Show OMAN Y IS W fROM ST. ST LOUIS TO BOSTON ON W ACER I Proposes to MaKe MaRe Thirty- Thirty Eight Miles a Day to Atlantic Seaboard ST. ST LOUIS Aug 12 Carrying Carrying a fan fanan an and an umbrella the former to keep her cool and the latter to preserve her Mrs frs H H. HC C C. Schneider of Swan avenue set out from the southeast corner of l Fourth street and Washington ton avenue at a. a m. m July 28 to walk to Boston Mass just to show how Frank Johnson that his s sarcastic remark about American women not being heing be he- ing good pedestrians was nothing but talk Incidentally Mrs frs Schneider says she intends to win a wa wager fr of from rom Johnson if she completes the walk in forty five days Mr Schneider Schneider- went alon along with his fris wife but he had nothing noth noth- rag ing to do with the wager wa er He said be he was going goinA to make the trip to pro I Mrs l Schneider and keep her com com- comI I pany also to carry her ber thin things s. s Mr Schneider carried a lar large e leather suit suitcase cafe case and an air of 01 resi resignation nation Twenty six summers have havo passed lightly over ver Mrs Schneider whose husband hus hus- band has worried through h two thirty winters They have no children to leave at home so its nobody's business business busi busi- ness but theirs how lon long or how liow far or how fast they may walk They expect to io av average ra thirty eight miles miles miles' a da day reaching the the Hub of of the tho universe universe in time for a baked bean and brown bread dinner September 10 After 0 reaching Boston and getting ettin my said Mrs Schneider to a Post Dispatch reporter I expect to walk down to New York then to Phila Phila- delphia Baltimore and and Washington And Mr Schneider inquired the reporter Oh of course he hes he's s 's going with me everywhere but h he ne doesn't doesn t count except ex ex- jept as general manager That is isto isto isto to be mine you know This is- is ismy s my walk I represent the American woman as a pedestrian The Schneiders dived due dna east into their heir journey tourney by eross crossing n the Lads Ends bridge They expect t tp l' l go b by br way of Chicago and Detroit thence through Canada Canadis to Niagara back into the United States there to Buffalo Rochester Roch ester Utica Syracuse Albany and Bos Boa ton Mr Schneider carries a railroad map upon which he fi figures ures out the tho itinerary Th The walker and her protector manager will keep to the Wabash railroad tracks until the tracks run out then they will follow ollow Wabash connections into Bos- Bos ton on |