The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1907-08-01
A LONG. RACE.
Eight Men Started on a Spin
Around the World.
The Race is Nearing COMPLETION,
but Only Two of the Racers Are
Hale and tanned, but marked by

Left.
Hale and tanned, but marked by
scars made by cruel fe RS in a 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 competl-
tors in a race around the world and
both are nearing the end of the long
Journey. One or the other will win
q price of $4,000 francs by arriving
first in Paris.
Mosse was chauffeur in the French
capital, when the Sportsmen's S club
of London suggested to the Touring
club of Paris that each organization
should furnish >four men and send
them out on competitive tour OF
the world, without funds, except two
francs each, the men to travel IN
pairs, an Englishnan with a French
man. -.
The four pairs were to go over diff
ferent routes. After all preliminaries
had been arranged the start was
made on June IA, 1904, and the limit
for the world tour was fixed for June
Il. 1906. Two Of the men started by
the way of Africa, two by the way Of
America, two by way Of England,
and the remaining couple by way OF
Asia Minor.
Nose and his English companion
took the Asia Minor route and got
along we'll together until Constantl-
nople was reached, in July 1904,
when the Englishman, George Moss,
succumbed to an attack of fever.
The Frenchman, Mosse. came on
alone, and has had many hairbreadth
escapes. At Odessa. on the Black
Sea, hewas suspected of being Jap
anese spy, and for Twenty-Five days
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. and
still later to China.
In the district of Bing Sam, IN the
interior of China, Mosse was captur..
ed by highwaymen and robbed OF
$40, all the money he had. But ne
was we'll treated by the bandits, who
offered him Chinese wife If ne
should care to remain awhile with
them.
Mosse chose to keep moving, and
he tramped along until he reached
the coast. where he took ship for ia
pan. At Yokohama he joined the Ad-
miral Juareguiberry and worked his
way thence to this city. He must leave
the vessel here, for it is condition
of the contest that he shall travel
over land whenever it is possible.
Mosse has been kept posted by the
French club as to his competitors.
Letters he has received at different
points along his strange course have
informed him that the couple going
by the African route were murdered
by treacherous Abyssinians on the
desert, who cut off the heads Of the
Frenchman and Englishman.
The two men who went by way OF
Australia both took sick and died in
the SAME hospital Of fever. Inc
Frenchman who went by way OF
America was lost in China, his COM
panion proceeding to India, where
he was at last accounts ploddlng
along.
The victory in the long race rests
between Mosse and the EngllshmaSn
in India, the, only survivors OF the
contest. The winner will receive a
prize of $4,000 francs, and there is
no second prize.
That Mosse has visited all the
strange places he has talked about IS
proven by the autographs and seals
of officials in countless out-of-the-
way places all the way from Paris
Yokohama.