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Show WESTON REACHES GOAL. Aged Pedestrian Makes Trip Across The Continent in 77 Days. New York. Cutting his way through a mass of 20,000 cheering people, his white locks bared to the breeze, his shuffling feet keeping time to the strains of the "Star-Spangled Banner," Edward Payson Weston on Monday brought to a triumphant end his ocean-to-ocean walk. He ascended the steps of the city hall at 3:10 p. m., completing complet-ing his trans-continental journey of 3,-483 3,-483 miles in 77 walking days, a feat, without parallel in the annals of pedes-v trianism. The grizzled athlete was welcomed to his home city by Mayor Gaynor, who presented him with a purse of $400 hurriedly raised by a handful of his admirers ad-mirers in the last hours of his spectacular spectac-ular walk. This and the applause of thousands who have followed his tramp since it began at Los Angeles February 1, is all the reward that came to the septuagenarian after his months of trudging through heat and cold across the continent. |