Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1909 — AROUND WORLD IN 65 DAYS [ARTICLE]

AROUND WORLD IN 65 DAYS

Remarkable Journey of Letter Addressed to Jeffersonville Man. Jeffersonville, Ind., April 6. —W. W. Fitch has received a letter which he mailed to himself sixty-five days ago and which in the meantime had completely circumnavigated the globe. " The letter has made this remarkable journey at a cost of 2 cents. It was a type-written missive, inclosed In a large envelope and unsealed, and was in the first Instance addressed to Fitch himself in care of the American consulate at Liverpool, England. There It was opened by John L. Griffiths, who signed it personally as well as aflixlng the consulate stamp, and then readdressed the letter by crossing out Liverpool and writing in Berlin, Germany. Thence It traveled to St. Petersburg and thence via Irkutsk and Vladivostok to Tokio, Japan, where the American consul started it on the last lap of its journey to Jeffersonville. Ind., U. S. A.