The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-06-27

Across THE CONTINENT PER WHEELBAR-
ROW ENPRESs.-The ''man with the wheel
barrow, whose progress eastward from San
Francisco across the continent toward New
y OTlI city has during the past six months
furnished material for innumerade newspa-
per paragraphs in sections through which he
passed arrived in EbenSburg about half-paSt
10 O'Clock on Monday morning last. His first
stop was made at the pOSt-Office, where, as at
all other puSt-OfficeS at which u has touched,
the Office stamp, with day and date, was af-
fixed to a book which he carries with him.
He next visited a shoe shop, to have some
needful repairs put on his brOgans, after
which he partOOk of dinner at the Cambria
House. He is accompanied in his Journey
inGS by man named j. F. Fuller, whose
duty is that Of umpiTe-to see that the entire
journey Is performed on foot and that there
is no ''Shenanagen.' The pedestrian was in
Pittsburgh Thursday last, leaving that city
tine following morning He stayed over night
at Ligonier, and reached JohnStOwn Sunday
morning. Sunday night was passed at Fair
view, in Jackson township. Leaving here at
l o'clock, p. NJ, Monday, his route was by
way of Loretto and Chest Springs and thence
to Altoona, which city he reached Tuesday
afternoon. If he has good luck he expects to
reach New York city ON the 4th of July,
though if he is delayed beyond that date it
will derange no special plan he had formed
in his own mind.
\ brief narrative of who the oman with the
wheelbaTrOw' is, and the conditions sur
rounding the performance of his long and
arduOuS journey, as we find it for the most
part in the Pittsburgh Post, viii be of inter-
est
Last fell certain members Of the sporting frater-
nifty in san Francisco. conceiving the idea of >
wheclharrow match across the continent. purse
Of 81 800 raised. and MI L. L. Fedemeyer and
Lyman Potter selected for the race. They
started on December Sth. and Fedcrmeycr travelled
by way of san Jose. Sacramento, Virginia City,
Ogden, Cheyenne, Denver. Kansas City, -. Louis,
Cincinnati and StcUbcnviIle. When Fedcrmeycr
reached Cincinnati, Potter had not yet arrived at
Sedalia. No. point over 500 miles west of Gin
Fcdermcycr Is Frcnchman, native of Lorraine.
i about forty-one years old, and II a worker at
hair-frames. He is a small, hardy-looking man.
with a face Drowned by exposure, wears a full
beard and was dressed in Il suit Of tweed. The
wh-elbarrOw Is a medium-sizcd hand barrow.
closed in all sides with close fitting roof and
weighs one hundred and twenty pounds. The
wheel is covered with tin. and Is manned with q
cutter which aided its trundcr greatly in pasSing
through the snow. preventing IL from cloEginE ON
the wheel. On the top of the barrow l. riggcd a
fan. operated by Pulleys from the wheel. and
throwing brisk current Of air into the face of the
person at the handles. The sides the barrow arc
ornamented with business cards from all over the
country. The journey has been attended with the
greatest hardShIpS. often being compelled 10 push
his whcclbarruw through two feet of snow. and
having to camp out in the most severe weather
far from any human habitatiun. While crosSin M
the Sicrr.ls they were short of provisions and ai
the same time Federmeycr's feet were frozen. but
he still kept on his journey. They have made fire.
qucnt stOppagcs during the trip, and large crowds
have everywhere greeted them. They stopped
ten days in Kansas City. four in Sedalia and nine
in Cincinnati, giving pedestrian exhibitions ant
selling photographs OF Fedcmeycr and hls wheel
barrow. and by this means clear their incidenta
expenses Federmeyer says he intends to taxi
his whcelhsrrow to Europe after he had enjoyed
good rest in New York.
Fuller is a Yankee and will go on to hi
home at Plymouth, Massachusetts. His shar,
Of the ''Spoils" is said to be $3.50 and ex
penses.