The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-22
IS CIRCLING GLOBE
 FOR S75,OOO PRIZE Survivor of Four Here After 33sOOO
 Mile Walk
 THREE COMPANIONS DEAD Men Had Only Eight Gents When They Left Australia More Than Four Years Ago.
THREE COMPANIONS DEAD

His three companions, who started
 with him from New South Wales on
 June 1, 1905, to circle the world, dead,
 H. A. Greenlee arrived in New York
 yesterday. The paper attesting his
 arrival was signed by Mayor McClel-
 lan's chief clerk, and GGeenlee went to
 the Astor House to rest for a week
 before he sails to Liverpool and from
 there to Australia, where he wall re ceive the prize of s75,ooO for which the quartette ventured their lives.
 Two of the men were killed by say ages in Africa and one d1ed or 1eTe5 in New Mexico. The party traVeieo through Africa from one end to the other, Asia, Europe and the United States. It is a walking and a work
 ing trip. The sole capital the four men had when they left New Soutn Wales was eight cents between them
 The trip was the result of a sugges- tion made by an Australian newspa- per. The ,O0O prize was subscribed by the people of that country, ana the men were to win 1t by walking ana
 workine their way around the world in five years. They were to start with en English penny apiece ana were nol to beg, borrow or steal on their way.
 The men first went to Melbourne and thence to Tasmania, to Alden in Arabia and to German East Africa. After leaving Alden they had to Jour ney through a. territory infesteo py savages- They were travealns III PaS Pa,sSS into the country of the tribe or the
 Thew were set upon and separated Jones and Ryan were in the ieao aia Mnsn the negroes slew them McClusky ana Greenlee opened fire with their rlileS and drove off the blacks. They nao to leave the bodies of their two com
 N fnn h1lrfied on to Bullowaya, the nearest post. They next went to South AT rfca, thence to Ceylon, and rom Lhere to Teneriffe. Canary Islands. IneIe they took boat to Queenstown, struck north to Londonderry. and passed into Scotland Through Scotland to Soutn- ampton they marched, and on to Lon don. years before, when he was presenIeo with the Victoria Cross by King ESn- wards. He gained the honor for sig nal bravery in saving a British gun III the engagement of the Boer War out side Voreeinging. When he returned on his tramp, Lord Roberts and Loro Butler remembered him and brought him before the King again. Eowaru | greeted him warmly ana because oa fhe fact that both are Masons gave him a. heavy gold ring with the Ma sonic insignia inlaid. He wished nm success on his tramp and gave nlm lei terS to the British repreSeIitdliNSS HI | inc countries he might have occasion | to visit. ,
 Through the continent the two men trayeled The Kaiser received them and the reception made a unique inn on Greenlee.
 ooh. yes" he remarked, saw the Kaiser and his wife. She IS a very nice lady. But he is a. sarcastic son off a gun. You know he made some to make those about him augh." ,,a
 Greenlee saw other royalties. 1ncluo- ing the King of Spain and the Czar off Russia Also they were recelved in audience by the Pope, who blessed 1 set of rosary beads for them.
 After going through Europe ana RuS- sia they went to China and then to Japan. from where they took boat al Napasaki. stopping over in Honolulu before arriving in San Francisco. They | had to make a. somewhat circuitous -o11te through the United States, jump ng- over into Mexico and Canada.
 When they travelled through the Colorado Desert they were hungry, sore md, sick. McClusky was stricken with l, fever that he could not shake of1 He continued on, however, until they rot to I.ordsburg, N. M. where he d1ed Yreenlee made a stop of seven days to ,ury his companion and then contin- led on his lonely jaunt.
 In his journey Greenlee has worn out 25 hairs of shoes and several suits or clothes He still is strong, however, liter covering more than 33,o00 miles. lie eyes hurt him. The dust of the ,oad- seems to have caused some trou- ,1o tto+ xtr;lI he crlred only by rest.