The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-23
SEES MOST OF THE
WORLD IND He TAKES
HIS OWN TIME 1T II
Adnebeth l. Williams Returns From Trip Around the Globe
twenty Years Younger Happy to Be Home, and Loaded
With Interesting information,

Which would you rather do than 90
around the world and take your own
time about it?
You remember that Phineas Fosg es-
taollshed the first record of eighty DAYS.
Cltlzen George Francis Train cut that
down to fifty-eight or sixty davs. and
Nellie BLY, pulled off stunt on globe
trottins that made the hands of the
CLOCK weary trying to keep up with her.
Since then others have tried it.
But If you were going around the
world. wouldn't you rather go the wav
Dad Williams did? He left Salt Lake
two and a half years ago and has inst
got back. He feels better than he has
In. twenty years, and it's the 6cean that
made him feel so. When Dad VIII
liams left Salt Lake he was "au in" so
TO speak His physician advised an
ocean voyage.
Fine advice" said Mr.. Williams.
but how do 1 cut the mustard?"
Not being a millionaire, but stIu
knowing that he had to make that
ocean trip, Mr.. Williams made a brave
start Naturally, the first thing a man
wants to do when he wants to take an
ocean voyage is to meet I'D with the
sea. So Mr.. Williams went to San
Francisco, one day he met an old-time
friend, a colonel in the quartermaster' $
department.
Williams" said this colonel. you re
just the man l want to see. There's
famine in China and I've got a shipload
of -four down here, with nobody to tote
it over. Your work as quartermaster of
the Utah battery, and the way you kept
the accounts and records and every
thing. in the days of SO and '99. in the
Philippines, I well remember. So. I say
you're just the man I want. VIII you
gO?'
And He Went.
Mr., Williams hesitated. for it was an
undertaking of grave responsibility, and
one strenuOusly opposed by his son.
who lives in Oakland. Finally, however
Mr.. Williams said he would go-and he
did.
The sailed on the good ship Buford
stopping at HonOlulu. Yokohama, Toxic
and Shanghai. Then they went two
hundred miles up the Yang-tse Kiang
river, where they "disembarked" the
-four, much to the delight of the starv-
ing natives. This mission of mercy and
charity having been duly accomplished
the good ship Buford came back to Ma
Mia. where she found herself out of
condition. Four months in the harbOT
there. it was found that repairs could
not be made short of Singapore, and
thither they sailed.
At Singapore MIR. Williams embarked
on the passenger ship Odessa. They
went to various Indian ports, Calcutta.
where they saw the Black HOle''-oT
what is left of it-then to Ceylon, Bonn
bay through the Indian ocean to Az
RIGA, through the Red sea that made
Moses famous; thence through the Suez
canal to Alexandria and Cairo. They
saw the pyramids and Mr.. Williams
tried to get an interview with the
SPHINX, but she wouldn't say anything
for publication. An inside tip. however.
is that when Roosevelt meets her he
will make her loosen up, you bet.
In Alexandria, Mr.. Williams met
Judge W. G. Van Horne, who is now
one of the four judges appointed by the
United States on the mixed court. Judge
Van Horne could not do too much for
an old Salt Lake man. seeing that he
himself had lived here many years.
One of the curious and interesting
sights. says Mr.. Williams, which he
was given the opportunity to see, was
the court en- banc. The judges wear red
fez and black gown, and the real-steel-
armOr-without-b lOw-hOles in dignity.
They try all Christians charged with
offenses.
Chances to Boost.
Mr.. Williams had the privilege of re-
ciprOcating on board the ship, and he
did it like a real son of the west. Dur
ing his stay in the Egyptian cities. Mr..
Williams met a number of old-time Salt
Lake and Utah people, and on the way
home everyone was curious to hear
about this wonderful land of ours"