A "HUSTLE " TOUR

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 247, 24 February 1911, Page 6

A "HUSTLE " TOUR

THE AMERICAS WAY, The word "hustle" is writ large over the United States. Our American couhave acquired some fame as "quick" tourists. Among the passengers who arrived in Wellington by the Corthinc mi Tuesday 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 the 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 system—exact, mathematical system. Every day is mapped out ahead. There is no waste. Even "rest days" are provided for. The party left "N'York" on board the s.s. Baltic on November 26, "did" London, with selected parts of England thrown in, by December 9, on which date they sailed for South Africa by the Athcnic. South Africa was "done"—the South African tour took in Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, Transvaal, Rhodesia, Victoria Falls, etc! —by January 22. After two days' rest at Capetown, they boarded the Corinthic, and duly arrived in Wellington. New Zealand is to be "done" by the beginning of April—both islands, taking in all the principal inland towns and the excursions to fiordland. Thence the party will proceed to Tasmania and the Australian States, working swiftly northward, with a day here and a day there, right up to Brisbane. By September 11, states the itinerary card, the party "might expect to arrive back in New York, after taking in New Guinea, the Philippines, Hongkong, China, Japan, Manchuria and the trans-Siberian railway ride (per "internatioiuil train de luxe"), Moscow, St. Petersburg and Berlin. The members of the touring party are: —Mrs. M. A. Bigelow, Springlields, Mass.; Mrs. ({. \\". Coleman, Boston, Mass.; Mr. Wm. Fischer, New York; Mr. J. E. Lynds, Mrs. Lynda, and Mr. Edwarc; Lynds, Cloquet, Minn.; Mrs. G. W. McGuirc. Cleveland, Ohio; and Mr. C. Wurm, junr., New York.