Mrs. Clark Left Jan. 19, 1923, for World Tour

Spray Woman Leaves for a Tour of the World

Mrs. L.W. Clark of Spray left today for New York City and sails Monday on the steamer ‘Empress of France’ for a cruise around the world. The vessel which has been specially chartered for the trip will carry a party of over 750 with guides and lecturers, making possible a real educational tour.

The first stop will be for two days in Havana, Cuba, 1,200 miles from New York, then to colon, another 1,000 miles, and through the Panama Canal to Panama and the Pacific. Two days in San Francisco, after a sail of 3,200 miles from Panama, and from there to Hawaii, another 2,000 miles, visiting both Hilo and Honolulu.

The party then goes to Japan, 3,400 miles further west, for two weeks, visiting Yokohama, Tokyo, Nikko, Osaka, Kioto, Kube and other points of interest and sail from Nagasaki, another 1,500 miles, for a week in China. The steamer will go to Hong Kong but trips inland will be made to Canton where people live practically as they did 3,000 years ago and to other places of interest.

The next stop, 700 miles after leaving Hong Kong, will be in our new possessions, the Philippine Islands and then on to the island of Java, 1,500 miles distant and south of the equator, the most southern point reached on the trip. Sailing north again 500 miles, the next port visited in Singapore on the Malay peninsula. From Singapore to Rangoon, then another 1,200 miles and after two days the party proceeds to Calcutta in India, 800 miles.

The overland trip of three weeks in India perhaps be as full of interest as any part of the tour; visiting Benares, Agra, Delhi and other cities, finally embarking again at Bombay on the west coast of India. The vessel will then sail for Suez, passing through the Red Sea and making 3,000 miles more of its journey home.

After a week in Egypt the party sails 1,200 miles through the Mediterranean to Naples, the chief port of Italy and from there to Gibraltar and Southampton, England, 2,000 miles nearer to the United States, yet 3,000 miles via way of Quebec and Montreal, Canada. Here the voyagers leave the steamer and take the train to New York, the starting point, after a trip of nearly 30,000 miles, lasting almost five months.

Mr. Clark will accompany Mrs. Clark to New York and as far on the trip as Havana, returning by way of Florida, East Coasts resorts about February 1st. –Gazette.

From the front page of The Reidsville Review, January 19, 1923