The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-25
FANNIE B. WARD.
ROUND THE WORLD IN SIXTY
 DAYS.
An Expert Shows That the Trip Can be
 Made in Comfort.

An Expert Shows That the Trip Can be Made in Comfort.
 MT. Gerrare, the editor of Bradshaw's S General Railway and Steam Naviga- tion Guide" points out the fact that, although there are one hundred routes | for any one who wants to go around the | world. there is no through service, as the trains and steamers do not connect, with one exception. The ocean route of 25,412 miles from New Zealand via the | Cape of Good Hope and homeward via Cape Horn was covered by Shaw Sa- will in an Albion steamer in about eighty-five days. .........
 He points out that the time now actu- ally required to travel by the different sections of the overland route is less | than forty-five days, but as the service of the railroads and steamers do not connect the shortest time recorded for a
 round the world journey is sixty-three days, and that by the long sea instead of the overland route. s..-
 But the different sections of the latter are already so we'll served that it is even now possible to go around the
 world in sixty days with ease and conn fort. This would be certainty if the
 companies arranged for the transfer
 ence of passengers and mail at the ter mini. .. He continues: There are two main routes, one British and the other for eign. The former is controlled by the Canadian Pacific railroad between
 Great Britain and Japan or Hong Kong, by the Peninsula and Oriental between l China or Japan and England. The
 mere readjustment in the hours and days of sailing to and from Yokohama
 or Hong Kong would constitute thor ough mail service. The record to or from Hong Kong eastward is twenty four days. From Hong Kong to Van couver it is seventeen and one-half rays and from Vancouver to London
 eleven days, making total of sixty two and one-half days. Therefore it is possible to maintain a sixty-day ser vice around the world with an ample
 margin for contingencies and waits.
 The editor proceeds to point out that the foreign route which is most likely to compete with the British service is the Trans Siberian express service, which connects Vladivostock with the mail steamers for Yokohoma by way of Tsuruga. The crossing of the Pacific at high speed will be possible by the enor- nous steamers of the Great Northern railway, of which two are already af1oat. The same company will convey passengers from, Tacoma to New York and there the ships of the International Mercantile Marine company will bring them to and from Europe.
 As against any possible argument that no one wants to go round in sixty days, he points out that if such a ser vice existed people would use it as far
 as they cared to go, comparing it with the inner circle of the Metropolitan railway of London. Quite recently a man in -Hai-Wei posted two letters off London. One, which came by way of Siberia, arrived in tWenty-eight days, the other by the western route in twenty-nine; yet trip around the world by way of Wei -Hai-Wei can only be accomplished in certain seasons and with good luck in eighty days. With a sixty-day through service, any place can be reached east or west within a month-Chicago Inter-ocean's London TahIo