The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-07-26
A LONG RACE.
Eight Men Started on a Spin
Around the World.
The Race is Nearing COMPLETION,
but Only Two of the Racers Are

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but Only Two Of the Racers Are
Left.
Hale and tanned, but marked by
made by cruel letters in a Rus
sian prison, Henri Mosse has come
from the Fer 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. G.. 1t was late this morn
ing when the Admiral Juareguiberry
went to berth at China Basin wharf.
Mosse and an Englishman now in
India I the sole surviving compcti-
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 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 Id, 1904, and the limit
for the world tour was fixed for June
ID, 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 Constanti-
nople was reached, in July 1904,
when the Englishman, George Moss,
succumbcd to an attack Of fever.
The Frenchman, MosSe. came on
alone, and has had many ~hairbreadth
escapes. At Odessa. on the Black
Sea, he was suspected of being a Jap
anesc spy, and for twenty-five days
was kept in chains in a foul prison
His ankles still bear the scars Of the
irons. Upon being released he pass
, ed OF afoot and by sea to India. ant
still later to China.
Z, In the district Of Bing Sam, in the
interior of China, Mossc was captur
ed by highwaymen and robbed o.
$40, all the money he had. But i1t
was well treated by the bandits, wht
, offered him a Chinese wife if HI
! should care to remain awhile will
! them.
= Mosse chose to keep moving, alt
! he trampcd along until he reached
the coast. where nc took ship for ia
: pan. At Yokohama he joined the Ad
| miral Juareguibcrry and worked hi;
: way thence to this city. He must lcav,
! the vessel here, for it is a condition
, of the contest that he shall trave
over land whenever it is possible.
Mosse has been kept posted by tn,
French club as to his competitors
: Letters he has received at differcn
! points along his strange course hav'
. informed him that tile couple gotni
Z by the African route were murdered
by treacherous Abyssinians on tn
i. desert, who cut Off the heads of thu
, FEenchmaii and llrglishmar.
: The two, men who went by way O
Australia both took sick and died il
: the same hospital of a fever. Th'
Frenchman who went by way 0
i, America was lost in China, his com
panion proceeding to India, whcr'
he was at last accounts ploddins
along.
I The victory in the long race rest
: between Mossc and the Englishmal
! in India, The only survivors Of tn
contest, The winner will receive
. prize of $4,000 francs, and there i
no secohu prize.
, That Mosse has visited all Til
| strange places he has talked about i
proven by tic autographs and seal
= of officials in countless out-of-the
! ! way places all the way from Paris t
4 Yokohama;