Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-08
TOUR OF WORLD IN PICTURE
G. W. Wattles Delivers illustrated
Lecture at All Saints Church.
VIEWS OUT OF THE ORDINARY
Recent Trip Graphically Described
and Facts Concerning scenes
Portrayed Told in Inter
estInE Manner

II a moving picture show or a profes-
al nal lecturer could get possession Of the
films and slides which were used last night
by G. w. Wattles in his lecture at All
Saints church his fortune would be made.
The lecture was q description of a trip
around the world which Mr.. WRttles has
recently completed. More accurately speak
ing It was a verbal and pictorial description
OF part Of the trip, as one evening would
be far too short n time in which to hear
and see the wealth of incident and de-
scription and the immense number of views
which the traveller brought back with him
for the entertainment and pleasure of his
friends.
There was not a vacant seat in the large
audience room when the first picture was
thrown on the screen and Mr.. Wattles be-
gan his interesting remarks. tn udien
may best be described as one representa-
tative Of the hest of Omaha's social and
business element. Members of the congre-
cation of All Saints. business friends and
associates of the speaker and many others
came to see and hear and ali were more
than repaid.
The Illustrations, OF which there was a
constant stream on the screen, were most
happily arranged with reference to the lee
ture for as the speaker carried forward the
trip from the time he left Omaha until he
reached the shores Of Asia almost each
sentence was Illuminated by a view Of the
particular place under discussion.
Panorama of the World.
The moving pictures are especially
worthy of remark anf It may well TO
doubted whether any series OF views more
original and more out of the ordinary were
ever presented to an Omaha assemblage.
They began with a panorama of the vest
ern mountains as they unfold from the OBJ
seryation car of a transcontinental train.
The trip through the Golden Gate was also
show in a manner wonderfully true to life.
Numerous views of Honolulu were
shown and the pictures of the natives,
caught while they were engaged in their
quaint customs of greeting visitors with
showers OF flowers, were decidedly
unique.
Other notable views were those of a
ship passing an iceberg and of the fire
drill on a ship when an alarm Is sounded.
Perhaps the most marvellous of all, how
ever, were the views OF the ocean in a
storm. and these held the assemblage
awed, for it was hard to believe 1t was
the picture and not the reality which was
to be seen. Japan and China were also
q Interestingly portrayed.
The lecture itself may be described to
some extent as a running fire of com
ment on the pictures, but 1t also con-
tained a large amount of solid informa-
ton and many amusing Incidents of
tourist life which were greatly enjoyed
by the audience.
The lecture will be repeated next Mon
day night at the Lyric for the exclusive
benefit of the employees of the street
railroad company, Of which Mr.. Wattles
Is president.
He stated last night that in the near
future he may give one or two similar
Lectures. continuing the trip the entire
way around the globe. II he does 1t is
safe toisay the auditorium of All Saints
church will be taxed to It's utmost to
accommodate those who will want an
other evening of pleasure similar to that
of last night.