Chapter 24 Chapter 23 Conclusion

We remember that these three travelers won the favor of the whole world when they set out.If this scientific experiment had excited the New World as much as the Old when it first began, what kind of hospitality would they receive upon their return?Did not the millions of spectators who flocked to the Florida peninsula rush to meet these three sublime travelers?These large numbers of foreigners who came to American shores from all corners of the earth did not see Barbicane, Nicholl and Michel.Had Adam been able to leave United States territory before?Of course not!The incomparably high enthusiasm of the public must be worthy of the greatness of this scientific experiment!These three travelers left the earth, traveled in the sky for a while, and now they are back, and they will naturally be reborn by the prophet Elias (Note: "Bible", the Jewish prophet, who ascended to heaven by train.) Welcome back to Earth!To see them first, and then to hear their voices, is the wish of all.This wish is that of nearly all the inhabitants of the United States, and it is soon to be fulfilled.

Barbican, Michelle.Ardan, Nicholl, and the representatives of the Cannon Club returned to Baltimore without delay, and were greeted with indescribable enthusiasm.Chairman Barbicane's Journal of Travels is being prepared for publication. The New York Herald Tribune paid an unprecedented price for the manuscript, in fact, during the period of publication of "Travel to the Moon," the newspaper had a circulation of five million copies.Three days after the three travelers returned to Earth, the smallest details of their expedition became known.Now it is enough to look at the heroes of this extraordinary cause.

The voyages of Barbicane and his two friends round the moon have made it possible for us to examine the various theories concerning the satellites of the earth.These three scientists once observed the moon with their own eyes under special conditions.Regarding the formation of this celestial body, its origin and its habitability, we now know which theories should be discarded and which theories should be affirmed.Now even the last secrets of its past, present, and even future are revealed.Who can object to the determination of these three conscientious observers that the height of the queer Tycho, one of the most peculiar mountain formations on the Moon, is less than forty kilometers?Who has anything to say about the sight of these three scientists who once sank into the abyssal bottom of Plato's crater?Who could argue against the scientific experiments of these three daring adventurers, which brought them, unexpectedly, to the unseen side of the moon hitherto unseen by human eyes? ?Now only they have the right to define the lunar science that studies the structure of the lunar world, just like Cuvier (Note: 1769︱1832, French naturalist, comparative anatomist and zoologist.) The same can be said for fossil skeletons, they have the right to say: the moon is so and so, that it is a habitable world, inhabited long before the earth!It can also be said: the moon is so-and-so, saying that it is an uninhabitable world, and no one lives there now!

The Cannon Club intended to celebrate the return of its most illustrious member and his two companions with a banquet, but a banquet worthy of the victors, worthy of the American people, and capable of direct participation by all the citizens of the United States.All railway lines across the country are connected at both ends by active railways.Then, in all the railway stations, the same banners and the same decorations were hoisted, and the same type of banquet was held.During the calculated time, according to the electric clock with exact minutes and seconds, the residents were invited to sit at the banquet.

For four days, from January 5th to 9th, trains stopped running on all the railroads of the United States, as every Sunday, and all the lines were idle. Only one high-speed locomotive, pulling one honorable car, has the right to run on the railroads of the United States of America during these four days.There was a driver and a mechanic on board the locomotive, and, by special consideration, Maston, the Honorable Secretary of the Gun Club, was also on board. This is Chairman Barbicane, Captain Nicholl and Michel.Adam's private carriage. After hearing the whistle of the mechanic, the special car is in Ula!Long live!and all the monosyllabic interjections in American English left Baltimore Station.It was advancing at eighty leagues an hour.But what was this speed compared with the speed with which the three travelers left the mouth of the Columbia Cannon?

In this way they went from city to city, and wherever they passed, they found the inhabitants already seated, and all who attended the banquet saluted them with the same shout of joy, and applauded them without sparing.Thus they traversed the eastern part of the United States from Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine to New Brunswick; and then from New York, through Ohio, Michigan to Wisconsin, across the north and west , then went south from Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana, turned back and turned southeast, from Alabama to Florida; then went north again, from Georgia to North and South Carolina; then, they again Visited the middle states from Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia to Indiana; stopped at Washington Station at last, and returned to Baltimore.During these four days they could believe that all the people of the United States of America sat at the one and only gigantic feast while saluting them and shouting Ulla!

People at all times regard them as gods who came to the world as in mythology. In fact, they are well-deserved of this respect. Now, will this scientific experiment, unprecedented in the history of tourism, actually work?Can we establish a direct connection with the moon?Can we build a space agency to the worlds of the solar system?Can we go from one planet to another, from Jupiter to Mercury, and then from one star to another, from Polaris to Sirius?Will there be a vehicle in the future that can take us to visit the many suns that gather in the firmament? We cannot answer these questions right now.But no one, having recognized the daring ingenuity of the Anglo-Saxon race, should be surprised at the efforts of the Americans to make use of the scientific experiments of Chairman Barbicane.

Soon after the return of the three travelers, the public applauded the announcement of the establishment of a limited company, National Interstellar Transportation Company, with a capital of $100,000,000 a share, and 100,000 shares.Chairman: Barbican; Vice Chairman: Captain Nicholl; General Affairs: Maston; General Manager: Michelle.Adam. Since Americans have a temper that foresees everything, even bankruptcy, the honorable Harry was pre-appointed.Trollope is the debt supervisor, Francis.Dayton is the bankruptcy administrator. (End of the book)