New York May 19 (A.P.)—John Goldstrom, aviator, and E. Morris Titterington, pilot and mechanician, are out to reduce Jules Verne’s famous story “Around the World in Eighty Days’’ to 31 days.
Starting today on the Mauretania, they will follow a schedule expected to put them in Moscow a few hours after they take to the air near London.
From the Soviet capital to Yokohama they will follow the quickest and most direct route, possibly by both air and rail.
Nobile Reaches Northern City with Five Members of Crew, Dirigible.
NOME. Alaska, June 2. — The motorship Hazel has arrived here with Commander Nobile and five other Italian members of the crew of the dirigible Norge which recently completed a flight across the Arctic regions. Other members of the crew will be brought to Nome on the Silver Wave.
Commander Nobile said he was glad to reach here as it was lonesome at Teller. He said the framework of the Norge was packed and ready for shipment south.
In our last we left the homeward bound travellers at the Grand Hotel upon the Desert of Suez, from whence we are now to trace their progress to Marseilles, which port they will, in all probability, have reached simultaneously with the publication of this article.
Continuing the route across the Desert, as indicated by the stations established by Mr. Waghorn, we arrive at the close of the second day from Suez, at Cairo, the modern capital of Egypt. At this celebrated city, and in its immediate vicinity, there is so much to arrest attention that the traveller will, in all probability, feel disposed to delay his further progress homewards while he visits the Pyramids of Gizeh, about 10 miles to the south-west; the citadel, situated to the east of the town, and remarkable as having been the scene of the slaughter of the Mamelukes—completely commands the city, but is itself covered by a high range of mountains in the rear, where & square fort, erected by the Pacha, is garrisoned by 400 men; the obelisk at Matarea (the site of the ancient Heliopolis); the tombs of the Mamelukes; the forests of agate in the rocky hollows of the Desert; and the summer palace of the Pacha. Within the walls of the citadel the chief objects of interest are the new palace of the Pacha, the mint, Joseph’s well, and the magnificent view from the ramparts, extending over the whole city, the land of Goshen, the Pyramids, &c., and bounded only by the eternal Desert. Hill’s family hotel at Cairo, will afford the traveller every possible comfort during his sojourn, and nothing requisite to his enjoyment or further convenience on the route, will be asked for there in vain. Houses, furnished or unfurnished, may also be had by those who prefer such accommodation; and for the satisfaction of invalids, there are English medical men in regular practice to be met with.
Luxor, Upper Egypt, March 21.—From Assuan to Luxor is 126 miles and Col. Roosevelt and his family covered this distance today in the regular express, arriving here early in the afternoon. From Luxor to Cairo is 454 miles, and the ex-President will reach the Egyptian capital Thursday. There a state carriage will be in waiting, so that Col. Roosevelt may visit the Khedive at the Abdin palace. The Khedive will return the call in person. This will be the first occasion on which the ruler has so honored a private citizen.
On arrival at Luxor today the distinguished Americans were greeted by a great number of fellow citizens, many American tourists having waited at this place to see the former President. Col. Roosevelt held a reception this afternoon at the Winter Place hotel.
