The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-10
WOMAN |S ID WALK AROUND THE WORLD MT. and Mrs. Geer Plan a Long
 Journey HE HAS MADE TRIP BEFORE Pushed Wheebarrow Around the Globe and Now Will Take Young Wife With Him-Will Leave
 Without Money.
HE HAS MADE TRIP BEFORE

apolis young man who has once walked around the world and holds the record for a walk across the United States, is preparing for another tramp around the globe. In few weeks he and his young wife. who is barely nineteen, will start on their journey. The couple will leave Minneapolis without money or property aside from the clothing and utensils they will carry in a miniature prairie schooner, which they will push through.
 We are only waiting for some big advertiser to furnish us with the small schooner that we will need" said MT Geer, and with that in sight we will start. We are not begging for the wagon, as we believe the advertising that we will carry will pay for the cost of the outfit. We will not wait for a warm day. either, after our wagon is built but will start in any old kind of weather. l have been through every imaginable cline and my wife is willing to go anywhere l do.
 Will Head for Pacific.
 Our traps complete, we will head di- reetly west through the Dakotas and Montana for the Pacific. We will sail from some coast point to Honolulu, where We will spend seven days From there we will so to Australia and then to Asia Mind you, we will start from this city practically broke and trust to the generosity of the people we meet for food and lodging. We will have many hardships, but in foreign lands, where persons of our kind are few, We will make good living through the sale of our photographs and knicknacks. The curi- osties we will pick up in one land and carry to another. In addition l have earned the gold wire trade and will make something from the sale of wire trinkets It will be easy sailing after we shake the dust off this country. Over here the walking graft is played to death
 This will be the first time d woman has attempted to walk around the world Men have made the circuit afoot and women have gone by bicycle, but never has woinan gone around on foot. TO add to the record she is only nineteen years old and she is one of few Of her age who would attempt such long walk"
 Geer walked around the world in twen- ty-eight months and thirteen days. He would completed the journey in less time had he not been ill three weeks in ono. As had been the case during the trip he was penniless when taken with fever and was compelled to test the generosity of a farmer when he became Ill.,
 During my trip l visited the capitals or biggest cities of thirty-seven foreign countries" said Geer. "I remember the good looking things more than the hard ships and there were not few Of the latter. Japan was the best country l crossed The people are kindller the roads better and the country the pret- tiest on the face of the globe. Fo the other extreme Russia and China take the cake. In China 1 was hampered because I was foreign dog, and In Hussia was summed and guyed as an anarchist.
 Had Many Encounters.
 "I had numerous encounters with ban dits and other ruffians, but managed sue cessfully to plough through all the trouble But l do not want to brag sbout that It is more pleasant to speak Inf the kindness with which I was greeted everywhere by the Americans l frequent lv met in those far off lands.
 q was a great attraction, but with my wife I will be a much greater one. Ihe idea of taking her suggested itselt m La Crosse Of course l get newspaper write ups everywhere. and Milwaukee papers were in line when l reached the peer city It happened that l was shoWihs woman and her little girl to hotel when a scribe came up. He did not consult me, hut in his paper said that my wife and child had been with me on my journey When | arrived at La Crosse the report CTS were waiting. and the first question they asked was about my wife ana chlld' Ii pped me to what an attraction Wo7 man would be, and in two or three years we will be able to satisfy the curiosity of La Crosse when nearing home atter a tramp that will set new record. On his first pilgrimage Geer pushed wheelbarrow on which was trunk. lie took no extra clothing, merely carryihg the trunk for the hundredsfof curioslties' some of which are valuable that ne .s,a,,ad m on his trip. ln his walk across tho Irnited States several years ago he also pushed wheelbarrow.