The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-06-21
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-" It's snold and true Saying fhat.,a
foollmakes many It isscarcely neces..,s
to cite illustrations of this painful g:
for surplusage of them must occu, !,
every reader of the newspapers du,;,.
the last three or four years. n
evil hour it occurred to an individual
with more courage than commm
sense to CROSS the Atlantic Il
open boat. His success stimulated =.
other fool hardy fellow to repeat the Z,
in q smaller boat, accompanied by IL /
wife. The experience of this pair -,
sufficient to extinguish ell desire on th.;,
part to repeat the undertaking. RI
Paul Boyton eclipsed them by making,
boat of himself, and though he has MT
attempted as yet to cross the Atlantic
he has sailed and padded himself acns I
the English channel, and has for soma
weeks been floating down the Ohio And !
Mississippi rivers like stick Of diff.
wood. TO be sure, there is methoan
Paul's madness, the object Of bin
converting himself into something h,
tween marine animal and
q canoe taking the form of bill Intro
duced in congress to compel all mu
chant ships to be provided with suitst
his life.saving wearing-apparel. We
toms appearance on the road, whippiag
his calves and striding along toward
goal he invariably failed to reach On
time. started up a host of tramm ID \
tights, bIeeches, or short skirts and
broad-soled shoes, whose periormans
have nauseated the public and made lii
burden to newspaper men. When
Sergeant Bates limped from one end II
the union to the other, carrying tho
American flag over his shoulder, The
derision which greeted his absrrd and
wholly unnecessary test of loyalty
should have been enough to disconrsg
any further demonstrations of that char
acter. But it was not. To Bates and
his flag succeeded Potter and his wheel
barrow. The sergeant, whose skull va
stuffed with patriotic zeal to the exclu|
sion of brains, was followed by the A
bany numb-skull whose head had ~
room for brains or anything else. Bald
undertook by his tramp to demenatnx|
the attachment of all parts of the coufl
try--south and north--to the stars and
stripes. Potter merely desired to PROV
his ability to push an alleged wheel
barrow from Albany to San Francisc|
Why the hostile Indians of the plsa
or the white thieves of the unsetla
regions of the west permitted HIM tod
through in safety for the further afie
tion of mankind is one of those mys
terious dispensations that it is useless
discuss. 1t is enough-more th1
enough-that he reached San Francia|
! in SAFETY. As if that was not suficed
misfortune, the wheelbarrew man Is q
his way back, and there are two of bin
On the eighth of December last, Potts
set out from San Francisco on his Wal
to New York, pushing his wheelbarroH
before him. At the same time ON
Federmeyer started for the same placI
also driving a wheelbarrow, the tsp
being on "a race for a purse OF fitSl
hundred dollars, offered by some ss1
Francisco sporting man to the one w1|
reaches New York first within sava
months from the time of starting. al
Battle mountain, Kansas, Potter Sl|
behind, and when Federmeyer feache|
ST.. Louis, May 9Th, exactly five nopin|
from the time of starting, his competl's
had not been heard from, The forend|
wheelbarrowist expects to win his wss||
with ease, and then got up another NAVEL Y
to wheel his way back to the faaa|
slope in five and half months. "
quiet the nerves of our readers, We =
happy to announce tina. the route q Y
ramps does not lie through nor'Os
Ohio, as they 80 by way OF Cinclnn'1
and Pittsburg."