Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-12-24
PAYS TAFT VISIT IN
METEORIC FLIGHT
5riton Remains In America Thirty.
eight Hours-Rushes TO Wash
ington on Fast Special.

AANHh NNNttAh AN0t 70 UlOIHBNI TO
catch me breath since | had me morn
ing hawth, yknown. Motor cars.
trains-trains. motor cars; every
blessed instant on the move, yknow.
But. oh, say. such time as I've
adj Such bally we'll frabious. rip
pin, b'oomin'. beuncin', playground
time as I've 'ad. Quite. assure you.
Right--oh! I'm off.
In such fashion painted young w.
r. Holt over the American oysters he
was sampling in Churchill's last
night--with apologies for boiling the
same. but, as he explained, what
could one do. y'know, when one had
to do what he had 10 do. One must
bolt II one should subsequently burst
under such circumstances"
For young Mr.. Holt Is London's
galloping reporter--beg pardon, jour
nalist, yknow, for one does not speak
, of writer chaps on newspapers in
England as reporters-one doesn't,
y'know. Young Mr. Hot got an as.
signment from his newspaper (the
Daily Mai) to take running jump
out OF London and land on the deck
of the Mauretania just as she was
making off on her trip from Liverpool
to New York and back, in time that
Is expected to make record.
Young Mr.. Hollis assignment was
10 make the trip with the Mauritania
going and coming, to try in the thir-
ty-eight hours he was In America to
see all he could of the United States
and to come home and be as clever
as possible of telling all that he had
been able in the brief space of time
to observe while the Mauretania
would be in port-32 hours. He Ia
the shortest caller we have ever had.
One thing is certain. The young
man gathered no barnacles on the
way over. He bounded over big dis
tances, ran from place to place, pant
ed from spot to spot and leaped from
celebrity to celebrity in the eighteen
hours Of yesterday that remained to
him after the Mauretania had reach
ed her pier, little after o'clock In
the morning.
Makes Fast Time.
baltimore, Dec 17.--Lord North
cliffe. the journalistic Napoleon of
London, has pulled off Christmas
stunt that proves his title 10 be no
misnomer. 1t was no less than send
| ing one of his best men of the Lon
don daily Mail, Mr.. w. r. Holt, un the
! Cunarder Mauretania, leaving London
| last Saturday noon to extend Christ
mas greetings in person to President
Taft and return by the same ship to-
day. thus but twelve days away from
the British Metropolis.
Arrangements were made on this
side through the New York Times,
the managing editor Of which paper,
Mr.. Carl Van Bulu with Messrs. T
Walter Williams and Perry Brown, OF
his stan, together with Mr.. F. w. Bull
lock the American representative Of
the Daily Mail met the Mauretania in
special tug as she reached Ambrose
Light.
Coming up with her Mr.. Holt was
lowered over the ships side when OPP
posite Liberty Island to the deck OF
the tug. This was at half past three
yesterday morning. At o'clock Mr..
Holt put foot on shore at the Jersey
Central Station and four minutes lat
er he moved out CT the station on the
Royal Blue special train OF the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad that was
waiting the party.
The ninety odd miles to Phi'adel-
phia were run in an hour and thirty
six minutes: another ninety odd
miles to Baltimore In an hour and
thirty eight minutes and the remain
ing forty miles to Washington in for
ty minutes. All this running was
from station to station, the time from
New York to Washington being four
hours and four minutes which, con-
sidering no notice had been received
for the special until after nine o'clock
Thursday n 'ght, was doing well.
Mr.. Holt not only had an sudiencs
with President Taft but as we'll with
Vice President Sherman and Speaker
Cannon.
Leaving Washington at one O'Clock
record run was made over the Ba
timore and Ohio to Baltimore in thir-
ty four and a half minutes. Mr.. Holt
and his party were taken on an auto
moble ride through Baltimore, after
which the special was again taken
and the run OF ninety two miles over
the Baltimore and Ohio's Philadelphia
Division was made in ninsty minutes.
After the half hour stop in Philadel-
phia. the Reading and Jersey Central
Roads covered the run TO New York
In an hour and a half. Everything
moved like cock work and II the
London Mail should slip up any where
on It's Christmas plan of international
Interchange. that assuredly has re-
markable novelty. II cannot be
through any fault OF the American
Railways, the Royal Blue measuring
up 10 every call made upon ii whsn
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