The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-31
0RoLrNG WORLD IN 40 DAYS
French Newspaper Man Is On the


French Newspaper Man Is On the
Last Lap OF Great Trip.
After a busy morning of sight
seeing in New York, Andre Jager-
Schmidt, the Paris reporter who
hopes to get back to his office be-
fore 2 O'Clock next Saturday, there
by finishing a tour of the globe in
less than forty days, sailed for
Cherbourg Saturday at l o'clock on
the leviathan Olympic.
Capt. Smith, commander of the
vessel, said the Olympic would
anchor in Cherbourg harbor about
O'Clock Friday night, but it is
believed a special endeavor will be
made to reach the French port earl
Ter than that. Jager-Schmidt will
be taken off on a tug and hurried
ashore, where, either an aeroplane
or a high-powered automobile will
De waiting to speed him on TO Par
is. The trip through the air
should not take more than three
hours; by auto the distance can be
done in five
There is thus a fair prospect
that Jager-Schmidt will finish his
journey in thirty-nine days. That
he will do it within the forty-day
limit seems certain.
uoh think. SAID the french
man to a reporter for the New
York World, Il shall ever try the
round-the-world trip again, at least
not for a record. If 1 go around
once more, unless it be for the
call of duty, shall take my time
and see things 1 did not see on
this trip.
After all, 1 saw but little of
the world. A flying trip through
europe, traversing little of
France, little of Germany, a lit
Tie of Austria, all the breadth of
RUSSIA and Siberia, and then
across Japan, British Columbia and
canada, with a flying trip through
Vermont and New York. that is
all. When one thinks of the
many. countries 1 have not ap-
preached at all it is a very small |
thing to say one has been around !
the world.
SO many have spoken to me
ABOUT the day l lost or gained in
the Pacific l must explain that: |
Wnen we got to the 10th degree of !
longitude in the Pacific it was a
Monday, L think. Well, our days
OF the week ran Sunday, Monday,
antlpodal Day, TUESDAY. Wednes- J.
aay ana so on. That was not "a |
N1 euS "SSh, YET II was IWSsn- |
ty-four hours of time. They call
the place where the thing Rccmrs
the Line of the Antipodes. II is
exactly opposite to the ,ngitude
land III ns
But that did not gIva anotber
day. In the first place NV time Is
reckoned in Paris and tbere he
tween July ~ and Augnst 9S
when must arrive there are for,
~ days, that is, including the
t; toon. lneT don't lose or gain any
80 uSFe; it is just forty times
lwenty7riour hours.
,Aad besides, if you think Il
9haFed a day then, let me tell you
baS.t l am losing it now on my way
1me. 1t is the way. AS one goes
seast from the antipodal meridian
or line, one keeps setting the
watch so as to conform with local
time. Now, ID is noon here in
New York. Well, at the same mo-
met 1t is about 5 O'Clock ~ tie
after moon at Paris. Now, If one
could be transmitted instantaneously
to Paris from here, one would, by
a meridian time, lose five hours
Is 1t not so? Well, as / am going
on, am losing meridian time, so
the day that was inserted at the
Rntipodal line is being made up
for now.
well goodbye, l hope to see
more of New York again, l have
had the best reception in New York
OF all the places 1 have visited.
And l am a happy man to think
my journey Is nearly over, and
that success is in sight. 1 will be
able to report to my editor-in-chief,
Monsieur, l have fulfilled my en-
gagement. What is there for me
to do now?"
Jager-Schmidt waved his hat and !
shot" with his camera as the |
steamer backed out of her dock !
Friends, among them NJ. Ponselle |
and Miss Leonora Oakfor, an ac-
tress, cried Bon voyage
When he has finished his journey
sager-Schmidt will have done more
than 600 miles a day for forty
days, and kept up an average
speed, night and day, of twenty
five miles an hour. The total cost
OF his trip, he reconed, will not
exceed 50 hOO