Arizona republican., 1910-03-15
GLOBE WALKER REACHES PHOENIX ON FIRST LAP HENRY STEWART. 50 YEARS OLD. STARTED FROM SAN DIEGO. Is to Return in Time for the Open
 ing of the Panama Cali
 fornia Exposition.


 Stewart. who arrived in Phoenix yes
 tcrday afternoon after completing his first lap from san Diego, Cal, on his tour of the world afoot.
 | Stewards particular stunt IS to ad
 vertise the Panama California exposi
 ton of 1915 by walking around the world via the city of Jerusalem and
 returning to San Diego before the opening day Of tine exposition. That
 is his chief mission; secondly. he \ spreads about him as he journeys from
 one town to another. the gospel of 1 good uhccr-that is his secondary mis-
 sion
 1 Stewart is 60 years of age. white
 haired and jovial. He started out from U san Diego with a pocket testament. E hymn book and gilt bound book or
 log presented to him by Mayor Grant | Coward of san Diego. He did not have any money. but it was St. Valen ! tines day. so he manufactured a few | valentines and sold them. He raised 1 si50 and with this sum started around
 the world.
 When Stewart got to Phoenix he went straight to the city hall. He ! " dilith MdNVT NUIiSlE lp SlSu HUI out" He soon got the gold seal of the city of Phoenix in his log with the mayors signature attested by Record
 CT Frank Thomas. Today he will vis- ] it the capitol and ask Governor Sloan 1 for his autogTph so that his records may be complete as he journeys around ! the world. IL is a part of his scheme to obtain an audience with the poten- | tates of the countries through which
 he travels. and he will not overlook 1 Arizona's governor.
 Stewart does not belong to the type
 of hobo globe trotters. There is a dis | tinction and vast difference.
 The two chief distinctions are clean 1 Illness and education. Stewart is q graduate of an English university. He ! is native of London and his boy hood days were spent in the Island of Malta His grandfather fought in the Royal artiller! at Quebec in 11Se. and when stewart reaches that city ' in his travels he will try to learn what he can about his ancestor who ! passed much of his time there while America was striving for freedom i With the single exception of his 1 soes. Stewards dress was immaculate. He wears a dust brown shirt and dark trousers. and around his shoulders carries a blanket army coat. His cheeks are red and glow with health. His hair and beard are white and in clined to be long and little curly at
 the ends. He wears benevolent gold trimmed spectacies shading a pair of
 bright blue eyes that are always laughing.
 As for his shoes-well. after he had walked across the southern end of the Colorado desert they were pretty well dilapidated He had patched the soles with remnants of automobile tires. and while in Phoenix will endeavor to raise enough money to purchase a whole new pair.
 Beside the coat that is wrapped tight and hung over his shoulder like an army blanket. Stewart carries a small grip and canteen-that is all. Any thing more. he says, would detract | from the joy of the journey. and any thing less would add to its discomforts. : In the satchel he carries his toilet ! accessories. the testament. the hymn | book and his log. The log contains | more than notes of his journeys. It is | filled with a detailed account of his ! adventures. and will be the basis of a | book he will publish when he com | pIctes the girdle of the globe At the ! city hall yesterday he read aloud a chapter from it: it was as complete | in detail as Thoreau's Walden and [ dealt with d subject vastly more inter esting to the average reader. It was ! well written. descriptive of all the lit | tie details of an adventurous journey. ! and here and there an apt Latin quo tation that showed his fondneSS for | Virgil and ovid.
 He was asked if he intended to snatch ! the laurels from the brow of Edward | Peyson Weston.
 Nothing of the sort he replied: | Weston is d great walker. but he doesn't now much else. He walks l too fast to enjoy it. I just saunter along and think nothing Of schedules or records. don't even wonder where am going to get my dinner. I just absorb the beauties of nature and the wonders of the desert. Sometimes I take out my hymn book and sing as I tramp along the lonely roads-for there is no one to hear me but the NdttuS MftHS. LAhu then. when grow weary in the after noon. just before the sun drops be- hind the ragged mountains in haze of gold, take the testament out of my grip and read wherever it happens to open--for it always opens at some place where I want to read. And then eat my hard tack and cheese, and take drink from the canteen and then spread the cloak over me and lie down to sleep feeling as secure and comfortable as if I were in a metropo- lis and not along in the middle of the desert with a circle of coyotes about me yearnlng for piece Of my hard tack"
 Stewart started from San Diego Feb ruary IA. He crossed the mountains to Julian and then struck Garrison springs. where he lost his way. He followed some automobile tracks and they led him to a deserted camp. His canteen gave out and for some hours he was