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Show WALK 450MiLES . j BIGGEST WEST TO EAST WALK EVER ACCOMPLISHED. J Win Fifteen Hundred Dollars. i Over mountains and through snow, through wet, ulush nnd mud, freezing A at times, nnd oppressed by heat at v others, William Jackson nnd R. T. Hay, two sturdy Scotchmen, wnlkod overy mllo of tho way from Scnttlo to Chi-cngo, Chi-cngo, Just nrrlvlng within a fow hours of tho tlmo limit, thereby winning a ; purse of Fifteen Hundred Dollars given by tho Seattle Athletic Club, for ac- vT compllnhlng this feat within tho pro-scribed pro-scribed time. Jackson and Hay left Seattlo with but Five Dollars In monoy, wcro obliged to enrn. their way ns thoy went nnd lenvo no unpnld bills, nnd complete the Journey In ninety days. An Interesting Incident In connection connec-tion with tho walk, wns that each ot tho contestants wore a pair of tho well-known Mayor Bhocs, that neither ripped nor lost a stitch during tho on-tiro on-tiro trip of 2450 mllc3 the hardest tost any shoes could bo put to speaking volumes for tho oxtraordlnary wearing qualities of tho shoos manufactured by tho F. Mayor Boot & Shoo Co., Milwaukee. |