The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-11-25
THE GREAT PEDESTRIAN,
Excitement In CIyde...His Experience
in NOrwRlk:--A Night in BeIIevue...
PerIpateuc GaIIantry-.-UIrcuItou
Travelling,


CLYDE, O., Nov. 2l.-The tidjngs of
the approaching pedestrian here. for
two days, kept the pulse of this ordlna-
rily quiet burgh at fever heat. Tele-
graph operators are bessiged, newspa-
pers snapped up at any price, and every
person riding or driving westward is
met with this one all absorbing ques-
ton, Where's Weston2 Is he
sick, or is that all a hoax about
his getting is arm broken at
Norwalk? Weston having tele.
graphed that he would be here some
time last night, grand scheme prepa-
ration was at once entered into. Pow
der for the cannon was provided , in or
der that the arrival of the conquering
hero might be thundered far and near.
An amateur orchestra assembled in the
parlors OF the American Eagle House
10 welcome the wandeFer with the dull
Get strains OF two violins, a guitar, a
viGloncello and piano. The pedestrian
did not arrive, however, but the orches-
ira pulled and wheeZed till late hour.
Chickens by the dozen we're slaughtered
aud beef enough provided to have fed
dozen eaters, though they had been
all Westons. The telegraph tinally an
nounced that The stay at NorwAlk had
been protracted till forty minutes past
ten, but the determined crowd deter
mined TO stay 1t out. Half fare excur.
sion trains came loaded from north
and south, and was determined to see
the thing out at any cost.
Meanwhile, the pedestrian pulling
along through the darkness, had reach
ed Bellevue, fourteen miles from Nor
walk, aud finding his party utterly ex-
hAusted and his feet growing somewhat
heated, darted Into the hotel and Stop
ped for the night. HE has stopped at
Bellevue" whispered the wires, and
NJ flnnYt TafR 81
hurried away to catch a few hours
sleep before the coveted arrival. Wes-
ton slept we'll, rose at 8 o'clock, started
at 1O:Z0, and as we write Is skipping
along toward this place. The occur
rences at Norwalk indicate how slender
Is the thread upon which the success of
this walk depends. No crowd could
have been more well-meHning in its
enthusiasm, or farther from any wish
to injure the prospects of the pedes-
triHn, but it was painfully apparent to
every one how W holly he IS In the hands
of the throngs who flock to see himl a
stone hurled by an unseen hand, the
prick of stealthly poinard may al
most at any moment snatch from the
foot-sore wanderer his dearly earned
success. Rushing into his room pale
and excited, with the hilt OF his broken
whip as "a memento of the crush from
which he had just emerged. Weston
said, ''If lose this race IL will not be
because have not tried to win 1t, but
because those who wish me best have
prevented my success" Far more
hurtful than the real injury resulting
rom such an encounter is the nervous
unsettled state OF mind which follows.
The walker loses hisAppetite, is unable
to sleep, aud the functions Of that sen-
sitive and complicated machine are
rendered disturbed and difficult.
a rest OF two hours and a song, how
ever, soothpd him, and to-day "Rich-
ard is himself again" He continues
the kindness of the Cleveland people,
who, while fully as anxious as those OF
other places TO greet him, did not for;
get the limitations of courtesy and
good sense,