The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-04
Vast CROWD WELCOMED
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autograph as a compliment to the
hostess.
Later at the Minneapolis club after
a light lunch, Weston ascribed the Ill.
ness to his two days of enforced rest
and the heat, walking as he was COM
PEELED to half of the morning with
head uncovered, a. he bowed in ac-
acknowledgements to the plaudits of the
crowds.
Tense With Excitement.
Tensed to a f1ddlestring tautness,
Minneapolis grouped early on the side
walks and streets and awaited the
coming of the veteran trudger whose
feat in walking from New York to this
city in sixty days, and that at the age
Of rs. Is to &C down in the annals
OF athletic achievement. Never have
the city's streets been so hrong3i aud
packed, although many men of mo-
ment lave visited Minneapolis and
been welcomed by what then seemed
to be record breaking crowds, but It
seemed that the entire city had pro-
claimed a holiday that it. might extend
a true Minneapolis welcome to the
pedestrian. Thousands upon thous-
ands, from bronzed men to the tiniest
babies / packed the sidewalks until
there was hardly room for more.
Out of the Northwest.
"The northwest, in the year to come,
will, l believe, give to tho world some
of it's greatest athletes" said Edward
Payson Weston, discussing last night
his trip on foot from New York to Min
neapolis and his Impressions of the
city and its people.
out of Minneapolis, or out Of the
people of this northwest men will
come, some of them Ia even be here
now, men that will make the whole
world take notice." he said This is
the climate and here. are the sturdy
people, and here the institutions that
are going to make the athletes. I be-
lieve that the people of Scandinavian
blood have great ~undeveloped posi-
bilities. Wonderful az are the sports
that are typically Norwegian or Swed-
ish, like skating, ice boating and ski
ing and high as these people stand, I
have always thought that they are
possible of still greater things. If in
a future generation of Scandinavian
young men, born here, there shall be
athletes, of great renoWn, it need not
be at all surprising. 1t is a naturally
strong people that make strong men,
and by strong mengI& mean not only
men of muscle, but men of endurance"
"Dry" First Thought Here.
Mr.. Weston is not only a famous
long distance walker, but story tell
er as well and he always laughs heart
lily at his own stories. 1t is an infec.
tious laugh. He wants to take on an
Englishman not under IS, for a walk
across the continent. Weston went
across from New York to San Francis
co in los days in 1908, and back from
Los Angeles to New York In seventy.
seven days in 1910. ""But T won't die
happy until I beat an E-nglishman,''
he said.
my first thought when I stepped
across the line into Minnesota was
that I was dry" he said. 1T is PEE
Guitar how the mind operates. or
course I was thinking Of my success in
ending a 1000 mile walk at rs years
OF age and Of the great reception Min
neapolis was giving me, but always
that little thought was coming In and I
knew that I was dry. So my first inn
preston of the city was that I was
dry"
Mr.. Weston laughed heartily.
Tells Lincoln Story.
When Grant was fighting in the
wilderness and nothing was heard
from him. Seward came in one day to
Lincoln, who was sitting looking out
of the window, and he said to him:
Great guns, Lincoln, what shall we
do lie Grant is defeated? 2 Lincoln
looked up and said, Seward, T was Just
thinking that If a monkey had a tail
four feet long and he haG a ten-inch
knot tied In it and couldn't get 1t un-
tied. it would be terrible
Seward was so Disguised that he
got up and left the room. That was
only Lincoln's way of chasing out a
big thought by a little one. That lis
just the way / am. When I get to
thinking too seriously Iturnsin a little
thought to drive out the big one.
MI. Weston told a. story Of d mani