Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-27
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| tied.
On the back of the sky-high trav-
eler will be banner with the follow
ing inscription:
The Harrisburg Telegraph Ex-
tends Its Greetings to the People
of the United States.
In California
Wilvert on his arrival at California
will first visit Governor Hiram w.
johnson at Sacramento and he will
then go to San Francisco, where he
is to meet the commissioners of the
Panama Exposition. While at the ex.
position Wilvert will make his head.
quarters at the Pennsylvania building,
remaining until December 20, the clos
Ing date of the big show.
Nhlle boosting the Harrisburg Tele.
graph will be Wilvert's principal duty,
ne Will not be barred from earnine
money en- route. He will have mic.
ture cards of himself and HARRISBURG
FOR sale and will offer souvenirs from
Harrlspurg. Among other things he
To Make Twelve Miles a Day
An average of twelve to fifteen
miles each day will be covered by the
man on stilts. While he will 90 n
alone on his walks. the Wilvert famih
VIII also make the trip. Mrs. Wilvert
and her children will be sent ahead
ana the wife will meet her husband
IN various cities and assist in carrying
| out the program.
WiiVert will report daily to F. E..
Eyster, manager of the circulation de-
partment Of the Telegraph. who is
| directing the trip.
The route mapped out will take
the stilted Mercury through fourteen
states. He will make no changes
unless storms or prairie fires should
make changes necessary. He has out
lined the following route:
His Route
nnsylvania-Leaving Harrisburg.
passing through MarysviIle, Duncan,
non, Port Royal, Mifliintown, Lewis
town, Huntingdon, Tyrone, Altoona.
around the Horseshoe Curve. through
Gali1tzin, Cresson. South Fork, Johns
town., Blairsvflle Intersection, Derry.
Latrober Greensburg, Jeanette, Irwin
Braddock, Williamsburg, Pittsburgh
Allegheny, Beaver and New Castle.
Ohio-Canton, Columbus (capitaN
Springfield, Dayton.
Indiana--Richmond, Muncie, Ander.
son, Indianapolis (capitaD, Terre
Haute, Lafayette.
Illinois Chicago :JoItet p.or;.
Springfield (capitaD.
Missouri-St: Louis. jefferson CITY
| (capitaD, Seda1ia. '
kansas--Kansas City, Lawrence To-
peka (capital), Hutchinson.
COlorado-Pueblo, Colorado Springs.
Canon City, Cripple Creek: north to
Denver (capitaD, Leadville, Grand
Utah - Payson. Provo, Salt Lake
City (capitaD.
Nevada--Elko, Virginia City, Reno;
south to Carson City (capitalJ.
Callfornia - sacramento (caDitaN
Stockton. Oakland, San Jose: along
the Pacific coast to San Francisco.
His Clothes
Whlle on his journey to the West
| Wilvert naturally will not wear the
dernier cri in mems clothes. He will
have real shoes on the base of his
stills, will wear water and mud nroof
| trousers, a coat and vest in fair
weather and storm coat in rainy
| weather. His clothes were "made in
Harrisburg" by the Standard Woolen
| Company, 19 North Third street. The
one nobby thing Wilvert will effect
VIII be silk top hat when occasion
| requires.
Incidentally while on the trip Will
vert will do all he can to boost Har.
risburg, at the request of the Chamber
of Commerce.
That the stilt king has good chances
or making the trip is seen in the fact
tnat ne mas long been an expert stilt
walker.
His Experience
In 1905 he advertised the King
oscar cigar during Old Home Week In
! Harrisburg. In the centennial ceIe-
bration at Middletown he won $50 in
the Darktown Fire Brigade exhibition.
In 1905 Wilvert led the Penn Treaty
delphia, remaining on his stills seven
hours. He received SITS. The same
year Wilvert walked over bridges and
trestle work along the lines of the
Erie and Lehigh Valley railroads on
ffteen-foot stills. several Of the bridges
| being from sixty to seventy feet in
/ height. He worked fourteen weeks
during 1907 in advertising the Walk
Over shoes in eastern Pennsylvania
and in 1909 he walked over the Gull
ford avenue trestle at Baltimore,
ninety feet high. on fifteen-foot stills.
To Make Daily Walks
| Wilvert has many friends in Harris
burg who are anxious to have him
make a successful trip and to see him
before he departs for the West. In
order to give everybody an opportunity
to see him as he is to appear on the
trip Wilvert will make daily walks II,
various parts Of Harrisburg between
now and April J..
His final trip over the city will be
on Tuesday. March 81. The program
for the start on Wednesday has not
yet been completed, but will be an
nounoed in time for everybody to be
on hand to give the stilt king a rous-
| ing send-off.
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