The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-06-24
Nem York ministers and Fast Horses.

A correspondent, himself a minister,
has been observing Iife'' from the pi-
azza of Harry Bertholf, on the Harlem
Road, and thus relates what he saw:
Gentlemen who do not care to ride
| fast, or do not care to be beaten, drive
here with their wives and families, and
| from Harry's pleasant parlOr I look out
upon the exciting scene. His piazzas
and balconies are full of the most dis
! tingujshed men in New York. Harry
was for many years the crier Of the
courts. A partisan judge displaced
him. He obtained this position, and is
immensely popular, not only with
I orsemen, but with judges, lawyers and
pr nicely merchants. His bar-roOm in
the afternoon is packed. The horse
men drink principally hot lemonade.
1t is curious place, for very1Ody is
discussed who goes tramping by.
HullO! that's a fine, nervous
team ~
"Yes; that's Weston, of st. Johns
chapel. He loves good horse. 1 was
out with him when he was chaplain of
the Seventh Regiment
And DR.. Weston goes dashing by in
| his slouehed hat and driving gloves,
with a brother minister, an ultra high
| churchman, at his side.
q DON'T YOU know who that
| That's Hall, of the Fifth venue
| church. Well, he can afford it. Six
thousand in gold, house rent and per-
quisites thrown in.n
And DR.. Hall, with pair of spank
| ing horses, a tall, Iarge-formed man,
with jockey cap on his head and in
spider wagon, rolls out of sight toward
Harlem river. Twenty years ago
Presbyterian minister in New York
could not have kept a span Of fast
horses and his pulpit besides. The
world moves. There comes Corey, with
Mountain Maid and Kentucky Mare.
He breaches in a little church on Muir
ray Hill, but it is one of the most elegant
chapels in New York. He is an eager
driver and loves the road.
Vanderbilt will die soon from an
affection of the heart %
H Why so?''
Didn't you know he gave Corey the
Mountain Maid ? She is worth S10,-
000."
Behind is a gentleman in earnest con-
Versation with Harry. Something to
drink ?''
Yes, but the fact is, my minister is
with me-"
q Well, invite him to take some
thing"
Bless me! I wouldn't do that for
the world, -
Let me see him. Harry says
Point him out to me. That him with
a cap Pshaw! I've seen him be-
fore.i' Harry goes up to the divine,
and to the question, VIII you join
Mr.. R in something to drink ?'' the
answer is, /" Certainly 1 will, Z" and the
parties reach the bar, glasses jingle, and
the pulpit and the pew understand
each other better.
q 1t was long time before I could
get my minister to take ride with me
on the road" said party on my left.
!, '' He consented one day, and / drove
only a fair pace to his great terror
Grasping the seat convulsiYelY heskept
Icfying out: Don't! Pleas Do
/ hold up! Don't drive so LIST liter
+ the second round he sat up erect. On
1 the third he intimated that horse was
Ia ming on me- Before the drive
SSei he be- SO excited that he
ed ~ Hell go by you'll y
ion continued
&ght round and
the road again.
alkeFs.
Of Weston in walking
| on miles in less than twenty
two hours naturally calls attention to
previous achievements of the same
character. OF these we find very in
| teresting account in work on Pedes-
trianism, published in Aberdeen in 1918.
1t seems that Robert BARLEY, of Nor
folk, who was born in 1719, used fire.
| quently to walk from Thetford to Lon
don in one day, returning the next; the
distance, 81 miles. Reed, of Hamp-
shire, in 1871, made fifty miles in a lit
tie more than hours. In 1862 John
HOgue made 100 miles in % hours and
Is minutes. 1887 Foster Powell
walked from CoAse'Rrbury to London
Bridge and back, in |e2s,hours and 80
minutes, the distance befEee,7o9 miles.
In 1906 Joseph Edge, of Nj iSld,
walked 172 miles in 40 hour g
minutes. In 1888 John Boty Wa.
700 miles in IA days, and DoWlec,
TOwcester, walked 500 miles in seven
successive days. In 1911 Oliver walk
ed 100 miles i'll % hours and fifty min
utes, and Edward Miller did the same
distance in % hours % minutes. In
1872, Jonathan Waring, of Lancashire,
walked 1876 miles in "a hours, : nd Cl n
vile, of Shropshire, walked I42 miles
on the Bath road in % hours and As
lLlnutes. In 1872 Lieutenant Creates
walked y miles in IL hours and sc
minutes.
The greatest pedestrian of all, how
ever, was Captain Robert Barclay, a
descendant of the celebrated Quaker
/ Barclay, of UrYs NlS01, while in
training to- y wager, he
made, in the park of Lord FuIkenbeTg,
10 miles in 10 hours q minutes. In
1906 he walked 100 miles in 19 hours,
over the worst road in the kingdom,
and just the breaking out of q severe
storm. Exclusive Of stOppages, the
distance was performed in II hours &c
minutes. In this walk he was attend
ed by William Cross, his servant, who
made the distance in the same time as
the master; and subsequently Gross
walked 100 miles in 19 hours, II min
utes, on the Aberdeen road.
In 1907 Barclay walked 7S miles i'll
II hours, over the hiIIy roads of Aber-
deenshire. In the course of this yea1
he ran IS miles in 2 hours and min
: utes, making the first 8 miles in Sc
. minutes, though the road was hilly anG
bad. In 1909, when he was % years
old, Barclay accomplished the great eX.
plot of walking 1000 miles il 1OO(
J hours. In the course of this feat his
weight, which was 1e6 pounds at start
ing, fell off 80 pounds.
From these facts it will be seen that
brilliant as was Weston's success OF
Wednesday last, he has still a grea
deal to accomplish before his name cal
be found at the very head of the noble
catalogue of walkers.-1M Y San.
Josh Billings Welcomes Spring as fol
lows: l. Spring came this year as mucI
, as usual. Hail, butuous virgin, 5,OOt
| years old and upwards, hale and harty
, old gal, welcum tew York State anC
parts adjacent. Now the burds Jaw
now the cattle drover, now the pig
: skTeam, now the geese warble, nov
: the LZats sich and ma tIlrn il fciSErr tn.