The Cook County herald., 1905-10-21

Mr.. c. J. Glidden of Boston, Mass,
who, with his wife, is making a tour
Of the world in a motor car, believes
that already he has seen more of the
world and strange peoples than any
other Individual man living. So far
he has Travelled more than 25,1O0
miles, and has visited thirty-four
countries. He has driven along the
most northern road on the earth, and
the most southern road. In Australia
and New Zealand he has driven where
the road would have been better had
there been no road at all. But he is
already convinced that the world was
made for motoring, and that the pas
time OF the immediate future will be
motoring around the world.
'For pleasure there is nothing on
earth like it," said Mr.. Glidden, in a
recent interview. "For educating a
man as to what the world is like and
what its peoples are doing nothing
could equal it''
Mr.. Glidden has taught two kings
how to drive a motor car, and has
left behind him a longing for the new
vehicle wherever he has been. He is
looking forward to the time when the
world will be laid down with special
motor car tracks, rallied like the rail-
ways, and every man will be his own
train.
Hardly anything has surprised me
more,'' he said, than seeing the as
founding rapidity with which the
motor car is making it's way in the
world. 1t is everywhere Mine was
the first to be seen in Fiji. Perhaps
[ shall find a few places in Africa
where one has not been before. But
already the motor car is everywhere,
and everywhere it is being wanted
when I landed in Fiji the natives
were very scared at first, and declared
that the father of all the devils had
fallen among them. I believe that in
Fiji the motor car will now always be
known by a native name, meaning
Sire Of Satan But after I had taken
King Ratu Kadevu Levu Roko Tui
Taileon for the first ride and then
given him taste of speed, he want
ed to know whether could go at
sixty miles an hour, and was quite
disappointed because couldn't.
"R. K. Levu R. T. Taileon, the king
Of the Fijians, is fine specimen of
a modern king. He is doing his best
for his people. His father was
M ;o ~
most polished and up-to-date manners,
and he is gifted with excellent COM
mon sense. He still wears the bare
legs and little white apron of his
country, but above them he has Euro
pean dress, and he does not do his
hair in the grotesque native fashion.
He met me in an English check jacket
and waistcoat and cap to match, with
white apron and bare legs underneath.
For the instruction of his people he
got me to take many of them for
rides.
Zone old aristocrat whom I drove
about admitted to have presided at
no fewer than forty-seven human
teasts in his earlier years. He looked
lit. He was not good at arithmetic,
and there were no doubt many other
festivals on human dishes which he
did not count in with the forty-seven.
Whenever his mind went back to
those occasions, you could see that
he was reviving pleasant memories
with evident relish. He liked riding
IN my car, but I believe he would
have liked better to see me nicely
roasting. But cannibalism is out of
fashion now in Fiji, and is only in
aulged in on the sly; the authorities
have practically put an end to it.
Il have just left a different sort of
monarch, the Sultan of Java He only
resembles the ruler of the Fijians in
the length Of his name. All have of
| it is S. P. ]. M. Toean Soesoehoeman
Pakoe Boewono Soerkarta Adinigrant'
But that, I believe, is only what he is
called for short. He did write the
whole of it for me on a beautiful pho
tograph of himself with which he pre-
sented me. By writing in very
small and cramped hand he just man
aged to get it all in in six lines. Each
line Is twelve inches long, and there
is no waste of room by having spaces
between the names.
But the Sultan of Java has plenty
Of spare time on his hands. He can
afford to have a name like that. He
manages most of the affairs which
are in any way involved with the re-
ligious ideas of his people; but the
Dutch do most of the other work for
him.
I'VE arrived at Sola, the capital, on
Friday and His Majesty sent a
prince to meet me, and express his
royal regrets that the day being the
Mohammedan Sunday he could not see
me until Saturday, but we could visit
the palace. Our reception by him was
one of the most wonderful ceremonies
ever conceived. The palace of the
Kraton stands in wa1led-in grounds
four miles square. Out OF those
grounds the Sultan very rarely goes.