The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-08-02
MEARS MAY BEAT
HIS OWN SCHEDULE
"Evening Sun" Globe TrOtter
Likely to Reach L. s.
Ahead Of Time.
TAKES YACHT TO SEATTLE
empress Of Russia" Expected
Mt Victoria, b. G., Ten
Hours Before Due.

"ApoARD EMPRESS or RUSSIA. Aug. I
| wireless via Victoria, b. C.)--The run
up to noon to-day was $50 miles. A heavy
fog envelops the ship and We are now
| proceeding slowly. II II lifts We will
arrive at quarantine by o'clock In the
morning.
"The high power yacht Maud s. is
waiting for me at Victoria.
II. w. Brodie. general passenger
agent OF the Canadian Pacific at Van
couver. sends me n wireless message that
the quarantine doctor and immigration
officer are agreeable 10 my immediate
transfer from the Empress Of Russia
to the yacht Maud S. for the dash to
Seattle. MEARs"
M~srs May Deat Schedule.
VICTORIA. b. C.. Aug There II a
possibility that John Henry Mears will
start on the final dash across the con-
tinent ahead OF the schedule which he
set for himself when he left THE EVE
MING Sun office In New York on the
early morning Of July I FOR his record
breaking trip around the world.
The Canadian Pacific Railroads. liner
Empress Of Russia Is making the long
run from Yokohama In eight and one
half days. and from messages received
here late this afternoon she will reach
Victoria ten hours before her schedule
time. II everything goes well during the
last hours OF the run she will have hung
Iup new record for the transpacfic
voyage. Capt Beetham sent wireless
message last night that he would be at
Quarantine by 3 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing
The Empress OF Russia. in an EFFORT to
board which Mears made a sensational
dash down the Corean peninsula and
across Japan. has been the chief factor in
enabling THE EVENING. suns special
commissioner to break the record made
by the intrepid Andre Jaeger Schmidt
two years ago. Canadian Pacific officials
who have been watching the progress
of the liner are jubilant In the expecta-
tion that she will do even better than
they contemplated.
Mears himself is confident that he will
be at quarantine by midniEh; tonight.
Everything Is prepared to facilitate his
| leaving the ship there. The Canadian
Government immigration Office has d.
| rected its representatives to waive an
| examination Of the globe trotters bag
| gage, which consists OF a suit case and A
| camera. Permission has also been
| granted 10 him to leave the ship at quar-
antine. meaning a saving OF several hours.
| The 20 foot power yacht Maud s. owned
| by Nicent Faben OF the Seattle Yacht
| club. arrived in Victoria harbor yester-
| day afternoon. She is powerful boat,
| and everything aboard is In perfect con-
| d,ton for the part she is 10 play in
| Mearss task Of catching a fast train from
| Seattle for Chicago. Her crew II now
awaiting the wireless message from the
| Empress of Russia that Is 10 he the
signal for going out TO the quarantine
station OF William Head.
| Will Dash for seattle.
| Msars will be transferred to the yacht
| and she will then make dash for Seattle,
the ocean liner continuing on to this port.
| The captain OF the Maud $. says that
with any luck at all he vii, make the run
| to Seattle In hours and 20 minutes.
| clipping by several hours the usual time.
| lNr captain says tntre lSi any uulDt ~
his mind that M~ars viii he In Seattle In
| time IL catch the scheduled train for Chi
caso The Seattle correspondent Of THE
Sr'N Is aboard the yacht and will return
to Seattle with Mears
SEATTLE, Wash. Aug. There Is wide
spread Interest here In the record breaking
trip VI John Henry Mears. j. o. Nc
| Mullen. the agent Of the Northern Pacific
| Railroad here. was in communication by
| wireless with Mr.. Mears to-day. He Is
| advised that the Empress ~ Russia will
he on quarantine by midnight Tonight
Mr. McMull~n IL prepared to render every
| assistance he can to Mears.
Mr. Mears will have choice of two fas,
csao They make the run In seventy two
hours. One OF them leaves Seattle at S:45
| to- o-morrow morning and II due 20 arrive
In Chicago on Tuesday AZ noon. The
second train will leave here at o'clock
to-morrow night and Is due In Chicago at
| o'clock on Tuesday night. II there Is
any chance Of the globe trott.r getting
| the first Of these trains II will be held for
| him. And orders have been issued to
clear the tracks So all lost time may be-
| made up between here and ~. Paul
| Should he be too late he will be
able to get the second train. which will
also he held II necessary. The holding
| Of the second train appears from d.
spatches from Victoria tonight TO he a re-
| mote contingency, The indications are
that M-ars will be- able to get the nrst
train and to get II on schedule time