The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-26
BREAKS RECORD N
C|RCLING THE GLOBE
Journalist Jaeger-Schmidt of
Paris, Makes Trip in Less
Than 40 Days.
tNational News Association,

(National News Association)
PARIS, Aug 26.-Andrew Jaeger
Schmidt, of the Paris Daily Excel
sior, who started on July IT to circle
the globe in forty days. arrived here
from Cherbourg at two minutes and
10 2-5 seconds after o'clock a. m. He
accomplished the journey in SO days,
10 hours, 43 minutes, 81 As seconds,
breaking all records for round-the-
world trips.
Record Of His Trip.
The remarkable assault on all
worlds records for globe-circling by
Andrew lager Schmidt (his full name
he signs himself simply Jager) be-
gan at midnight of July 18th, when he
left the office of his newspaper. the
Excelsior, in Paris The feat that con.
fronted him was making the circuit OF
the worlds surface within forty days.
Having a well conceived plan by
which he expected to accomplish this,
he set out by taking the fastest trains
through Russia, arriving at Moscow on
July goth and the Siberian cities,
Omsk on July %, Irkutsk on July rs.
Hardin on July % and Vladivostok on
July 20. Thence he sailed to Yokoho-
ma, Japan, arriving on the last day Of
the month.
At Yokohoma he boarded the Pacific
liner Empress of Japan, for Vancou-
yer, B. c. In order to keep up with his
schedule, he persuaded the captain of
1.-THE vessel to put on extra steam, SO
that he could beat the regular time
of the liner by 13 hours. The big
steamship exceeded it's usual time
by IA hours, just IA hours less than de-
sired by the Paris editor, and there
was where the first deviation from his
original schedule became necessary.
He had missed the transcontinental
express on which he had counted, SO
was forced to take a much slower
train, which made his trip across Can
ada long and wearisome journey. He
arrived in Montreal on August II.
All along the way he was keeping in
Communication with his newspaper in
Paris.
Delayed In Canada.
He had originally intended, after ar
irving in New York on the transconti-
mental express, to catch the French
liner LaLorraine, but the delay in Can
ada set him back SO that he would ar
rive in New York two days late, and
the vessel was already we'll on it's
way across the Atlantic. So, while in
Montreal, he made plans to take the
Allen liner Victorian, sailing from
Montreal on August Is, which would
have landed him in Liverpool on Aug
ust Is, but then he would still be a
good distance from Paris, with a dis
organized railroad service in England
to contend with. He accordingly ar.
ranged for a high-powered automobile
to take him to Dover and for an aero
plane trip to Paris from there. But
with the limited time at his disposal
these plans presented many Difficult.
ties, as a breakdown wSuld almost
certainly lose him the race against
! time.
| So he began to figure on other
ways by which he might bring his
journey to a successful contamination
Finding that the Olympic, the queen
of all Atlantic liners, would leave New
York at one o'clock on Saturday, one
day later than the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
liner, and that the Olympic would land
him at Cherbourg, in France, he decid
ed to cover the final leg of the jaunt
that way.
! His time limit would not be up until
midnight of the Saturday, week lat
er and, as the OLYMPIC, whose sailings
are timed like clockwork, was sche
duled to arrive at Cherbourg twenty
four hours before that, the globe-trot
ter felt confident. Cherbourg is but
six or seven miles ride from Paris, and
the plan for his final jump completed
he boarded the big leviatan with q
light heart, proud of himself and Ger
tain that he would accomplish his am
bition of circling the world in a short
er space of time than was ever before
done by man.