The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-29
x HAKI k|DS" END
LONG Walk
TWO YOUNG MEN HIKE FROM
PHILADELPHIA TO SEATTLE
AND WIN WAGER.

The people of Missoula will remem-
/! br Walter Chaffee and Charles Kahn,
|. the Khaki kids" who stopped over
here on their way to Seattle from
I phifadelphia The two young men had
/ left the Sleepy city on wager of
81 900 each that they could make the
trip on foot from there to Seattle by
/ October /, a total of 1877 days. The
following clipping from the Seattle
/ Post -Intellingencer, sent to the MIS-
souiian office. will explain how they
1 came out on the deal:
u Five DAYS ahead of schedule tins,
4 Walter Chafee and Charles Kahn, Pc
destriaus. known as the Khaki kids"
arrived In Seattle at 3.34 o'clock yes
terday afternoon, l31 days out from
! Philadelphia from where they started
| at O'Clock on the afternoon of May
/ IS The young men are II years OF
| age each and look the picture OF
health rosy checked and hard as
| nails.
At police headquarters, the pedes-
/ TRANS reported to Captain of Police
! claud c. Bannick, who certified TO
their arrival Then they walked to
the postoffice and from there to the
| Hotel Washington. where they regis
| tered.
I'VE have enjoyed 1t Immensely"
! said Chaffee yesterday at police head
quarters. 1T was a fine trip. / tell
you. walking Is a great exercise. !
/ never felt so we'll / am ready to start
out any time on another trip.
| we made this walk on a wager. We
were visiting at a club in Philadelphia.
when talk of walking came up This
wager of $4,000 was made that Hahn
and myself couldn't walk to Seattle,
| leaving Philadelphia May IS and ar
irving In Seattle before october I.
| Well. we have won the wager. 1t Is =
private affair. and we will get the
money. all right"
End Walk.
Little did the two young men look
| as If they had travelled almost from
ocean to ocean when they walked into
the police station yesterday. Either
could have done himself justice in n
| 100 yard dash right then.
| The young men, under the terms OF
| the wager. had to leave Philadelphia
without "A cent. They are not allowed.
| to receive charity of any kind and are
! not allowed to work. They had to
make their living by selling postai
cards with their pictures and by CIV
Ing vaudeville entertainments for tho
privilege of selling the cards. They
had to and did stop at the best hos
tells In each city they visited. and slept
, In hotels every night it was possible
| to do so.
Generally speaking. the roads were
found i'm good condition: the finest
roads we found were In Iowa." said
Hahn THE roads i'm that state arc
excellent. In some states I'VE got off
the roads and went across country"
After stay of two weeks or so In
Seattle, visiting the exposition. the
young men will either start back TO
their home In Philadelphia or star,
out on another walking trip. Their
plans are not definitei" settled.
Here Sixteen Days.
| Before they start. large docu-
ment showing In just what towns they
stopped. with city seals, postmarks and
the signatures of chiefs of police. mar
shals and watchmen. win be examined
by those who are to Judge whether
they won their wager. II will take 10
and get their answer. so they win
spend that time In Seattle.
Leaving Philadelphia. chaffee ana
Hahn made their way to Morristown.
Reading and then Pittsburg. From
there they walked to South Bend. Ind:
then into Illinois and to Chicago. From
Chicago they walked to Spencer. Ia.
and crossed the Mississippi at Fulton.
From there they went to Clinton ana
then to Sioux Falls. s. D.. which. they
figured, was half way.
Then they walked into North Dakn-
Ia. where. In the bad lands from Iges
To Monmouth. they encountered the
hardest travelling. The water was bad,
and what they drank they secured
from water cars passing on the rail-
road and carried the fluid i'm their cam
teens.
l. In Montana.
Through Montana they visited
Miles City. Butte. Anaconda and Mis-
soula and then crossed Washington on
the line of the Chicago. Milwaukee q
Puget Sound generally. They came
over the Snoqualmie pass without IN
"ilent and walked into Seattle yester-
day.
The young men wore but one suit OF
clothes on the trip. That was a suit
of regulation United States army
khaki Their suits are we'll worn. but
still serviceable. On their heads they
wore the British army pith helmets
which they found withstood rain ana
heat.
Hahn wore three pairs of shoes and
A mai af hul xk,if
hob nails lasted them about twelve
days OF the entire f3i days Ii rained
80 days. making walking at thosr
times practically impossible.
The best walking the two young
men did was i'm Iowa. where they say
enc daN they made so miles. From,
Miles City 10 Butte they made 40 miles
day. They averaged - miles a day