Evening star., 1936-09-24
W0RLD-C|RCL|NG
. DASH IS PLANNED
Reporter Will Attempt New
Record by Commercial
Transportation.
Special Dispatch to The star.

NEW YORK, September "a
(N.AN.A.).-The first complete test
of the twentieth century's earth
enveloping modes of commercial
transportation will be begun.next week
by Leo Kieran for the New York
Times and the associated newspapers
OF the North American Newspaper
Alliance. Mr.. Kieran Is . reporter
on the staff Of the Times.
All previous 'round-the-world trips
made for speed records have used
regular commercial means Of trans
portation only where nothing faster
Mr.. Kieran will adhere to the modes
Of travel available to all tourists, he
expects to shorten the best existing
time Of % days, Is hours, 81 minutes
and ; seconds made in 1928 by John
H. Mears and Capt. G. B. D. Collyer.
Mr.. Mears and Capt. Collyer made
all their overland hops by private
plane. shipping their plane across the
Atlantic and the Pacific.
Starts Next Wednesday.
Starting from Times Square. New
York, at o'clock next Wednesday
evening, Mr.. Kieran will attempt to
discover how long it would take for
a commercial traveller, in an enormous
hurry, using every available resource
and willing to spend $4,000, to girdle
the globe. He will fly by dirigible
and airplane. speed over land in taxi
cabs and trains and make one journey
by ship. He expects to be back in
Times Square the morning of October
81, 2011a days after his start. He will
bring back with him. he said, the
facts on Just how much space modern
inventions have devoured and just
how much the world has been mar
rowed since "as short . time ago as
1888"
I'm 1888" he said. "this trip would
not have been possible, since many
OF the places over which shall pass
had no commercial transportation
then. Even today the trip Is not pos
sSble in so short time as expect
to accomplish it. Wednesday evening
ID the earliest I can begin it because
regular commercial air service from
Manila to San Francisco will not start
until October 16. This Is not only
the first trip Of its kind ever made
around the world and therefore record
establishing, but it Is being made on
the first day that 1t becomes pos
sible."
Not to Follow Short Route.
Mr.. Kieran pointed out that most
previous globe -girdlers have sought the
shortest way around and have chosen
a. course somewhere around the
fertieth parallel" which gave them
journey of some $4,000 miles. His
course. dictated by existing modes Of
travel, will take him around the tenth
parallel for a 22,000-mile journey over
is nations or provinces.
There are other reasons prevent.
Ing us from finding any existing rec
ord to shoot at. Phineas Fogg, the
Jules Verne hero who went around in
80 days, used commercial transpor-
tation, but he had camels going Is
miles an hour and had to hire spe-
cial train once to make connections.
,"All the others, from Nelly BLY,. who
went around in 10 days in 1889, to
Edward S. Evans and Linton Wells,
who made the trip in 40 days in 1926.
all chartered special conveyances at
one time or other. Mr.. Mears and
Capt. Collyer, of course, took along
their own special conveyance, as did
Wiley Post, who few around the earth
in 7 days 18 hours and 491a minutes
ii 1888"
Mr.. Kieran will be clocked out Of
Times Square, eastbound, and clocked
IN westbound by the National Aero
nautic Association.
Will Fly on Hindenburg.
He will ny across the Atlantic on
the Hindenburg, catch q connecting
plane to Rome at Frankfort, 60 by
train to Brindisi and then fly through
to- Hongkong. Stops along the way
will be made at Alexandria, Bagdad,
Sharjah, Jodhpur, Calcutta, Bang
kok and Penang. Travel will be by
daylight, which will give him ample
opportunity to make up time lost
through bad weather. Stopovers
range from a few hours at Alexan-
dria to more than 18 hours at
Penang.
The journey from Hongkong to
Manila will be made by ship and will
require almost two days, or nearly
as long as from New York to Ger
many. In Manila Mr.. Kieran will
board the China Clipper for its
maiden return flight to San Fran.
cisco. Four days later he will be
at the Pacifc Coast citu In, tina "a