| Show BIS 1 IS TURNED URN E AY walking servant sergeant who went through price in june last does walkin walking 9 stunt in sixty three days NEW EW YORK jill jub 31 A tall I 1 man with ith a ell tanned face hold ing an amei ican flag attached to a pole was followed by a crowd today as he walked across cita hall park and into the city hall hill he fie had tramped am ped all the way nay from san francisco and was as b beating eating th tha re ord he ile traveled the viti cistar coin sixty three days and twentythree twenty three hours he ile said the best record he be ever heard of w as seventy days he lie claims to have made the walk on a wager of twenty fhe thousand dollar he fit was as backed by colonel john ward of san francisco who ho backed sergeant walsh against the golden gate athletic club members of the club contended that no man could cross the great divide and live walsh went into san francisco and crossed it again on the way to new york walsh lost fifty pounds munds during the trip his hair turned gray from his hardships and he had to fall ill a man one of two ani wu w u held him up in wyoming they were thieves and he shot one who ho dia di A in the hospital 4 he ile said he would not make the trip again for he lie walked one hundred and eighty one miles on two 0 sandwiches fasting for six dab he ile made sixty five miles some davs dabs and nine miles in seventy t two 0 hours on one part of the trip he ile had to cra craw I 1 along a trail nine inches wide ide and feet high at one stage w here he said md a burro would not go in crossing the desert in n new mexico he walked uniting among human bones walsh is a sergeant in the united stabs states army he lie said he is stationed at the presidio in san francisco and anti lias bas a furlough the army officials ciali arc are watching at ehing his pro grees be he asserted the ameri americua sa flag he carried all the way and the pole aa as a mountain tick it saved his life lift sc cral times in climbing clim bins and descending sc se steep mountains he lie walked mostly at night he said for fear of animals snakes ea and the cold his eyes are in bad condition from the reflection of the sun on the snow on the high mountains ins sergeant walsh had a number of memorandum books in v aich he had the nig denatures natures of over two thousand amrid majors supervisors or village and town officials whose names he col looted as he wept along acting mayor mcgowan wrote rote his signature in one book for him walsh who ho is 1 52 years of age will probably do some lecturing before rejoin rejoining ng the army WALKING SERGEANT CAME THROUGH HERE IN JUNE sergeant walsh will be remembered through the towns of eastern FA tem utah aa as passing through westward stward Ne about the first week of last june being in price on the ath of the month he ile was a companied by prank frank wade a hearst newspaper man and charlea charles st clair the latter looking out for the interests of the athletic club signatures Signa of 0 town w officials at arice were taken when walsh was hen here he made the statement that he was to do the stunt in lesa less than nicety days and for which if it he won he was to get five thousand dollars of the wager |
