Show PEDESTRIAN rS TIME IN SIERRAS San Francisco Jul July over miles or of road behind him and still to gO to end his tramp from I New York to San Francisco Edward I Payson Weston Veston the veteran walker Is striding through tile tho passes passos that cut the rugged summit of the Sierra Nevada Neada mountains with the lust last lastrange range that separates him rom the lie Pacific ocean surmounted Tonight the pedestrian at al Summit the thC highest station on the Southern Pacific at 55 after a short rest of half an hour to eat cat dinner he started down tile the west western ern em slope He expects to reach Cisco fourteen miles to the tho south near mil mid midnight night and remaIn there until day dar daybreak break lie He was reported three miles cast of Cisco at 12 1230 30 mountain time Weston Is four days his lay day schedule He Is making fine time through tile the mountains however and should arrive here Tuesday July Juh 13 days exclusive of oC Sundays from New York when he started at 4 p m mon on tile the evening of oC his seventieth birthday March 15 His con condition I Is said to he 10 better belleI today than It was when he hogan began the long trip and he Is making lip Instead of oC losIng time as af the journey nears Its end J JC JC C Westons Teston manager at ar arrived rived here tonight to prepare for the pedestrians reception He says that tile the hailstorms of Kansas and Cole Cola rado held back the tho arted old I man hut that lInt the worst delays were encountered In Wyoming the windstorms and distances that must be traversed before foo food and shelter sheller could 1 be 0 obtained caused him to Ibs lose several days Through Nevadas wide teaches reaches of oC deserts Veston Teston made better bellor time than ho he had bad hoped to lO ac and he IS finishing the trip slightly sIghtly cast down because he Called ailed to cover the tho distance within a hun bun hundred bundred dred lays days He is vigorous and ener however as a boy CaL Jul July SEdward Pay Payson Payson son Weston Veston arrived In at 12 1210 10 p m today In his walk taik He left Verdi Vordi at l 41 a m mand mand and made record time to this place I After Ailer resting for two hours lire voter an left tile lie track anti and took the Donner road over Oer the tho Si Sierras erras in order to a avoId the Intending to follow folio tIle the canyon OUlon until the Sacramento Is reached Weston Teston appeared to be in splendid condition and stated that thal I after aft a rest of a month OT or so on the tho trip least he be would be ready for a return |