The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27
HOW TO GO AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS

Ar. New York, Saturday. ......
| plains of several northern states and
| Monday will see us enjoying the grand
scenery of the Canadian Rockies. Tues
day will be the same and at 9:25 a. m.
| our express will steam into Vancouver
where the steamer is waiting to take
us to Yokohama in 10 days.
We catch sight of the Pacific ocean
| in 4 days and 21 hours.
| Ten days will be spent crossing the
| Pacific in as straight a line as the
crow flies without stopping anywhere.
That is, a week from the Sunday fol-
| lowing the Wednesday that we left
| Vancouver we will see the fowery
| kingdom.
The boat is due to arrive Sunday
forenoon and we will have until s;4s
p. m. to see the sights of Yokohama and
| its environs.
GLIMPSES OF JAPAN
We will long remember coming up
the beautiful harbor with Fujiyama
raising its snow capped peak in the dis
tance. Upon landing we will have
been Is days from New York. There
| is time enough for a 'rikiSha ride and
we can see the quaint shops and
! quainter houses.
At e:4S p. m. we must take one of the
trains of the Imperial Government Rail
ways of Japan to fly across the country
in sleeper to the water front station
at Tsuruga.
We will arrive there at II o'clock on
Monday morning, and fast steamer
of the Russian Volunteer fleet will be
at the dock.
| Seven hours, however, are at our dis
| posal to catch a glimpse of the glories
! of the coast off Japan before we board
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| that evening. We are, therefore, 16
days and hours from New York.
All that night and the next day. the
18th, will be spent on the glittering
Sea of Japan. Vladivostok will be
reached at 10 o'clock on Wednesday
morning of the eighteenth day.
Seven hours of leisure await us there
and we can buy few collars and
shirts in preparation for our long jour
ney across the continent of Asia and
Europe.
The collars probably will not be the
latest style, but there is a fairly good
shop there.
ACROSS SIBERIAN TRAINS
At $40 p. m. of that day we will
board the International express, a cor
ridor train, with nothing but state
rooms. If we hire whole stateroom
we will be wasting our money, because
IL TWO OF the 1OuI DeftLS dIt 04llPty
the guards will put in two passengers
just the same.
We are now IS days hours and 40
minutes from New York. The whistle
blows and the second half of the jour
ney around the globe is commenced.
We are a day ahead of the record, bar
ring accident we will remain so, and
perhaps gain another day.
On Thursday we stop for half an
hour at Harbin in order that the pas
sengers from Korea, Mukden and the
north of China can make connections
Perhaps a friend may be among them.
Who can tell? The world is small.
The trans Siberian express trains are
divided into two sections, the one that
we came on and the other starting from
Changchun. At Harbin the two are
made into one train. That is what
takes place during our half hour stop.
We are off across Siberia. The trains
have advantage over our American ex-
presses. The dining car is open from
o'clock in the morning to midnight
/ There are books OF all languages and
the leading periodicals of many coun-
tries. Chess men. checkers, dominoes
or cards are available.
If we WISH we can walk up and down
the long corridors of the cars. In the
baggage car is a bathroom, where the
passengers can have a tub" every
morning III they wish.
On Friday we stop at Manchuria and
Tchita. At Irkutsk, which we reach at
6:14 p. m. on Saturday, we get out of
our train and transfer to another train
which is identically the same. Our
stateroom is in the same relative posi-
tion as ii was in the other train.
We have Travelled 1884 miles since we
left Vladivostok and have been 21 days
on our trip.
TRAIN MEETS TRAIN
Sunday, the twenty day, we
stop at Krasnoiarsk, and on Monday
we have reached Taiga. Tuesday, the
twenty fourth day, we arrive in Omsk,
and on Wednesday will be at Tchella-
binsk and Oufa.s
OF course, these stops are very brief
and allow us only time to get out on
the platform for stroll We will,
however, have an opportunity to see
the peasants, always drinking tea out
Of tumblers, and we might run across
a batch Of detected convicts bound on
their sorrowful way to the east, where
they will spend the rest of their lives
working In the mines of Siberia.
Thursday, the twenty-sixth day, we
will stop at Samara and Penza and on
the next day Friday, arrive in Moscow,
at the Brest station. We reach there
at 1910 a. M, having been 26 days and
20 hours from New York.
Tt must be remembered that we did
not leave New York until p. m. We
left Vladivostok days and 90 hours
back.
| At Moscow the Nord express will be
waiting for US and we will not have to
go outside the station. The railroad
officials explain that no transfer would
be necessary were 1t not for a change
in the gauge of the track.
The Nord express. which pulls out at
10:45 a. M, or 35 minutes after we ar
rive, is one of the series of expresses
which run all over Europe. They start
| from Ostend, the Nord (north) going to
Berlin and Warsaw. There 1t splits