Evening star., 1926-06-14
AROUND THE WORLD In % DAYS,
PLAN OF FINANCIER AND WRITER
Edward S. Evans and
Linton Wells Will
Leave Wednesday.
Hope to Smash Record of
John Henry Mears
By Nine Days.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Wells, young New York newspaper
man, Will begin an attempt WedneS-
day morning To circle the earth in less
than 80 days.
Starring from New York shortly
after midnight, they VII cross the At
lantic on the Aquilania and at Cher
bourg begin a breathless series O.
train and plane JUMPS across Europe
and Asia. by boat across the Pacific
and again by plane across America to
their starting point. Six days for the
Atlantic. two for Europe. eight for
Asia nine for the Pacific, two for
America--that is their itinerary,
which, if they are successful, Will
smash all existing records for travel
from New York to every point east of
Berlin.
The record for vigatlng the
globe will be sina ashed By about nine
DAYS.
Twenty weight days from New York
To New York That is the mark which
the Two believe they can set They
will he content, however. merely to
circumnaNigate the globe i'm less time
than that feat has ever been accom-
plished and they believe that they are
virtually certain to break John Henry
MearS' record of 30 days 2l hours 3o
minutes and 4-5 second.
The trip will he made with every
known eventuality carefully provided
for. Mr.. Wells has completed a trip
around the world which began last
November. securing agents, complet-
ing arrangements with carriers pro-
viding fox. planes at points where
they might not he readily available
and checking his schedules. no ordi-
nary accident can throw Evans and
Wells out OF the race.
From New York to therbourg they
viii travel on the Aquitan!a, arriving
in the French port June -. An am
phiblan plane has already been EN-
gagged there to take them from the
boat and land pla mes Viii ny them to
Paris and afterwards TO Berlin be-
fore night
Leaving their plane. they will go
Immediately to the station. where
they Will take a train for koenig$berg,
Germany. $50 miles away. arriving
here the next morning. They will
immediately make cunnections with
the Moscow plane, scheduled to arrive
in Moscow that evening. the 23d.
Their time of seven days from New
York to Moscow will be the first
record sma shing achievement of the
journey if their plans work out.
When they arrive in Moscow the
started on it's journey OF more than
two DAYS to Omsk, across the TRIAL
Mountains in Asia. Evans and Wells
Will fly the 900 miles IL OmSk on
the 24th and meet their train there
on the 18th.
Yokohama in 10 Days.
-Four days later the train will ar
rive in Chita. where the two world
crclers will take branch train To
Harbn, in ManChuria. On the 3Uth.
the same day, ID plane which is al
ready engaged at llarbin will fly
them to Antung, near the Korean bof-
der and there relay plane will pick
| them up for the flight to Yokohama.
which they expect to reach July }
IS days out of New York.
If they are successful in reaching
Yokohama on the Sd, they will take
the Asia for speed run-nine days
or less-across the Pacific. A relay
OF airplanes. already arranged across
the American continent, should carry
them to New York from Seattle in
less than two days, making their trip
total IS days.
This means virtually constant mo-
ton for the two racers from the time
they step aboard the Aquitania until
they touch the dock from which their
departure was taken, % days later
The intervals between their cOnnec-
tions can be calculated in minutes.
provided they are able to complete the
"trip on schedule, and in most cases
they will step out of one conveyance
into another. They make changes
during the journey at Cherbonrg.
Paris. Berlin. konigsberg, Moscow.
Omsk Chita. 1Iarbin. Antung. Yoke
hama and Seattle. Across the United
States there will be relays. but these
will be spot changes, from plane to
plane.
Eight Days to Spare.
Their arrival date, July 13. gives
them an ample margin to tag the
dock under the record Of John Henry
Mears. They do not need to return
until late at night, July 81. or possi-
blS early July %, depending upon the
moment Of their departure, to break
the record. In their spare time they
could be back past Omsk again.
The total mileage which they will
make is about 1900 miles, airline
requiring a daily average of nearly
GO miles-nearly % miles an hour
for every hour of the trip. Needless
to say, they will fall considerably be
low this average on their more than
1900 miles of ocean travel, making 1t
up on the plane dashes across the
continents.
John Henry Mears, the present
record holder, averaged less than $40
miles a day for his trip, and John
Goldstrom, who recently completed
half the circuit in record-breaking
time. missing his connections al Chita,
had averaged about $50 miles a day
to the halfway mark.
Half y,ita minnie for n 600
minutes. This is virtually what
Wells and Evans must accomplish.
Have Had Romantic Careers.
Edward s. Evans is one of the most
romantic figures in American bust
ness. Ten years ago. after des-
perate and successful struggle for a
career he found his fortunes tumbled
down like a card castle. lie was
SIC 900 worse than penniless because
of his Endorsement Of "a friends note,
crippled. suffering from bacteriaemia,
and given two weeks to live by his
doctors. -
He lived longer He lived to build
up a fortune which has dWarfeu ms
former prosperity, recovered from ms
physical ills completely, and to be-
come one Of the foremost loading and
shipping engineers in the country.
Now, at 46, he is ready to take time
off for conquest in new direction
a conquest of time and space. f. ).
Evans & Co., Inc. of Detroit, $3,0Oo.-
600 business. owns lumber mills and
forests in seven States. F.. s. Evans
is the largest individual user of pine
timber in the United States. he heads
a hond and investment house. he is
vice president Of a national adNertls-
ing agency and secretary-treasurer or
a motor truck manufacturing corpor-
alton.
Sportsman for While.
But just at the moment. Edward >.