The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-11-18
Weston's Third PaiIure TO walk 100
MILES


Weston has again, the third time
failed to make his 100 miles in "a hours
He did some good walking for 80 miles
making II in 10 hours and 5 minutes
lint on arriving at Conneaut, the tele'
graph says, his feet were too muct
swollen to proceed further. And speak
ing OF weston's attempted feat the
Boston papers are evoking from the
past, instances of pedestrian efforts that
exceed not only weston's deeds oui
also his aims. A man named Powell
thew assert. once walked in England
Ii2 miles In "a hours. He also made 81
miles in hours. Captain Barclay, the
celebrated English gymnast, walked l9o
miles in 10 hours. But these men, sug'
gests an exchange, walked TO win.
Whether weston's aim is the came is
doubted by some people.
Since Weston's walk first began to be
talked about, pedestrianism has become
all the rage. A man named Payne is
travelling from New York TO San Fran
cisco. and intends TO brave the savages
and snow storms Of the plains, and
scale the ockySSIountains, all in i've
mouths. Hungry Government clerks,
at Washington, are racing sleepy diplo-
mats to the chain bridge, and Of course,
beating them. Indiana printers are
running fifteen mile races; and adven-
turous New Workers are trying to out
strip horses, and OF course are getting
bealeu. In Clarion county, Pennsyl-
vanIa, a desperate female has run two
and.a-half miles in seventeen minutes,
and challenges the fastest woman in
the country, for a race, on $50 wager.
The New York Sun is not sure but
what weston's walk will have good
effect, after certain fashion, through
ont the country. We quote from its
remarks as follows;
muscular sports in this country 1--WE
are tOldl have lately taken the pugilts-
ticdirection. A few years ago prize
fight was something that occurred on
Iy at intervals of months, but now
hardly day passes that ones ears are
not dinRed by neWsboys bawllng at the
top OF their yOice-"Full account Of the
prize fight" Pugilism, in fact, Is now
i'the fashion" among large class OF
the sub.stratum of society, and any
thing that tends TO displace that FASH
ion by something less objection.
able Is entitled to commenda-
ton. Ifthat class who now delight in
pummelling one another to the con-
sIstency OF Jelly, can be induced to test
their muscles In less barbarous man
ner, humanity, at least, will be the
gamer. And II that much larger class
who delight in seeing or reading about
such disgusting exhibitions as prize
fights, can be induced to drop them for
something that is not brutal, there viii
be gain Tor morality. The furore that
Weston has created all along his route
far exceeds anything that has ever re-
suited from a prize fight. II shows that
while the average of people delight In
muscular sports, they prefer that class
which Is devoid of baTbarOus features.
Weston is making pedestrianism "fHsh-
iouable." Everybody reads and talks
about him, and everybody expresses
the wish that he may reach the teTmi-
nus OF his journey "On time" Other
pedestrian matches will naturally grow
out OF this one, and the more this sport
ing feature is popularized, the less pu'
giiism will be relIshed. Walking Is
excellent exercise, and II people gen
orally would emulate Weston, as far as
10 develope the muscles Of their limbs
judiciously, the effect would be good
Although the trip OF Weston Is, in -Omt
respects. open to condemnation, II is sc
far preferable to prize fights and the
like, that 1t commands relative ap-