The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
ZEP'S WORLD
CRUISE TOPS
ALL RECORDS
New Globe GirdIing Mark
Far Different From That
400 Years Ago.
MANY QUESTS STARTED
Best Former Time Was Set
by MearS and CoIIyer
in 1928.
BY MAX BUCKINGHAM
ITnifnd Press STAFF CnrrnsnnnA.nA

CHANCu AItSS CLdH correspondent
NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-More than
400 years separated the around the
world trip of the Graf Zeppelin and
the first globe circling cruise. and
that 400 years has brought about q.
lessening of the around the world
travel time by three years and one
week.
Fernando Magellan was the first
man to start around the world.
He left with five vessels and 237
men. Three years, 20 days and i8
minutes after he had started, eight
cen of his men-Magellan was dead
and one of his vessels returned to
Seville, Spain.
DR.. Hugo Eckener started from
Lakehurst, NJ j., at 11:4O D. m. on
Aug. z with sixty persons aboard
the Zeppelin. He returned to Lake
hurst today with the full passenger
list and had girlded the world in
Fl days, Z hours and 80 minutes.
In that span of more than 400
years there have been many ro-
mantle conqueStS of the globe. in
Guiding the fictitious trip of Phileas
Fogg in eighty days.
Nellie Bly, in " Days
That was the work of Jules
Verne's nimble brain, and even he
didn't believe he ever would live
to see his record broken. but he
lived to greet Nellie BLY,, New York
newspaper woman. when she
chopped eight days from the ficti-
t.ous travel time.
Magellan's trip took far more
nerve than any Of the others. He
Travelled sea passages which never
before had been Travelled. He first
learned of the dread of the sea-
scurvy. He encountered peoples who
were unfriendly and even lost his
life by arguing with a Philippine
native.
After Magellan's feat there was a
long period when no one would at
tempt the around the world tour.
But Sir Francis Drake, DESTROYS of
more plumber, and thinking that
fertile fields lay far off from his
native England, started on Dec. 10,
1877, with five vessels and 1874 men.
The cruise progressed we'll up to
brakes bay, north of San Fran
cisco, and thence across the Indian
ocean. Drake returned to Plymouth
in 1880 with only one of the five
vessels with which he started.
From then on the race to chop
down the around the world time
started.
Cavendish Started in 1886
Thomas Cavendish started In 1888
around the world with three vessels
and 1873 men. He returned with one
vessel after travelling two years and
fifty days.
Then Captain James Cook in It'll
made globe-girdling tour in three
years and eighteen days with the
loss of only one man. This was
marvellous as just few years prior
Captain George Arson started with
259 men and the entire expedition
was lost.
The late Joseph Pulitzer, publisher
of the New York World, in 1889 as
signed Nellie BLY,. the first newspaper
sob sister to break the record of
Vernes fictitious Fogg. Nellie Bly,
stopped and chatted with Verne in
England on the way about and then
rushed around the world. complet-
ing the tour in 70 days hours IL
minutes.
In 1890, George Francis Train cut
that time to 81 days and IL hours.
and in 1901 Charles Fitzmaurice cut
the time to so days and 10 hours.
In 1903, Henry Frederick made it
in flfty-four days and seven hours.
In 1907 Colonel Burnley Campbell
circled the globe in forty days and
nineteen hours and in 1913 John
Henry Mears cut the time to thirty
five days.
Aviation Changed 1t All
Then came aviation. On June I6,
1926, Edward S. Evans and Linton
Wells started around the world US
ing steamships and airplanes. They
finished the globe girdltng in
tWenty-eight days fourteen hours
and thirty-six minutes.
Mears, who once had held the
record, hated to see modernity spoil
his feat and with Captain G. B. D.
Collyer started an around the world
cruise in 1928. They flew from New
York out to where the Olympic was
at sea, and used airplanes across
Europe. They few from Cherbourg
to Toxic in five days tWenty-one
hours, a record. They crossed the
Pacific by boat and flew from Vic
,orta to New York in two days.
Now the Graf Zeppelin, complet-
ing the first fight around the world
oy air, has broken that record.