The New York herald., 1879-09-24

the nerves. The once shimmering spot where amid
a packed gallery the band was located is now
vacant space. The gay uniforms of the bandmen.
on which the eye could rest with grateful ease
from the tiring. steady electric light during
the evening, missed. and the only bit
of color that interrupted the dead monotony
Of black coats and hats has been obliterated. To
compensate for the silence of the band pieces the
crowd OF nevergo-hones cheered Justify. in and out
of time. just to keep the air stirring Now then
during brief silence, can hear the
call Of the lolipop man. who has pur-
chased the privilege of supplying the
patrons of the walk with taffy. or the
seductive yell of the scale man. admonishing every
body to 'git up and get weighed" or the hawking
of the fruit boy from different parts of the Garden
Suddenly, all other sounds drowned in q tremen-
dons cheer that reverberates through the rafters
Some of tho walkers squirting. and the laundering
reclamation evoked by the effort passes around the
place like successive echoes each repetition of tho
cheer being coincident with the advance Of tho
spurtors.
THE GARDEN I LULL
And so the morning wears on until. wearied Of
their efforts to cheer the walkers the most eloquent
gods of the gallery nod of into sound Sleep
Fainter and more distant seems the hawking cry
Of the fruit boy; the man who has been
bowling to the multitude to "xit up and git
! weighed" IS not half as earnest mandatory as
before, and now and then the lady who ofciates at
the scales wegher her feeble lungs allure
picay unes from the heavy and the light. Gradu-
| ally all sounds subside and the place is
so still that one is reminded of the
moments when under the same roof the revivalist
Moody held thousands in the silence of unuttered
prayer. AS the noise gradually grows less one is
make up the great hustle and hum that deaden the
| ear during the day. sort Of synthesis
four A. NJ. First, the stronger constituents
| OF the great chorus are made clear. and
fsobler elements manifest themselves SO it occurs
| that after all the bass notes silencod the
treble is heard; nan 1t , Is nov now -. tour A. NJ
thin call OF the scorers to the time keepers.
..Rowell's time. please" 'send me Ennis time
The lady the scale is fast asleep; the appc-stand
man mods and mods, but the approach Of footstep
| within ten feet of his booth wakes him up with
some such speech his lips as .Two for five cents.
| sir!" The lollypop man gives out no more taffy:
half as, are leaning the
| have made themselves comfortable for the night
| up in the galleries. and one or two OF the great
| downy pinions, has foated through the house and
cast her spell on all the walkers and diigent
scorers
BRaININa THE SECOND DAYS WORK.
So much for those brought together by the inter-
national walk. But the walkers, what are they
| doing meanwhile? Do they nap like the lazy spec
tators? No, for while maps the order Of the
hour with the crowd laps are engrossing the legs
| and attention. of the contestants. In yesterdays
! HERALD report the given for the first
| twenty-five hours OF the walk. At that time
Rowell lad made l27 miles and in advance of the
next best fully twelve miles when he retired to
sleep. He declared before retiring, that If he felt
| disposed he could beat Hazaers best time, 1873
| miles. He did not care, however, to tax
himself with the effort and so retired fully assured
| that of the men would catch up to him.
| twenty-four hours, was also in bed when the HER
went to press Concerning the sleeping of these
known yesterday morning which will doubt
interest Mr. Ennis and secure his earli-
appears takes his sleep in the tent provided for
him. They have rooms on the second floor, in the
southeast corner of the building. Mr.. Ennis.
doubt, will be delighted to hear that when he was
tossing about his cot unable to get asleep for the
music the band which is situated almost opposite
his tent, the other walkers sleeping
soundly up stairs When Mr.. Ennis reads this
there will be music in the air. When the band
stopped playing at two A. NJ all the walkers, except
Hart Jackson and Panchot, took short maps. Hart
had ITO miles to his credit at the time, but he
anxious TO close up the gap of Ave miles that
Merritt had made with him. and so while Merritt
slept he worked away. Between two and three
o'clock Panchots foot began to bother him very
Could his dodcA. 10 Try and rub away lump that
seemed to be forming under his instep. The manip
ulation of this bad foot occupied about thirty-fve
| minutes. and the reappearance of panchot on the
track was signal to all the rest to appear. From
conversation with the men and their trainers it ap
peared that they had no faith IN the story
that Panchots foot was troubling him. Krohne,
Hazael. Rowell and Guyon appeared in the order
named after Panchot had his loot fixed. The reap
pearance OF the little Englishman i'll jaunty striped
shirt his neck hidden in the folds of soft silk
handkerchief. was the signal for general bright
ening up among tho spectators. After he had
been the track about ten minutes he retired and
changed his shirt for one OF the same pattern but
OF different color During the next hour he changed
this garment no less than four times. He is full Of
humors. it appears, after sleeping and it takes him
some time to get his mind settled any given
point. Ho finally settled on shirt with lavender
stripe. and until daylight. After being the
track Tor about thirty minutes Rowcn found Guyon
slowly creeping upon MIN, and SO started into
a dog trot. Both Rowell and Guyon looked in per-
feet health. While Rowells face looked little
hard. Guyon's choeks which rival il color the
set tints of autumn apple, proclaimed that their
owner felt at his best His eyes flashed
brightly, and there was not in his appear
ance gait the slightest suggestion of fatigue.
Panchot with his i'll foot, strode along bravely.
but he could not conceal the fact that he i'll at
ease He is game fellow though. and in the two
hours between two and four O'Clock he managed
to make ten miles. He the last half
Hazael, Khrone, Guyon, Merritt and Hart.
In the order in which the men are
here named they spun around the for half
mile. At four o'clock all the scores except those
of Weston. Ennis and Taylor showed improve
o'clock. Hazacl i've. Guyon seven. Panchot ten.
Merritt seven, Hart four. Khrone three. Jackson
nine and Ferdemeyer three
TUE PEEP o DAY.
Tho crowd having by this time grown undemon
strative the men all travelled together il for
pany. They followed close another and
several OF thon having on striped shirts he
the track suggestive OK the breakfast walk
Blackwcll's Island As the men were jogging around
i'll this form Weston reappeared on the track, look
ing very tired and jaded He did not attempt
to keep up with the joggers, who made Ave laps
while he doing two. He finally consented to
join in the trot bat fell to the again after doing
lap Weston now began his monkey rranks
again: the string of joggers have just left him be-
hind, and some one calls out to HIM to keep up
Turning in the direction Of the speaker he
makes wry faces. and then, in imitation of
monkey afflicted with heas. he begins
to scratch himself under the armpits. While he is
ut this work Rowell closes up behind him. and fol-
lows his pace. The very presence OF any one be-
hind HIM worries Weston, and soon as he reached
the scratch lie reversed, so did Rowell, ana tor
about forfy-hve minutes Weston was sorely tor
mcncd lie hnally went to his tent and thus shook
the Englshman of.
SMOKING AT WORK.
strange scene was Witnessed shortly after
five O'Clock, when Jackson, the youngest and small
est of the pedestrians appeared on the track with
Roina Victoria in his mouth. lie puffcd away, and
seemed to take intense comfort from his smoke. 1t
the finest smoke he had had for several days,
and his appreciation OF it complete. Only
to smoker the appreciation of his
significant He fairly beaIned ut the weed as he