Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1893 — LE GRAND TOUR. [ARTICLE]

LE GRAND TOUR.

A Novel Bet—Miss Doolittle's Swing Around the Circle. As the result of a bet among Chicago railroad men that a lady could leave Chicago and travel via Portland, Ore., Han Francisco, El Paso, City of Mexico, New Vork'ahd Boston, and then hack to Chicago without putting her foot upon the ground, such befng the perfect connecting facilities that she would never be obliged to go outside of railroad stations, Miss Bessie Mitchell Doolittle, of that city, having been selected as the person tq decide the bet, left Chicago at 10:30 f>. m., March 22, via the Chicago Northwestern. By the terms of the bet the lady is permitted to leave the railway depot at tlie City of Mexico to call on President Diaz. The whole ride will be on standard guage railways except from the City of Mexico to Laredo, Tex, Miss Doolittle expects to rctur-i to Chicago April 10. Six conductors on the New York Central. five on the Rome, Watertown & Ogdonsburg and two on the West Shorerailways have been dismissed for con spiracy to defraud the companies. They were discovered by detectives who traveled in the disguise of drummers.