The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-18
VACATIONS OF 4 BBBp
ut. REV. LEIGHTON COLEMAN,s
METHOD OF SPENDING HIS
SUGIBEES VACATION
HAS HAD ODD ADVENTURES
Head of the Episcopal Diocese o.
Delaware Has Sometimes Slept
IA Deserted Houses md
Sometimes in Barns.

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lt. Rev. Leighton Coleman l. I, D
S. T. D., Episcopal bishop of the do
cese of Delaware has laid aside his
clerical saIb and put on a coarse suit and
left his beautiful home in Wilmington
for two weeks pedestrian tri1, through
some of Che rough and mountainous parts
Of the Eastern states On these trips The
bishop does not care 30 be recognized ard
respected for his high position in the
church, as that would take away one
OF the pleasures Of his vacation.
The bishops costume is one IL which
few persons would recognize him, and
which IS worn more for comfort, SO he
claims, than with 4 view to conceaIing his
identity His wide-brimmed low crowned
black SLOUGH hat looks serviceabIa, While
his blue flannel shirt is worn open at The
neck and without a tie: 2 dark. coarse
sack suit is worn under an OLD rusty
black buster" His shoes are heavy and
viii stand a long tramp. In the knapsack
that is strapped to his back is q change
of clothing
He carries a stout cane or staff with
a crook. This year The shoes and staff
are new, hut the rest CT his outfit has
seen service before. Last year his staff
was broken. ard is kept with others OF
his collection II @ corner CT his study.
For ten Years his trips have been con,
fined to the mountains of Virginia ard
West Virginia, but this year he went
through Western Maryland and crossed
the Pine Ridge and Allegheny mountains.
"Nhen I was schOolbuy in Philadel-
phia" said the bishop in speaking Of
his trips. "Our principal, Prof. Francis
\. Jackson would take the boys on a
tramp INTO the country and there teach
US more than We could learn from books.
Later, another teacher, Theodore d.
Rand, would take us bctanzirg, and the
love Of ramping grew in me.
BEGAN FORTY YEARS AGO
eve formed club and called ourselves
the Dclphian Circumferan2ous assOcia-
ton and had for our athletic field the
old FairmOunt basin. around which we
would run and walk. In 1854 We held
regular races. at which The prizes were
two belts made= for US by our lady
friends TWO years later il was decided
that whoever won the annual races
should be allowed to keep the belts and
I was Sc fortunate as to win them both.
have taken good care of them and
prize them highly. Some of the boys
Of that little club have become famous,
but l do not think that any Of them have
been more true to their early love of Pc
deslriznism than have been.
I began my early pedestrian trips
over forty years ago. At that time
was rector Of a little church at Buste-
ton. near Philadelphia, and became quite
B. Erbin. He and I began by taking
trips into the mountains of Pennsylvania.
After a few years we became separated,
and thereafter I always went alone, al
though not year passed that some one
does not desire to keep me company.
During my trips I have covered most
of the country in the East. I have ex-
plored many rivers, including the Con-
necticut, Delaware, Hudson, Housatonic,
Lehigh. SchuyIldll, Susquehanna and
Potomac.
This year I left the house late ON the
evening Of Sept. 20 and returned about
midnight Oct. 8, havink been gone fifteen
days, thirteen of which were spent in
walking, during which time 1 walked 261
miles. 1 did not walk on Sundays.
Naturally, I met with amusing ad-
ventures. On this trip L was recognized
several times In one place a young wo-
man ran up to me, saying, I want to
shake hands WITH YOU, bishop. I read OF
your trip, and having heard you preach,
recognized ygu. Our fri-nd asked If
i carried u revolver.
u was taken for a peddler, a shoe
maker school Inspector a tramp, an
advance man Of q circus ana d uaIpeIl-
ter in search of work I was called
Daddy and Old Kris One man said
he guessed / was any old thing I went
into several school houses and spoke to
the pupils.
One school teacher asked What's
wanted? and later explained that she
thought 1 was the father of some of the
pupils, and wanted TO take my child
home, or something. AS I passed a
tavern where some men were sitting at
the doors and windows they called to me
10 come IN and get a drink They little
thought that they were addressing a
total abstaining bishop Two little boys
fell IN and kept me company for awhile
and when We separated l gave them 5
cents. My but you must be q richh
man, they said.
NEW STYLE COWGIRL.
L went to q house where 1 was told
the people We're in the habit of taking
!l0dgers. The family were on the porch
for the night?' 1 asked, removing my
nat = young woman sitting there start
Cd 70 question me, thinking that 1 did
NOT want TO pay for the accommoda tons.
ana seemed about to refuse
looked toward the barn and re-
marked might spend the night there.
was i0id that l could not do so
happened TO mention that | had money
ais surprised the young woman ana
Sha S2lq; Then you are no bum? p AS
StillS lheIn that l was not, I was given
the desired accommodations The Volluy
N91helA VINO mad misjudSed me was SO
ashamed Of herself that she left the
mouse. and did not return while [ was
there. At breakfast the hostess said
Of the brain
Among other curiOSitieS I saw q new
style OF cowgirl one morning and again
IN the evening. She was driving a num-
L5r OF cattle. She wore d pink shirt
waist and q white duck skirt both fresh
ShG ciean, and she was barefooted
Tnis trip strengthens my idea that
II9SI mas nothing to do with the rich
TSETi mott ana the falling Of the leaves.
mere had been only one slight frost, and
t1at was a couple OF weeks before tha
leaves began falling. My idea is that
TIE leaves so through a regular course
on maturity and that the frost has moth
Ing to do with the cOloring or falling Of
now, '''
most ana drummer were discussing the
pGueStGljlH trips of certain biShoD of
Mnom they had read in the papers. A
It5ltA St0ppeQ me in the road and asked
~ BUSINESS. Are YOU selling anvfhinoo;
80 nave nothing to sell. 7 am walking
SEE. tI'S, IRE, - ms puzzled him, and
You seem to be q man of some birth
and edUc2uon, and I can't understani
why Il man or your intelligence shoujI
Le s3ch 1901 as to walk when you can
"Of course he couldn't understand It. ]
ota not expect him 10. He was a man
VINO would chase n horse around a field
Tor an hour in order TO drive half
1nlle &c the pOstOffics. Standing there in
{he, road he told me he had read of a
bishop who walked for pleasure and
ted me Of some Of the experiences 7 had
IN FORMER Years. He did not know or
course that he was talking to the
y kept dairy of this "trip. as ! have
OF former trims. ard had pleasant time,
Sometimes people take me in for a
night's lodging and sometimes they. dc7,,.
| have slept on the floor of desertod
houses and / have slept IN barns
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