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Show Pony Express Riders Off WEST COAST GOAL Coolidge Starts Race WASHINQT0N, Au. S1-te-k4f from hi effios In th Whit Meuas th telegraph ream In th mlsstlv effUee, President Cee4-ido Cee4-ido j 41 a, . teday -Med s Said ky and. a signal v.- J -ed Jessph, Me start., i erf tke first nsrsams wewtwsfs. .va-J San Pre net so In revival kf ti Id periy axpreee. . j T. JOSEPH, Ms- Aua. SlAoni father waa president of tha Weile-Parg Weile-Parg Rspraaa asanpany. Tevls will attempt to make ths sntlr trip across California, 171 miles. Ha recently red lot mils tn 1J bo'-- In pretlc for t event.. i of the mountainous coun try, . r are expeet-'d to av-eee or ir e tit miles an hour In Colorado Colo-rado arid 4Trh. but aoros Kansas, Nevada am! California, an average of ten miles an hour will be main-. main-. tair.d. - f P. hen tna pony exnreee wa frst establlsl eighty rldere, 3 a-tlcn a-tlcn and 42 etrnng, wlrv - n were used. As the eervir , more employee and equlpm-nt v . -added. Horee with epeed rwir than endurance were chosen for this trip, and the anlmala were pressed t top speed The best time ever made from Bt Joseph to Uenver. MS miles, waa two days and twenty-one hours. But th pony sxprsas did not last long. Within a year and a hs.f other adventuresome spirits died built a telegraph Una westward from Omaha and ths necessity for the pony express eeaaed. Following close behind th rider today will be a twentieth eenturr motorcar with a relief rider, and In eome eecllona a veterinary surgeon snd perhaps even spar mount against th mergncy of something happening. REDMAN NAMED TO REROUTE RIDERS. Ben T. Redman waa appointed a committee of sit by th board of (Continued oa Bags ) z mir mnw sneer- noavy lewd following shower during th night and early morning. Rob-ert Rob-ert La Shepperd, wh wllf rids th first lap In a widely heralded pany snprse rasa frsm at. Joseph t San Franeleea, get sway promptly at 10 sslsk today ts tha ahot sf a ssnnsn. . ST. JOSEPH, Jala, Aug. II. Sixty add years ago a horse man waited . impatiently her for a whsssy train to arrive front Hannibal Hanni-bal with mall from th Eaat so ha oould cross ths Missouri and begin his dash across unfriendly and almost al-most dsssrt territory tor ths Paolfla Today, another horee man waited for th preaident of tho United State, a thousand miles away to tha eastward, to ssnd ths signal that will start him by ths old fashioned fash-ioned meajia of transportation across plains. and mountains entirely entire-ly friendly and filled with prosperous prosper-ous cities, vlllaxe and farm, with mseeexee for governors of a half-dosea half-dosea ststss. And thla too, almost bofor ths whirr has ceased from th planss thst had spanned a continent In the time the pony expreas took to cross half a stl. Today, Bt. ewseph revived the pony expreas of liOO. Late yesterday yester-day horses wr taken to their ata-tiona ata-tiona every ten or twelve miles, covering the first Isp of ths wsst-ward wsst-ward trip from Ht. Joseph to fit. Mary, Kan. Thia morning ths hones and their riders are ready for the dash, which I to reproduce that of sixty ysere ago, by hastening hasten-ing on, day and night, until th Golden Gat Is reached a week from Sunday. Robert Lee Shepherd la to be the first rider, lesvlng St. Joseph st IS o'clock this morning. Changing somewhat from ths original trait th rout todsy will drop south from Bt. Joseph. Instead In-stead of straight weat, snd will laks In historic points In Kansas. Atchison At-chison and Leavenworth, early day settlements on ths Missouri, win be on the route snd slong towsrd night ths rider will rescn iawtvtics. Hare, the pony express will pause a moment mo-ment while exerctseo srs hsld In front of the hotel thst was destroyed by border raiders alxty years age this month. ' MESSAGE POR GOVERNOR. Topeka Is to bs reached by It o'clock tonight snd hers ths rider will leave meaeagee for Governor Davl from Governor Hyde of Missouri Mis-souri and take othsr messsgss from Kansas' govsmor to - Governor Sweet of Colorado. Two riders snd thirteen mounts a re expected to cover the Its mllee from St. Joseph t Bt.-Marys, In all, 243 horse ars to bs used. Bo far as known, only ons woman will rids In ths rscs sgalnst ttms, for what bad originally been planned aa a rscs between army horsemen snd cowboys, had ts be changed when ths army could not enter. Miss Ruth Wlsemaa will have the first slaty miles of ths ran In Nsvsds. , Another ef the riders will be William Wil-liam B. Tevt Jr, a widely known fcevUlernia nolo flayer, whose grand- :':.v'f:;v'- PONY EXPRESS RIDERS : - Continued (rom Page 1.) governors of ths chamber of commerce com-merce Thursday to arrange for a rerouting of the riders In tha Deny express revival through thla city ' te eliminate much of the pavaroeot eeoouQtered oa the present routing. rout-ing. . ; ' ' . Mr. Rednaa will meet with Dr. R. K. hlsad. local manager of tha revival,' to determine what changes are advisable. It waa sue reeled that Libert r park, would make an excellent change statloa for th rtdera, . Tha nony express, revival of which started today whan riders left San Francisco and SH Joaeph for tha objective , points named, obtained ob-tained Ha name from the news service serv-ice of the New York papers several years earlier. The first of ths rid-srs rid-srs on ths old pony sxprsss, the first trip of which waa begun at San Francisco, left the coast city on April t, tha rider from the west really making the start from Sacramento, Sacra-mento, while the rider from the eaat left the Missouri city on ths same data. The projectors of tha express were William H. Russell, Baa T. Mcklan and James E. Bromley. At both points of starting great crowds of people gave the riders aa enthusiastic enthu-siastic sendoff. Ths rider from ths west arrived In Bait 1-ake City on the evening of April 7, four days from Sacramento, and he rode from Camp Floyd to Salt Lake. This rider was Howard Egan. Two days later ths rider reached Bait Leke from the eaat. on April , lit. Three hundred persona, elglity of thsm rldsrs whoss average performance perform-ance waa about eeventy-flve miles, were required for the service. There Is a record of one rider who rode 184 mllee without atopplng except for meals and to change hie mounts st ths stations. Ths sxprese carried two malls per week and the charge for a letter, which was limited to the weight of half aa ounce, waa li. This resulted In cipher eodes, which were prepared on tlasus paper, and thla code waa need by the 8sa Francisco papers In the transmission transmis-sion of news, which ths papers were enabled to supplement with Information Infor-mation from private letter. Among the pony express riders who became noted waa Colonel William Wil-liam F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill"). Ths relaya were kept at stations of ths overland stage line. A rider would oome In at full gallop, would Jump from hla laded animal, and as quick as the grooms could unsaddle the mourn end place the pouches on another an-other the rider waa astrlds ths horse snd on his wsy. In order that ths full advantagea of the aervlce might be obtained, service clubs were organised In ths towns snd cities through which the routs ran, ths one st Malt I.ak. city having hav-ing as Its preeldent Urighan Toung. The last of ths riders who lived I Salt bake to pass away waa W. P. Avplsby. a former deputy county clerk, who rode the route between Bait Lake and Bvanaton. Wya. |