| Show Eighty But Still Undaunted T THOMAS KELLY SO-j SO old SO old car p pe pd d stopped in Salt SnIt Lake Lako yesterday on his hike from Sacramento Cal to Chicago The declare he will in a si Pullman the tile rest of the way They gave giue him a n home in in the lie jail and started taking up a purse for him last night i I S 4 I I S 1 ti i r iT Li i t 1 I IJ J St- St S S. S 1 S 5 4 1 S k-S S i s is S SS S S S 4 S 1 f S S S u I By fly James S G. G Woolley If On December S 8 1919 1913 Thomas Thomaa Kelly KeUy started to walk here here That Journey entailed the covering of ot some 2500 OO mile miles as tho the road runs from roOm Sacramento Sacramento Sacra Sacra- mento mt Cal to Franklin street Chi ca cago o. o And Thomas Thomaa was only SO 80 years old on his last birthday The elderly pedestrian ived In Salt Lake last hut night after arter covering the tho first third of or his anticipated hike In 01 Dl 1 days and 10 hours At that rate I he r should reach his destination some sometime time llano next autumn if Ir he bo walks nut Ut l ut when Thomas applied at the tho police station asking that ho he be bo given Ivon givena a meal and a nl nights night's bl's lodging his emaciated condition and amI very cry evident c fatigue aroused the sympathy of or policemen po- po in ill tho the desk leak sergeants sergeant's office anti and Ule they decided to take the tho matter up among themselves and raise ralso a a. fund to send Thomas Kelly tho the rest relit of oC tho the W wayby way wayby by br rail raU Charitable organizations and charitably char char- ably Inclined citizens can contribute through the tho chief of ot police pollee if Ir they want to But Dut whatever happens the themen themen men Who Wio walk several miles mUes u. u day on Salt r. r Lake ke pavements pa insist that Kelly Kelty be given a Pullman ticket to Chicago He lIe will remain on the free board list at tho city Jail until tho the necessary fund i is raised according to Desk Sergeant Sergeant Ser Ser- g geant J. J F F. Markle Thomas Kell Kelly admitted last night as he In lay on his pallet in n n. corner of oC tho the that his lila legs arc aro not so good as nB they thep once were Prohibition dont don't bother me mc none said Tom Torn although I didn't vote voto for it But if I had been a y drinker In my youth I 1 dont don't I should over O have h made mallo it across tho Sierra ada Nevada divide lit Ill hiti One Lift lAti by liT Train According to Tom crowing the di divide divide dl- dl vide was tho the biggest est problem of ot hl hit bib hike and it was wa the tho only place he be was vas given Riven a lift by train When hen I walked into Blue canyon the train sized guard says sas a s. s here young feller teller Where here do you OU think your 7 When hen I told him I 1 Int Intended walking through tho the train shells sheds to Chicago he ho wouldn't let me Said Id I'd g get t killed in the tho tunnels So Soho Soho Soho ho put flUt mo me aboard a It train ala that carried mo me Into Inlo Truckee and they did charge a cent Jell history dates back to January Janu- Janu ar ary IS Islo O when he ho heas was as born in a little littie village incorporated In the modera modern mod mod- era ern city of ot Boston Ho lIe grew grow up there and when whets the civil U war ar came came- Tom Torn wa was left home to care for his mother and sisters while hl hiI hi father and three brothers Joined the Union arm army After Arter the war Tom Corn moved mo west esL lie He Heban I has hall 1 every state tate In the union I Prior lo to 11 1916 i. i however ho Ito made his home hOll In tn Chicago for Cor thirty five consecutive con- con I e years yearn At t that time he came rame to the tho Pacific co const coast t and until after the armistice Ice I Iwas I was signed earned his living 11 as a laborer la ha- borer horer at farming Canning and arlous various trades The la last l year sear however has been a ahard ahard hard one ono So without means of ot n a I livelihood U he decided to tramp back to Chicago where Mrs Irs Mary Ha hayes es a law daughter who sine since his sons son's death has remarried d. d Sho She Is tho the anI only kin Thomas Thoma I Kelly etl has Mary 1 used to live lIvo at Franklin street stroet said I K Kelly lly last nl night ht Should it prove provo that lint she has baa moved I have Itaya enough friends in Chicago to assure mo ale comfort and omo kind of ot employment employ employ- mont ment for tor the tho years ears still sUIl ahead of at me mo Asked If Ie he be could find find his wn way about Chicago thorough thoroughfares thoroughfare rare he re replied replied re- re plied Well Yo It I ought to after living there thero thirty five years yearn So when Thomas Kelly pedestrian placed Salt Lako Lake on his itinerary h ho he wado no mistake Neither did he Ite If irr un lie he asked the Salt Lake police ro for a meal and lI bed d. d For hl hits his long walk Is I suddenly terminated and ho will m ride the tho rest of ot the thea v a vay ay the tho police po 10 I lice declare |
