Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1909 — Great Traveler. [ARTICLE]

Great Traveler.

Captain Herbert Edward Greenstreet, commander of the New England Shipping Company’s twin-screw passenger steamer Rlmutaka, started off recently on his seventy-second globe-en-circling voyage, in the confident expectation that when he comes ashore for good he will have reeled off a century. of such trips. Each voyage from London to New Zealand means 25,000 miles of steaming. Then there are from 1,000 to 2,000 miles on the New Zealand coast, so that each round trip means from 26,000 to 27,000 miles. As the Rlmutaka makes three voyages in thirteen months, it will need another ten years or so of seafaring before Captain Greenbtreet completes bis hundredth round-the-world trip. Twenty-five high school principals In Kansas are women. They are said to do their work so well that no one has ever suggested putting men In their places. Johannesburg's new telephone exchange will serve 24,000 lines. There are now about 6,500 entering the build l«X- . .. ol