The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-04
SEEING WORLD FOR
LAST THIRTY YEARS
Major J. O. Hutchinson,
Globe Trotter by Profess
sion Tells of Trips.

New York, March 4.-Major J. q.
Hutchinson, who Is ut the Manhattan.
In globe trottcr by profession. lie
ts In the tourist business and has
spent thirty years travelling about the
world. He has crossed the Pacific
thirty.onc times. made twenty-siX or
seven trips around the world and has
crossed the Atlantic so many times
that he has lost count.
In September last the major left
here and went TO China. He got back
10 New York the other day after
stop M Syracuse. his old home. and
In Off again for Egypt soon. lie has
knowing from Sorabaya, Java, on the
south TO Spitzbergen on the north
His favorite part of the world Is the
far east. though he does like TO get
back TO New York once in while.
II have never had the chance to
vote for more than one presidential
candidate In my life said Major
Hutchinson, and that was Horatlo
first had spent In America in twenty
five years, and tho first | had passed
with my family In twenty-seven, and
the other day took my first sleigh
ride In forty years.
Attacked BY Chinese Pirates.
1.-THE first time crossed the Pacific
was on the old San Pablo. a Pacific
mail steamer which on her next trip
went ashore In the Formosan channel
and burned. She was attacked by
Chinese pirates and her crew and pas
sengcrs drove them off by turning hot
water on them with hose. was in
Japan just beforethe Chino-Japanese
war. saw the Second Japanese army
corps modified and then | went over
to Canton. reaching there in time to
see the Chinese troops brought there
armed with old muskets, spears and
bows and arrows TO oppose the mod
ern equipment of the Japanese.
IL believe | am one of the few men
living who were actually in Ford's the
alter In Washington on the night Abra.
ham Lincoln was ASA ssinated. ! was
only five seats from the front and
near the presidential box. was with
"a naval officer named Flood. He help
ed carry the president across the
street after the shooting. I did not
see the shooting, but heard the shot
and saw Booth leap from the box to
tho stage. Though | have been about
a great deal | have encountered only
two other men who were in the aud
fence that night, and both of them
I In
Nagoya. Japan. at the time of the
worst earthquake the country has eX.
perienced In modern times. 1t wiped
out Ogaki and Gifu and caused the
loss OF thousands of lives. The only
American in the hotel at Nagoya be-
sides myself was Crosby S. Noyes. cd
itor OF the old Washington Evening
Sun. and In the course of a chat after
the earthquake he recalled the trag.
edy In Washington.
Some Marrow Escapes.
~ am knocking on wood as | say It.
but though ! save been in one or two
tyrhoons I have never had an acct.
dent or course. I have had some mar.
row escapes. TO my mind the narrow
est was in 1893, when was in Chi
cago on business. A man from Mil
waukce was to meet me there, but a
telegram from him was not delivered
TO me until. haven given him up,
bought ticket. checked my baggage
and taken a sleeper on the 3 O'Clock
train for New York. | changed TO a la
ter train and the following morning
saw at Hamilton. Ontario. the sleeper
In which ! was TO have travelled. /;
had been burned and all its occupants
crushed to death
In my experience and observation
Kipling was right in his description
OF the lure OF the east. The life ap
peals to every visitor. One may dc
lots OF things out there which here are
considered wrong. Out there one has
to simply prove himself good fellow
and II makes no difference how much
money a fellow has or how little. II
Is the greatest part of the world fol-
sizing "a man up.
German Globe Trotters Now.
In the oldcn days you never saw
anybody globe trotting but English
men and Americans. Today every
steamer carries a lot of young Ger
mans. On the one by which crossed
the Pacific there were dozen OF
them who were out to see the world
They all spoke English and French
and made themselves popular with