Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-07-20


an average-when walkiug-of between
twenty-five and thirty miles per day. 1t
is Mr.. Payne's intention to walk entirely
around the world, that is to say, wher-
ever he can get ground to walk on.
Edward Payson Weston last season
created an extensive furore in the East
by his great pedestrian exploit of walk
ing from Portland to Chicago, a dis
lance 1898 miles, in thirty days. The
feat was attempted on a wager of Slo,-
900 that Weston could not perform the
distance in thirty days, resting four
Sundays on the trip. 1t was stipulated
that he should, on some one day Of the
t~wenty-six, walk n hundred miles in
tw~enty-four hours ; and that failing in
the FIVE different trials allowed him, he
should forfeit $4,000, or six-tenths Of
the stake. In every one of these trials
he failed, but accomplished the main
feat, q very little within the allotted
time.
Allardice, a Scotchmau, in 1906, walk
ed !, 900 miles in l 900 consecutive hours.
One hundred thousand pouuds-half q
million dollars-were staked on the re-
suit. Allardice died only q few years
ago. About 1915, one Eaton walked l.
100 miles in LOO consecutive hours. In
1860, Richard Manx, or Marks by name,
walked 1000 miles in 1000 following
hours at Sheffield, England. He was
completely exhausted and came near
dying, while Allardice, on the contrary,
after a sleep of seventeen hours, was
restored to his accustomed vigor. There
was this difference, however, in the
terms of their wagers: Allardice was
obliged to complete only one mile an
hour, and by walking the last part OF
one hour and the first part Of the sue
ceeding hour-two miles at q time
be managed to get one hour and a half
of uninterrupted sleep between times,
while Marks was obliged to begin each
mile at the beginning Of each hour. In
1857, q woman performed the same feat
of 1000 miles in 1000 hours ut New
York city.
Thomas Starr, q newspaper carrier,
and who never had any idea that he was
a great pedestrian, we think excels
| either of the aforementioned individu-
ais in the way of true human pedes'
TRAN endurance, and long unremittine
daily experience in that line. Mr. Starr
commenced as carrier of the daily Ter
~ritorial Enterprise, November LIST, 1868,
and Misunderstanding sold out his route
May lst, 1866; his time of stead!
service as carrier having been two year,
and a half, or just thirty months Hi:
route included all of Gold Canyon be-
low Gold Hill, Spring Valley, Dayton
and a portion Of Carson river, making
the actual distance travelled by him, in
GLIDING going, returning, wayside de-
liveries and general diversities of the
route, to be at least thirty-fvc miles
per day, on the average. He left the
office each morning as 500 as he could
after the paper went to press, his aver
age time of starting being 3 o'clock,
winter and summer, through deep
snow, mud, fair weather and storm.
Any one who has ever walked the eight
miles from Dayton to Virginia, having
to climb the hight of 1900 feet in that
distance knows what o wearisome tramp
it is, and can realize the task Of
doing the same thing over and over
again, daily, for months and years.
Mr.. Starr frequently travelled half his
route over a second time the same day,
carrying newly arrived Eastern papers,
etc., and numerous days thus walked
eighteen hours without stopping except
barely long enough to get something to
eat. His general load Of newspapers
on starting out weighed from twenty
Eve to thirty pounds, but he very fire.
quently took along also q lot Of posters
or haudbills to distribute, besides books
aud other articles which be had been
requested to procure in the city for Gus
toners along the route, making his load
amount to fifty or sixty pounds. Three
weeks Of the time he tried it on horse
back, but it was too much for the animal;
the poor horse could not stand it any
longer, so Starr had to 60 it on foot
again. The Enterprise being issued but
six days in the week, he had only those
days to carry it-but that made no diff
ference the seventh day was his "col-
lection day." when he went over the
entire route, settling With his patrons
for the past week, ~cauvassing for new
subscribers, etc. Thus he travelled his
route of thirty-6ve miles seven days in
the week, and three hundred aud sixty
five days in the year, for two years and
a half, making in all nine hundred and
twelve consecutive days without ever
losing a day. This makes a grand total
Of about thirty-one thousand two hun,
dred and forty miles travelling, or some
thousands Of miles more than the dis.
lance round the world. If they have
anybody down East who has beaten this
pedestrian performance, we have never
heard Of it, and confidently claim the
palm in favor OF our Washoe pedestrian,
THEIR ANA Washington CORES.
pendent says Of Grant and Colfax "It
is Colfax's aim only to keep the Repub-
i ltnao mani, sk.a;.hk - a.. A.