Arizona republican., 1910-03-17
LITTLE JAUNT IF STEWART'S
 World GirdIer Arrives At Mesa
 THE LAST 0F HIS WORRIES
Is the Absence of Money. He is Making Tour of the World Because He Likes Pedestrianism As Means of Locomotion


 Pima beans which he had given him by a Mexican and without script of any kind. Henry Stewart. sixty years or age reached Mesa yesterday just be fore noon and left at 1:3O pm. for Roosevelt. expecting to stay all night at Desert Wells eight miles east or this place, enrOute on his trip afoot around the world, which will be com pleted January l. 1915. when he reach es San Diego, which he left February l4th. in time for the Panama -Califor- nia exposition.
 Stewart is an Englishman and he likes to talk and he certainly likes to walk He looks his years in his face but he is evidently a man of strong physique and his habits are as regular as the interest on a promis- sory note. He goes to bed with the birds and gets up with the birds. smokes a pipe and g cigar now and then when it is not too warm but in toxicating liquor he claims to never touch. He is not personally acquainted with Weston although he said he had met him in England several years ago. Stewart wears what would pass for ain ordinary old fashioned knit skull cap. although he terms it navy watch mans cap. He wears a shirt of fan mel and a belt that he purchased in London q few years ago when he made trip of seventeen thousand miles in seventeen months. He walked at that time from Long Beach to Boston and then shipped across to London where he has brother. his only rela- tive. Stewart is unmarried now and never was and contends that his trou- bles are few and always were.
 The object of the trip is primarily because he likes to walk and secondly it is in the interest of the San Diego exposition. He is a member of the Boosters club and has a seal of that organization with him which he has on cards with his signature This he uses as sort of open seance to make acquaintances and which always is used as an identification. To his new friends he gives a card which reads: March 16, 1910. Between now and then think of me. January lst, 1915 l walk into san Diego. Henry Stew art" Of course as he proceeds along the route his coming will be heralded ahead of him just as it was at this place and as long as he is in the United States he will in all probabil ity be cared for but when he gets over into the Holy Land where he expects to visit he may not be able to work up enough enthusiasm over the coming Panama San Diego exposition to in . hat underneath the belt which comes about by being without purse and script with which to buy a slice of bacon and a few frijoles. However he claims that is the very last of his wOr- ries. He has made two trips across the continent on foot and has never gone hungry and thirsty, although he did hesitate a little when saving that he had never gone thirsty.
 From the fact that the man has such a strong physique and is starting out on sucn monstrous undertaking at his age the question was put to him as to some of his habits in early life. to which he replied: When a boy l went in for rowing and football. in fact l was captain of a football team before the game was ever heard of in this country. I also walked a good deal even in those days and did so for the pleasure I got out of it. I attended school at St. Johns university. My early habits were not at variance with the other boys at that time. l went out with the boys and drank beer which was not intoxicating but only clouded the brain. l went away from home and followed the sea. My brother for years thought me dead and the Sroperty went to him in the mean time. When l returned home alive he assured me that I should never want for money but my needs are very few. lead the independent life and have no cares or troubles. I am a Bible student but am not in the least fet- tered by any creed. I feel that I am above creed. I am the same in pol itics. I have no politics. I am cit izen of the United States
 From here the route will lay by way of Roosevelt and thence through the Apache country and finally striking the Santa Fe mainline at a point about eighty miles east of Holbrook. He will strike Denver and continue on to Chi cago where he proposes to lecture With the returns from these lectures he will follow out several little plans he has for spreading the gospel of the San Diego exposition. One of them is to have made q gold flag staff in which will be placed the United States flag A second opening will also be