The sun., 1910-05-03
WESTON WALKS IN ON Us.
HgRE FROM the PACIFIC 10
DIYS AHEAD OF TINE.
Great FURRY AZ city IaIl when He Hands
IT'S les Angeles Paeket 70 the Mayer
At ~ Tie Ends Isis Greatest Feat
m I.nnd nealIh anh anrIghilN Human.

., ile Mayor Of New York yesterday
,rerDoon letter from tho Mayor OF
las angeles had finished his little s.0OO
nile raunt inside Of soventy-seven days.
Th,t was a tidy feat for a man Of y. az
every one remarked 10 every one else
"a rhe Jam Of people in City Hall Park.
hut moment later the long distance
,stter carrier had done what some do
cared to 10 a moro remarkable thing
for a man of any ago 20 do. Weston
made tho Mayor smile. then laugh a
hsavty outright laugh.
This was az something he spoke con
sdentially 10 Mr.. 0aynor. an easy thing
70 DO. because had he shouted no one
but the Mayor could have heard him
q, the time. the band not yet having quit
paying nor the crowd cheering. A little
aisr the band WA induced 70 stop. the
crowd shouted only az intervals and the
Mayor and Weston made speeches at
each other.
Weston. carrying his hat in his hand.
he deep bronze Of his face and pate
contF1ssing richly With his white side
and hack locks and mustache, ambled
onto City Hall PARA asphalt preceded
by three automobiles carrying pho
,oEraphers. old friends and managers, a
hand and some policemen. He looked
Ike q stage -old sport -jaunty. knowing.
oarsiree and very much on the job Of
boxing for any old thing that might turn
10 next and not caring much what il
might be-a sandstorm. an automobile
accident. q drought or \ reception. When
hs put on his hat-so that he might take
t a to the Mayor-the old sport likeness
vas increased. for the young fellow tossed
Il on a. q really devihsh angle and the
crowd loved him at the instant.
Ne did not look in the least like one
Who had just strollsd in from Yonkers.
10 say nothing of having walked an
average Of something like iorty-six miles
q day Tor. more than two and a half
months (for three months. barring
SIndaysl. When he put over that con-
hdential compliment joke or whatever
Il was 70 the Mayor It got the laugh az
which the crowd wondered. his own
bronzsd face cracked and creased into a
smile which no sufferer from corns or
fatigue could have worn.
But things were happening before City
Hal was reached Yesterday morning
Weston left his room IN the Getty House
lonkers before the earliest commuters
were astir and ate a strictly non-training
breakfast 4 coffee. eggs, toast. hot griddle-
akes and syrup Then, waiting little
ior his attendants and some old friends.
he started toward M old New York az
minutes past ! O'Clock Those who
heGan walking with him looked happy
81 first Weston doesn't sprint: he ambles
along with q sideWheel effect az a gait
q about three and a half miles an hour
That "a why those who started with him
boxed happy, any of them could have
done four miles an hour IN thai fIls, ss-,,l
mOgnlng air and not extended himself
BIT Weston never lOiters: that's why those
with him loohed unhappy along about N
O'Clock. began % think of things they had
left in the ACCOMMODATING automobiles
and vent hack % see u they had been
bumped out
Up by Klngsbddgs Weston psssed
Public SCh O1l 81 Illst as all the children
we're lined up t1-fntarch into the class
rDoms One angel faced boy saw first
what was coming and relieved himself
q a world u emotion with Dne vel! J.
Weston
Principal fitzpatrick tried q reform
TIE line, but there was nothing % reform
u out of Some n the boys marched all
the way tO City Hall
When the pedestrian reached the An
ennia. at Seventy-third street. ". T. d
Stokes invited him to bide wse and have
come refreshments II was then about
llo'clOok and out Of cuusidera ton for those
who still walked with him. nowan then,
me Old plodder consented Z take rest
and bite of lunch.
Where they came from was a mystery.
h.t IN hall an hour the Nnzonia was filed
with persons who knew Weston forty
years ago ~ were related by marriage
g. his wIfes cousins He greeted THESE
l-"pie with a twinkling eye and showed
them his feet And by the way those
FEET are worth looking At. With the excep-
non n little swelling and nrtIise due -
an autOm0bie bump a few dlvs ago his
feet are white. soft and well shaped.
hi'h'ng Witb salt water two or three
ur@- wed careful diving and suft.
Nl.te stockings are the secret gc says
Weston lelt the Ans1uiA at ! O'Clock
and from there down to Fury- second
Freet he walked between lanes ~ auto
mobiles These we're drawn up a. the
Clrls and generally filed with women
Wn0 waved hands and pyerworked the
hTrns The police escort was increased
d Seventy second street and was needed
Tor enthusiasts who wanted 10 tell their
grandchildren that they had walked
rsr way from Santa Monoca with Weston
t@gsn cvovding They made a crowd
'A-yrHg from tO 20 1Dn. changing more 0r
lsss although about 2D suck it out To
Cry Hall
- 10 O'Clock Forty second street
VA crossed, FOurteenth street A. 2.l5.
Gnd a. has been aaid the waiting Mayor
received the long distance wonder on the
Esps n City Hall a; l:lO.
The crowd broke through the solid
Ines a. Park row just A. the Mayor
opened the letter which West on delivered.
Immediately a thousand or ~ men and
hovs. discovering that the rear aud hack
c00rE - the hall were ung1arded rushed
.. making an attack on the rear and flank
ehlCh iAmmed the Mayor and Weston
70 such a degree that mounted police
uen had 10 bs called 20 scatter the crowd.
While the turfnoil was AZ its hottest
Mayor 0aynOr. still smiling. said 20
Wsson.
= hank YOU for bringing n me in
such an extraordinary manner this letter
from tho Mayor % Los Angeles. Penpls
ought 70 10 like YOU and live ~ much
~ nosaibls IN the open air IL they did
itsy'd 1--we Ca h. 100 years old right here
Ihe ieata Ot the athletes Ot old were
n0' any more remarkable than that
ils' comPloged by this ssventy-one-
ysav I'D athlete.
am mighty proud of you, Weston.
Ins whole world ought 70 he proud Ol
y0I You started On February ! AZ Z
O clock and got hero on May a. $40
O'clock Thia h marvellous. There never
vAs anything lFke that IN tho history oi
The World. You are one ~ the benetactOrs
~ tho human race You have made people
6 uut INTO the Open and taught them how
l. live II thew woitld follow voJtr teach