The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-26
From the New York World.

JAGER-SCf1MlDT IS Darely zi NI years old, vivacous in manner l and restless in his activity. He is tall, athletic and blonde. with smiling hazel eyes that seem to inspire friend ship.
 "I only wish,' he said that I could speak more English. It would have been of great assistance to me, particularly ever since I left Russian territory. My French was all right there, but in Japan and of course in Canada until reached Montreal found very few French-speak- ing persons.
 My feelings? Well. they can best be expressed by saying that I am overjoyed tedious, wearisome journey. Always on the go; always on the move.'' He mimicked the footing of an engine. the blast of a foghorn.
 Those seem to have been my constant friends now for more than a month";" he went on, "and it will be a relief to hear something else. You can't imagine how it seems to think that I will hear some music on the Olympic; it will be such a l change.
 And then the food. Not that it has been bad. On the contrary, I have fared fairly well. But there has been such a sameness about it all. Train cooking and l steamship cooking really seem to partake of the same mysterious nature that is ex- pressed by. a flavor one doesn't find in l food cooked elsewhere.
 .'I want to get to Paris the minute can, and I am going to beg the Olympic 1 off ap hour or two from the time. When one las striyen so hard for success you
 would be surprised to know what few minutes mean. I don't know what l | wouldn't do to insure gain of half a dozen Hours to make sure of getting un- I der theI 39 days.
 Tt is not that there is any prize al stake. It Is simply that when my editor in-chef. Pierre Lahtte, told me to go him, that I could go around the world
 in 40 days, I made up my mind to do fl
 in less. That is my idea of covering my assignment to use a newspaper ex- pression.
 l 'sM. Lahtte is a great newspaper man
 He believes in the American style Of jour-
 nalism. and he has introduced it in Paris
 and made great success.
 "I didn't have a days sickness all the l way. Once, in Manchuma, felt a little touch of malaria fever but a couple ot
 good doses of quinlne and--pouf! 1t was gone Nor did l have any trouble with any of the authorities I met, either al the customs or in any other way. There was only one little setback--I couldn't | write Russian, and when I tried to send my paper messages in French, some ot
 them in code the Russian authorities held
 them up But I didn't know they had done so till afterward.
 "The weather I met throughout was good; only two days bad weather on the I Pacific, and that Is not so very bad. They
 had just had q typhoon, however, and
 saw on the rocks the sister ship of tht one I was on, the Empress of Japan. They
 had saved all her passengers, but 1t gave me a shock to think that the same thing
 might happen my ship and disturb all m,
 well laid plans.
 "You see. I had made all sorts of pro visions against failure. For three month. before I started I studied the time tables I of the world. and I evolved set of spe 1 cial tables which copied into a book, by which I was ready for any emergenc, except disaster If I had missed any ship or any train I had two or thre' other ways of completing the rest of my | trip, going on an entirely new schedule l and route, perhaps but with the sam' l result in view--to reach Paris before
 O clock in the afternoon on August 2t That is the hour I left my office on Jul! II, and l want to get there the nigh of Friday, the 18th, if can.
 When we crossed the Pacific the cap tain did everything. He piled on coal t
 make speed and finally succeeded in get lting to Vancouver IA hours ahead of hi
 schedule But I was too late to catcl 1.-the fast transcontinental express hal