The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-30
HE BEAT THE RECORD
j. Edward Stone Walks from
San Francisco to New York.
The Distance Made in 1873 Days. ~ Days Less
Than Ever Done Before-IncIdents
Of the Trip.

Especial to TEE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch.l
NEW York, June 29-J. Edward Stone,
who started from San Francisco on
February % TO make transcontinental
tour on foot, arrived in this city yesterday
morning and reported at the Police Gazette
Office at u o'clock. He was not due here
until July 4.
Zoe Gaylor. a lively young woman,
started from San Francisco on a similar
errand about two years ago. She covered
the distance in 200 days. Stone, who is q
mechanic and has mad some experience in
walking contests, resolved to beat this and
he has done so. He accomplished the task
In Us days. He IL six feet eleven inches
high. He is rather slenderly built,
Muscular and why.
HIS LEGS AXE sHAPELY AND sINEwY
and are well placed under him. His feet.
''the main things" as Stone himself says
TO be considered in q walker, look too big
for him. They are encased in No. IL shoes.
They are somewhat lumpy and seem to
take grip on the ground like the hoof of
an OK. These feet Of Stones wore out ten
pair of SHOES between San Francisco and
New York. The eleventh pair the walker
bought at Paterson, N. J. He is wearing
them now. He and q companion. George
p. Sims, started from the Examiner office
where Stone was laid up with swollen
ankles. After the first four days his ankles
got swollen and materially retarded his
progress On the tenth day from home
the swelling had disappeared. The blisters
came, not on the heels, as he had expected,
but between his toes. The
BL1sTERs BOTHERED HIN ron A WEEK,
after which his feet remained free from
further annoyance. The only difficulties
encountered on the way was severe bliz-
Yard, which detained him three days at
Medicine Bow, Wyo., aud violent sick
ness. This detained him two dsys at Reno,
New. and two more days at Battle Noun
tain. During this time be became very
weak, his stomach absolutely refusing to
receive food. At Wadsworth, New, he
said his provisions gave out, and he was
unable TO obtain any for two days, except
one very scant meal each day. On each of
these days he proceeded twenty miles.
This was on March II and Is. Among the
experiences of Stone was
NIGHT PASSED IN AN INDIAN wIGwAM IN
UTAH.
There were three Indians in the wigwam.
They were very friendly TO the traveller
and were not in the slightest disturbed ct
his two 4S-calibre revolvers. Stone said
the outlay for the trip was $500. He was
sbstemious as to drinking, but is
HABITUAL USER OF TOBACCO.
Oatmeal was his favorite diet, and oatmeal
water stood him in good stead. Stone is
armed with two note books which have
certificates from agents at the various
railroad stations along the route traversed
by him. These have affixed the hour Of
arrival and other data to complete the
record Of his performance.
The route of his trip was San Francisco
to Ogden. S93 miles. along the Central
Pacific, then along the Union Pacific to
Omaha, 1854 miles; from Omaha to Chicago,
492 miles, along the Northwestern; from
Chicogo he followed the Lake Shore g.
Michigan Southern, to Buffalo, $40 miles
thence to New York by the Erie, 425 miles.
Stone expects to 90 into the museum
business. He was escorted around town
tonight by some of his admirers and shown
the sights of the metropolis.