Show Dubuques Pine Legs The best walkers men women and children chil-dren of the Western country live In Dubuque Du-buque la All of the walking muscles ot the human body arc developed and strengthened as they are strengthened perhaps In no other single community In this country A young man who clerks In a Dubufjuo store said the other day that when tho people of the town get away from the city they outwalk any set of people with whom they conic In contact They have the legs with which to accomplish this feat A sailor tt ho ban his sea logs Is not more proud of them than Is a Dubuquo man when It counts to a long jaunt afoot It all comes from practice and the situation sit-uation at Dubuque furnishes the occasion for practice and plenty of It The residence resi-dence section Is all on the bluff overlooking overlook-ing thy Mississippi river and valley As In Kansas City and other hill towns tho street cars do not run iron tho lower streets to the hills They are graded roadways road-ways walks and stairs from the base of the hill to the summit The roads are terraced ter-raced as It were and form sonic of tho most picturesque drives In this country They wind about the mountain side at such a grade that the ascent for either man or beast Is scarcely felt There are means of reaching tho bluff without having to foot IL QJtiryns who live on the crest of tho hill liaise combined com-bined In building elevators The ears run up and down an Incline and It costs a nickel to go up or come down Dosplto this convenient and cheap manner ol transporting ones self thousands of people peo-ple walk both ways The grade changes at different places there aro gentle slol SilL S-ilL some places steep climbs at others and stops at still other parts of the walk or drive Walking over such a route down In the morning and up In the evening every function of the walking powers Is brought Into use and developed The nan who operates the electrical machinery ma-chinery In one of tho Inclines was asked If many people rode up and down IIo said yes but quickly added that there were thousands of Dnbuquo people who had neither seen nor ridden on tho contrivances contri-vances They walk all classes of people high and low rich and poor At the Eleventh street elevator Is a sue cession of stairs made of wood The plunks of these steps are worn with tho constant walking of the populace The people who get this class of exercise exer-cise twice or more a day arc not only good walkers hut are healthy generally Tho home people and the visitors may bo picked out on the street and a more husky lot of pcople are seldom met wlth Chicago Tribune |