named Mahdi
up around khartoum somewhere and
he wants to ask him how he manages
to stay in Office so long.
In Palestine Mr. Thompson will be the
guest OF the mayor of Jerusalem 10y
special invitation. He intends to visit
the good Samaritan and weep over the
tomb of his ancestor. Adam. He will
remain three days With the mayor Of
Constantinople. He will visit the ia
nous gondolas of Venice, and, If pos
sible, will capture a couple of these ami
mails and import them to this country.
He will also climb up Mount vesuvius.
which he Is informed is quite warm
thing.
The pilgrims are given the privilege
Of taking a little trip through Europe
by rail. but the trip as arranged only
contemplates a visit to the Mediterran-
can ports. The people of Butte will
wish their eN-mayor a very pleasa mt
voyage and that he will return To
Butte well rested and In splendid
health.
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