We are enabled, through the courtesy of Mr. Waghorn, to present our readers with a detail of his route from India to England; and as the subject involves considerations of vast importance to this country as well as to Europe generally, we have selected it for illustration in our present number. This gentleman has now long been known to the world as the indefatigable and persevering author of the overland route to India. Brought up from an early age in the pilot service of the East India Company, and having distinguished himself in the Arracan expedition, he was in the year 1827 recommended by Lord Combermere to the Court of Directors, as a proper person to open steam intercourse between this country and India. To this he devoted himself; and in 1829 his views had attracted so much public attention, that he was selected by the Company to take out despatches, and report upon the route by the Red Sea. For his successful accomplishment of this duty, he received, on his arrival at Bombay, the thanks of the Governor General in council; and the circumstance of his having proceeded down the Red Sea in an open boat, when disappointed of his steamer, the Enterprise, at Suez, was particularly adverted to, as indicating the zeal with which he had applied himself to the service of the public. Since the year 1831, the endeavours of this gentleman to accomplish his object, by the formation of establishments in Egypt, for the passage of mails and passengers, have been unceasing, and are at length crowned with perfect success. Upon one occasion, in the year 1836, it is recollected that he succeeded in getting a mail from Bombay to London within 60 days, and the rapidity of his method so impressed the public, the Government, and the Board of Directors, with the advantages to be derived from his line of route, that steamers were forthwith placed at his disposal for facilitating his plans; and so successfully had he availed himself of the resources opened to him, as well by the patronage of the Government at home, as by his personal intimacy with Mehemet Ali, that the Indian mail of July 1841 passed from the post-office of London to the post-office of Bombay in 30 days and 10 hours. There can be no question that this gentleman is eminently entitled to the gratitude of his country, or, we may justly say, of all Europe, for the genius, zeal, and self-devotion by which he has so materially shortened the distance between two points of the globe, so important and so essential to the welfare of each other.
On Tuesday, Joshua Newborn, a young man about 25 years of age, whose swarthy visage was tatooed like a native of New Zealand, was placed at the bar before Mr.…
M. de Gasenko, French aviator, accompanied by Mechanician Bion, left Marseille at 9 o’clock this morning in his water glider, the Sea Flea, for Barcelona, Spain, and Oran, Algeria. The weather was unfavorable but the apparatus worked satisfactorily.
If the voyage is successful, de Gasenko will continue to Dakar, West Africa, and then across the South Atlantic to Buenos Aires. The aviators hoped to arrive at Barcelona within two hours and to reach Oran this evening.
Oslo, Norway, March 28—(AP)—Preparations for the Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flight in May are nearing the final stage. On a hill just outside Oslo a mooring mast nearly one hundred feet high has been erected for the airship “Norge,” in which the flight is to be made. The dirigible, constructed in Italy, is now being inspected by Captain Roald Amundsen, who arrived in Rome for that purpose last Friday, it will soon be brought from Rome to Oslo.
The auxiliary vessel “Hobby,” which was used in the Polar flight of 1925, has left Trondhjem for Svalbardi (the new Norwegian name for Spitzbergen), with equipment or the expedition, consisting of material for the mooring mast at King’s Bay and hydrogen for the airship. A hangar has already been completed at King’s Bay.
Byrd and Wade Will Lead American Expeditions Into Ice Bound North
NEW YORK, March 1 (AP)—The urge that sent Hendrik Hudson battling through polar seas in 1807 in search of a northwest passage to the spice islands of the east today still stirs the blood of modern explorers who seek to solve the mysteries of the northern seas.
At least six expeditions hope this summer to reach the north pole, or to find new lands hidden away in the fields of unknown ice.
Wearied by Long and Difficult Journey, Kitchen Calls Royal Resting Place Hollow Mockery as Exhibit.
BY KARL K. KITCHEN
If you are planning a trip to Egypt to visit the tomb of King Tut-ankh-Amen take my advice—which is the same as Punch has always given those about to marry—Don’t.
For the tomb of King Tut-ankh-Amen—vulgarly called King Tut—is the most overrated mecca for tourists, boobs and travelers In the world today.
I know, for I have just been there! And take it from old Dr. Kitchen, if I may drop from my Cardinal Newman English to the vernacular of Broadway, it is the bunk.
To be sure, if one is an Egyptologist this last resting place of the dear departed is of considerable importance. But so few of us are! In fact, before I went to Luxor I hardly had a bowing acquaintance with a hieroglyphic. And even today, after many ghoulish adventures In the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings, I doubt if I would recognize a dozen of the 290 characters in the Egyptian sign language—bless its dear funny old alphabet.
However, what I write Is not a text book for university professors with long white beards, or those who have made a life study of the times and customs of the Pharaohs. There are enough musty volumes of such subjects. I am writing for the much maligned man in the street. And I am going to set forth the facts about the tomb of King Tut-ankh-Amen as I found them.
