New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-17
ENDS WORLD WALK
in THREE YEARS
Red Jerseyed Painter Back
from Orient Trip That
Cost No Money.
ROOSEVELT'S NAME
HEADS HIS LIST
Signatures of Many NOtables
Attest That Mikulec Wore
Out Many Shoes.

CARRIED in khaki trousers. leather leg
gings. American bunting and 4 red jersey
Joseph Frank Mikulec arrived here from
Philadelphia Yesterday after three-year
walking tour of the world. tie mas the
signatures of hundreds If important per
sonages. from William H. Taft To the
Governor Of Jerusalem. certifying that
upon such and such day Mr.. Mikulec
called upon them. havins come from the
purple horizon at his back.
He wore out nineteen pairs OF shoes on
the trip which he made I'm the cause OF
literature as he is now at No. '& Frank
lin avenue. Brooklyn. where he viii write
a book He will also accept lecture en-
gagements anywhere within easy walking
distance between the two POrtiands. But
he will not he SAYS 10 another job OF
painting unless Il is necessary To keep
him from starving.
, II was this way. Mr.. Mikuiec was a
painter in Philadelphia. He. had part
ner in the business. one day the partner
i'm addition to other unsatisfactory be-
ha vior. fell OF steeple. and Mr. Mikulec
had to help pay the doctors bills. beca use
the partner was married ana Nh Mi
kulcc was not.
Then Mikulec felt the wahderlust
Years before he had walked through
Southern Europe and South America for
$500 prize offered by n newspaper in
Agram Croatia. where he was born thlr-
tN-siX years ago.
Mr. Mikulecs feet led him to oyster
Bay the first thing where he saw Colonel
Roosevelt and told him of his plan 10
walk around the world without any
money. He received splendid encourage-
ment. After getting the colonel sigma
ture he started from New YORK on jan
uary 16. 1911. and says he walked across
the United States in eishty-seren days
enduring great storms in the Aleshany
Mountains and much cold I'm the Rockies
and arrived in San Francisco broke.
He shipped as cook mate from that
port on the famous fve-master X. G..
Rickmers. with 5000 tons Of other cargo
crossed the Pacific in thirty-three days
and landed at Newcastle. y. 5. w, Aus
traia.
He walked 10 miles 10 Melbourne Try
ing TO emulate the kangaroo as TO speed
but acknowledging that in grace only ne
competed.
From Melbourne ne went 10 the island
Of Tasmania. where ne boarded a sail
boat and saved $50 miles worth OF leather
on the way to New Zealand. Again ne
worked his passage Then he went to the
Philippines, getting there by reason OF ms
willingness to feed thirtythree horses on
q steamship.
BY acting as a servant to Captain
! Of he frap
Mr.. Mikulec finally arrived at Nagasaki
and began adding TO his interesting col
lection of autograph signatures by en-
rolling every japanese Mayor he met.
| II the Mayor was not at the city gate II
meet Mr.. Mikulec he took it upon himself
to hunt up the Mayor.
| He sailed slid and trudged to Nladi-
vostok. I'm Siberia. and kept his mind OH
| the ice by remembering that If he did not
| icse his way-and he was careful To
carry n map with hm--he would ulti-
mately reach the fever-laden vicinity of
ECvpt He warmed his shins before the
genial fire Of John +. Jewell the Amer
| lean Consul at Vladivostok, and walked
10 Hardin, Manchuria, about 700 miles.
| In Manchuria he met Chao Erhsun a
yicerov of China who told Mr.. Mikulec
through an Interpreter that If the walker
would write a book. use Chaos picture
and send him copy the viceroy would
forward n present 60 the interesting paint
| or pedestrian. MIR. Mikulec had a com
forting cup of tea with Chao and the next
morning received from him the equiva-
lent Of 500 in Chinese money, so that pur-
chasers Of the forthcoming volume may
he almost certain that Chaos photograph
will be found somewhere in IT,
He walked through China. India,
Egypt. Palestine, European countries II
the North Sea sailed to England. tramped
to Liverpool. never missing one OF the
chained and variously bejewelled mayors
OF the tight little isle
Tho traveller arrived at Philadelphia
in the Storage of the steamship Haver-
ford from Liverpool. on last Tuesday
and walked 20 this city. where he called
upon the Mayor yesterday and obtained
his signature. just three years TO the day
from his starting off.
He is as healthy az when he left US and
has no more money in the bank