The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-07-24
A LONG RACE.
Eight Men Started on a Spin
Around the World.
The Race is Nearing ConIpction,
but Only Two of the Racers Axe
yrft

Hale and tanned, but marked by
scars made by cruel fetters in Rus
sian prison, Henri Mosse has come
from the Far East on the French
steamer Admiral Juareguiberry. en-
route to Paris, striving to win a
strange race
The steamer reached San Francis
co Saturday night, was held inquar-
antine until Friday morning on ac-
count of the presence on board Of a
large number Of japanese steerage
passengers, who are bound for Van
couver, B. C, 1t was late this morn
ing when the Admiral Juareguiberry
went to berth at China Basin wharf.
Mosse and an Englishman now in
India are the sole surviving competi-
tors in a race around the world and
both are nearing the end Of the long
Journey. One or the other will win
! a price Of $4,000 francs by arriving
first in Paris.
Mosse was chauffeur in the French
capital, when the Sportsmen's club
of London suggested to the Touring
club of Paris that each organization
should furnish four men and send
them out on a competitive tour OF
the world, without funds, except two
francs each. the men to travel In
pairs, an Englishman with French.
man.
The four pairs were to go over diff.
| ferent routes. After all prelim:narle;
had been arranged the start va:
made on June IA, 1904, and the limit
for the world tour was fixed for June
"A, 1906. Two of the men started by
the way of Africa. two by the way Q:
America, two by way Of England
and the remaining couple by way o:
Asia Minor.
Nose and his English companion
took the Asia Minor route and go
along we'll together until CONSTANT
nople was reached, in July 1904
when the Englishman, George Moss
succumbed to an attack Of fever.
The Frenchman, Mosse, came or
alone, and has had many hairbreadtl
escapes. At Odessa, on the Blacl
Sea, he was suspected of being Jap
anese spy, and for twenty-five day
was kept in chains in foul prison
His ankles still bear the scars Of the
irons. Upon being released he pass
ed on afoot and by sea to India. AM
still later TO China.
In the district of Bing Sam, in tn
interior of China, Mosse was captur
!, ed by highwaymen and robbed 0
$40, all the money he had. But h
was we'll treated by the bandits, VIII
offered him a Chinese wife if h
should care to remain awhile wit
them.
Mosse chose to keep moving, an
he tramped along until he reache
the coast. where ne took ship for j
5 pan. At Yokohama he joined the Ad
t miral Juareguiberry and worked hi
: way thence to this city. Hemust leav
I the vessel here, for it is a conditio
of the contest that he shall trave
a over land whenever it is possible.
Mosse has been kept posted by tn
French club as to his competitors
Letters he has received at difcrer
points along his strange course hav
$ informed him that the couple goin
2 by the African route were murdere
. by treacherous Abyssinians on tn
desert, who cut off the heads Of tn
5 Frenchman and Englishman.
4. The two men who went by way c
Australia both took sick and died i
: the same hospital Of a fever. Th
Frenchman who went by way c
America was lost in China, his con
! panion proceeding to India, wher
he was at last accounts ploddln
: along.
t The victory in the long race rest
: between Mosse and the Englishma
: in India, the only survivors Of tn
contest. The winner will receive
} prize of $4,000 francs, and there
? no second prize.
That Mosse has visited all tn
strange places he has talked about i
proven by the autographs and seal
| of officials in countless out-of-the
way places all the way from Paris t
Yokohama.