The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-03-09
AROUND WORLD TICKETS
RICHMOND PEOPLE CAN CIRCLE
GLOBE FOR $3.50.
Such Tickets Will be Placed on Sale
at Local Station April I, Good
for Two Years.

| Rode right out, went around and
erode right back again"
| Such will be the most ocular say
| ing among the tourists and travellers
| of Richmond when the new around
the-world'' tickets are placed on sale
/ at the local Pennsylvania station
| April J.. as Richmond people for the
small price of $3.50 can leave the city,
go all the way around the world and
return home.
The tickets are the outgrowth of
long consultations between railroad
officials and the various steamship
| companies of the world. The cheapest
rates which could be arranged were
placed on the schedule, but at the
same time all the main points of in
terest are along the routes. Fifty
seven different trips are on the SEIZED
ule, the prices ranging from $3.50 to
$3.50. The Pennsylvania has for many
months been figuring on all kinds of
excursion tickets, but the new world.
wide tickets will probably be more
popular than any ever issued, and at
the same time are the initiative step
which will probably lead to greater
things along transportation lines.
Good for Two Years.
All tickets, issued are good for
period of two years. Side trips of any
length can be arranged, while meals
and berths on steamship lines are
given gratis. The railroad routes in
Europe are more expensive, as bcrths
and meals have to be purchased extra I
The cheaper, or $3.50 trip, will no
doubt prove very popular, although /
the trip is more direct, but stop-over I
and side trip privileges are allowed /
the same as with the more expensive |
tours Travellers can buy tickets TO /
San Francisco from Richmond ever /
the Pennsylvania and connecting 4
lines From San Francisco various /
steamship lines are at the disposal of /
the tourist and touch at Honolulu; |
from thence TO the Samoan Islands,
thence to Auckland, New Zealand, to
Sydney, Australia. From Sydney the
tour runs around the southern portion
of Australia, goes around the Cape of
Good Hope and touching at Cape
town Melbourne and Plymouth, and
thence on to London where the choice
of any of the transatlantic steamers
is offered the tourist to New York
city. At that point the Pennsylvania
line is taken to Richmond.
Expensive Trip Costs $3.50.
The more expensive trip costing
$3.50 touches more of the European
cities. while the finest Pacific ana
steamers are at the ser
vice of the passenger. Starting from
Richmond, tourists will go TO San
Francisco over the Pennsylvania ana
lines where steamer or
he Oceanic steamship company Is {
boarded, which goes to sydney, Aus
tralia. via Honolulu and Auckland, ]
New Zealand. Here the passenger mas .
his choice among the lines, North I
German Lloyd. China Navigation or
he Eastern and Australian steamship /;
from Sydney to Yokohama
and other Japanese ports. From THESE
points the tourist will take either
line, going from Japan TO
London. touching at Hong Kong. chi ]
"a Singapore. India, through the Suez
anal touching at Port Said and other
Mediterranean points. From London s
he tourist has the choice of any of
he transatlantic lines to New ork' t
md from there takes the Pennsylvan-
a lines west to Richmond t
The various trips arranged at the {
present time are all that the most ,
thirsty for worldwide travel could [
wish. and will probably prove the t
most popular rates ever offered by I
INV railroad or steamship company In I
he world. /
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