Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-10
WORLD.
Remarkable Trip Of Two
Seventy-year Old Ladies,
Travelled More Than 10000
Miles Since November.
They Assembled MT. Everest at 3
O'clock One Morning.


Grant, one of the Grants of Chicago,
seventy-fve years old, and her sister,
Miss Catherine a. Baker, 70 years old,
were passengers on the Prince Freder-
lex Wilhelm, which locked at Hoboken.
The septuagenarians rounded out one
of the most remarkable trips on record
cifcling the globe, as well as making
incidental tours in India and the Orient
and making total of more than thirty
thousand miles in the eight months
since departing from Chicago, on No
vember 5 last.
The smiling old ladies are anything
but travel worn. Their faces are
tanned and full of the glow of health
and happiness. Their eyes are bright,
as was shown when Mrs. Grant diStin-
guished her son Charles, a lawyer, who
is summering in New Hampshire,
among the crowd on the dock and
shouted to him.
Both old ladies swung down the plank
briskly. Mrs. Grant seemed in excel
lawyer that they had "enjoyed every
minute of the way, and would make
another before long" They were es-
corted to touring car, and another
jaunt began which will take the aged
travellers into the White mountains in
another day.
There were dozens of American flags
in the crowd on the pier and two large
emblems were thrust into the hands of
both women. Mrs. Grant tenderly
waved the stars and Stripes over her
head and then kissed the flag. Miss
Baker aifectionately wrapped it about
her waist.
ITO think" exclaimed Mrs. Grant,
we've seen nearly every flag a coun-
try knows, and it's mighty good to see
your own and your cwn native land
after long trip away
Mrs. Grant was reluctant to discuss
her journey with the newspaper men,
son about the tour Miss Baker told of
some of the exploits of the two women
They departed from Chicago Novem-
| Der last, reaching San Francisco a
few days later, and sailing at once for
Honolulu. Here two days We're spent
| in automobiling to the outskirts of the
island, then the eighteen-day voyage to
Yokohama was resumed. From Japan
the women crossed to China, visiting
the principal cities of the Land Of the
Rising Sun and making long trips in
rickshaws
'Frigntened?" asked Miss Baker in
response to question. Il should say
not. OF course, we engaged attendants
in the different countries through
which we wandered to attend to our
needs and save us from many uneXpec-
ted dangers. But during our entire
trip we were never insulted and every
where the orientals, as we'll as the sea
pirates at Morocco, seemed to bow to
our gray heads.
The Asiatics seem to have a rever-
entail respect for age, for everywhere
natives bowed and soldiers stood at at
tentlon as we passed. We were per
fectly safe at all times and never fear
ed.
In India we made long incursions,
spending days at the shrines of the
mystic eastern priests. 1t was so
strange. Yet the people believe as
strongly as we do in religious princi-
pies. Some of their rites are very in
spring.
oh. yes, we did ascend Mount Ever
EST. We went up eight thousand feet
at o'clock one morning to see the sun
rise. 1t was sublime. Everest is only
nine thousand feet high Part of our
way was made by tram and part of it
was done-well walked" she added
proudly.
Continuing on their venturesome wav,
Mrs. Grant and her sister visited the
Black Hole in Calcutta and it's enviri-
hns, and continued on to the Mediter-
ranean, through the Red sea, and next
stopped at Algiers. Here they ven
tured along the water front and boldly
made friends with several alleged fish
erE1en, whom they afterwards learned
were sea pirates
Il only hope we are able to make an
other such trip" said Miss Baker, as
the car started off with mother, son
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