The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-08-19
WOMAN TO CIRCLE
GLOBE IN AUTOS
Mrs. Harriet Clark Fisher Starts
On an Ideal Trip with Four
Touring Cars
EQUIPPED WITH SMALL ARSENAL
N.th Her Go Boston Bull Terrier,
Tour Large Automobiles, Chauf-
feur, Maid and Secretary-She
N.l Be Gone a Year.

Trenton. N. J.-Mrs. Harriet Clark
Fisher, whom Wu.Tins-Fang, the
Chinese Minister, once described as
the most remarkable woman in Amer
ica sailed from New York on the
American liner New York to begin an
automobile tour of the world. With
her went "Honk.Honk," her Boston
bull mascot four large touring cars,
a chauffeur, a maid and a secretary.
Mrs. Fisher is the widow of Lieu
tenant. Commander Fisher, of the
United States Navy. and since his
death she has managed the Eagle An
vii Works at Trenton, which he estab-
lished.
The car in which Mrs. Fisher ex-
poets to make the greater part of her
trip is a forty horsepower machine,
with forty-gallon gasoline tank and
q 400-mile capacity on one filing. The
other cars are not so powerful and
will be merely used in case of neces-
sity. They will carry the baggage
and will be transported by express
from point to point, with the maid
aboard, to meet Mrs. Fisher at the
various scheduled stops.
Similar arrangements have been
made by which Mrs. Fisher will find
at various points all the necessary
changes of clothing, the food sup
plies and such other incidentals as
will help to make the adventurous
trip as comfortable as possible.
Mrs Fisher intends to start from
Southampton in one of the two re-
lief cars and make tour of Eng
land, Ireland and Scotland, where the
roads are considered good, before she
crosses the Channel to France. In
Paris she will make her real start in
the big machine which is equipped
with full camping outfit and a small
arsenal, for Mrs. Fisher believes in
leaving nothing to chance.
The roads of France and Switzer-
land will afford pleasant trip to
AXE Como, where Mrs. Fisher has a
21Utiful estate, called the Villa Car
l, facing the water. Then she
o.! start through Northern Italy for
''enna. Thence she will set her flag
.cy Southern Russia, and through Ash
.ic Russia she win march on to Port
Said
The Arabian Desert will be Mrs.
Fishers next objective, after a view
of Egypt, and she plans then to make
an extensive tour of India, driving
from Bombay in the west to Calcutta
on the eastern shore, thence up
through Burmah, and on to China,
and then again to Japan, where she
hopes to arrive when cherries are
ripe again. A brief sojourn there and
she will take steamer for San Fran
cisco and start on the last lap Of her
Journey across the American conti-
nent. Her objective point will be New
York. but she will continue on her
car to Trenton, her home town.
Though schedules have been ar
ranged and Mrs. Fisher expects to see
Trenton again by next summer, there
Is no desire to make a record-break-
Ing trip. and throughout the journey
safety and comfort will be the guild
ing stars.
Many extraordinary adventures are
sure to be met on the way, for Mrs.
Fishers itinerary contemplates the
passing through provinces whose in
habitants have probably never even
heard of, much less seen, a devil
wagon. 1t is for this reason that
Mrs. Fisher carries with her an, as
sortment of firearms which she and
her secretary, Harold Fisher Brooks,
are quite competent to make good use
of whenever necessary. Being an ar
dent photographer as well as an auto
lover, Mrs. Fisher hopes to bring back
a great collection of interesting pic
lures of the lands she visits.