People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1894 — WILL MAKE THE TRIP. [ARTICLE]

WILL MAKE THE TRIP.

The Wrenn Around the World Expedition Finds a Backer. Kalamazoo, Mich., Aug. 1. The Wrenn expedition around the world will be made despite Dr. Ransom’s disappearance. Lyman Beecher, of Pottstown, Pa., who is a nephew of the late Henry Ward Beecher, and R. Morgan Rott, also of Pottstown, have arrived in South Haven and propose to see the expedition through at any reasonable cost. Mr. Beecher’s son started on the original trip for educational purposes. Mr. Beecher is fully able to carry out his plans. He says the expedition will have the indorsement of the Smithsonian institution. It is proposed to keep a chronicle of the trip and 50,000 copies of the book have been ordered. Mr. Beecher hopes that the Wrenn party will be able to leave the port of New York by August 15.