The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-07
He SAW HONOLULU
George Griffith, the Fam
Gus Globe Trotter.
Now or His Way TO New Caledonia
to Study French Convict Colo
alton Methods.

( and author, who has been in the city
since Saturday last, departed yesterday
on the Alameda for australia, whence
he will proceed to New Caledonia
where he is 10 look into the convict
colonization methods employed by the
French government. He will also ex-
plore the islands and obtain as thor
ough data as is possible from
French prison authorities. Mr.. Grit
fifth is the first English journalist who
has been given the privilege of enter
ing and examining the prison and of
making exhaustive notes of the meth
DDS employed in working the prisoners
and furnishing them. For many years
he has been engaged in looking
through the English prisons and Civ
ing his views on their management TO
the public through Pearson's Weekly
and other leading English magazines
and journals.
ANOTHER PHINEAS FOGG.
AS a traveller Mr.. Griffith has prob
ably few equals in globe trotting and
making records much as "Phineas
Fogg, Esq" performed his tour in
eighty days around the world. 1t was
George Griffith who was chosen by the
English journals to break Nellie Bly's
famous RECORD of circling the globe in
seventy-four days. This record was
made by special trains, meeting steam
ers which We're held over schedule
time for her and giving her every
chance to lose no time.
Mr.. Griffith, however, made the trip
around the world in sixty-four and a
half days, reducing the best time by
nine and a half days. He travelled as
an ordinary passenger from start to
finish. His route was from London,
via Paris, Rome. Naples, Colombo,
Singapore, Hongkong, Yokohama, Van
couver, Montreal, New York and
Southampton, in all amounting to a.
$50 miles, practically the circumfer-
eEce of the earth at the equator.
For four months previous to his de-
parture upon his memorable record
breaking journey, Mr.. Griffith and
those who were interested in the tour,
worked out his schedules scaling them
down to a nicely, SO that no time
would be lost by a false time entry.
During the first part of the trip, as far
DC Hon orlynno tho nnia1 fro ralJar ha6
gained seven pounds, so evenly had his
schedules worked, and so little varia-
ton had occurred in his itinerary:
but from the latter city, until reaching
London, he lost fourteen pounds, due
he says, to worry and excitement lest
some accident should befall him. Had
a fog arisen along the banks of New
foundland, or a washout occurred on
the railroad, the entire tour would
have been a failure from the record
standpoint. AS a result of his careful
preparation and diligent care through
out his journey, his record today
stands u~nequalled.
Several wagers were won, and Pear
sons magazine and the journals which
had co-operated in sending him out
had n of the biggest write-ups of the
age. The trip was made in 1895, the
traveller leaving London in March
and returning in May. The atten-
ton of the English speaking world
was at the time centered upon this trip
and volumes were written up in the
papers and illustrated magazines. He
states that with the use of the
Russian railway the journey around
the globe can be accomplished in fifty
days.
MISSING WORD CONTESTS.