Word: plumer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Furquharson Leys '21, globe trotter and adventurer, will lecture in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 7.30 o'clock. The lecture is entitled "After You, Magellan," being a story of his race around the world with J. M. Plumer...
Shortly after Leys and Plumer graduated, they decided to have a look at the world, and it was then that the idea of racing completely around it originated. The two set out on the same boat from Newport, Rhode Island, each with $87. Shipping as deck boys, they went through the Panama Canal and up the Pacific Coast to Seattle. They took to the water again, journeying on to Alaska, spending Christmas day in Cordova, loading copper in snow-covered sacks...
Shortly afterwards, Leys and Plumer returned to Seattle, where they separated. The former became a seaman on the "Bay State" bound for Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, and Hongkong. It was at the last port that he went ashore, lured by the prospect of work because of the shipping strike which had just set in and which later became a serious boycott. Leys worked with coolies, attained the dignity of winch-driver, and later made out to the ships daily to cargo with his gang of riff-raff and strike-breakers, returning at night under a pelter of stones from the strikers...
...while at a hotel. Later he joined an Italian circus on the waterfront, and finally achieved the honor of being head of the checkroom for the ball which was being held in honor of the Prince of Wales, visiting there. During all this while Leys was losing time, while Plumer was racing on to New York...
...homeward trip. He got a job helping to unload, and found that his chances of shipping aboard the vessel were very slender, as it already had one man, a stowaway, in irons to prevent his slipping ashore. There was nothing to do but wait for the next ship, while Plumer, wherever he might have been, made his way toward the goal...