Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-21
TO CIRCLE WORLD
RAILROADS OFFER GLOBE TRoT-
TIERS ACCOMMODATIONS AND
SHOULDER ALL WORRY
Tourists Do All Their Choosing Of
Route Before Starting From Home
and the Transportation Companies
Do the Rest-The Routes Offered.

A trip around the world? Step into
any ticket office in Ottumwa, pay your
money and take your choice of routes.
The railroad company will do the rest,
and on receipt Of the stipulated price
will hand you ticket that will enable
you to circle the globe without again
looking up rates or studying the itin-
erary of foreign railroads.
The price of such ticket varies
from $3.50 to $500, according to the
route chosen. For little over $500
you can go to San Francisco, and from
there to Honolulu, then through Japan,
visiting Nagasaki and Yokohama. In
China your ticket will take you to
Shanghai and Hongkong, thence to
| London via Singapore, Penang, Calcut-
ia, Benares, Lucknow. Cawnpore and
Bombay. At Bombay steamer, via
Alden, Suez, Marseilles and Plymouth,
will land you in London. You will
have your choice of steamship lines
from London to New York and then
home to Ottumwa by rail. The ticket
included meals and berth while on
shipboard. BY railroad you must pay
extra for these necessities. But all
day you are entitled to first class pas
sage, and on shipboard to first cabin
privileges.
Few Restrictions.
Few restrictions are put upon the
user of an around the world ticket. 1t
is good for two years, and within that
time the passenger can have all the
stopovers he wishes. There are TWEEN
ty-eight different routes to be chosen,
and among them the globe trotter is
sure to find one that suits his fancy.
The whole itinerary can be mapped out
here, and after that the worries of trav-
cling are limited to finding good hotels
and planning side trips. The globe
trotter of the magazines might be in
clined to turn up his nose in disdain
at having his route selected in adj
vance, but for the ordinary mortal who
is not in search of adventure and has
one eye on the pocketbook it is re-
garded as an excellent system.
Persons who have rounded the cir.
Gle in California or taken a trip to New
Orleans and through the south dur
ing the winter will have vision of a
long paper ribbon of ticket, requir-
ing whole pocket case for its keep
ing, and containing enough paper to
start mill. Bnt the coupon system
with separate ticket for each rail-
road and steamship company, would
be impossible for journey around the
world. The system is much simpler.
The System.
In Ottumwa regular ticket to San
Francisco is attached to voucher that
shows the holder has paid for passage
i around tho world hv a cort DIN ro,,fx,
At San Francisco the ticket Is ex-
changed for transportation on the
steamship line, and SO on from place
to place the globe trotter has his
! transportation waiting for him at each
terminal
Almost every land beneath the skies
| is included in some of the routes
which may be selected. One CT these
takes in New Zealand and Australia,
touches at one or two Indian ports, and
then takes you up to the Mediterran-
can, including stops at Greece, Italy
. and Gibraltar.
| Agents say those routes which in
clude Japan have been in the greatest
7 demand since the war, and that every
1 globe trotter now visits the mikado's
empire. Not many around-the-world
tickets are sold in this city, but their
sale is not an infrequent thing, either
I Agents declare that tourists from the
small towns around Ottumwa are the
best customers. Several Ottumwans
have circled the globe, but they do not
. realize that around the world tickets
are sold here, and generally buy them
4 in Chicago.