A "HUSTLE "TOUR.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1058, 22 February 1911, Page 4

A "HUSTLE "TOUR.

THE -AMERICAN WAY. ; ' The word "hustle" is writ largo 'over the United States. Our American. couV ins have oven .acquired fomo. fame as "quick" tourists. Among the .passengers who arrived in Wellington by the Corinthic yesterday, were several American ladies and gentlemen, who are- at present on a personally conducted tour of the world, and, to judge from the itinerary of tha party,, it is a hustle, tour. Captain Arthur Atkin-Higgins/ is in charge," and from ' his programme, a neatly-printed souvenir card, one gathers that "at the very foundations of expert hustling is ; mathematical system. Every day is mapped out ahead. There is no vraste. Even "rest days' are provided for. The party left "N'York" on board tha s.s. Baltic on November 20, did London, with selected parts of England thrown in, by December. 9, on which date they sailed for South Africa by the Athenic. South Africa was "done"—the South African tour took in Cape Colony, Orangei V River -Colony, Transvaal, Rhodesia, Victoria Falls, etc— by January 22. After, two days' Test at Cape Town, they boarded the Corinthic, and duly arrived in Wellington. New Zealand is to be "done" by • the beginning of Anril—both islands, taking in all the principal inland towns and the excursions "to fiordlarid. Thence the party will proceed to Tasmania and the Australian States, working swiftly northward, with n dav here and a dav. there, right up to-Brisbane. • By September 11, states i the itinerary, card,' the,'party "might osnect to arrivo back in New York/after taking in New Guinea,'the Philippines, Hong-Eonjr. China, Jacan. Manchuria, the trans-Siberian railway ride (per "international train de Luxe"). Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Berlin. ' The members of the touring oarty are: —Mrs. 11. A. Bigelow, Springfield, Mass;; Mrs. G. W. Coleman, Boston; Mass.;: Sir. Wm'.'H. Fischer. New York; Mr. , J. E. Lynds. Mrs. Lvnds, and Mr. Edward Lrnds) Cloquet, Minn.; Mrs. G. W. M'Guire, Cleveland. Ohio; and Mr. ,C. Wurm, : jun., ,New York. . ■