THE TOUR AT A GLANCE.
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Chicago Cyclists demonstrate their enthusiasm at the proposed Worlds Tour awheelFriends of the Inter Ocean endorse the project by giving the McIlraths letters to friends in foreign landsThe starting point left behind on April 10, 1895
Two and one-half days getting into NebraskaMany friends made on the roadAn unanswerable argument in favor of the rational costume for womenAn encounter with the law at Melrose Park and what came of it
Hard cycling in a hailstormA speeder with one leg arouses the admiration of the Worlds touristsIn Colorado at the one-time rendezvous of the famous James Boys and their gangThe 1,000 mile mark covered by May 3 1318
Made wanderers at midnight through the whim of an unreasonable womanBreaking a coasting record at Hot Springs, Colo.Western railroad beds as dangerous as the Spanish Mines in Havana HarborAn explosion and a badly lacerated tire 1823
Lizards, snakes and swollen streams make traveling lively for touristsParalysis of hands and arms necessitates a weeks course of medical treatmentTommy Atkins, most companionable of Englishmen, forced to desert the Inter Ocean cyclists 2426
Vigilantes of Nevada mistake the wheelman for a notorious banditSaved by ones gold teethInto Reno, where hospitality has its abodeQuick time to California, and then off for the Mikados land on Oct. 12 2933
Quartered at the Club Hotel, YokohamaJapans extraordinary credit systemAt the funeral of a prince, and a few points noted on Japanese crowdsUncle Sams people get the best of everything in Japan 3338
His Highness, the Emperor, objects to being shot by a cameraThe war holidays at Shokausha Park, KudanBy steamer to ChinaAn effective gun for Chinese dogsCyclists the center of many inquisitive crowds 3942
Guests at a Chinese weddingThe dark side of life in China sought and foundIndescribable horrors of a native prisonNew Year extravagantly celebratedMrs. McIlraths pen picture of a Chinese lady of fashion 4347
Received in state by the Toa Toi of Su ChowInvited to witness the execution of a woman by the Seng Chee methodDebut of the bicycle along the Grand CanalForeign devils pursued by maddened mobs of natives 4853
The American peoples able representative at Ching KiangA reminiscence of his pluck and courage in settling claims for his countryWheeling by night in a strange country with mud up to the bicycle hubs 5357
Saved by a Mandarin from the clutches of an Asiatic ShylockCyclists stray into the dangerous province of HunanTaken into Shaze, the city of blood and crimesThe Yang-Tse Kiang gorges from a houseboat 5762
The Yang-Tse-Kiang in its fiercest mood turned to advantage by a native undertakerAn appreciative Tai Foo pays the tourists for calling upon himSevere punishment of a grasping boatmanA forced march to Chung King 6266
Coolie guides and luggage bearers desert the touristsOpium the curse of the Chinese EmpireThe most dangerous stage of the Chinese trip concluded at lastChung Kings conjurer gives a remarkable street performance 6771
Inter Ocean tourists become tramps through rain and snow, with the wheels carried on bamboo polesNearing the boundary line of ChinaSudden change of climate and a narrow escape from the sunstrokeChang, the Yunnan Giant 7276
A toast to the United States on Burmese soilOn the Road to MandalayEntertained at a wedding of royalty, where a feature of the programme caused ladies to retire and bachelors to blushHospitable British officers 7681
Rangoon suffers an attack of the bicycling feverNative sports supplanted by corrupt horse-racingA prize fight where rules do not countAcross the Bay of Bengal by steamer 8188
Arrival of the tourists causes great excitement at BenaresA pretty trio of supercilious British wheelmenGuests of the Maharajah at Fort Ramnagar A leap almost into the jaws of death 8894
Pursued by a maddened herd of water buffaloA joke ends in a race for lifeThe Yankee flag a conspicuous feature of the Queens Jubilee at DelhiA reminder of the plucky but unfortunate Frank Lenz 9496
Patriotism nearly lands McIlrath in a native prisonA night of terror attributed to Rodney, the pet monkeyCyclists stricken with fever and become helpless invalids at LahoreBicycling much more comfortable than English national traveling 97102
Last days in India spent during the dreaded monsoon seasonThe pet monkeys appetite for rubber brings about an annoying delayOfficials refuse to let the Inter Ocean tourists follow out their plans and ride through Beloochistan 103107
On board the Assyria bound for PersiaAmerican firearms come in handy when road agents ask for presentsClimbing the Alps childs play compared with crossing the Kotals of Persia 108112
A visiting card left on the Porch of XerxesAt the ruins of PersepolisSome plain truths, as to the character of the ArmeniansLost in a snowstorm on the peak of a mountainMrs. McIlraths feet frozen badly 113118
The most miserable Christmas day ever passed by manThe Sultans cavalrymen forced to admit the superiority of the bicycleDeserted by a cowardly driver on the road to TeheranThe trip to Resht made by carriages 118122
Landed in Russia three years after leaving ChicagoEaster Sunday in Tiflis, the Paris of the Caucasus In sight of Mount AraratThe pet monkey commits suicide in ConstantinopleA Turkish newspaper jokeRoumania the next country entered 122126
Saluted by the king of RoumaniaA country where cyclists are in their glorySplendid riding into Austro-HungaryVienna gives the Inter Ocean tourists the heartiest of welcomesMunich and its art galleries 126130