The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-02-10
EDWARD PAYSoN WESTON HAS
COMPLETED PREPARATIONS
FOR ANOTHER WALK ACROSS THE STATES
From Los angeles to NesO York City,
Diagonally Across the Continent, is
The Route Mapped ont BY the Famous
Pedestrian.
Pedestrian.

Edward Payson Weston, whose feats as
pedestrian have made him famous
throughout the world, has completed ar
rangementS for another and last transcon-
tinental walk. Starting from Los Ange-
les. Weston hopes to make this trip from
ocean to ocean in hundred days. He
ands of admirers in southern California
The actual start from Los Angeles was
westward, SO that Santa Monica, Cali
fornia coast city, can first be reached. In
this way the ocean to ocean circuit will
be literally covered. With the Pacific
Ocean rolling at bis feet, Weston will
then turn eastward for his transcontine1tal
dash.
When the walk ends on the steps of
the City Hall in New York City May aS,
Western will thus both technically and ac-
tually have walked across the contin-
ent from the Pac;i, TO the Atlantic
Wv iu'CACStAhS ASdtuIC VI TIC Walk
is Weston will be in his seventy-first year
and that it will end in his seventy-second
year. He will celebrate his seventy-sec-
ond birthday on March IS, enroute
There is one point in connection with
his forthcoming effort which Weston
desired to emphatically impress upon those
who are interested in walking as an
exercise and a past tim Weston regards
his proposed undertaking as somewhat
strenuous, yet absolutely normal physical
feat behind which lies great moral lesson
of interest to both old and young. Through
out his long public career, Weston has
been the leading exponent of walking.
He has taught its advantages to American
youth in the interest of perfect physique
and moral mentality. And now while pas
sing from his seventy-frst to his seventy
second year, blessed with robust health
and untiring activity as the result of a
life of temperate and correct habits-he
starts forth for his walk across the Ameri-
can continent to prove simply that the fact
is not one of superhuman or even unusual
effort, but an educational and healthy ex-
ercise which any man of normal health
and temperate habits can successfully
follow.
AS this season, the extreme southern
route is the only available course to
insure success. AS there are no rec
ognized post roads between Los Angeles
and Chicago, Weston will be compelled
to follow the tracks of the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe railroads, having Sc
cured the permission of the railroad of
fcials. This will enable him to CRAFTY
long cherished desire, to visit the ia
nous Grand Canon of Arizona and petri-
fed forests in that vicinity.
Weston's previous performance, when he
covered the continent between March Is
and July IL of last year, in los days, was
generally considered a marvellous success
by the public.
During the latter part of the journey,
however, Weston encountered almost in
surmountable obstacles in the shape of a
series of unlooked-for storms and intense
heat IIe was greatly handicapped, more
over, by having to frequently double"
on his trail. Hence his record was los
days. Weston's numerous friends in New
York City were perfectly satisfied, how
ever, with the result. They proposed
at the time to raise for him a substantial
purse, to be presented at testimonial lee
ture to be delivered by him upon his return
east When the pedestrian learned of the
proposition in San Francisco he pleaded
with his friends to postpone the testi-
monial until, as he telegraphed, 81 have
accomplished my task"