The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-08
HOLDS TRAVEL RECORD
The Long Journeys of Miss
Celeste J. Miller.
OIRoLED THE GLOBE THREE TIMES
terestinE Stories of How She Visit
ed Many Out of the Way Places In
Various Parts IF the Earth-SOme

ed Many Out of the Way Places In
Novel Experiences.
After visiting every country in the
world except Greenland and Iceland
Miss Celeste J.. Miller has returned to
Chicago to prepare for her trip to the
two countries to which she is yet a
stranger. Miss Miller claims to have
travelled more extensively than any
other person in the world, and all her
trips have been made alone. She has
visited all the out Of the way places
and avoids the beaten paths Of the
ordinary tourist. The guidebooks do
her no good, for she goes into places
the authors of those interesting COM
positions never have visited, says the
Chicago Post.
She has travelled in every kind of
vessel, from a Chinese junk to the
finest steamer, that floats. She rode
a mule throughout Morocco, travelled
the Holy Land on an Arabian horse
and has spent days with on
the deserts alone and unprotected. The
only accident that Miss Miller ever met
with was a few days ago at the Buf-
falo exposition, when her hand was
wrenched in a crowd.
The last trip taken by Miss Miller
was in South America, and h has
lust returned to Chicago from that
jaunt Of 10000 miles. Every republic
from Guatemala to TERRA del Fuego
was visited. Her tour started at Colon,
in Colombia. From that point she
crossed to the Pacific, down the west
coast, around Cape Horn, up through
the strait of Magellan to Caracas and
then home. She stopped at all the
principal ports and made trips into the
interior when convenient. Having
camped out in almost every country
Of the world, no trip has terrors for
her, and if no transportation line is
available she forms a party of native
servants, and, with camp equipage on
pack mules, she takes to the trail and
reaches her objective point.
United States ministers and consuls
are held in contempt by Miss Miller.
She says G.. II. Bridgeman. United
States minister to Bolivia. was at Lima,
Peru, when she was, but that he re-
fused to take the overland trip In the
stage to La Paz without an escort.
Miss Miller did not care to wait two
or three days for the native soldiers,
so she proceeded with only a driver.
She made the trip in safety and reached
La Paz several days before the min
lister started.
"Our consuls and minister's" says
Miss Miller, ''seem to be men entirely
untitled for their positions. Or. Bridge
man has lived in Bolivia for ten years,
yet he cannot speak a half dozen words
of Spanish and has an interpreter at
his side constantly"
Miss Miller says that the most mag
nificent scenery and the most beau
tiful landscapes in the world are to be
found in South America. She says in
every port she found the Germans
either in control of the business or a
close second. In speaking Of the re-
publics she said:
"Chile is by far the most progressive.
Young men are educated In the mill
tary schools Of the country and then
sent to Germany. where they finish
their military education. The army is
organized on the plan Of the German
army and is the best in South America.
The finest looking native soldiers, how
ever, are in Bolivia. Their equipment
is bad, but in physique they are ahead
of the Chileans. The cities of Chile are
beautiful, but it is true of all South
American people that they pay more
attention to things artistic than we do
here. In Santiago beautiful houses and
private and public gardens are on every
hand, making it a place of delight that
cannot be described. One Of the best
things in South America is the coffee.
The best coffee n can get in the Unit
ed States tastes insipid to one who
has tasted that made in Brazil"
China is familiar ground to Miss Mil
Ter, and she was in that country short
ly before the foreign legations were be-
sieged, and on that crisis she said the
other day:
III ullSSlOAdllCS a . SAS tAouOASs
Ny experience with missionaries is not
limited to any n country. l have
seen them everywhere and know that
the cause for which they are sent
abroad is lost. One missionary in Chi
ma that l knew lived in a mansion. He
and his wife drew salaries, and three
or four Of his children We're on the
pay roll Of the society. They had a
corps Of servants and lived in a style
that is seldom seen in this country.
In India the missionaries that l know
have summer and winter homes and
move with the seasons to seek greater
comfort. These are examples of all
missionaries. and l am certain that
they do comparatively no good and stil
up trouble when they go into a country
and attempt to change the habits and
customs of centuries"
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