The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-24
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lanre In n hours " minutes The walh that
be- colupie,ei laai nieht vas Tor = Distance
fouf miles tpnaer .mahina N almost i0n milrs
De left the City Hall In Philadelphia a. i7O5
yesterday mprning ~ that HE time alto
gethpf, counting ~ ten minutes for hi- tfip
on he ferrytuat. vas ~ hours " n%iinutes,
This clipped Va minutes IN . time perform
Rncr registered for n distance four fnilns
shorter and showed more than anything
rlae the wonderful preservation ~ this rnnn
almost ~ years old
the srene when he reached the city Hall
WIS one ~ unusual intercs. N has been
years euaoe there hss been active interest
shown In heel and toe or any other kind 81
walking. A crowd Of several hundred per-
sons followed the veteran walker from the
moment he left the ferryboat Mt Cort-
landt street and gave him a he,rty cheer
ss he arrive at the steps. This should
appropriately have been The end Of his
jaunt, bu, without showing signs Of abnor-
NAL fatigue the ancient Weston swung 90
with the odd hitch 81 the shoulders that
ma riSed his Old pedestrian gait to keep an
appointment for a midnight meal at the
hotel.
II was a hard journey for the old man
and certainly a great feat. Leaving Phiia-
delphia shortly after midnight he set out
by lantern light. When dawn broke he was
nearly at Bristol, twenty miles on his way.
He fed chiefly oneggs and milk and did not
seem distressed until the sun began to beat
do~n on him.
At Trenton, after walking thirty-one
miles, he was twenty minutes chino his
record. He should nave been there at half
past 7 O'Clock, but instead was there at 1850
O'Clock.
The old gamester stuck at his task and a
few miles further on he had fairly walked
the horse driven by one Of the doctors
who followed him clean of its feet. The
horse fell behind, and by the time that
Princeton was reached he had gained 40
much on the record that be was fourteen
minutes ahead OF time.
At Kingston, where he had registered
about half the distance, he was due at 11;2o
but reached there ten minutes ahead of
time.
The dust and the heat were q source of
much worriment to him and Weston could
not make such good speed when the warm
rays Of the sun beat down upon him, When
the sun got real warm he put In his hat
leaves from a cabbage presented him by a
Kingston farmer and carried in his hands
small pieces Of ice that the doctors who &C
oompanied him gave him to hold.
The distance hetween Kingston and
New Brunswick was the worst the aged
athlete encountered. The dust blew in
clouds about him and his throat was choked.
He entered New Brunswick ten minutes
lehind the schedule. at 2:30 O'Clock. 1t was
at a:14 o'clock that he trotted into the centre
of Newark at Broad and Market streets.
He was expected to do the distance between
there and Jersey City so as to be in time
to catch the II O'Clock ferry for the other
side, 1t was 11;l4 O'Clock when he came
down the runway into the ferry boat.
1t was the ferryboat Washington that he
caught at ll14 and IL left a minute later.
Az aDproYipntely II rs he stepDed off the |