The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-02
weston Reaches ChicngO-Somc OF
his ESnccipncc

his Experience.
CHICA 90, November 2S.-Westor
| coached Chicago this morning at 10 O'Clock
md has won his wager. Tho excitement
| N his arrival was intense. For miles OUT
rom the city the roads were throngcd al
| he morning with people anxious to gree,
he young pedestrian, and the street,
Trough which he passed to reach tn,
Sherman House, where he now is. were
packed with people. The police had
some diligently in making way for him
he crowd we're so impatient to give him .
welcome but he was finally escorted t.
| MS room in the Sherman House in safety
Tie says that The attempt to walk one hun
ircd miles, starting from Silver crco, fa;lcd
because ms feet were badly swollen. HI,
rcachcd Conncaut, ninety-one miles, il
GOOD condition otherwise, and assert.
positively that he could have made the re
naming nine miles in the two hours and
'hlrty-Scvcn minutes left, but that his at.
icndants would not allow him to start
ihcy argued that continuation of the
tramp on badly bliStcrcd feet would leo
oard>ze The final result, and he thinks they
we're right. On the second attempt, start
ne from Toledo, he walked fifty miles
n eleven hours and ten minutes. This
brought him to Stryker, Ohio, which he
Aad been informed was only forty-tw,
niles from Toledo. On making inquiries
&c became satisfied that still greater dis
crepanclcS existed between the figures or
his carefully prepared time table anG
hose furnished him b. intelligent resi-.
icntS OF the places through which he
noSSnl lIa will ,,rl,liCb T,,n .to
N few days. In regard to the last trial
from Waterloo to South Bend, Indiana
"ighty-s miles, he says that the whole
Journey from beginning to end was made
n rain and fog, and over the worst roads he
has ever travelled. When he started from
Waterloo (.t mdnight), the rain was falling
III torrents, and it was so dark that it was
necessary to employ guide to lead with
u lantern, and two men 10 light the pedes
uian. All night long, through Kendall
vile, Brimticld, and WawaSka, to Ligonicr,
L distance OF more than forty miles the
tune table says thirty -fve), his route was
over muddy roads aud under a drenching
rain. Along the roads, he says, the people
rom the farms and villages had collected
90 see him, and nearly every waySldc
church and school was occupied by men
and women driven from the roads by the
storm These buildings were all lighted
and heated, and until he became accus-
| toned 10 the novel sight he thought the
pous residents of the country were hold
ng religious meetings and their children
attending night school. He made Ligonier
| n nine hours. At Goshen they sent out
brass band to play for him along the
| road to Elkhart, twelve miles. At
Goshen the wagon horses, tired out for the
guird time since the start from Utica,
we're shipped by rail to Laporte. Al
South Bend he WAS received with the
greatest enthusiasm. Outside OF the town
ne was met by a squad OF fifty policemen,
who had been detailed to protect him and
lead him in safety to the town. Here he
felt great fatigue, and fatty refused to
move All inch further, although he had
three hours and seven minutes IN which
to make but fourteen miles. After the
| terrible Journey had made" said he,
felt that the remaining fourteen miles
would be the longest walk | had ever un-
lcr,akcn." This afternoon he Will pToba-
big 90 to I'll" opcra-housc--this evening
certainly. The people are clamorons to
see him, and he will speak to them to-
night f,om the stage. He has been called
upon ;o.d day by a large number of citizens,
but az this hour is taking little rest. {.