THE TOUR AT A GLANCE.
[INTRODUCTORY.] PAGES.
Chicago Cyclists demonstrate their enthusiasm at the proposed World’s Tour awheel—Friends of the Inter Ocean endorse the project by giving the McIlraths letters to friends in foreign lands—The starting point left behind on April 10, 1895 5–7
Two and one-half days getting into Nebraska—Many friends made on the road—An unanswerable argument in favor of the “rational” costume for women—An encounter with the law at Melrose Park and what came of it 9–13
Hard cycling in a hailstorm—A speeder with one leg arouses the admiration of the World’s tourists—In Colorado at the one-time rendezvous of the famous James Boys and their gang—The 1,000 mile mark covered by May 3 13–18
Made wanderers at midnight through the whim of an unreasonable woman—Breaking a coasting record at Hot Springs, Colo.—Western railroad beds as dangerous as the Spanish Mines in Havana Harbor—An explosion and a badly lacerated tire 18–23
Lizards, snakes and swollen streams make traveling lively for tourists—Paralysis of hands and arms necessitates a week’s course of medical treatment—“Tommy Atkins,” most companionable of Englishmen, forced to desert the Inter Ocean cyclists 24–26
Vigilantes of Nevada mistake the wheelman for a notorious bandit—Saved by one’s gold teeth—Into Reno, where hospitality has its abode—Quick time to California, and then off for the Mikado’s land on Oct. 12 29–33
Quartered at the Club Hotel, Yokohama—Japan’s extraordinary credit system—At the funeral of a prince, and a few points noted on Japanese crowds—Uncle Sam’s people get the best of everything in Japan 33–38
His Highness, the Emperor, objects to being “shot” by a camera—The war holidays at Shokausha Park, Kudan—By steamer to China—An effective “gun” for Chinese dogs—Cyclists the center of many inquisitive crowds 39–42
Guests at a Chinese wedding—The dark side of life in China sought and found—Indescribable horrors of a native prison—New Year extravagantly celebrated—Mrs. McIlrath’s pen picture of a Chinese lady of fashion 43–47
Received in state by the Tao Tai of Su Chow—Invited to witness the execution of a woman by the “Seng Chee” method—Debut of the bicycle along the Grand Canal—“Foreign devils” pursued by maddened mobs of natives 48–53
The American people’s able representative at Ching Kiang—A reminiscence of his pluck and courage in settling claims for his country—Wheeling by night in a strange country with mud up to the bicycle hubs 53–57
Saved by a Mandarin from the clutches of an Asiatic Shylock—Cyclists stray into the dangerous province of Hunan—Taken into Shaze, the city of blood and crimes—The Yang-Tse Kiang gorges from a houseboat 57–62
The Yang-Tse-Kiang in its fiercest mood turned to advantage by a native undertaker—An appreciative Tai Foo pays the tourists for calling upon him—Severe punishment of a grasping boatman—A forced march to Chung King 62–66
Coolie guides and luggage bearers desert the tourists—Opium the curse of the Chinese Empire—The most dangerous stage of the Chinese trip concluded at last—Chung King’s conjurer gives a remarkable street performance 67–71
Inter Ocean tourists become tramps through rain and snow, with the wheels carried on bamboo poles—Nearing the boundary line of China—Sudden change of climate and a narrow escape from the sunstroke—Chang, the Yunnan Giant 72–76
A toast to the United States on Burmese soil—“On the Road to Mandalay”—Entertained at a wedding of royalty, where a feature of the programme caused ladies to retire and bachelors to blush—Hospitable British officers 76–81
Rangoon suffers an attack of the bicycling fever—Native sports supplanted by corrupt horse-racing—A prize fight where rules do not count—Across the Bay of Bengal by steamer 81–88
Arrival of the tourists causes great excitement at Benares—A pretty trio of supercilious British wheelmen—Guests of the Maharajah at Fort Ramnagar—A leap almost into the jaws of death 88–94
Pursued by a maddened herd of water buffalo—A joke ends in a race for life—The Yankee flag a conspicuous feature of the Queen’s Jubilee at Delhi—A reminder of the plucky but unfortunate Frank Lenz 94–96
Patriotism nearly lands McIlrath in a native prison—A night of terror attributed to Rodney, the pet monkey—Cyclists stricken with fever and become helpless invalids at Lahore—Bicycling much more comfortable than English national traveling 97–102
Last days in India spent during the dreaded monsoon season—The pet monkey’s appetite for rubber brings about an annoying delay—Officials refuse to let the Inter Ocean tourists follow out their plans and ride through Beloochistan 103–107
On board the “Assyria” bound for Persia—American firearms come in handy when road agents ask for “presents”—Climbing the Alps child’s play compared with crossing the Kotals of Persia 108–112
A visiting card left on the Porch of Xerxes—At the ruins of Persepolis—Some plain truths, as to the character of the Armenians—Lost in a snowstorm on the peak of a mountain—Mrs. McIlrath’s feet frozen badly 113–118
The most miserable Christmas day ever passed by man—The Sultan’s cavalrymen forced to admit the superiority of the bicycle—Deserted by a cowardly driver on the road to Teheran—The trip to Resht made by carriages 118–122
Landed in Russia three years after leaving Chicago—Easter Sunday in Tiflis, the “Paris of the Caucasus”—In sight of Mount Ararat—The pet monkey commits suicide in Constantinople—A Turkish newspaper joke—Roumania the next country entered 122–126
Saluted by the king of Roumania—A country where cyclists are in their glory—Splendid riding into Austro-Hungary—Vienna gives the Inter Ocean tourists the heartiest of welcomes—Munich and its art galleries 126–130