Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1909 — AROUND WORLD IN 41 DAYS [ARTICLE]

AROUND WORLD IN 41 DAYS

Two School Boys Have Established a New Globe Circuit Record. New York, Aug. 20.—Two New York school boys. Walter Brown and John Munnlch. who have been sent around the world for a record by a New York newspaper, were taken off the Mauretania on a special tug and brought to this city. They completed the circuit of the globe in forty-one days, eight hours—a new record, and almost half the time set by Jules Verne In his romance “Around the World in Eighty Days.” The previous record of sixty days, thirteen hours, was made In 1901 by Charles C. Fitzmorrip, a Chicago school'boy in a similar trip for a Chicago newspaper.