Evening star., 1936-10-26
HAWAII TO NEWARK
IN 50 HOURS PLUS
Neran, Globe e-GirdIing Re.
porter, Briefly Sketches
Links of Journey.
BY LEO KIERAN.


onstration of 'round-the-world high
speed transport Sunday morning at
Times Square after a record-breaking
trip from Honolulu to Newark Airport
over scheduled airlines in 80 hours 20
minutes and IS seconds for the ,28l-
mile journey.
The total elapsed time Of the trip
around the world from Times Square
to Times Square, starting eastward
and coming back from the west was
"a days IA hours and 20 minutes,
according to the stopwatches of the
official timer of the National Aero
nautic Association.
This time includes delay at Manila
of four days when typhoons ragged in
the Pacific and delayed the departure
from there of the China Clipper on
its first scheduled passenger fight to
the United States. The original sched-
ule called for a return to New York
in 20 days and IS hours, approxi-
mately, and the delay in Manila was
the only departure from it.
Barker First Greeter.
The first reception I got as I de-
harked from a United Air Lines bus
dressed in trousers bought in Hong
kong, shirt from India and jacket
from Manila, was from barker in
the Times Square district. Lack of
trade on the quiet Sunday morning
must have made him think me
stranger in town.
Ticket for a sightseeing tour of the
eity?" he cried. "all the principal
spots" I brushed him aside and
headed for the Office.
Maybe you need a guide to the
hotels, buddy" he continued.
BY that time, the timer. William
Tint, caught up with me and we trun-
died off through the door of the New
York Times leaving the man to look
for slower customers.
Upstairs in the city room, however,
I was compelled to give more de-
tailed account of the trip. The city
editor came to my rescue and told
my interrogators to read the paper.
No Money for Luxuries.
Starting from Times Square at TAB
pm. on September 80, had nothing
in my pockets but tickets to Hong
kong, a ticket awaiting me there on
the China Clipper to leave on Octo-
ber 16 at m and ticket on United
Air Lines from California to New
York, plus a reasonable amount Of
money for incidental expenses such as
any traveller might carry.
With that I set forth in a bus Of
American Air Lines for Newark Air
port to take the ferry plane to Lake
hurst, N. J., where was scheduled to
sail on the airship Hindenburg at 10
pm The weather was bad and planes
were grounded, so the bus took me
straight to Lakehurst.
The Hindenburg arrived late at
Frankfort and I was forced to alter
the original plan when my Lufthansa
plant could not get in at Milan, Italy,
because the airport there is unlighted.
The plane was forced to hand me at
Basle, Switzerland, the nearest port
with lights, and then commenced a
dash for Brindisi, during which took
q taxicab from Bologna to Brindisi.
A subsequent delay Of day on the
Brindisi- -Hongkong schedule of I'M
peral Airways of England kept me on
edge for the next few days, but I ar
rived in Hongkong in time to catch
my steamer for Manila, where I ar
rived at 8 am. October Is, fully 18
hours before my scheduled boarding
Of the China Clipper.
Planned to Take Same Clipper.
During the Hindenburg trip I was
accompanied by H. R. Ekins of the
6cripps- Howard newspapers and Miss
Dorothy Kilgallen of Universal Serv-
ice and the New York Evening Jour-
nal. Both had round-the- world trips
in mind, each intending to catch the
same clipper as I.
So kaleidoscope was the trip that 1t
will be several days, perhaps longer,
before the moving curtain of the
earth's surface, as seen from the air.
will resolve itself into definite and
lasting impressions. That there were
many which will stand out after a
short rest I know. but, at the present
writing, I can only set down those
which took place in the last hours
Of the flight.
The trip was in no sense a stunt,
and can be duplicated by any traveller
who cares to avail himself of modern
scheduled transportation and, if the
trip has proved anything of lasting
value to the world of travel, it has
been well worth the effort, expense
and time allotted me on the assign
ment.
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