The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-21
ROUND THE WORLD BY AUTO.
GLTDDEN'S TRIP LED HIM INTO
MANY STRANGE LANDS.
nc and His wife We're Enterts incd by Three
sorts OF P0tentates and Met at Least
one Cannibai-Jaya the Most Beau.
tlfui-Ran the Machine 5000 Miles.

Vlt Saltiuhl-J&NH tuc N1V3I btaNs
tlfui-Ran the Machine 8 900 Miles.
Charles j. Glidden, Boston capitalist,
automobile enthusiast, owner Of an am
bition to drive a touring car through every
country in the world, Is back to America
from trip around the world with his "a
horse power car. His itinerary included
the South Sea Islands and the Malay penn-
sula He took his machine to countries
where not even locomotive had ever been
seen. At least two monarchs and one
cannibal sat in his car, and he was the guest
Of honor at three royal receptions. Al
together the auto was driven $500 miles,
for he cut out the main continent of Asia
and Europe and came home straight from
Singapore by sea. Mrs Glidden and an
engineer accompanied him all the way.
The party left Boston July IL last with the
rn of the American Automobile Associa
ton to the worlds fair at st. Louis. They
shipped the car back to Chicago and started
from there to Minneapolis. From the
latter city they ran on the tracks of the
800" and Central Pacific line straight to
Vancouver.
From Vancouver they shipped for Homo
!.lu They ran all over the main island,
Fly being their next stopping place.
I'VE were guests of the King" said Mr..
GiGGen Yesterday. I'VE also brought into
the Islands not only the first automobile
but the first steam vehicle of any kind.
The Kings name is Ratu Pena kadavin
Lew Roko Tuitai!evu. Although the son
Of a genuine cannibal king, he has good
English education, which he obtained at
sydney He dresses European fashion
coat shirt, waistcoat and colar-from the
hips up. Below that he wears the skirt
effect and bare legs of tho native.
He wanted to know II the auto could
GO sixty miles an hour. l took him and the
ROYAL princess for ride. Her name is Adj
Cakobau and she dresses simply in a cream
ocored satin wrapper.
The King was a real sport. He kept
calling for the top speed-wanted all the
machine had in it, After the ride he enter
tanned us at luncheon in formal style.
hated to leave him, he was a good fellow.
At Fiji we had our cannibal aboard.
They call him 'Cannihal Tom He's great
character in the islands He" an old man,
and in his youth he sat at forty-eight
cannibaI feasts. For shilling he agreed
to be photographed in the auto but he
wouldn't on any account let me make the
thing go with him in it..
the auto covered Las miles, and ran along
the most southerly road in the world In
Tasmania Mr.. Glidden found an automobile
road SO good that the tears spring to his
eyes when he thinks of 1t. The British con-
yicts laid it in the old days.
In Australia the Glidden party covered
l,724 miles. and gave II up on account OF the
roads.
Al the very stem Of Australia, Thursday
Island the place of the great pearl fisheries,
10 ,ao
that an auto was aboard brought great
crowd Of natives and European residents.
They insisted on seeing ~how the thing
worked it was unmoored from its lash
!ngs and run up and down the deck.
Then it was Java: and that was the cream
az ento ' ''i in J java. said Mr.. elidtcn
'b,, The owners have never taken them
very far from the city. We ran IRON ehd
to end Of the island, were received by the
Sultan Of Solo. and saw the great, ruined
'emrl-S Of m,d-Java.
Ne reached the Sultan's capital on Fri
day, and had to wait for our reception
Until the next day for the Sultan is strict
MoGammetan Then he gave us proper
I'VE drove the machine between twoaisles
of servants. ne Sultan sat at the end OF
q hall 800 feet long; efore him was corps
Of women dancing and singing. Around
him We're his Queen, his twenty concutines
and his goodness; knows how many SER
wants. The engineer took fifteen of the |
children riding while we had our audience.
The Sultan never moves except on cere- |
rnony: every time he turned his eyes in
any direction ali the court and servants |
in that quarter lowed to tho ground. He |
take through his interpreter.
How much did 1t cost? he asked
Il told him He summoned his treasurer !
and asked if he had as much money as !
tina, in the treasury, for he wanted to buy |
one Tho treasurer assured him he had not. !
Ho looked disappointed
In the evening took him, his two chief |
concu! ines and his eldest Daughter for a |
ride he rest Of the royal household fol- !
lowed in tarouches. We drove only four !
miles an hour. Once l hit it up to ten,
and he said Tut-tut-tut,' to show that l !
vas going too fast !
At Singapore Mr.. Gldden had his third (
and last 20 at royalty. The Sultan of Johore
received Mr.. and Mrs Glidoen at cere-
moniai luncheon at which the service was
Of solid gold. The auto was no news to
him. he had just ordered a $50 horsepower |
Mercedes from Paris. He insisted on talk
ing auto all the time.
The natives Of Fiji called the auto, +the
father of all devils, the boat on the roa, y"
the carriage Of lightning and the war
god The Maoris of New Zealand called
it the war demon" the Australian abo-
rhymes the boomerang. 'and the Javanes,
the" carriage of the wind They explained ,
that since there was no visible means of
propulsion bottled wind must be doing it