The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-01-31
To Walk Across Continent.

Los Angeles, CAL, Jan. 31.-Edw.
Payson Weston, whose feats as a Pc
destrain have made him famous thru
out the world, completed his arrange
nents today for another and last
walk across the continent. Start
ing from this city tomorrow after
noon, Weston hopes to max the trip
from ocean to ocean in a hundred
days. He will be given a great send
of by his thousands of admirers in
southern California.
The actua start from Los Angeles
will be westward, so that Santa Min
lea. a California coast city. can first
be reached. In this way the ocean TO
ocean circuit will b. literally covered.
With the Pacific rolling at his feet,
Weston will then turn eastward for
ais transcontinental dash.
When the walks ends on tAe steps
Of the City Hall in New York City
May 2s. Weston will thus both tech
~nically and actually have walked a
cross the continent from the Pacific
to Atlantic.
One interesting feature of the walk
Is that when it begins. Weston will
be in his seventy-frst wear and that
il will end in his seventy-second year.
He will celebrate his seventy secon
birthday on March Is, en- route.
There is one point in connection
with his Forthcoming effort which
Weston desired to emphatically inn
press upon those who are Interested
walking as an exercise and as pas
time. Weston regards his proposed
undertaking as a somewhat strenuous
yet, absolutely normal physical feat
behind which lies a great moral les
son of interest to both young and old.
Throughout his long public career.
Weston has been the leading expo
nent of walking. He mas taught its
advantages to American youth in the
interest of perfect physique and MOI
al mentality. And now while passing
from his seventy-fst to his seventy
second year, blessed with robust
health and uutiring activity as the
result of a life of temperate and cor
rect habits-he starts forth for mis-
walk across the American continent
to prove simply that the feat is not
one of s~uperhuman or even unusual
effort, but an educational and healthy
exercise which any man of normal
L utdIln anu lCAiD tIdlt udDilS can SUI
ces sfully follow.
At this season, the extreme south
crn route is the only available course
10 insure success. Al there are no
organized post roads between Los
Angeles and Chicago. Weston will be
compelled to follow the track of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail
road, having secured the permission
Of the railway officials. This viii en-
able hin to crafty a long cherished
desire to visit the famous Grand Can
on Of Arizona and the petrihed for
ests in that vicinity.
Weston's previous performance
when he covered the continent be
tween March Is and July IA of last
year in los DAYS. was generally con-
sidered a marvellous success by the
public.
During the latter part of the jour
ney. however. Weston encountered al
most insurmountahle obstacles in the
shape of a series of unlooked-for
storms and intense heat. He was
greatly handicapped, moreover, by
having frequently double" on his
trail. Hence his record was los DAYS.
Weston's numerous friends in New
York City were perfectly satisfied.
however. with the result. They pro
posed at the time to raise for hi7n a
substantial purse, to be presented at
a testimonial lecture to be delivered
by him upon his return East. When
the pedestrian learned of the propo-
sition in San Francisco he pleaded
with his friends to postpone the tes-
timonial until, as the telegraphed, Il