Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-07-28
AROUND THE WORLD .
g. Fred Childs Starts OH His
Journey Tonight.

He VIII he Entertained In the TO yRl
Houses In Japan, aud WIIl Have IsK-
ceptionaI Advantages for Travelling
Inland In Japan, China and Java.
G. Fred Childs, who graduated from
Yale last month with honors, starts to-
night at 10 10 on his journey around the
world, to occupy a years time. He makes
the trip for It's educational and informing
advantages. He will travel on no regular
schedule, but will spend his time as he sees
fit in places which he finds the most inter
esting. He will go first TO Montreal, and
after day from there over the Canadian
Pacific railroad, will a side trip to Chilli
cothe, Ohio, where he will remain two or
three days with Yale friends, and to Chica-
CO. where he will be guest of former class
mates a week and will make a cruise on
the lakes with them. On the way across
the continent he will stay a few days at
Banff Hot Springs and at the Glacier
House, two noted Rocky Mountain resorts
in the Canadian Northwest territory. AT
ter a short visit in Portland, Oregon, he
will 90 TO Vancouver, British Columbia,
to embark there August II on steamer
bound for Japan.
Mr.. Childs will have many letters of in
PRODUCTION to people in foreign countries.
One Of his letters is from President Nc
Kinley and Secretary of State Hay has
given him one to all the United States
ministers and consuls.
On the steamer he may meet Alfred
Vanderbilt and his companions from Yale,
who are also on a globe-trotting journey,
and If they are not on this steamer he will
join them after landing at Yokahoma. Mr..
Childs will remain in Japan over month.
He has an intimate friend, a japanese,
who was a classmate at Yale. Through
this acquaintance he will be entertained
| by count, viscount, marquis and several
| governors, whom Mr.. ChildG met at New
Haven, where they visited Mr.. Childs's
classmate. The Brattleboro boy will
travel a month on the island, and will
| have exceptional advantages from which
the ordinary tourists are barred. He will
| don the japanese costume after leaving
the large cities, and will travel in the in
| land territory in a jinrikisha, two wheel
| ed conveyance drawn by native laborer.
! Mr.. Childs will sail through the beautiful
| inland sea. At Toxic, the capital, he will
be entertained at the royal houses by the
officials from whom he has received invi-
tations. Mr.. Childs's intimate japanese
friend Is a brother of one Of the Mikado's
secretaries.
From the lower end of Japan Mr..
| Chlds will proceed to Shanghai, China,
and from there to Pekin, China, in com
pany with a Chinese student formerly at
Yale, whose father is one Of the potentates
of the country. Mr.. Childs's next objec-
tive point will be Hong Kong, and from
there he will go inland to Foo Chow and
Marking.
Returning to Hong Kong he will take
passage TO Manila. There he will meet
young Vanderbilt and his companions.
The young men will attempt TO get out on
the firing line. They will go to Iloilo and
as many other places In the Philippines as
possible. Returning to. Hong Kong Mr..
Childs will sail to Singapore, in the Straits
settlement, the extreme southern part OF
Asia. He will meet there Chinese class
mate. The two young men will go to Ba-
| tavia, Island of Java, where the father of
the Chinaman owns big plantation. The
young men will be here month, arriving
about Jan. l, 1900. Between Singapore
and Java they will cross the equator
From Java they will go back to Singapore.
The next stopping place will be Column
DO, Island of Ceylon. From there our
traveller will go to Calcutta. He will be
in India a month or more and will visit
Beneras, Lucknow, Lahore, Delhi and 9TH
er famous places, his journey northward
extending as far as the base of the Hima-
laya mountains. He will return on the
west coast to Bombay, and from there will
take passage on steamer to Alden, the
/ southern port of Arabia. After passing
through the Red Sea and the Suez canal
he will next travel in Egypt, going by rail
and camel down the Nile TO the First
Cataract, visiting the pyramids and his
toric places.
From Alexandria he will cross the Med
iteranean Sea to Constantinople. Athens
and Pireus in Greece will be visited be-
fore going TO Brindisi, ''the heel of the
boot in Italy. BY rail he will proceed
through Naples, Rome, Florence and Ven
ice. After spending some time in Geneva
aud Berne, Switzerland, he will go to
Heidelberg, Germany, where he will meet
German friends.
His itinerary next is down the Rhine to
Frankfort and Cologne, Brussels and Hol-
land, through France to Paris in time for
the exposition. He will live in the Latin
quarter of Paris with 10 to 20 Yale men,
and will make an automobile trip to the
southern part of France Returning to
Paris he will meet his father, w. Fl.
Childs. Before sailing for home via Liv-
erpool, they will travel through England,
Scotland and Ireland. reaching this coun-
try about July l, 1000.
Mr.. Childs will send to The Phoenix
from japan, China, the Philippines, Java,
India and other places letters in regard to
his travels.
ELITE VAUDEVILLE STARS.