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...collapsed before a microphone at the State Fair Grounds, was hospitalized for nervous exhaustion. But Tom Mooney would not let his own impaired health stand in the way of the greatest day of his life. From Sacramento next day he motored to San Francisco at the head of a caravan of 20 cars that swelled to 200. In a parade San Francisco labor had arranged for him, Tom Mooney refused to ride in an automobile. He walked, bareheaded, ahead of the members of his old A. F. of L. Moulders' Union, ahead of Harry Bridges, ahead of everybody...
...other three routes, none as heavily-used as the Silk Road, are: 1) the 1,800-mile Sian-Urga motor road, once a caravan trail across the limitless sands of the Gobi Desert, 2) the 1,350-mile rail and road route from Kunming down to British Burma, and 3) the newly-built Chinese railroad from Kunming to Laokai, which connects with the French Indo-China railroad. Hundreds of miles of other new roads connecting these main routes to many parts of the new "New China" have also been built...
Months of preparation were devoted to the anniversary of the Boer's futile trek for freedom. Three men in every four grew beards-symbols of Boer virility and spiritual grace. A caravan of eight oxcarts set out to follow the route of the original trek. As the caravan progressed, hysteria grew. At the instigation of German spellbinders the hysteria shaded from pride in pioneer traditions, to intense nationalism, to open hatred of British and Jews...
...Gold Rush on, photographers went along with the pioneers, the troops, the railroads. A disheartening revelation of the Taft book is how much of their unpretentious but now invaluable work has been carelessly lost; almost as great a revelation is the amount that survives. Samples : a covered-wagon caravan forming a wide circle for the night; the U. S. mail-coach with riflemen atop it, leaving muddy Salt Lake City...
Traveling ten miles a day in stately procession, they encamped at night in lamaseries or caravansaries, surrounded the Panchen Lama with hundreds of yak-butter lamps. The caravan finally arrived in Kanze, where the Panchen Lama remained last week, sitting odorously in his cerements. The Chinese troops wished to accompany the body to Lhasa; the Tibetans wanted no foreign soldiers; neither side gave in. Of authentic infant candidates to reincarnate and succeed either the Dalai or Panchen Lamas, no word had reached the outside world last week...