Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-21
5000 MILE WALK.
MIR. and Mrs. D. II. WooIf of Kansas
City Making Trip for His Health.

d. H. Woolf and his wife have not
as high an opinion of Hartford as they
had when they got into that town on
Sunday. They are taking a little walk
from Kansas City to Boston, mat
ter of more than 5000 miles by the
route they are going. They are walk
ing for their health, and making their
living on the way by selling postal
cards. bearing pictures of themselves
and their camping outfit They want
ed to get a permit to sell these cards
on the street from a little wagon
which carries their baggage. Chief
of Police William F. Gum would not
give the permit for any place except
Windsor and Village streets. They
did not find the class of people there
they cared to cater to. and asked for
permission to sell the cards on Main
street, and were turned down. They
appeared. or rather MIR. Woolf did, to
Mayor Edward l.. Smith, and he de-
clined to override Chief Gum. Con-
SeQuentlN. Mr.. Woof said, they would
say good bye to Hartford
Mr.. Woolf, clean cut plain spoken
young man. had long talk with the
mayor in an effort to make his share
of travelling expenses in Hartford He
is d musician, and was an orchestra
leader in his home city, Kansas City,
until his health failed, and he became
a nervous wreck. His doctor told him
the only cure was open air, and lots
of it. That. at first, did not seem an
easy prescription to fill, until Mrs
Woof suggested walking, and they
have been walking ever since, mat
ter oftwo years. Mr.. Woolf is re-
gaining his health and expects, when
his walking is done. to be in better
physical condition than he ever was
before
Mrs Woclf is a stenographer, and
she is keeping stenographic notes of
their travels and eventually they will
write book, entitled Camping and
Tramping.'' In this book they viii
it. Mr.. Woof was frank in telling
Mayor Smith that he did not expect
to give Hartford's officials very high
recommendation in his story.
I'VE have been used fine every
where" he said. Everybody held out
We have asked for nothing and paid
our way. When we got to New York
they told us we would find a different
atmosphere in Connecticut. 1 always
haG a theory that people We're the
same all over America. In Bridgeport
In Meriden. a little village down the
road, they wanted to put us off in a
corner of the town and SO We did not
stop. And now in Hartford we are
turned down again
The outfit consists of .-Doilie," the
horse. and Dom their dog. The
Woolfs carry their tents and cooking
utensils with them, and always sleep
in the oren. seldom stopping at hotels.
They are dressed in khaki. and their
clothes are made for walking. Last
summer they walked from Kansas
City 10 the Pacific coast and returned
by train. They started their 5000
mile !jaunt on October Is last Year and
went through Kansas, Arkansas. Ok
lahoma, Texas Mississippi. Alabama,
Georgia North Carolina, Virginia, Del
aware. Pennsylvania. New Jersey and
New York. stopping at Sycamore Hill,
Oyster Bay. long enough to get an
opportunity to shake hands with Col
onel Roosevelt. They do not like
Hartford hospitality very well, and SO
they will push along as soon as pos
sible- for Springfield, and then on to
Boston.