The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-20
FOE GLOBE TR0TTERs.
A Club uhssc Test Of Membership 10 .
Trip Around h world.

a Club Uhesc Test OF Membership 10 Q
Trip Around the world. .,
Any globe trotter who has actually
circled this sphere has o chance TO join
the very latest thing In clubs. It's the
Ciroumnavigators Club.
or course the chief purpose Of the
club IL TO tie ell globe trotters together
by those invisible bands. Of good fellow
ship supposed to be created by clubs
and furthermore to afford free and ample
opportunity for members to exchange
"reminiscences OF giobe circling tours with
out feer OF boring any one. The Circum-
navigators Club Is seid to be the idea Of
James n. Birch, Jr., OF Burlington, N. j..
sometimes end Buenoe Ayres. Kimberley
or Sydney at intervals.
OF course Il isn't expected OF members
that they shall havo rounded the globe
by way Of the poles. that route being
a little difficult. Tho requirement Ia
that you shall have been somewhere
east Of Suez' and got back without turn
In a prospectus prlnted on parchment
and bound In pigekin the club tells oil
about itself for the benefit OF those who
nave msdo tho grand circuit and speaks
quo OF tnon tnus'
oh. the pity Of it!that men Of this typs.
strong, courageous, patient n Kind
pioneers by nature. the men who. far from
the noise and lights and eayety Of great
cities, make history quietly and without
ostentatlon, speeches or press notioes-tha
theee men 60 seldom meet
And when they do 1t IL for q minute.
an hour or a day. Long enough mayhap
to kindle q desire for the kind Of friend
ship that lasts and all too short for more
than q luck to you" or at most an even
Ing OF "reminiscences over q pipe Of tobacco
from shome." The man Of this type goes
home once In O while. In VI years. Ave
or ten; for he who has che desire. the will
and the courage to spend years on the
Ivory Coast or Fly River has the imagina-
ton that breeds an irresistible impulse
to again stroll along Piccadilly or loiter
up Broadway and the courage to break
away. whatever the price. and crafty the
desire.
Pick q white mar who "a assembling
the working parts Of q dredse In View Zea.
land, hanging d steel bridge over the Upper
Nile or provisioning q warship at Singa.
bore, and the chances are he knows Fras-
rats and London. Rectoris and Chicago
or Meniies and Melbourne better than
300 Of the next thousahd that enter either
place.
They are seldom speechnakefs. writer's.
inoneyrnakefs. nor often even clever tslk-
efs. The oratof needs an audience other
thar gum trees, eulls or baboons. The
writer needs q press and q publisher. The
moneymaker needs men with money and
the clever talker receptive listeners. All
these are denied the advehturer whose
hunting box, buneai6w or thAtched shack
is thousands OF miles from civilization
and days or weeks from d cable operator.
But the man who Knows what the sun
sees from setting to RISING n who stahds
his ground In b wilderness from year 70
year 10 a man who has something in his
nature out Of the ordinary. He's invan.
ably worth knowing. That any consid-
cradle number OF these men can be got
together at any one time is too much 70
hope for. but the possibility OF corralins
a few Of the tribe onee In n while Is Il sum-
Client excuse for the use Of printer Q Ink
and postage stamps.
The Oircurhnavig ators Club has DO
year Il Is the intention Of The club to pub;
lish O book containing the Stories and
"reminiscences Of the globe tfottere who
said anything worth while ut the dinners
of some n who bes something interest
.aAnd to predicate ths failure Of any
of tie elect to cay or sing something
worthy Of handmade paper OF. fooled
covers nays tho. prospectus, Us !ise upto
The. predicting Of q spasm Of: silence Tor
Teddy or q volume Of vociferous YER
boslty from tho Mikado.'
E. Fl. Patterson Of Mount Vernon. N.
T.. Auckland end Shanghai 10 the money
changer (tressurer) and j. d. Morrison
Of New Yora the scribe: -
That something may be expected when
the globe trotters got together may pe
CLEANED from the announcement made
that On such occasions .the horizon will
be Locked up and the kcy dropped In the