The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-26

l his thanks.
 Weston plodded doggedly ahead after leaving Kirkland, and at o'clock passed through Oneida Square, | on the outskirts of Utica, avoiding a crowd that had waited up all night to see him. By the time he reached Utica the easterly wind had increased to 9 gale of forty miles an hour, and the old man could only make be- tween two and three miles hour. At 40 when he reached West Frank fort and came to very fne-looking attendants and said that he would like to stop there for something to eat and 8 rest.
 Perhaps it was a coincidence or per haps it was fate which led Weston to stop at this particular house. but tn e facts of the case are that forty-three years ago, when Weston made his first walk from Portland. Me, to Chicago, he was a guest at this house and that the man who then lived there was so impressed with him that when. on the Christmas Day following, there was born to him son he gave him the name of Weston.
 It was Weston's nameSake who yes terday greeted him most effusiveIy and extended the hospitality, which was not only ample. but which carried with it an assurance of the deepest sheer ity. Eugene Weston Bennett is the name of the West Frankfort farmer, now a. prosperous man 43 years of age. who welcomed Weston to the old homestead of the Bennetts and bade him stay as long as he possibly could.
 
 breakfast at Bennett's, and then was shown to the guests room. where he went to bed, leaving word that he tendantS called him at that hour. but, as the gale was still at it's height, Weston said he would stay in bed an other hour, and did not get up until 12 At that time a dinner was await ing him, and at 1 o'clock D. he started eastward. although the wind was still blowing about thirty miles hour. which retarted his progress somewhat. As MT. Weston was 1eav- ing Bennett's house the farmer said:
 sHThiS has been one of the happiest days of my life, for I have always wanted to entertain the man after whom I was named: MT Weston vas when Weston first walked to Chicago, and my father always thought that he was one of the finest Americans there was. Father thought much of MT. Weston and his feat that when I was born, on the Christmas Day following his visit, he had chriStened Eugene Weston Bennett"
 While Weston was resting at Farmer Bennett'S house the village of Frank fort was unanimously enjoying a. case of "twitters," as the people there had read that the walker would probably be in town about 1 o'clock No word five miles away, and so everybody in the village left off work and stood in the village | square awaiting his arrival. The | der to enable the children to see the | famous pedestrian. and at the same | hour the manufacturing plants shut l down, to give their employees an hour | for the same purpose.
 Weston. of course, did not arrive l during the forenoon, and at II o'clock | the school bells rang and the factory | whistles blew in vain. for everybody | expected the arrival Of 1 Weston. Y Between 12 and|1 o'clock [ word trickled into town that Weston 1 was not coming until late in the aft l with the result that there was | a fair attendance at the schools and a | moderate showing of hands at the | mills.