The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-14

Their FiTtieth Anniyersary-Their EN-
periences In 2SO-Mile Journey.
EGhu Root, Jr., and his college chum,
Frederick B. Bastian, tramped into town
Yesterday afternoon very hot and dusty.
after their two hundred and thirty mile
walk from Clinton, N. Y, where they nave
lust finished years study at Hamilton
College.
To be exact, their tramp extended 10
the New Jersey side of the North River
After crossing the Fort Lee ferry they
scrambled into the first available trolley
car and rode down to the Roots town house,
rs East Sixty-ninth street, where they
exchanged flannel for linen and walking
shoes for worsted carpet slippers. After
dining on such impromptu danties as the
caretaker of the closed house and his whe
could prepare at an hours notice. they
bolstered themselves up with SOFA pillows
on a hall settee, and told each other and
every one who joined them what good
time they had had.
Thew left college at noon on Friday,
july 3, and walked twenty-four miles TO
Hamilton, where Colgate University Is.
The town didn't interest them, as they had
been there often for inter collegiate base
ball matches.
But Norwich, which they struck the next
evening, after twenty-three miles stretch,
they describe az the most exciting stopping
place of their trip. They dined at the
principal hotel amid constant popping
of Fourth of July tirecrackeTs drummer
tried to persuade them to give up the voca-
| ton of amateur tramps Tor that or spice
INNn
| meath their windows kept them awake
| till the small hours. I'll,
Earlier in the day, between Earlsville
| and Norwich, they had met person whom
| they describe as their prize farmer. he
| is will C.. Adams, and he lives with his wiie,
outskirts of Riverside. He was very in
| dipnant when pay was offered to him for
| the fine midday meal he and his family
| shared with the boys. but was appeased
| by a hearty invitation to visit his guests
| at college next year.
| On the sixteen-mile piece from Norwlch
| to Guilford, a very proper young woman
passed them in an automobile as they were
Sitting shoelcss by the roadside, twiddling
| their bare toes An hour or so later the same
Young woman came upon them bathing
their feet in the Shenango. She met them
n third time later in the day, and this time
Enthusiastically smiled over them.
The fourth day was the longest, as it
aaw them from Gulford TO Walton-thirty-
Ave miles. townsville, Livingston Manor.
where they met the spice-selling drummer
again; Monticello, Middletown, Monroe,
and Ridgewood, n. j., completed their
stopping places. Young Root VOWS they
could tell Immediately that they had crossed
the State line by the swarms OF mos
nuitoes which descended on them.
They met no vicious dogs and no tramps,
Their chief worry was their washing They
| carried change OF understanding, put
no extra shirts. The result was that,
one town, Bastian had to stay in bed while
Root stood over a local washwoman,
ternptingly displaying dollar bill as a
reward FOR quick job.
At Middletown, they patronized the same
laundry as did an itinerant circus. Cali
ing for their clothes after few hours, they
found them still unfinished and Bastian
had to do the ironing.
Like Farmer Adams, almost everybody
thew met was amused but kind. One inn
keeper. however, when asked whether they
could dine a la carte, told them that they d
shave to take what's on the table
Were going to do it again on our fiftieth
anniversary" concluded the amateur
tramps.
Although they are fond Of golfing and
tennis. neither Root nor his chum is of the
football-playing, strenuous life type. Both
are slim. Root is about 5 foot s.
Bastian two inches shorter, The former
reioins his family at Southampton, l.. L,
| tomorrow.